Fear The Dark

Brave the irrational fear of the dark unknown on the video slot by Hacksaw Gaming, Fear The Dark. Steel your nerves for ghoulish gameplay across a 6×6 grid with cluster pays, cascading symbols, symbol multipliers and symbol removals for hair-raising wins. Step bravely into the free spins round, where scary features await as the dark draws in for closing spins and wins of up to 5,000x your stake.

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Slot Details

Fear The Dark is a 6×6 cascading grid slot with cluster pays. Wins are awarded for matching groups of five or more symbols horizontally or vertically adjacent. You can brave the nighttime terrors from 0.10 to 100 credits per spin. This game has a high volatility rating and a default 96.25% RTP setting. Alternative versions exist with 94.33%, 92.36%, and 88.25% RTP ratings. Open the game info upon loading to be sure of playing a preferred model.

Charcoal shades and neon colours create an abstract image of a graveyard at night, occasionally interrupted by floating ghosts. The game has a retro-cartoon style with a minimalist design commonly found in Hacksaw Gaming titles.

The pay symbols start at the low end with five black-and-white symbols of a doorway, gravestone, drink, lantern and cross. Matching five awards 0.1x to 0.3x your bet, while clusters of fifteen or more will pay from 12.8x to 28x your stake. Five neon-coloured characters follow as symbols of a ghost, ghoul, pig, clown and zombie. Clusters of five award 0.5x to 1.5x your bet, and fifteen-plus symbols award from 50x to 120x your bet.

A candle represents the bonus scatter symbol, which triggers free spins for landing three or more on a spin. A special Moon Man symbol appears throughout the game that triggers Moon Mode upon landing, as detailed below under Slot Features.

Fear The Dark Slot Features

Hacksaw Gaming’s Pocketz Series of games is built on a foundation of simplified gameplay optimised for mobile performance. Responsible for some of the studios hit titles such as Cubes 2 and Toshi Video Club, any addition to the fun-filled series commands closer inspection.

Thirty-six symbols drop onto the grid at the start of a basic spin of Fear The Dark. Five or more horizontally or vertically adjacent matching symbols will form a cluster, and award a win based on the number of symbols contained. Winning symbols explode and disappear from the grid, leaving space for existing and new symbols to cascade and fill the gaps.

The cascading symbols can lead to new cluster wins, in which case, the cycle repeats until no more wins occur. At the end of a spin sequence, the sum of all cluster wins is paid. Should the Moon Man symbol appear, Full Moon Mode is triggered, awarding from two to five symbol multipliers for the higher-paying character symbols of the ghost, ghoul, pig, clown and zombie.

The possible multipliers are 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x and 100x. Displayed above the grid in the chosen symbol icons, cluster wins containing the randomly chosen symbols will be multiplied by the value shown. Following any cluster wins and symbol cascades, one of the symbol multipliers is chosen to be removed, along with all examples of the corresponding symbol plus any low-paying symbols from the grid. The symbol removal triggers a symbol cascade and the Moon Mode cycle repeats until all symbol multipliers are spent.

Land three or more candle scatters to trigger the Alone in the Dark Bonus. Three or four scatters award 10 and 15 free spins, respectively. During the round, there is a better chance of landing Moon Man symbols than in the base game. Each scatter that lands on a free spin will grant an extra four free spins. When spins expire, the bonus enters the Darkness Spins, which are closing free spins that shrink the dark around the grid, reducing the play area first to 4×4, and then 2×2, for two final spins.

Landing a Moon Man symbol during Darkness Spins will increase the grid size back to 6×6, and play out the Full Moon feature before restarting Darkness Spins. Land a candle scatter to reactivate the Alone In The Dark Bonus for a further four free spins before playing out the Darkness Spins again.

Where available, Fear The Dark comes with a Bonus Buy feature for direct access to enhanced spin scenarios or bonus games. Fear The Dark comes with four options:

• Bonushunt Featurespins | High Volatility | 3x Bet: With this mode enabled, each spin is five times more likely to trigger a bonus game.
• Moon Man Featurespins | High Volatility | 40x Bet: With this mode enabled, a Moon Man symbol is guaranteed to land on every paid-for spin.
• Alone In The Dark Bonus | High Volatility | 100x Bet: A three-scatter triggering spin of the Alone In The Dark Bonus with ten starting spins.
• Alone In The Dark Bonus | Medium Volatility | 150x Bet: A four-scatter triggering spin of the Alone In The Dark Bonus with fifteen starting spins.

Final Verdict

Fear The Dark fits the Pocketz Series format of simplistic yet innovative gameplay in a creative artsy package. This time, symbol multipliers and cascades spurred from the Full Moon feature take the spotlight, providing a laser focus on landing the Moon Man symbol to fuel the action. The Alone In The Dark Bonus accentuates the design with a higher trigger frequency, crowned with the highly original Darkness Spins, which can reactivate the free spins or jumpstart the round as you think its all over.

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