Dracula The Hunt

Dracula The Hunt Overview

Dracula The Hunt is a gothic horror slot from Spinomenal, released on 19 September 2023. It plays on a 5x4 grid with 20 fixed paylines, set in a candle-lit crypt guarded by stone gargoyles and burning torches. SlotCatalog lists a 95.78% RTP (the game is offered in several RTP versions), a maximum win of 3,000x the bet, and stakes from 0.20 to 200 per spin.

The Symbols

The low end of the paytable is the familiar card royals – J, Q, K and A – drawn in green, gold and blood red. Above them sit the vampire hunter’s kit: a bundle of lit candles, a crossbow and a Bible with a cross on its cover. The most important symbol is Dracula himself, pale-faced with red eyes and a high collar, who acts as the WILD. A separate FREE SPINS scatter in gothic lettering opens the bonus.

Expanding Wilds With Respins

The key mechanic, listed by SlotCatalog as an “expanding wild with re-spin”, is Dracula stretching across his reel. In our free spins round we saw exactly that: a single full-height Dracula filled the whole third reel, wrapped in blue lightning, turning every line that passed through it into a candle or ace win. When the count finished the game paid a Big Win of 1,200 at a 100 stake – 12x the bet – with seven free spins still left to play.

Free Spins

The bonus opens with a gothic frame and the message “Congratulations! You have won 10 free spins with an expanding wilds feature”. The round keeps the same 20 lines and the same symbols, but the expanding Dracula is what drives the wins. SlotCatalog also lists additional free spins, so the round can be extended beyond its starting ten.

Buying the Feature

The BUY button between the arrows opens a buy panel that lets you choose both the number of free spins and the bet. At 10 free spins and a 100 stake the price shown was 4,000 – 40x the bet. The balance confirms it: 4,750 before the purchase and 750 afterwards. Because the free spin count is adjustable, the price moves with it.

What Our Spins Showed

We played at a 100 stake – 5 per line across the 20 lines – and the base game gave a clear picture of the paytable.

Two Dracula wilds on the second reel completed a line of green Js and crossbows for 200 (2x). A column of queens and kings paid 300 (3x), with the FREE SPINS scatter already sitting on the fifth reel. A smaller 50 (0.5x) came from three wilds scattered over the grid combining with a row of queens. None of these are large, which fits a game where the free spins and the expanding wild carry the bigger results.

Paylines and Stakes

All 20 lines are always active, so the only real choice is the size of the bet per line. The per-line stake is set with the plus and minus buttons at the bottom left, and the total bet is simply that figure times twenty: at 5 per line the total is 100, as in our session. SlotCatalog’s range of 0.20 to 200 therefore works out to 0.01 to 10 per line.

Base Game Versus Bonus

The contrast between the two parts of the game is sharp in our screenshots. The three base game wins we recorded were worth 0.5x, 2x and 3x the stake, all paid by ordinary line combinations of royals, candles and crossbows. The single free spin we captured with an expanded Dracula paid 12x on its own – four times the best base result – and there were still seven spins to come. That is the pattern Spinomenal designed for: a steady base game and a bonus where the expanding wild does the heavy lifting.

What the Buy Price Means

At 40x for ten free spins, the bonus costs the equivalent of four bets per free spin. The 3,000x ceiling is 75 times that price, so the buy is a real shortcut to the feature rather than a guaranteed profit – our own round had already returned 12x by the third spin, less than a third of the price, with seven spins left. Because the panel lets you change the number of spins, it is worth checking the price for each setting before confirming.

The Numbers at a Glance

• Grid: 5 reels, 4 rows, 20 fixed paylines
• RTP: 95.78% (several RTP versions exist)
• Maximum win: 3,000x the bet
• Stakes: 0.20 to 200
• Bonus: 10 free spins with expanding Dracula wilds
• Buy: 40x the bet for 10 free spins

More Gothic Tales From Spinomenal

Spinomenal has returned to the vampire theme more than once. Dracula Unleashed takes the same character in another direction, and Koschei The Deathless turns to Slavic folklore with a 100-line grid and its own free spins round.

Graphics and Atmosphere

Spinomenal leans into classic horror imagery: iron-framed reels, a dark red castle wall, flaming torches on either side and winged gargoyles perched at the bottom corners. The Dracula portrait is the most detailed symbol on the reels, and when he expands the reel lights up with electric blue. Big wins bring a shower of silver coins and a candle-lit banner.

Who It Is For

Dracula The Hunt is a straightforward 20-line slot built around one idea – a wild that grows to cover a whole reel. It suits players who like a gothic theme, a clear paytable and a bonus they can buy at a flexible price. With a 3,000x ceiling it is a medium-sized target rather than a record chaser.

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