Blade and Fangs

Theme and Design

Low Budget Horror Slot With Two Reel Sets To Spin On

Blade and Fangs is a creepy horror slot but it has a distinctly low-budget feel. It is set in what looks like the interior of a dark, gothic church with skulls littering the floor which is illuminated by candles. The reel set itself has some bizarre chain system around the edge, with blood-soaked circular saws on each corner whilst random horror movie-type characters look on from the reels, including a demon girl, a skull in a hood and a fanged-werewolf. Why they are all here, who knows? But the soundtrack of screams suggests a torture-chamber of some kind. In short, if you were expecting a few light-hearted spins, then think again!

RTP and Variance

Like many Pragmatic Play slots Blade and Fangs has three available RTP settings – 96.05%, 95.02% or 94.03%. Your online slot site will choose which rate to run the game at. To be fair, there is not much between these rates but you should always try to play at the optimum available. So check the game info screen (hit the ‘i’ link below the reels) to see which RTP the game is set to before you spin. In testing, MrQ consistently runs Pragmatic Play slots at the top RTP settings so that would be a good choice.

Pragmatic Play rate this as 5/5 on the volatility score so it is a high variance game. This was backed up by results in our test spins described above.

Maximum Win

The maximum win on Blade and Fangs is a rather disappointing 5,000x. This isn’t untypical for Pragmatic though you can find better in our list of their highest paying slots, of check out another of their January 2024 releases, Gates of Olympus 1000 which has a much better top payout of 15,000x.

Symbols and Paytable

Blade and Fangs has a unique 2 reel set configuration, one above the other. Each reel set has 5 reels displaying 3 rows each. This is a win ways game which means wins are triggered by landing 3 or more identical symbols across the reels from left to right, starting at reel 1, regardless of their row position.

This creates 243 win ways on each reel set (3x3x3x3x3).

As we will see, it is possible to merge the reels into one mega 5x6 reel set with many more win ways. But more on that in a moment.

First, the paytable itself has good values across 10 symbols. There are 5 low payers – 10, Jack, Queen, King and Ace. These are valued at from 0.25x for 3 10s up to 1.5x for 5 Aces. The premiums are the bat, the snake, the demon girl, the wolf and the hooded skull. These are valued at from 0.4x for 3 bats up to 10x for 5 hooded skulls.

There are NO wilds in this game but there are scatters, represented by the firey skull. These are valued at 2x, 15x, 100x or 500x for 3, 4, 5 or 6 appearing on anywhere on the reels on one spin. They also unlock the free spins round as we will find out.

Features and Gameplay

Blade and Fangs has a nice variation on classic multiplier and free spins features, with that 5x6 reel set thrown into the mix. This is how it works.

Multipliers and Re-Spins On The Expanded Reel Set

The top reel set has a 1x multiplier symbol that lands ONLY on reel 1. The bottom reel set has a 2x multiplier that lands ONLY on reel 5. They appear as roses skewered with knives – pink for the 1x, red for the 2x! You want to look out for these landing simultaneously on both reels because that triggers a re-spin on a merged 5 reel and 6 row reel set.

The 6x5 now has a much bigger 7,776 win ways (5x5x5x5x5x5).

On the re-spin a 2x multiplier is applied to all wins.

And there is a ‘general’ multiplier too. This is displayed at the side of the reels and shows a multiplier value to be applied to the total win after the re-spin has played out. Each 1x or 2x multiplier that lands on the re-spin is added to the general multiplier value.

8 Free Spins on Expanded Reel Set With Progressive Multiplier

The free spins round is triggered by landing 3 or more scatters anywhere on the reels. You get 8 spins, and a payout as described above – up to 500x for 6, remember.

This feature is simple. It plays on the 5x6 grid with a ‘general’ multiplier in play which increases by 1x for each 1x multiplier that lands and is MULTIPLIED by 2x for each 2x multiplier that lands. This time the general multiplier is applied to ALL wins throughout the round. 

With its value doubling for each 2x multiplier, you can see how this could grow significantly over the round.

Finally, you get another 4 free spins each time 3 scatters lands on one spin.