Blood and Shadow — RTP, volatility and max win

Nolimit City drops Blood and Shadow into a grim hellscape of blood, shadow and dark magic, with demons filling the grid. Wins set off cascades, and along the way the game gathers energy that unlocks new levels and clears symbols off the board.

Blood and Shadow was released on March 7, 2023 and keeps its palette strictly to black, grey and blood red. Instead of flames it relies on shadow, blood and demons. The 5×4 grid offers 1,024 ways, with the extra row adding plenty of combinations compared with the classic format. Each spin takes €0.20 at minimum and €100 at most, and the free spins can also be bought outright.

There are no fixed lines: demon symbols pay once they appear on neighbouring reels counted from reel one, in any row. With five reels of four rows each, that adds up to 1,024 ways. After every win the symbols involved vanish, new ones drop in, and the count starts again until no further hit forms.

Cascades: every win clears the symbols involved, new ones slide in and can form further hits.

Energy collection and level-ups: winning symbols fill an energy meter. Each level reached adds a new effect: symbols split so they count twice, or weak symbols are removed from the grid altogether.

Free spins: scatters open the bonus round, and further scatters extend it. During the round wilds stick and a multiplier applies to wins. Impatient players can also purchase entry to the free spins.

Since Blood and Shadow counts wins across four rows by ways rather than fixed lines, set it next to other inferno slots with ways to win.

RTP 94.03%. Background: how RTP works on a slot. Volatility High, like 85 of the 180 slots in the Hell & devil theme. Background: what slot volatility means. Max win 6,666× (€666,600 at the highest stake). Background: what max win means on a slot. Hit frequency 27.18%: roughly one spin in 4 wins.

An RTP of 94.03% places Blood and Shadow in the bottom tenth of the Inferno slots.

The win cap of 6,666×, on the other hand, is above the median: around 66% of the slots reach less. The high volatility builds up mainly in the free spins, where sticky wilds, the multiplier and the energy levels come together.

Because Nolimit City lets casinos choose a return for Blood and Shadow from a band where even the highest value is low, the RTP comparison of inferno slots shows the gap to the rest of the field.

More with high-volatility maths, a hell theme on the reels as well as much the same RTP, as in Blood and Shadow: