Bloodthirst — RTP, volatility and max win

Hacksaw Gaming sets Bloodthirst in a gloomy world of vampires and demons, painted in black, grey and dark blue, with blood as the recurring motif. Symbols can stretch across whole reels and hit several of its few paylines in one go.

Bloodthirst came out on February 2, 2023. Bloodsuckers and demons dominate the screen, and the cool colour scheme makes the red of the blood stand out all the more. The reels form a 5×4 field carrying 10 paylines, a fairly small number of lines for four rows. A spin costs at least €0.10 and at most €100.

Wins land on the 10 paylines: a vampire or demon combination counts when identical icons follow each other along a line, starting on the left. With so few lines across four rows, each one carries more weight. The wild fills gaps on a line, while scatters don't pay along the lines and instead take the game into free spins.

Expanding symbols: a symbol can grow to cover a whole reel, and on a four-row grid that covers several lines at once.

Symbol swap: the game swaps some symbols for others, which can complete lines that weren't finished before.

Energy collection: Bloodthirst collects energy symbols that tie in with its special features.

Free spins and bonus buy: the free spins round can be triggered in play or bought directly.

Since symbols in Bloodthirst can stretch over whole reels and cover several lines at once, inferno slots with expanding symbols gathers other games with that reel-filling trick.

RTP 94.23%, lower than 85% of the 400 Inferno slots. Background: how RTP works on a slot. Volatility High, like 66 of the 114 slots in the Demon theme. Background: what slot volatility means. Max win 10,000× (€1,000,000 at the highest stake). Background: what max win means on a slot. Hit frequency 21%: roughly one spin in 5 wins.

At 94.23%, the return of Bloodthirst belongs with the lower-returning Inferno slots.

The ceiling, by contrast, is high at 10,000×: around 75% of the slots in the collection are capped lower. High volatility fits that contrast: most spins pay little, and the big amounts arrive when expanding symbols fill several lines at once during free spins.

Operators can switch Bloodthirst between several return settings; the page on RTP of inferno slots shows the band Hacksaw Gaming allows here.

Alongside Bloodthirst: other slots with a close RTP, high-volatility play plus demons on the reels.