Circus of Horror — RTP, volatility and max win

Circus of Horror by GameArt takes you into a horror circus: clowns, vampires, a doctor and the devil perform in black and blood red. An expanding wild fills its whole reel and triggers a re-spin, and during free spins the wilds stick.

The 5×3 grid pays across 243 ways, so there are no fixed lines. The imagery mixes circus and horror – clowns, vampires, monsters and a doctor, soaked in blood and darkness. The bet goes from €0.50 all the way up to €250, which covers higher stakes as well. Circus of Horror was released on February 4, 2019. Roughly 38.38% of all spins land some kind of win.

The high volatility of Circus of Horror comes from the free spins with sticky wilds; other titles at the same level are lined up under volatility of inferno slots.

There are 243 ways: a matching symbol only needs to appear on adjacent reels counting from the leftmost one onward, in any row. When a reel holds more than one match, the combinations multiply. Wilds fill gaps on those ways, while scatters and bonus icons pay regardless of position and open the extra rounds. The stake of €0.50 to €250 covers all ways together.

During ordinary spins the wild stretches over its whole reel when it lands; that reel holds and the rest spin again in a re-spin.

Scatters open the free spins, which carry a multiplier. There, wilds turn sticky and stay put until the round ends, and a free spins multiplier lifts the wins on top.

Bonus icons open a pick game where you uncover hidden objects to reveal prizes. Any win can then go into the gamble game, where you double it or lose it.

Free spins in Circus of Horror start from scatters and run with sticky wilds and their own multiplier; more titles with rounds like that are grouped under inferno slots with free spins.

RTP 96.68%, higher than 94% of the 400 Inferno slots. 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 4,368× (€1,092,000 at the highest stake). Background: what max win means on a slot. Hit frequency 38.38%: roughly one spin in 3 wins.

Few inferno slots return more than Circus of Horror does at 96.68%. High volatility shows in how the game is built: the big money sits in the free spins with sticky wilds and the multiplier. Its biggest prize of 4,368× the stake, on the other hand, lands just under the median of the collection.

GameArt supplies Circus of Horror to casinos with a selectable RTP; how far the figures spread on games like this is shown in the list of inferno slots ranked by RTP.

Again with almost identical RTPs, devils on the reels as well as a high volatility level, as with Circus of Horror: