NetEnt’s Halloween Jack is truly terrifying, with its creaking floorboards, rumbling thunder, cawing crows and insidious whispering voices it felt like loading up a horror film more than an online slot! If you’re sensitive to the darker things perhaps don’t play this one alone at night, especially with headphones on!

Halloween Jack truly captures the dark essence of all hallows eve, a time of year when the veil between this world and the next is so thin that spirits crossover and all sorts of madness and mayhem can ensue.

Dressing up in costumes has its origin in this ancient fear of demons, by dressing up as a ghost or ghoul they hoped to fool evil spirits into thinking they were of the same ilk and so avoid being haunted… or worse.

 The Voice From Within Reveals Halloween Jacks Lore

While browsing through the information section of Halloween Jack you will discover a grimoire left for you by NetEnt. It tells the demented tale evil entering the world and the maddening part a whispering jewellery box played. Read “The Voice From Within” on the seventh skull deep inside the Halloween Jack information section! 

This haunting tale of a woman’s descent into madness is played out against the creepy backdrop of a graveyard shrouded in mist and faintly lit by lightning. The perfect setting for the eerie symbols that cover the reels.

The Free Spins symbols is a web covered jewellery box, the one spoken of The Voice from Within. Hades alone knows what evil lies trapped within.

The Walking Wild symbol is the classic Jack-o-Lantern within its toothy grin and glowing inner fire.

During Free Spins you will be treated, or is that tricked, to three demonic Wild symbols; the vicious Stacked Hell Hound Wild, the soulless Stacked Jack-o-lantern Wild and the foreshadowing Expanding Death Reaper Wild.

The Premium symbols are:

✓ The Mad Woman – her story is sad but her reward is great. Get up to 1000 coins when she appears on the reels 5 times.
✓ Decaying Steed – this sad beast carries the treasures of its former life. Get 750 coins for meeting 5 of these on the reels.
✓ Hellish Bat –it may want your blood but capture 5 of these and be rewarded with 250 coins.
✓ Demonic Crow – this red-eyed vermin carries a rich secret, 5 of them are worth 250 coins.
✓ Not so Lucky Horseshoe – webbed and cracked this horseshoe is not as lucky as before but still worth a tidy 125 coins if you can find 5 of them.

In keeping with the feel of horror the low-value symbols of A, K, Q, J and 10 have been painted to display decaying hands twisting and pulling on them as though coaxing them back into the ground. A truly macabre but appreciated treatment for these low-value symbols is how the fingers click and tap on the symbol when you win, bringing back memories of the classic Dawn of the Dead films.

 Creepy Features and Nightmarish Wins Stalk the Reels 

The three nightmarish Bonus Features themselves play their part perfectly in drawing you into this world of madness and jackpots. You’ll find yourself uneasy and enthralled as you wait for each spin to reveal its results.

Landing a Walking Wild symbols on reels will see you trigger a re-spin. With each respin the Walking Wild will move one reel to the left, completing paylines along the way. Each winning payline is treated to a 3x multiplier!

Once you have 2 Free Spin symbols on the reels ghostly green spirits scream in anticipation of the third symbol and their imminent release! Uncovering 3 or more Free Spin demonic jewellery boxes on the reels will reward you with 10 Free Spins! Landing 3 or more during the free games will give you an additional 5 free spins!

During Free Spins you stand to unleash 3 demonic plagues, Multiple Walking Wilds, upon the world by landing Lantern symbols on the reels:

➀ Uncover the Stacked Hell Hound by collecting 3 Lanterns
➁ Summon the Stacked Jack-o-lantern by collecting 6 Lanterns
➂ Unleash the Expanding Death Reaper Wild by collecting 9 Lanterns

Halloween Jack slot has coin sizes that range from €0.01 up to €0.50 multiplied by the games 20 Paylines. This will see you betting €0.20-€10.00 per spin at Level 1. 
Netent also allows you to supercharge your bets by selecting a power level starting at 1x and maxing out at 10x your bet size. At level 10 you will be playing €2.00 to €100.00 per spin. If you’re playing on a budget make sure you adjust your power Level accordingly.

Halloween Jack slot places a tempting 6000x your bet jackpot on the altar as an offering. If you’re playing for the Nightmare level payout be sure to set your coin and bet size to maximum!

 Is Halloween Jack A Trick Or A Treat?

NetEnt have delivered a deliciously dark and entertaining multi-platform slot in Halloween Jack. With its fantastic visual design and spine-tingling ambient sound profile lovers of Halloween and all things fantastical will fall in love with it.

From a payout perspective, it is important to keep in mind that Halloween Jack is a high variance slot and like the grave, it is not too keen to give up what it has claimed. Be prepared to play for quite a while to unlock any bonus feature other than the Walking Wild pumpkin who graces the reels on a semi-regular basis.

If you enjoy the dark and have no fear of spending a lot of time with one slot machine to wrestle its jackpots from its clutches then Halloween Jack could be made for you!