Belfry Bliss Hold and Win Slot Review

A grinning cartoon devil runs the bell tower, and the bells he rings are the whole game. Each one lands stamped with a cash value, and six of them anywhere on the grid opens a hold and win round where those values finally pay out. Everything around that is a fruit machine: flaming sevens, cherries, bars, ten fixed lines across 5x3.

Worth getting straight before loading it, because aggregators still mangle this one. It is not the 2024 Belfry Bliss, which ran a variable-ways engine and the Hell's Bells feature. Evoplay kept the tower, the imp and the burning gold, then rebuilt the maths from scratch around sticky bells and three fixed jackpots. Same universe, completely different machine.

Bell values run from 1x the total bet up to 15x, with the MINOR and SUPER jackpots hiding among them. Fill all fifteen positions and ULTRA pays 1,000x.

The tower sits under a sickly green-yellow sky, a castle silhouette just about visible through the fog, the horizon burning orange behind it. Two cracked stone columns bracket the reels. The ledge underneath is buried in gold coins with rubies and amethysts scattered through the pile, and small bowls of fire burn at the corners of the frame.

The symbols split between classic and infernal and never quite reconcile. The seven has flames licking up its face, the BAR is a plain silver plaque, cherries and a blue horseshoe fill the middle rungs, and the card royals are done in candy colours (green J, gold Q, pink K, red A) that look like they wandered in from another game. The bell is the best-drawn thing here: gold, topped with a tiny pentagram finial and two little horns, its value printed across the belly. The imp is bald, orange and standing on a glowing sigil, extremely pleased with himself. Jackpot plates stack down the left in red, green and blue.

The green backdrop is the odd call. It reads more swamp than inferno, and nothing in the scene moves much once the reels start turning.

The base game is a waiting room and makes no attempt to disguise it. Roughly one spin in seven returns anything, and most of those returns are loose change: three royals give back half a stake. Ten lines on a 5x3 grid leaves very little to watch between events, which is exactly why the bells carry all the emotional weight.

They drip in. One lands, two more turn up four spins later, and you find yourself counting without deciding to. Stalling on four or five happens far more often than reaching six, and that slow accumulation is easily the most interesting thing about normal play (also the most irritating).

The round itself is over fast. Three respins is a short leash, and a bonus that opens with six bells and manages to add another two feels like a win in itself. Plenty of them end on a modest pile of small numbers and a shrug. The 1,268x ceiling sits so close to the ULTRA prize that the shape of your best possible session is visible from the very first spin, which is refreshingly honest and also caps the daydream at a fairly low altitude.

What Evoplay has put together is a small, plainspoken hold and win with a devil painted on the front. The bonus does its job, the jackpot ladder is easy to read, and the buy is priced so that nobody has to sit through the base game unless they want to. Nothing here is reaching for clever.

Two things hold it back. A sub-96% return on a game with no base-game modifier puts every scrap of value inside one short round, and at that hit rate you will probably spend more time watching bells fail to arrive than watching them stick. For my money the 2024 original has the better base game and this one has the better bonus, so which you prefer comes down to whether you would rather be entertained between features or during them.