Evil Bet Cursed Spin Slot Review

Mascot Gaming is gearing up for a new horror-comic scatter-pays release in October 2026 called Evil Bet: Cursed Spin. If you're a fan of the studio, the mechanics might feel a little familiar: it shares its board, its figures and its buy prices with their earlier game, Milk and Luck. Still, the scatter-pays genre is always evolving, so let's dive into how this one plays, especially when it comes to its multiplier bonus.

To trigger the bonus, you need four scatters, which awards 12 free spins. The base layout and payouts stay the same, but the game introduces a persistent global multiplier. Whenever an orb lands during a winning cascade, its value gets added to your total, and that running total boosts every single winning sequence that follows.

Here's the problem, though, and it can be a bit frustrating. If an orb lands on a "dead" spin (where no winning clusters form), it doesn't get added to your total. Seeing a big multiplier drop onto the board only to vanish because you didn't connect a win is definitely a tough pill to swallow.

If you're in a jurisdiction that allows bonus buys, you have two options. The standard buy costs 100x your bet and starts you at a x1 multiplier. There's also a premium 250x option that gives you a random starting multiplier of x6, x7, or x8. A quick note of caution for the stats nerds: using either bonus buy drops the theoretical RTP from a decent 95.80% down to a pretty rough 93.94%. Because the running total applies to every win, the entire round revolves around pushing that single number as high as you can.

I bought the premium 250x option and rolled a x7 start. For most of the round, it was pretty quiet. My multiplier only crawled up to x14, and I had to watch several decent orbs, including an x8 and some x2s, go to waste on dead spins. But late in the round, my luck flipped. A massive x250 orb and a x3 orb landed alongside a winning cluster, rocketing my total from x14 to x267. The remaining spins paid out beautifully at that new level, and I walked away with about six times what I paid for the feature. It's just one session, but it perfectly highlights how this game plays: it's less about a steady, predictable climb and more about holding out hope for one giant orb to save the day.

As I mentioned, Evil Bet: Cursed Spin isn't part of any series, but it has almost everything in common with Milk and Luck. Both have the 95.80% RTP, the 27,000x max win, the summed orbs and the same two Free Spins buys. What you notice first is the spooky coat of paint. (Mascot does tweak the math on their other scatter-pays games, Ganamos Mega X drops the max win to 3,000x, while Poseidon the Deep King offers a larger layout and a better 96.18% RTP, but Evil Bet keeps the same numbers as Milk and Luck).

Looking at the wider scatter-pays market, this game sits somewhere in the middle. It's a bit more generous than Gates of Olympus (which only applies your global multiplier on spins where a new orb lands and wins), and Trailer Trash, due in November, clears its multipliers between spins, so this one keeps more of what you build.

However, the dead spin rule makes it noticeably harder to build your multiplier here than in games like Sari-Sari Shop or certain modes in Gates of Olympus 2500, which bank your orbs even on losing spins.

On the bright side? The x6-to-x8 Free Spins buy is actually priced pretty fairly. Pragmatic Play's Hearts of Venus charges 400x for a guaranteed x8 start. So, at 250x for a start between x6 and x8, Evil Bet offers a comparatively cheaper way to chase those advanced multipliers.

It's a solid, high-volatility scatter-pays game. Just be prepared for the heartbreak of losing big orbs on dead spins, and know that under the Halloween art it plays a lot like Milk and Luck.