Noche de Almas Slot Review

If you've played Hacksaw Gaming's Le Panda Town, firing up BGaming's Noche de Almas (due out on 20 October 2026) is going to give you some major déjà vu. Wrapped in a really gorgeous Día de los Muertos theme filled with sugar skulls and marigolds, the game shares almost all of its core mechanics with Hacksaw's coin games. But after spending some time spinning it, I have to admit that BGaming has tweaked the math just enough to make it appeal to a different kind of player.

The base game loop is actually really satisfying. It's a cluster-pays slot, and whenever you hit a winning combo, the symbols disappear and leave their spots highlighted on the grid.

The goal is to land a Candle symbol while those spots are lit. If you do, all the highlighted spaces turn into Coins with cash values. Throw in a Heart symbol (which multiplies adjacent coins by up to 10x) or a Top Hat (which collects all the coins and triggers a cascade), and you can see how the board can pop off.

If you're impatient, there's a Booster mode for 50x your base bet that guarantees a Candle lands on every spin. Just keep in mind that the coin values are tied to your base bet, not the inflated 50x cost. Every one of those spins costs fifty base bets, though, so it's definitely a high-risk way to play.

The free spins come in three flavors, depending on how long you want those highlighted cells to stick around.

• Soul Awakening (100x Buy): You get 8 spins, but the highlighted cells only stay lit until your first Candle drops. After that, the board wipes. It's pretty standard.
• Soul Fiesta (250x Buy): This is where the real stress (and potential) kicks in. You get 12 spins, and the lit cells never reset. You are completely at the mercy of a Candle showing up late in the round to cash them all in. I bought this feature and sweated through 11 completely dead spins. Finally, on the 12th spin, a Candle dropped next to a long column of lit cells. It paid out about a quarter of my buy-in, not a great return, but it showed me how crazy it could get if it hit right.
• Soul Frenzy: You can't buy this one; you have to trigger it naturally. It gives you 12 spins with sticky cells, removes the low-paying Bronze coins, and guarantees a Candle every single spin. It's the holy grail of this game.

To be fair to BGaming, they did add something here that none of those Hacksaw games has: the Reel Deal. For 333x your bet, the game simulates 500 base-game spins in the background in a split second. It then shows you only the three spins that paid the most, playing them out from lowest to highest.

My 333x buy was a bit of a dud: I got a weak free spins round and two decent base-game hits that returned less than a third of what I paid.

There's no getting around it: Noche de Almas plays a lot like Le Panda Town and Le Bandit Monsters Unleashed. It uses the exact same coin ladder, the same collector/multiplier mechanics, and even the same 100x and 250x bonus buy structures.

However, where BGaming actually changes the formula is under the hood. Those Hacksaw games are rated medium volatility or lower. Noche de Almas cranks that up to a very high volatility model with a 10,000x max win.

If you loved the mechanics of Le Panda Town but wished it was a bit harsher in exchange for massive payout potential, this is exactly the game you're looking for. If you prefer a smoother ride, you might want to stick with the Hacksaw games. Either way, it's a beautifully designed slot, even if the engine is a familiar one.