Vampires: Blood Moon Slot Review

Let's be honest, Booming Games has a favorite child right now: the 5x4 grid. They've been leaning on it heavily lately for games like Cash Pig 2 15,000 and Vegas Pig 15,000. Vampires: Blood Moon is their newest release off this assembly line, and it carries the exact same numbers those two do: 15,000x at the top and 95.8% back. What changed is the gothic paint and where the money hides.

Basically, they took their usual coin-collecting mechanics, slapped on some fangs, and back-loaded all the real action into the bonus round.

The first thing you'll notice are two big coffins sitting above the reels, sucking up every moon and scatter symbol that drops. It looks and feels like you're filling up a meter that's eventually going to burst and pay out. Spoiler alert: it's a total illusion.

The coffins trigger completely at random. And when they do open, they only pay out based on the symbols that are currently on the screen. All those hundreds of moons they swallowed earlier? Gone. It's a neat visual trick, but don't let it fool you into thinking a big hit is "due."

As for the stats, this is a highly volatile slot with 30 paylines. The RTP (Return to Player) sits at an okay-but-not-great 95.8%, which stays exactly the same whether you spin normally or use the 75x Bonus Buy. Also, there's a really annoying quirk with the betting options: it skips the standard 1.00 stake entirely, jumping straight from 0.90 to 1.20.

In the base game, you're looking for moon symbols carrying multipliers (from 1x up to 50x) on the first four reels. But here's the catch: you only win that money if the Vampire Lady lands on reel 5 to collect them.

Because she only appears on that last reel, you are going to see a lot of dead moons. Dead moons pile up fast. She turned up on four boards out of 125 in our session, and one of the ones she missed was sitting there holding 37x in moons that paid nothing.

Hit three scatters and you get 15 free spins (and a quick 2x your bet). You can't retrigger this round, but the game completely changes gears here.

It turns into an elimination game. If you get a winning line with low-paying card symbols, they vanish from the reels for the rest of the round, triggering a cascade. If you win with premium picture symbols, they turn gold and pay double for the rest of the feature.

Pro tip: Keep your eyes on the silver heart locket. The game heavily favors this one symbol. While the other premiums pay out around 4x to 6x, a five-of-a-kind line of silver hearts pays 133x. If you turn it gold, that jumps to 266x. The whole bonus round basically revolves around hoping you upgrade that specific heart.

During your 15 free spins, every wild symbol that lands gets collected and saved (up to a max of 20).

Then comes the 16th spin, the "Blood Moon Spin." The game takes every single wild you've saved up and just chucks them back onto the board all at once.

This final spin is literally make-or-break, and it's entirely based on blind luck. Land them on reels 2 and 3 and they feed the lines that start at reel 1: that is how our bought round went, and the final spin on its own paid 57x. But if those exact same 5 wilds land on the far right side of the screen where they can't connect? You get absolutely zilch.

Vampires: Blood Moon has a slightly lower RTP than some of Booming Games' other recent slots, but what it does well is build tension. It's genuinely fun watching the bonus round thin out the weak symbols to set up a high-stakes finale.

But you have to be okay with a game that puts all its eggs in one basket. You can spend 15 spins building up an epic final spin, only for the game to drop your wilds in the worst possible spots and leave you hanging. The base game pays out just enough to keep you afloat while you wait, but be warned: this is a game built entirely around a grand finale that frequently forgets to show up.