Book Of Vampires Slot Review
A ruined gothic castle on its rock at night, roof caved in, dormer windows boarded, bare trees twisting in from the corners, and a red-lit archway burning at the base of the screen. Book Of Vampires is that rare five-line slot that has no intention of staying five lines: every win you land widens the board, and a good chain turns a tight classic format into a 243-way game before your eyes. Tom Horn Gaming built it on a 5×3 grid running at 94% RTP on high volatility, and the escalating design is the whole reason to sit down with it. Book-style titles from the same studio include Book Of Cleo and Book Of Aladdin, and this one shares their expanding-symbol bonus while adding a shatter mechanic of its own.
Base Game, Shatter Mode and Vampire Wilds
Each spin starts with five winlines across the 5×3 grid, and the reels carry ten symbols in total: the vampire, his coffin, a goblet, a cross and a bulb of garlic at the top, with the royals below them.
Bets are set with the plus and minus buttons, and autoplay runs the reels automatically on a fixed line count and stake. On mobile, autoplay lives in the options menu. A stop button halts the reels mid-spin for the impatient.
The paytable, in multiples of the total bet:
- Vampire: 30x for five, 15x for four, 5x for three, 1x for two
- Coffin: 15x for five, 8x for four, 3x for three, 1x for two
- Goblet: 10x for five, 5x for four, 3x for three, 1x for two
- Cross: 5x for five, 3x for four, 1.5x for three, 0.5x for two
- Garlic: 3x for five, 1.5x for four, 1x for three
- A / K: 1.5x for five, 1x for four, 0.5x for three
- Q / J: 1x for five, 0.5x for four, 0.2x for three
Two-of-a-kind pays on the four premium symbols is a generous touch. Five vampires at 30x the total bet is a solid ceiling before any feature gets involved.
There’s no maximum win figure for this one, so the ceiling has to be judged from the paytable and the feature maths rather than a single printed number. The free spins round, with expanded premium reels across a wide-line board, is where the realistic upside sits.
Shatter Mode
When a win lands, the winning symbols explode and new ones drop in to fill the gaps. That begins Shatter Mode, and it runs for up to four rounds, ending whenever a spin produces no win.
The clever part is what happens to the winlines while it runs:
- Round one: 10 winlines
- Round two: 25 winlines
- Round three: 50 winlines
- Round four: 243 winlines
So a chain of consecutive wins takes the game from a tight five-line format to full ways-to-win, and the more it shatters, the more ways each new drop has to connect. It ends the moment a round comes up empty, which keeps the escalation tense rather than guaranteed.
Because the symbol pays are multiples of the total bet rather than the line bet, the escalating line count changes how often you connect rather than how much each symbol is worth. A 243-line board with the same symbols on it simply finds more ways to use them. Every drop that lands a win extends the chain and raises the count again, up to the four-round cap.
Vampire Wilds
Randomly, after the reels stop, Vampire Wilds can mark a symbol and turn it wild. The wild carries a multiplier that grows with each Shatter round, climbing to x5 at the top of the chain.
That timing is the whole point. A wild marked on a first-round board with 10 winlines is a modest boost; the same wild arriving in round four, multiplied to x5 across 243 lines, is where this game’s biggest moments come from.
Bloody Free Spins
Three scatter symbols, landing on the first, third and fifth reels only, trigger the Bloody Free Spins. The round awards between five and 15 free spins, and it can’t be retriggered, so what you get at the start is everything you’ll play.
A special expanding symbol is chosen at random as the feature begins. Whenever it lands, it stretches to fill its entire reel, and several of them don’t have to line up on neighbouring reels to expand at once – a looser rule than most book-style games offer.
Before the spins start, you also choose the number of winlines the round plays with, which is an unusual amount of control for the format.
There’s an obvious tension in that choice: fewer winlines means each expanding symbol covers more of what’s in play, while more winlines gives every expanded reel more routes to pay. The decision at the start is a real one.
The dream scenario is the vampire symbol expanding across a wide-line board. At 30x for a five-of-a-kind, several expanded vampire reels at once would comfortably out-pay anything the base game can manage on its own.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
Playing this is mostly watching a small game try to become a big one. You spin five lines, and if the wins keep coming the castle opens up: more lines, then a x5 wild, then the whole 243-way board. That slow build, in a genre that usually just pays and stops, is why anyone would choose it over the countless other vampire slots on the shelf.
The strength is that the escalation is earned, not given. Every extra winline costs you another winning drop, so a wide board always feels like something you built. The weakness is the price of admission: 94% RTP is below what most modern video slots offer, and the presentation, though nicely painted, is quieter than the theme has any right to be.
It’s a good fit for anyone who likes a game that grows with a session rather than one that waits for a bonus, and a poor one for anyone chasing the biggest numbers in the format. On its own gothic terms, it holds up.
Book Of Vampires FAQs
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What is the RTP of Book Of Vampires?
The RTP of Book Of Vampires is 94%, and the game is high volatility. -
Is Book Of Vampires high volatility?
Yes, Book Of Vampires is a high volatility slot, so wins tend to be less frequent but potentially larger when they land. -
How do the winlines work in Book Of Vampires?
The game starts each spin with five winlines. During Shatter Mode, consecutive wins upgrade the count through 10, 25 and 50 up to a maximum of 243 winlines, and the mode ends when a spin produces no win. -
How do you trigger the Bloody Free Spins?
Bloody Free Spins are triggered by three scatter symbols landing on the first, third and fifth reels only. The round awards between five and 15 free spins and cannot be retriggered. -
What does the special expanding symbol do in the free spins?
A special expanding symbol is randomly chosen at the start of the free spins. It expands to cover the whole reel whenever it appears, and multiple special symbols do not need to be on adjacent reels to expand. You also choose how many winlines the round plays with. -
What do Vampire Wilds do?
Vampire Wilds trigger randomly after the reels stop, marking a symbol and changing it to a wild. The wild’s multiplier increases with each Shatter round, up to a maximum of x5. -
What is the grid size of Book Of Vampires?
Book Of Vampires plays on a 5×3 grid with five winlines at the start of each spin, expanding up to 243 during Shatter Mode. -
When is Book Of Vampires released?
Book Of Vampires’ release date is 27 October 2022, and it’s made by Tom Horn Gaming.
