Devil’s Trap

Devil's Trap: Slot Overview

The spookily titled online slot Devil's Trap is a Halloweenishly-themed experience from casino game maker Stakelogic. If you're squeamish or easily get the heebie-jeebies, don't worry - about the scariest thing in Devil's Trap is its name. The rest has been made so as not to elicit too many jump scares. Instead, it's sort of Halloween-lite but manages to jam in witches' hats, skeletons, pumpkins, all that sort of thing, while its features include free spins, random wild respins, wild nudges, and cash prize wins. If you're not freaked out already, feel free to take a look.

Devil's Trap is located at a fairground overrun with all manner of spectres. They hover about on either side of the game grid, which is also bordered on three sides by flashing lights as if it's one of the fairground attractions. The rest of the background consists of more fairground imagery which creates the impression of a House of Horror-type attraction that's kind of more cringey than creepy. The lacklustre soundtrack doesn't help much, going round and round in circles, seemingly with no destination nor much motivation to really arrive there.

Devil's Trap is an online slot playable on any device, letting participants select stakes of 20 p/c to $/€100 per spin. With a math model volatility rated as high, players can expect a theoretical return value of 96.26% when playing in the default mode (could be lower depending on where you play), with no mention of whether this figure changes when buying free spins. The action takes place on a 5-reel, 3-row contraption, with 20 fixed paylines for landing winning combinations of three to five of a kind across.

If you've made it this far without getting too spooked, let's turn our attention to the paytable. Here we find 10-A icons encased in potion bottles, to begin with, worth 2-8 times the stake for five of a kind. Next are spiders, serpents in cups, hands with mouths, and crows as the premiums, awarding 10 to 100 times the stake for a five-of-a-kind hit. It couldn't be a Halloween-related slot without a pumpkin somewhere, and in Devil's Trap, pumpkins are wild. Wilds appear on all five reels and can substitute for any regular paying symbol. Winning wild paylines also award 100x the bet for five of a kind.

Devil's Trap: Slot Features

Witch hat bonus symbols are what you want to keep an eye out for here. They appear on reels 3, 4, or 5, and when 3 bonus symbols land, they cause the Bonus Reel to spin on the first two reels, which awards:

• Cash prize worth 2x to 200x the bet.
• Random wilds – a respin is awarded, with 3 to 10 pumpkin wild symbols randomly added to the reels.
• Trigger the bonus round with 10, 15, or 20 free spins.

Free Spins

Free spins can be triggered from the Bonus Wheel or bought. While free spins are active, witch hat bonus symbols remain on the reels, so it is possible to win any of the three prizes mentioned above – including extra free spins. Also, during free spins, a sixth reel is activated to the right-hand side of the grid. On this reel, multipliers appear, which are applied to any win achieved on the same spin. Multiplier values vary from x2 to x100.

Nudging Wilds

In free spins, wild symbols are stacked 2 to 3 symbols high. If a wild symbol lands on the top row or the top two rows, there is a chance a skeleton hand reaches up and makes the whole reel wild.

Buy Bonus

If the Buy Bonus button is visible next to the reels, the player may click it to open the buy free spins menu. There are four options here. Three of them are 10, 15, or 20 free spins for 100, 250, or 500 times the stake, while the fourth is a lucky dip option for 225x the bet. Buying the last one provides a 50%, 30% or 20% chance of awarding 10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively.

Devil's Trap: Slot Verdict

Ever driven a car and fallen into one of those trances where your body is on autopilot, indicating, navigating the streets while your mind has wandered off onto a thousand other tangents, and you've gotten home with little memory of the journey? Devil's Trap's base game was a bit like that. There was something about the low-key audio-visuals that tended to encourage relaxation rather than excitement. It's possibly one of the least scary Halloween-type games we'd reviewed in a while, which is fine; there is nothing wrong with not wanting to scare the daylights out of people. Some may appreciate this approach; others may find it a little sanitised, a little too vanilla, especially with the name it's been given.

Okay, maybe there was some exaggeration in the previous paragraph because there were times when Devil's Trap pierced the somnambulist bubble and did something interesting. Typically, this was when three witch hat Bonus Symbols hit to trigger a spin on the Bonus Reel. This part of the game can be alright. The first two reels merge to create a big wheel, and the prizes it can bestow aren't bad. Free spins are one of the main goals since wins there can be bumped up by multipliers as high as x100. Devil's Trap does pack favourable winning potential, too, of up to 10,000 times the bet. That'd buy a fair size bag of candy.

In the end, Devil's Trap was hardly super freaky, but it has the ability to potentially inspire the odd frisson. If it's that time of the year when carved pumpkins are appearing outside houses, shops are putting skeletons in their windows, and you've got a yearning for some reel-based mischief-making, there's enough in Devil's Trap to make it more of a treat than a trick.