Full Moon Fever

Full Moon Fever: Slot Overview

It's funny, there are loads of beliefs over what a full moon can do to people, some good, some bad. Negatives include turning people into werewolves, driving them insane, and creating bad luck for 30 days if viewed through glasses. On the other hand, it's also been said there is a better chance of falling in love during a full moon, that women are more fertile during a full moon, and that picking flowers and berries during a blue moon brings good looks. In other words, it seems exposing yourself to Earth's closest celestial brother is a real crap shoot which could either be the best or worst thing to ever happen to you. Or nothing happens is the third viewpoint, perhaps more commonly held in this rational world we live in where science has, piece by piece, disintegrated the magical beliefs of our forebears.

Providing another will it or won't it set of outcomes is Full Moon Fever, an online slot from developer Blueprint Gaming - a game that has as its location what appears to be ye olde London, and back in the day, a full moon must have been rather helpful for travelling at night since they didn't have anywhere near the same level of lighting as we do now. In fact, according to a report in iNews in 2018, 'London has the eighth highest level of light pollution in the world making the sky 67 times brighter than it would be without the contribution of humans'. No wonder astronomers are no longer peering into the depths of the cosmos at the Royal Observatory Greenwich (without the right filters) the way they used to. But we digress, and bringing things back to Full Moon Fever, we find a cartoon representation of a London-y scene in the days of yore, bathed in the light of a colossal full moon.

Embedded within the game like cheese in the moon, or however that belief went, is Full Moon Fever's highly volatile math model. The game churns out a return to player of 96.02% no matter how it is played whilst taking bets of 10 p/c to $/€100 per spin. Alternately, activating the extra bet increases the stake by 20% while upping the chance of triggering free spins. Clicking the go button sets a 6x4 gaming grid in motion, which provides 4,096 ways to win.

A real pip-pip tally ho Dickensian lineup of characters comprises the higher end of Full Moon Fever's pay table. Apart from the werewolf, of course, who is joined by 5 other character symbols as the high pays, and J-A card ranks as the low pays. A five-of-a-kind premium symbol winning way awards 0.8 to 5 times the bet, while 5 matching royals pay 0.4x the bet. Full Moon wilds are present on all but the leftmost reel, as well, substituting for any regular pay symbol. When wilds hit, they expand to cover the entire reel they are on.

Full Moon Fever: Slot Features

Full Moon Fever's base game has nothing more to it than expanding wilds, so let's turn to the free spins round. This is triggered when 3, 4, 5, or 6 scatters land to award 12 free spins as well as a cash prize of 2x, 5x, 10x, or 100x the bet, respectively.

In free spins, whenever a Full Moon wild symbol lands, it upgrades the lowest character symbol into a werewolf symbol. In addition, landing 1, 2, 3, or 4 wilds awards 1, 3, 5, or 7 extra free spins, respectively. When all character symbols have been turned into the werewolf, if another wild lands, the werewolf changes from paying left to right to paying from anywhere. Lastly, when the round ends, players are given the option of collecting their prize or buying an additional free spin to keep the bonus going. The price for doing so depends on the progress of the character symbol conversion.

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To leap straight into Full Moon Fever's bonus round, players can pay 75 times the bet to do so.

Full Moon Fever: Slot Verdict

Just as many theories have sprung up about what the moon can or cannot do, one theory about Full Moon Fever is that it may, just may, have been inspired by Pragmatic Play's slot Curse of the Werewolf Megaways. Both are set in a London-like town of an earlier period, and both focus on transforming high-pay symbols. Full Moon Fever stirs the pot further, being rather close in execution to Blueprint Gaming's Eye of Horus, too, since not only are symbols converted in free spins, but wild symbols expand to cover their reels when they hit.

So yeah, there should be players out there who feel right at home within the confines of Full Moon Fever, which might have been one of the game's main objectives. Evolution increments in tiny steps, and Blueprint Gaming has proven time and time again it is a studio which is happy to patiently make minor adjustments to previous games and drip-feed them to the gambling community. Not complaining as such, just making an observation. It means that you can oftentimes go into a Blueprint Gaming slot confident of receiving proven features - with a little bit extra. The newer parts in Full Moon Fever are the pay-from-anywhere quality of the final symbol upgrade in free spins and the chance to keep a bonus round alive by paying for individual free spins. As always, these post-feature chances are great when they work out, dumb when they don't.

Should you really rile this werewolf up, then Full Moon Fever cuts in with a win cap of €250,000 to keep some semblance of lid on the savagery. Full Moon Fever never really felt unmissable, but it's something for Pink Elephants-style players to howl over.