Madame of Mystic Manor

Madame of Mystic Manor: Slot Overview

Come gather around as we tell the story of a mysterious woman residing in a mysterious house, spending her time using her skills to create wilds, multipliers, and other swirling cloud mysteries. Actually, let's let developer Blueprint Gaming tell the tale in its online slot, Madame of Mystic Manor. In this esoteric leaning game, players can benefit from framing grid positions which may be filled with wilds in the future, sometimes with multipliers, while possessing persistent qualities in the free spins and super free spins rounds.

Madame of Mystic Manor uses colours to set its base game and its bonus rounds apart. The main game background is set up in a sort of sepia black and white picture book style, where an eerie manor sits beneath a cloudy sun and moon-adorned sky. The colouration takes on purple tones when free spins are active, and bluer hues during super free spins. In all states, Madame of Mystic Manor has a faint Lovecraftian Old Ones feel to it, not to the level of Darkness or Blood & Shadow, let's say, but fairly eldritch.

The crystal ball equivalent in Madame of Mystic Manor is a 5-reel, 4-row gaming grid, upon which falls 30 paylines for wins to be evaluated. When betting 30 c to $/€45 per spin, the RTP is 96.25%, and on the back end, the game runs on a medium-high volatile math model. Players may buy either of the two free spins features if they'd prefer to skip the base game, though there are merits in triggering free spins naturally as we will see.

Jack to Ace card ranks are the lower value pay symbols, awarding 1 to around 1.67 times the bet for a 5-of-a-kind hit, then come candles, hourglasses, crystal balls, and books as the high pays. Premium symbols award approximately 3.33 to 15 times the bet for 5 OAK win. Wild symbols are present on all reels in the game except the rightmost reel, subsisting for all regular pay symbols. Wilds are also able to make winning combinations of themselves of 3 or 4-of-a-kind at the same value as the book symbol.

Madame of Mystic Manor: Slot Features

The features in Madame of Mystic Manor are wild-linked Hot Zones, Returning Wilds, free spins, super free spins, and two bonus buys.

Hot Zones & Returning Wilds

In the main game and in free spins, when a wild symbol lands on the reels, it activates a Hot Zone around its position. Hot Zones persist between spins. If a wild lands in an existing Hot Zone, it upgrades the Hot Zone's level by +1. The starting level is always 1. If free spins trigger, any existing Hot Zones are transferred over from the base game. Hot Zones are linked to bet levels.

Hitting an Oracle symbol in the base game or in free spins triggers the Returning Wilds feature. Oracles are present only on the rightmost reel. All symbols inside Hot Zones are transformed into wild symbols with multipliers according to the Hot Zones' levels. If a winning line contains more than one wild multiplier, then the total multiplier for that line is the sum of multiplier values greater than 1.

In the base game, if there are Hot Zones in view together with an Oracle and 3 scatters, the Returning Wilds feature is not triggered. Instead, super free spins are awarded, and the Hot Zones are transferred to the round as sticky wild symbols with multipliers equal to the corresponding Hot Zones' levels. In the main game, Hot Zones are removed after the Returning Wilds feature. In free spins, Hot Zones stay on the reels until the round ends, even if Returning Wilds is activated.

Free Spins

Hitting 3 scatter symbols in the main game awards 7 free spins. Scatters are present on reels 2, 3, and 4 in the base game only. Hitting an Oracle during the round awards +1 extra spin. Hot Zones are removed from the reels when the free spins feature ends.

Super Free Spins

Hitting 3 scatter symbols and an Oracle in the base game awards 7 super free spins. When wild symbols land, they remain on the reels till the round ends. When an Oracle symbol lands, +1 free spin is awarded, and the multiplier of each sticky wild on the reels increases by +1. If a winning line contains more than one sticky wild multiplier, then the total multiplier for that line is the sum of multiplier values greater than 1.

Buy Bonus

In the base game, players can buy free spins for 50x the bet (RTP 96.22%) or super free spins for 130x the bet (RTP 96.62%).

Madame of Mystic Manor: Slot Verdict

Madame of Mystic Manor joins the ranks of games like Madame Mystique Megaways and Madame Destiny Megaways in form, if not exactly in function. Features-wise, this one sits in the category of slots that like to frame positions, then fill them with wilds at a later point. Slots which perform like this often do so in sets of spins; for example, for the first 9 spins, positions may be framed, then on the final tenth spin, wilds are added to the applicable spots. Madame of Mystic Manor is more random than that, though, as players must wait for the Oracle lady to drop onto the reels to kickstart the Returning Wilds feature. Maybe with multipliers in there, too.

A neat little twist, in other words, but what's neater is that Blueprint Gaming continues the push by further altering the rules of its super free spins round, adding variety. Not sure how often hitting 3 scatters and an Oracle at the same time is, yet the bonus buy might be a way for some gamblers to sidestep the wait. The benefit of super free spins is having sticky wilds in place from the moment they hit till the end of the round. It's a desirable and possibly exciting ability, made more so when Oracles land to increase multiplier values.

The features might not be quite as potent as some players may have been hoping for, though, since payouts are governed by a 5,000x the bet win cap (or 250,000 credits if this amount comes first), which is solid but easily surpassed by other sticky wild multiplier competitors. Dead or Alive 2 and Top Dawg$ are two examples that roll from the memory banks as higher-flying examples. Still, if you're not after the most insane, sticky wild/returning wild game on the planet or are intrigued by mystery, then Madame of Mystic Manor should go some way in scratching the itch.