Voodoo Temple

Voodoo Temple: Slot Overview

Like ending up in the bizarre section of Youtube after too much browsing, playing online slots long enough means that sooner or later there's a good chance you'll find yourself communing with virtual spirits in a voodoo themed game. This could mean mixing potions indoors or braving dank backcountry locations where the barrier between reality and the afterlife is thinner than usual. Both of these scenarios can be found in Voodoo Temple, an online slot from Blueprint Gaming sibling studio Lucksome. Broadly speaking, there are two types of voodoo – Petro and Rado. Rado is the benevolent, peaceful form, while Petro is the darker type where zombies or curses come into play. Let's find out which form Voodoo Temple takes.

Voodoo Temple is Lucksome's fifth release, and the studio certainly couldn't be accused of having a signature look. Each of their games is completely different to the rest, with Voodoo Temple arguably being the richest looking one so far. The base game action takes place in a strange wooden building full of flickering candles, drying herbs, heavy tomes, and a variety of other classic voodoo accoutrements. The soundtrack is excellent as well, throwing up a wall of spooky noises, chanting, bells, and odd echoey effects. Voodoo Temple refrains from completely going over to the dark side, but it gives off the impression that with a slight shove, it could.

Lucksome continues to be as experimental with features as they are crystal clear with their games' stats – and players get a stack of those. It starts from the load screen, which clearly displays things like a bonus frequency of 3/10 and a win frequency of 7/10. Overall volatility has been rated 8 out of 10, but when the bonus round triggers, players can choose from three options, each one possessing different volatility settings – another Lucksome hallmark. The RTP is a healthy 96.5% when playing in the regular manner, where stakes range from 10 p/c to $/€200 per spin, or even higher when activating the Shadow Bet, which increases the stake by 20% but also doubles the chance of triggering Shadow Mode.

Played on a 5-reel, 3-row game grid, players get 243 ways to create winning combinations, as indicated by the '2', '4', '3' imprinted on the three skulls next to the reels. Pay symbols are made up of 11 symbols; six are lower value stones with various patterns inscribed on them, while premiums include potion bottles, animal skulls, cauldrons, voodoo dolls, and glowing-eyed heads. Landing a five of a kind winning line is worth 0.6x the bet for the lows, 1.5-10x the bet for the high pays. The priestess lady is wild and appears on reels 2, 3, or 4 to substitute any regular pay symbol. She is also closely tied to the features, as we will see.

Voodoo Temple: Slot Features

Voodoo Temple packs a hefty max win, and scoring anything close to it will require the assistance of features such as Multiplier Boosts, Shadow Mode, as well as Free Spins.

Multipliers

Sitting to the right of the reels are masks displaying multiplier values. The base values are x2, x3, and x5, which are applied to wins when 1, 2, or 3 wild priestess symbols are in view, respectively. Randomly, The Multiplier Boost feature may trigger, where priestess wilds boost mask multipliers up to x25 in the base game, up to x30 in base game Shadow Spins, or up to x70 in Free Spins depending on volatility choice.

Shadow Mode

Shadow Mode can trigger randomly from the base or bonus game. When activated, for the next few spins, masks can take on higher multiplier values, and when wild symbols hit, they can increase the multipliers even further.

Free Spins

Bone pentagrams are the free spins scatter symbols and landing at least 3 of them triggers the bonus round. Here, players can choose from three options:

• Low volatile option - 3, 4, or 5 scatters awards 12, 15, or 20 free spins. Wins are multiplied by x2, x3, x5, or x6 when 0, 1, 2, or 3 wilds are in view.
• Medium volatile option - 3, 4, or 5 scatters awards 9, 12, or 16 free spins. Wins are multiplied by x3, x4, x6, or x8 when 0, 1, 2, or 3 wilds are in view.
• High volatile option - 3, 4, or 5 scatters awards 5, 8, or 12 free spins. Wins are multiplied by x2-x5, x3-x20, or x8-x50, when 1, 2, or 3 wilds are in view.

During free spins, the wild priestess can land stacked, and there is a chance in the low or medium volatile option that she will trigger the Multiplier Boost or Shadow Mode. Shadow Mode is always active in the high volatile option.

Bonus Buy

Where applicable, players can use the feature buy option to buy a 3, 4, or 5 scatter trigger for the cost of 115x, 150x, or 300x the total bet. The RTP when buying free spin is 97%.

Voodoo Temple: Slot Verdict

Lucksome are turning out to be a lot more random than we originally suspected. After their debut slot Divine Links and its follow-up Joker Maxima, it seemed like the studio was going to cling valiantly to classically styled games. Since then, Loki got mischievous, and there was a colourful jungle journey in Way of the Tiger. Now Lucksome has taken a walk on the mysterious side of life by exploring the voodoo arts. They've done it in style, too. Vibrant colours, tight animations, and a spine-tingling soundtrack means Voodoo Temple gives games like Voodoo Gold a run for its money in terms of building an immersive environment.

The gameplay has been well thought out, too, though the various features can be slightly puzzling when reading them in text form because things like Multiplier Boosts and Shadow Mode sort of overlap and do similar things. Basically, what you want in Voodoo Temple is to land as many wilds as possible, power up multipliers and hopefully have a higher value symbol or two thrown in the mix somewhere. Do this, and winning potential can be as high as 20,000x the bet, though the win focus (as Lucksome calls it) is a more modest 1,000x the bet. How players go about attempting to achieve the objectives is partly up to them, thanks to the three free spins options with their varying volatilities and capabilities. It might have been nice if mask multipliers had some sort of progressive element to them. However, the random way wild priestesses can jack mask values adds an unpredictability that creates its own type of entertainment when it does go your way.

With a single flex, Lucksome has turned its attention to voodoo and made an admirable slot of the subject matter. As to atmosphere, this is about as deep into the bayous as it gets, and with the random nature of its multipliers, Voodoo Temple can pull a session from the swamp in a moment.