How To Play Fear The Dark Mobile Slot
You might not fear the dark as you play this Fear The Dark slot, but you’ll be praying the moon man comes and give you big multipliers.
The Fear The Dark mobile slot is an unusual 5×5 grid slot from Hacksaw Gaming with cluster pays and avalanching wins. The RTP of 96.25% keeps the gameplay on a pretty even keel, especially with the wide betting range of 0.10 to 100 a spin.
Why is it unusual? Because the theme is a cross between the Itchy and Scratchy show from The Simpson, but from the mind of a sadistic psychopath.
The good news is that it’s easy to distinguish the high and low-paying symbols amongst this graveyard – the black and white symbols are low paying, and the colourful ghost, ghoul, pig, clown, and zombie are high paying.
The Fear The Dark slot features
The main feature is the Full Moon Man. When he shows up, he adds multipliers to 2 to 5 symbols.
These symbols will payout with the multiplier, and then one symbol will be removed at a time, allowing more symbols to fall from above and give you wins with the symbols with leftover multipliers.
It sounds more complicated than it is. Essentially, it’s an extra chance to get more wins and get up to a 100x multiplier on the high-paying symbols.
The Moon Man can show up any time during your Fear The Dark slot play, but he is twice as likely to show up in the free spins. That’s where you’ll get a better chance to catch the top win of 5,000x your bet.
Don’t fear the darkness; embrace it
A nice touch when the free spins end is that you’ll get a chance to retrigger the Fear The Dark slot free spins. The grid will darken and shrink to 4×4. If you land a bonus symbol, you can retrigger the bonus. If not, shrink to 2×2 and try again.
The feature ends when darkness covers the whole reel, and you get back to the base game.
Don’t worry if you miss the free spins. For 3x your bet, you are 5x more likely to trigger a bonus, while for 40x your bet, you are guaranteed a Moon Man on each spin.
Fans of Betty Bonkers slot or Hit It Big slot will enjoy paying a little extra to put a little pep on their spins.
It’s not for everyone, and we generally don’t like having to pay extra for extra fun, but you don’t have to if you don’t want to. This Fear the Dark slot game works just as well without having to press the buy button.
Related: Take a look at our Hacksaw Gaming Slots List featuring all of our reviews including their latest releases.
Fear The Dark Slot Stats
Mobile Slot Released | April 2023 |
Slot Type | Grid Slot |
Software Provider | Hacksaw Gaming |
Slot Reels / Paylines | 6 Reels / All Ways Pay |
House Edge / RTP | 3.75% / 96.25% |
Slot Volatility | Medium |
Min/Max Bet | 0.10 / 100 |
Max Win | 5,000x your bet |
Free Spins | 10 or 15 Free Spins / Richer Reels |
Bonus Rounds | Cluster Pays, Avalanching Wins, Multipliers, Scatters, Free Spins, Buy Bonus, Richer Reels |
Slot Themes | Undead |
Fear The Dark Bonus Features
Cluster Pays and Avalanching Wins: When five or more symbols touch each other, you'll get a cluster win which will explode and disappear. More symbols will then fall from above, giving you another chance to get more wins. This continues until you find no more wins.
Full Moon Mode: This feature is activated when the full moon scatter triggers. 2-5 symbols will now have multipliers on the top of the grid, from 2x to 100x.
Symbol multipliers multiply all wins on the corresponding symbols for as long as they are active. Once the grid has settled, the symbol multipliers will be removed one by one from left to right.
For each multiplier that is removed, all symbols of the corresponding type and all low-paying symbols are removed from the grid, and new symbols will drop down. This continues until all the multipliers in the line are removed.
Alone in the Dark Free Spins: 3 or 4 scatter symbols trigger 10 or 15 free spins. There is a better chance of landing the Moon Man symbol during this feature. If you get extra scatters during the bonus, you'll get +4 spins added to the total.
Once the free spins are over, you enter the Darkness Spins. All the candles are extinguished from around the grid, and it shrinks by one symbol each time, first to 4x4, then to 2x2,
Activating the full moon mode returns the grid to 6x6 and resets Darkness Spins. Landing an FS retrigger enlarges the grid back to 6x6 for the current spins and takes you back to regular free spins.
This bonus feature ends when the Darkness Spins mode ends without either a Full Moon or an FS retrigger.
Bonus Buy: You can Buy the Bonus and, depending on your choice, increase or lowers the Fear The Dark slot RTP of 96.25%.
- Bonus Hunt Featurespins (3x your bet - 96.41%): 5x more likely to trigger the bonus game.
- Moon man Feature Spins (40x your bet - 96.25%): Guaranteed one moon man symbol lands on each spin.
- Buy 10 free spins (100x your bet - 96.23%): buys entry into the bonus.
- Buy 15 free spins (150x your bet - 96.25%): Buys entry into the bonus.
Pros
- High 96.25% RTP
- Low 0.10 minimum bet
- Decent 5,000x stak max win
- Free spins with richer reels
Cons
- Gameplay is slow without bonus buy feature