Brides of Dracula: Hold & Win Slot Review

Brides of Dracula: Hold & Win Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Brides of Dracula: Hold & Win is played using 5 reels, 3 rows and 25 fixed paylines. Create winning combinations by landing 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols or wilds from left to right across a payline, starting from the reel on the left.

Click on the coin icon below the spin button to set your bet size. Stakes range from between 25p and £25 per spin. To open the paytable, click on the i button. Payout amounts are shown in cash, relative to your current stake. It’s all nice and simple.

The Brides of Dracula: Hold & Win RTP is 95.5% which is below the 96% average. The volatility is medium to high and rated as 7.5 out of 10 by developer iSoftBet.

Expect a win on about a quarter of spins as the hit frequency rate is 23.8%. Furthermore, you should trigger the main bonus feature every 200 spins. The maximum win comes in at 6,040 x your total stake per spin.

Theme – head to Dracula’s Transylvanian castle

Based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel, there’s a classic horror theme to the Brides of Dracula: Hold & Win slot. Beautifully designed and part of iSoftBet’s Twisted Tale series, Count Dracula’s Transylvanian castle, bathed in the light of a full moon, forms the backdrop of the game.

The comic-book design here is very impressively done. So too is the delightfully creepy soundtrack. It all comes together very nicely.

The reels are made up of Gothic-style A to J royals, the 3 vampire brides as well as Dracula himself. The smiling Count is the top paying symbol, awarding 1.6, 8 or 16 x your total stake if you land 3, 4 or 5 across a payline.

The vampire hunter in the green hat is the game’s wild symbol. He can land on all 5 reels and substitute for everything apart from the scatter in a winning combination. The wild also pays 2, 10 or 20 x your total stake for a 3, 4 or 5-symbol win.

Finally, there’s the full moon which is the scatter symbol. Landing 5 or more of these triggers the Brides of Dracula Respins feature.

Symbol	Payout/Info
J	3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 0.4 or 2 x stake
Q	3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 0.4 or 2 x stake
K	3, 4 or 5 = 0.4, 1.6 or 4 x stake
A	3, 4 or 5 = 0.4, 1.6 or 4 x stake
Dark Haired Dracula Bride	3, 4 or 5 = 0.6, 2 or 6 x stake
Blonde Haired Dracula Bride	3, 4 or 5 = 0.8, 4 or 8 x stake
Red Haired Dracula Bride	3, 4 or 5 = 1, 6 or 12 x stake
Count Dracula	3, 4 or 5 = 1.6, 8 or 16 x stake
Wild	Substitutes for all except Scatter + pays up to 20x
Scatter	5+ triggers Respins feature

Brides of Dracula: Hold & Win Mobile

You can play Brides of Dracula: Hold & Win on all devices including desktop, tablet and mobile. They all offer the same combination of classy sound and visuals and some very entertaining gameplay.

Brides of Dracula: Hold & Win Bonus Features

There’s plenty of variety when it comes to the 4 bonus features in Brides of Dracula: Hold & Win. On any spin, you could benefit from 3 modifiers. The main attraction here though, is the Hold & Win Respins feature where special Reel Boosters can really rev up the action.

Pick a Letter features

The Pick a Letter features can trigger at random on any spin. Once prompted, pick from 1 of the 3 letters shown. This will reveal one of the following modifier features:

• Win Spin feature: mystery symbols are added to the reels. These will all transform into the same matching symbol. A win is guaranteed when this feature becomes active.
• Bonus Add feature: extra moon scatter symbols are added to all 5 reels, boosting your chances of activating the Brides of Dracula Respins feature.
• Wild Desire feature: stacked wilds are added to the reels here. You could land between 2 and 5 stacked wilds when this is active. It shares the same name and works like the extra in Microgaming’s Immortal Romance.

Brides of Dracula Respins feature

The Brides of Dracula Respins feature triggers when you land 5 or more moon scatter symbols on the same spin. Those triggering moons are held and 3 respins are awarded. Any new moon that lands during this feature also locks in position and the respins tally resets to 3.

Look out for special gem symbols that can appear during this round. Collect 3 of them and you’ll receive a special bonus prize. Each gem that lands also resets the number of respins to 3:

• Blue Gem: unlocks up to 3 extra rows on the game grid.
• Green Gem: increases the value of the prizes attached to each of the moon symbols on display.
• Red Gem: awards an extra respin.
• Purple Gem: delivers a multiplier. This can boost your overall payout by 2x, 5x or even 10x.

When you’ve used up all your respins, the values attached to each of the moon symbols are added together to give you an overall prize (including any multipliers you might have collected).

Brides of Dracula: Hold & Win Review Summary – exciting extras but lacking bite

I enjoyed this virtual trip to darkest Transylvania. Visually, the Brides of Dracula: Hold & Win slot is very appealing and the soundtrack creates plenty of creepy atmosphere.

The gameplay stacks up too, offering plenty of variety courtesy of the modifiers and the Brides of Dracula Respins. Even that streak respin bonus comes with something innovative courtesy of the reel booster extras. However, there are no free spins and 6,040 x stake max wins isn’t quite enough bite for me personally.

Part of iSoftBet’s Twisted Tales series, I recommend you try Moriarty Megaways which benefits from excellent design, superb bonus features and 42,553 x stake max wins.