Slay the Heart of Darkness in Demon’s Gate from Slotmill

One of the most interesting aspects of Asian culture is its view of the occult. While we have our fair share of ghost stories, they’ve got nothing on the stories coming out of Asian countries, which will have you sleeping with the lights on for many nights to come. Fortunately, Slotmill’s Demon’s Gate doesn’t tackle ghosts or spirits. Instead, it’s all about putting down demons the old-fashioned way: with a big katana.

The deeper into the demon realm you go, the more opportunities you’ll have to claim a big prize. Will you be able to escape this highly volatile slot with a 10,000x jackpot weighing you down?

Demon’s Gate Visuals

Slotmill doesn’t waste any time setting the stage for the Demon’s Gate slot. A dark forest surrounds you from all sides, with creeping fog on all sides preventing you from seeing too far into the treeline. Judging by a few skulls on the ground, the demons have already started to leak out of the portal, so it’s up to our hero to stop them. Triggering specific features will transport him into a hellish landscape that the demons call home.

Available symbols include stylised playing card royals, necklaces, throwing knives, smoke bombs, demon skulls, and the hero. The letter W is a regular Wild, while a purple gem is the multiplier. Watch out for two demon faces, which are the Scatter and super Scatter icons, respectively.

Demon’s Gate Gameplay and Features

You play this Slotmill game on a 5×5 grid with cluster pays instead of traditional paylines. Forming wins requires five or more matching symbols in horizontally or vertically adjacent positions.

The Avalanche feature also triggers every win, removing winning icons and allowing new ones to appear from the top. This lets lucky players land multiple winning combinations in a single spin.

Multiplier Wilds

The Multiplier Wild can appear on any base game spin with values ranging from 3x to 100x. It can substitute for all symbols except for Scatter and Super Scatter icons. The multiplier will apply to any win that includes the Multiplier Wild. After contributing to a win, the Multiplier Wild moves to a random adjacent position before new symbols drop and its multiplier increases.

Free Spins and Super Free Spins

Three or more Scatters in any position activate the Free Spins feature. You start with 5 free spins and a x3 Multiplier Wild, which will remain on the reels until the bonus round ends.

Every Scatter that shows up contributes to the Bonus Meter above the reels. This includes the initial three or more Scatters that activated the Free Spins feature. Collecting enough Scatters during the feature will move you up to the next stage. There are five stages on the Bonus Meter, and each one grants 5 more free spins and improves the Multiplier Wild.

Super Free Spins activate when two Scatters and one Super Scatter land simultaneously. The bonus round plays out similarly, with one key difference. Instead of having just one Multiplier Wild on the reels, there are now two of them. This makes you more likely to land wins, but also lets you benefit from two multipliers if both participate in the same winning combination.

Xtra-Bet and Fast Track

Like most software providers, Slotmill lets you spend extra money to get access to bonus features immediately. Demon’s Gate gives you several options, which include:

• Xtra-Bet – Doubles your bet and makes the Free Spins feature 3.6x more likely to trigger.
• Super Xtra-Bet – Every Free Spins bonus round that activates will be the Super version. Costs 6x your stake.
• Bonus – Guarantees the Free Spins feature will activate. Costs 100x your wager.
• Super Bonus – The next spin will trigger the Super Free Spins bonus round. Costs 400x your bet.

Demon’s Gate RTP and Payouts

The base game RTP when playing the Demon’s Gate slot is 96.02%. However, the Xtra-Bet and Fast Track bonus buy options have slightly higher RTPs. The Super Free Spins bonus buy offers the best RTP of 96.43%, though its price will keep most players away.

You can win up to 10,000x your stake in Slotmill’s release. That said, you’ll need to be lucky to come anywhere close to that number owing to the game’s very high volatility.