Demon’s Gate

Demon's Gate: Slot Overview

Some believe demons metaphorically reside within us as emotions like fear, guilt, trauma, or anger, while others view them as real entities that should be avoided at all costs. Not to the protagonist of software provider Slotmill's slot Demon's Gate. In this action-oriented fantasy game, a samurai warrior-type character is actively searching for a portal to the infernal dimensions in order to take the fight directly to his demonic foes. Players who choose to tag along for the ride are armed on the reels with potent weaponry in the form of Multiplier Wilds and multi-stage free spins rounds, which progressively increase multiplier values.

Demon's Gate looks kind of how you'd expect a game titled Demon's Gate to look. That is, murky wooded in the base game, before the free spins round triggers, and play moves through a gate behind the reels to a demonic region for the bonus game. Almost right off the bat, Demon's Gate brought Foxium's flagship release Cossacks The Wild Hunt to mind for several reasons. Chief amongst them is the adventurous spirit, where warriors take on baddies, do good, save the day, all that sort of thing. As far as atmosphere goes, Demon's Gate lays it on thick, letting players lose themselves in a handsomely presented light versus dark fantasy.

As a cluster paying slot, Demon's Gate creates winning combinations when 5 or more matching symbols are vertically or horizontally connected to each other anywhere on the 5x5 grid. Winning symbols are removed from the reels after they pay, causing symbols to drop down to replace them. Avalanches continue in this way until no new win appears. Powered by a highly volatile math model, Demon's Gate takes bets of $/€0.20 to $/€100 per spin, and produces an RTP of 96.02%. Burst Mode may be activated as well if gamblers prefer super-fast play.

Diamonds, clubs, hearts, and spades are the low pay symbols, joined by amulets, blades, burners, skulls, and hero symbols as the highs. The largest clusters are 20+ OAK in size, and they pay 30x to 500x the stake. Regular wilds substitute for the regular paying symbols and award 50x for a 20+ OAK wild winning cluster.

Demon's Gate: Slot Features

Demon's Gate drops a Multiplier Wild at random onto the reels in the base game, and has a persistent one or two during bonus rounds. Either bonus can be bought, and a couple of Xtra-Bets may be activated as well.

Multiplier Wild

The Multiplier Wild can appear on any base game spin with a value of x3 to x100. It substitutes all regular paying symbols, and when part of a win, its multiplier multiplies the pay value. After contributing to a win, the Multiplier Wild increases by its base value and moves to an adjacent position before symbols drop.

Free Spins

Landing 3 or more scatters triggers 5 free spins. The round begins the bonus collection at 3, 4, or 5 when 3, 4, or 5 scatters, respectively, land. Free spins start with an x3 Multiplier Wild that remains on the reels till the feature ends, moving to a new position on each new free spin. After each spin, the Multiplier Wild resets to its current stage multiplier. Hitting 3 or more scatters awards an extra +5 free spins at the current stage. Stages are unlocked like so:

• Stage 2: Collect 6 scatters in total to win +5 free spins with an x10 Multiplier Wild.
• Stage 3: Collect 9 scatters in total to win +5 free spins with an x20 Multiplier Wild.
• Stage 4: Collect 13 scatters in total to win +5 free spins with an x30 Multiplier Wild.
• Stage 5: Collect 17 scatters in total to win +5 free spins with an x100 Multiplier Wild.

Super Free Spins

5 super free spins are awarded when landing 2+ scatters and a super scatter. During super free spins, 2 Multiplier Wilds are present for the bonus round's duration.

Xtra-Bet & Fast Track

Activating the Xtra-Bet raises the bet by 100%, increasing the chance of triggering free spins by 3.6 times, while the Super Xtra-Bet costs 6x to guarantee super free spins when the bonus triggers. Two buys are available. They are a free spins trigger for 100x or super free spins for 400x the stake.

Demon's Gate: Slot Verdict

For Demon's Gate, Slotmill has taken a few weapons out of its considerable arsenal of features and sharpened them to a dangerous edge. Slots like Tyrant's Fall and Emperor's Rise are two obvious ones that immediately sprang to mind. Like Demon's Gate, those earlier Roman-themed outings relied on Multiplier Wilds popping up in the base game to pep wins, and also possessed a multi-stage bonus round where collected scatters increased multiplier values. In fact, after a quick look back at those two slots for a refresh, it would appear that Demon's Gate is a direct offshoot, though Slotmill has made sure to throw several changes into the bargain.

Key amongst the changes is a switch from paylines to cluster wins, and a different pay mechanic was kind of required to prevent Demon's Gate from feeling overly repetitive. Clusters and avalanches form the bedrock of the adventure, before Multiplier Wilds begin dropping in. What makes Multiplier Wilds cool is the way their multiplier increases by the base value when used in wins. Naturally, bigger starting multiplier values are much more desirable, since there is a world of difference from an x3 moving to x6 and an x100 moving to an x200... and beyond. That's where free spins step in, as moving through stages increases the base multiplier values. Better yet is muscling into super free spins, since in that phase players get two Multiplier Wilds doubling down to tag team the reels.

All up, Demon's Gate is a decent cluster pays game with a tightly wound Multiplier Wild system thrown in for good measure. Players who have enjoyed the aforementioned Slotmill slots owe it to themselves to take Demon's Gate for a ride, as might anyone looking about for a moody, demonic adventure, with a fine blend of progressive multiplication, highly volatile grunt, and a 10,000x max win.