Blade & Fangs Slot Review

Blade & Fangs - Slot Overview

Blade & Fangs is Pragmatic Play's horror slot built around two 5x3 reel sets stacked on top of each other, each with 243 ways to win. Most of the time you are spinning both grids in parallel, but when things line up they merge into a single 6x5 layout for a shot at bigger hits. The game came out in January 2024 with high volatility, a 96.05% RTP and a 5,000x max win, so it ticks plenty of boxes.

Theme and Atmosphere in Blade & Fangs

From the moment Blade & Fangs loads, the tone is clear. You are looking at a gloomy chamber piled high with skulls, flickering candles and a grinding machine that chews through winning symbols for effect. The reels sit inside a torture-style contraption, framed by chains and blades. It looks good and feels oppressive, but it also comes across as a collage of horror ideas rather than a tight, single storyline.

Sound-wise, Blade & Fangs leans into horror with eerie ambience, metallic clanks and occasional screams, then cranks up to heavy guitar riffs once the action gets going. During free spins and big wins the soundtrack hits a more celebratory note, even throwing in those classic coin-spill jingles. For me that undercuts the darker tone a bit, but overall the audio still fits the brutal, blood-soaked setting fairly well.

Symbols and Paytable in Blade & Fangs

The symbol set in Blade & Fangs fits the horror brief nicely. Lows are metal-styled 10 to A royals splattered with blood, worth up to around 1.5x your stake for five of a kind on a way. Premiums are a bat, snake, ghoul, werewolf and a zombie-like skeleton, topping out at 10x for a full screen line-up. Wins land when three to five matching symbols connect from the left, across any of the 243 win ways.

On top of the regular icons, Blade & Fangs uses a flaming skull scatter and two special rose symbols. The scatter appears on reels two to four across both grids and can pay up to 500x your bet when it lands in volume, as well as triggering free spins. Instead of wilds you get a pink +1x rose on the top grid and a red x2 rose on the bottom, which are central to the multiplier mechanic.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	Scatter
	5	x10
	4	x4
	3	x2
	5	x5
	4	x2
	3	x1
	5	x4
	4	x1.5
	3	x0.75
	5	x2.5
	4	x0.75
	3	x0.5
	5	x2
	4	x0.6
	3	x0.4
	5	x1.5
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.3
	5	x1.5
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.3
	5	x1
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.2
	5	x1
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.25
	5	x1
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.25

RTP, Volatility and Bets in Blade & Fangs

Blade & Fangs runs on a high volatility model and you feel that in practice, with dull spells punctuated by sharp swings whenever the multiplier kicks off. The top RTP setting is 96.05%, though some casinos use lower 95.02% or 94.03% versions, so I always check the info screen. Stakes range from 0.20 up to 240 per spin, giving plenty of room for both testing in small steps and cranking it up later.

Bonus Features in Blade & Fangs

The main base game feature in Blade & Fangs revolves around the two rose multipliers. When the +1x rose hits on reel one of the top grid and the x2 rose lands on reel five of the bottom grid on the same spin, the two reel sets slam together into a 6x5 layout and you get one respin. A general multiplier of x2 applies to that respin, with any extra roses bumping the value further before wins are counted.

Free spins in Blade & Fangs are where the game really wakes up. Land three to six flaming skull scatters across reels two, three and four to get an instant payout up to 500x your bet and eight free spins. The round plays only on the merged 6x5 grid, with a general multiplier that starts at x1. Each +1x rose adds one, each x2 rose doubles it, and that value sticks for the whole bonus.

In many markets there is a 100x bonus buy button for Blade & Fangs, although in my UK sessions that option was disabled and I had to land it naturally. In one 100-spin demo run the feature arrived on spin forty and paid just over 200x, giving a taste of what the multiplier can do when it behaves. Most of the time, though, the respin feels like a little teaser for rarer explosive rounds.

Blade & Fangs - My Verdict

After a fair bit of play, Blade & Fangs sits in the middle of the pack for me. I like the grim look, the two-grid setup and the way the multiplier can snowball in the right free spins. At the same time, stretches of the base game feel quite flat, with the roses dropping in and missing each other on repeat. With only multipliers and free spins on offer, the feature set stays quite simple.

If you are into darker horror slots and you enjoy watching a single multiplier climb, Blade & Fangs is worth a proper test, especially at the full 96.05% setting. The 5,000x maximum win is decent, though hardly game-changing, and the hit rate can feel very bonus-dependent. I treat it as an occasional session game rather than a long-term grind, something to fire up when I fancy a brutal, atmospheric spin.

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