Fear the Dark

Go in search of slime monsters, ghosts, and zombies in Hacksaw Gaming’s Fear the Dark. The online slot boasts a 6×6 grid and a cluster pays system for wins. Get five or more connecting symbols to land wins. Fear the Dark has many features to enjoy, including a thrilling base game full of exciting gameplay and decent wins. As of its release, it is available for US players in sweepstakes casinos.

With a hit frequency of 42%, the slot is one of the best-paying titles in casino lobbies. Colorful and full of eye-catching animations, the slot not only captures the imagination but also comes with the prospect of a big win with a maximum win of 5,000x your bet.

What Lies in the Dark?

Our night vision is terrible, and Hacksaw Gaming takes on the understandably human phobia of the dark. The game features a well-designed ghost theme. You get the iconic compact grid of reels we know Hacksaw Gaming for and a win system that keeps things interesting.

With medium volatility, the game lets players enjoy big wins while supplying just enough small wins to keep you going.

Fear the Dark Slot Interface 

Gameplay and Mechanics

Hacksaw Gaming keeps the game exciting yet simple to play. You need only a few buttons to find your way around the sweep slot. The spin button is placed on the bottom right of the game screen.

Next to it is the autoplay button that keeps the reels spinning 1,000 times. Have a glance at the advanced auto-spin settings to modify when auto-spins stop.

Fear the Dark is played with a minimum bet of 0.10 SC, with the maximum bet set at 24 Sweepstakes Coins. Use the up and down arrows next to the spin button to adjust your bet as you please.

A hamburger menu at the bottom of the game screen holds all the controls you need to play the game — toggle sound and background music on this menu. You also have a button to activate turbo and super turbo spins.

At the bottom of this pop-up menu is the info button with all the paytable information and instructions on how the bonus games work.

Bonus Features and Special Symbols

Fear the Dark will capture your attention with its great graphics and give you delightfully rewarding bonuses on free spins. Get random multipliers on the Moon Man, and stand a higher chance of hitting the game’s max win.

Fear the Dark Symbol Payouts 

Cluster Wins

On Fear the Dark, wins are not set to paylines but rather clusters. You get more rewards with bigger clusters on the reels. Cascades are another feature on the slot to keep the wins coming. All you need is matching symbols landing, and the cascades will keep coming until you have no more winning combinations.

Full Moon

Look out for the Moon Man, as this is the scatter. Land this, and full moon mode is activated, introducing 2 – 5 multipliers atop the grid. Each of these is attached to one of the high-paying symbols.

Symbol multipliers will keep multiplying wins on the symbols they match as long as they are active. All matching symbols and low-paying symbols are removed from the reels when symbol multipliers are removed, and new symbols drop from the top of the reels.

Full moon mode comes to an end when all multipliers are removed from the reels.

Alone in the Dark

This is a round you activate when you land 3 or 4 scatters. With 3 scatters, you get 10 free spins, while 4 scatters earn you 15 free spins. Look out for the candle, which is the scatter to activate this round. Keep spinning the reels, and you might just retrigger the feature with 4 free spins when you land more scatters.

Fear the Dark Free Spins Bonus Round Interface 

Darkness Spins

Hacksaw gaming adds an interesting twist to things with Darkness Spins. Candles lit on the free spins round are extinguished when all free spins are played. This takes you into the Darkness Spins, which reset to award you 2 more free spins.

Play Darkness Spins, and the reels shrink before the start of every spin. A reel is taken out from either side of the grid to leave behind a 4×4 grid. It shrinks further on the second spin to a 2×2 grid. To get back to the full grid, you will have to trigger the Full Moon mode.

Bonus Buy

Fear the Dark allows you to activate any of the bonus features without waiting for the right number of scatters to land. Press the ‘Buy Bonus‘ button, and you have different bonus games to choose from. Activate any of the bonus rewards, and it remains active until you turn it off from the bonus buy button.

Design and Graphics

The animated antics of the monsters on the reels add energy to the game you will enjoy. Hacksaw Gaming does a great job of giving players the kind of graphics features that keep the game interesting many spins later.

Fear the Dark takes on vintage monster cartoons and pulls them off quite excellently. The style of animation on the slot keeps the slot appealing to the eye without cluttering the game screen.

On Fear the Dark, the reels sit on a haunted graveyard with white bed-sheet ghosts wheezing across the reels. The dark aura is enhanced by the dark clouds that roll slowly from the background.

A spooky soundtrack with classic spooky strings goes well with the game’s theme. Players will like that the tune does not feel monotonous. That you get animations from the different symbols when you have a winning cluster is another feature of the graphics that make the game such an exciting slot to play.

Fear the Dark Hacksaw Gaming Design 

Conclusion

Fear the Dark is an exceptionally well-designed slot with all the sizzling action to keep players coming back. We liked that Hacksaw Gaming fills the sweeps slot with bonus features. Players also get decent volatility and a good enough maximum win.

While the game may not have a gamble feature, the range of bonus features makes up for this. Animated graphics are another aspect of the game that adds to its allure. Cluster wins, and cascading symbols are a great addition to the slot that keeps it up to date with the latest winning mechanisms fitted on slots.

We reckon players will like the sweeps slot for its amazing graphics and lucrative wins.

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