The Dead Spins Midnight Thirst slot by Max Win Gaming invites you into a family of vampires where the dead spins pay more than the wins. How do you ask? It gives you big multipliers in both the base game and the free spins.
We love an Undead slot machine, mainly because it hits our teen goth bones in all the right places with its grand old castles and the threat of death at every turn. The top four symbols are the Vampires themselves, and then you get Ace to 10 in the form of old jewels.
Vampires are rich, and thanks to some very dead spins, we are going to steal every gem in their treasure boxes.
The Dead Spins Midnight Thirst mobile slot is a 1024-ways-to-win slot machine. Three losses in a row increase the game multiplier from x1 to x3 to x6, triggering the free spins. That’s right: Nine losing spins trigger nine free spins with a starting multiplier of 6x, up to 41x.
Are you impressed by these numbers? Then you’ll be even more impressed by the 5,000x your bet max win, the high RTP of 96.36%, and the fact that this is a tumbling win slot machine—on a win, you get a chance to catch even more wins, allowing you to make the most of your hard-earned multiplier.
Did you see that word yeah? Look, in any other high-variance slot machine, finding dead spins is usually the easy part. Not here in this Dead Spins Midnight Thirst slot game. You get lots of little wins. All the freaking time. So often, we barely saw a 3x multiplier and getting the free spins felt harder than chopping off a vampire’s head.
Which should be fine. We can’t really complain about winning, can we? What kind of gambler are we?!
The kind that recognises the difference between winning and losing slowly. And giving us 2 dead spins and a tumble when we win maybe our bet back; it is still just losing slowly.
In other words, the paytable isn’t particularly strong. Thank-Dracula for the free spins bonus and those big multipliers…
Get 9 spins without getting a single win, and you trigger the Dead Spins Midnight Thirst slot bonus. 9 free spins with a 6x multiplier. Not many new slots online will give you that big a starting multiplier in the bonus.
Which tells you a little about the paytable. But it also gives you hope that if you can get to one of the bigger multipliers, you can get something close to that top win.
Why? Once you hit a level in the free spins, it stays sticky. You can hit a 41x multiplier, and on a losing spin, it won’t reset to 6x but stay that high. The problem is that you need 9 losing spins to get there, and you only get 9 free spins. So unless you retrigger, the math doesn’t work out.
In theory, we love the idea behind this Dead Spins Midnight Thirst slot, and we hope that Max Win Gaming can use the Dead Spins mechanics more smartly. Till then, this is fun to play if you are looking for something different, but we would probably take a few spins and then head to the Wild Kiss slot or Dragon’s Mirror.
Mobile Slot released | 6th February 2024 |
Slot type | Video Slot |
Software | Max Win Gaming |
Slot reels / paylines | 5 Reels / 1024 Ways to Win |
House edge / RTP | 3.64% / 96.36% |
Slot volatility | High |
Min/Max bet | 0.20 / 20 |
Max win | 5,000x your bet |
Free spins | 9 Free Spins / 6x Multipliers |
Bonus rounds | Tumbling Reels, Free Spins, Multipliers, Progress Bar |
Slot Themes | Undead |
Tumbling Reels: Any winning symbol will explode, and more will come from above, giving you a chance to get another win. This continues until no more wins happen on the reels.
Progress Bar and Multiplier: More than one dead spin in a row will fill up the progress bar at the top and increase the global multiplier. What is a dead spin? It's a spin with no win.
To reach the next multiplier level, you need 3 consecutive dead spins, and the progress bar will reset after a winning spin.
Free Spins: 9 Consecutive Dead Spins activate 9 Free Spins with a х6 starting multiplier. The progress bar works the same as the base game, but you have much higher multipliers. It takes 3 Consecutive Dead Spins to reach the next multiplier level, and each new multiplier level awards 3 more free spins.
On a winning spin, the Progress Bar resets to the last multiplier level reached.
Buy Bonus: You can buy entry into the free spin bonus with 80x your bet.
The Dead Spins Midnight Thirst slot online and on mobile is strangely appealing on paper. You get a bigger multiplier when you don't win rather than win, meaning you are excited when you do win and excited when you don't.
In theory, that sounds great. In reality, you get annoyed when you get tiny little wins and even more irritated when you don't get anything worth shouting about on the bigger multipliers.
All those 'dead spins' for nothing!?
At least the free spins get you started with a 6x multiplier, enough to get you a little bit excited. Right? Right? Nope. Again, the reality is that it makes the paytable just about passable.
You need the 13x, 24x and 41x multiplier in the free spins to get anywhere near that 5,000x your bet max win.
All in all, we weren't a huge fan of this Max Win Gaming slot. But that's not to say it's unplayable, just that it's unlikely we will play it more than once when you have games like the Chaos Crew 2 sitting side by side in our favourite online casinos.
Review by Lucky Mobile Slots, last updated: March 24, 2024 - Rating