Love Bite is a simple-but-delicious slot from Spin Games with a romantic vampire theme. A somewhat unimaginative visual design conceals an outstanding title, with several bonus features, smooth gameplay, and an extraordinarily high RTP.
Theme
This game’s five reels are set in the red, velvety world of the rich and vampiric: red curtains stand behind in the background, while low-fi horror film soundtrack fills the air with campy suspense. Gaming symbols include fangs, which doubles wins, the castle, which acts as scatter, and a strong-jawed male vampire, who acts, appropriately, as wild. Standard symbols include a young woman, presumably human, with her neck exposed, coffins, glasses filled with notably red liquid, roses, and the playing card values ace through ten. The visuals are unlikely to win any awards, but there’s more to this title than meets the eye.
Betting Options and Functions
Thanks to the brilliant attention to detail of the Spin Games design team, there is no need for the mysteries, tricks, or secret passages so well-known to the vampire genre: gameplay is smooth and easy to follow, with no unpleasant surprised awaiting players. Eschewing traditional paylines, this slot offers 243 discrete ways to win, each paying from left to right (with the exception of scatter wins). “Bet per” is adjustable from 1–5 in this coin-based slot, yielding an overall per-spin betting range of 50–250 credits, with credit denomination options of 0.01, 0.05, 0.10, and 0.25 times the betting currency. Autospins are available up 200 spins at a time, though players should stay aware, as there are no loss limits. sound options are available under the ‘menu’ tab, along with paytable information, detailed game rules, and a quick spin option for players who prefer a faster game tempo. The theoretical RTP is outstanding at 96.50%.
Features
One pleasant surprise is available to players, however: wild Bats may appear at any time, carrying with them the ability to turn any or all of the middle reels into a reel of stacked wild symbols.
There’s another, more substantive bonus feature as well. Rather than the usual free spin-based bonus feature, Love Bite offers a different kind of bonus game. Whenever two or more of the castle scatter symbol appear on adjacent reels (beginning with the leftmost reel), the bonus game begins: all reels on which the scatter symbol appear become fully stacked, with only castles available on them. Players then select which of the available castle symbols to turn over: choose wisely, and cash prizes are awarded. The feature ends with the revelation of the vampire where a prize might have been.
Our Take
With Love Bite, Spin Games proves that simple slots can be the among the very best. This title’s bonus features do just enough to keep play varied and interesting, while the overall experience is just about as profitable as slots get.
