Maniac House

A blood-soaked slot gaming experience awaits players of Maniac House, a horror slot from Fugaso. Fans of slasher films will delight in the abundant gore, while pure slot gamers can enjoy the many bonus features… gentler souls would do well to play elsewhere, however.

Theme

The design team at Fugaso brings its considerable attention to detail to bear on this slot’s visuals, right down to the creeping spiders along the walls and mangled, one-eyed baby dolls found on the reels. Gaming symbols include not one but two axe-wielding maniacs, a nude victim begging for mercy, and sharp-edged, bloody iterations of the playing card values ace through ten. A human eye held in plastic acts as wild, a severed head acts as the bonus symbol, and a severed hand acts as scatter, the gateway to free spins. Knives gleefully chop at any symbols involved in a winning payline, with accompanying blood spatter. An eerie soundtrack packed with sudden troubling sound effects increases the sense of uneasy perversity all around.

Betting Options and Functions

The great directors of horror films, from Alfred Hitchcock to Wes Craven, know that the devil is in the details. Fugaso follows suit in Maniac House – though blood is everywhere, there’s nothing sloppy about this game.There are 20 fixed paylines in this slot, each paying from left to right. Bet level is adjustable from 1-10 and coin value can be set from 0.01– 1.00, yielding an overall per-spin betting range of 0.20–200.00 ties the betting currency. Autoplay is on offer up to 100 spins at a time, with a variety of available limits on win, loss, and triggering of a bonus feature. Quick spin is also available for players who prefer a faster game tempo. The overall theoretical RTP is above average at 96.06%.

Features

This house of horrors is packed with bonus features, first among them a free spin feature, which is triggered by the appearance of 3 or more scatter symbols on the reels. 10 free spins will be awarded, during which time a 3x multipliers will be applied to all wins. Scatter symbols remain on the reels so that the feature can be extended without limit.

There is also a bonus feature, triggered by the appearance of the bonus symbols on reels one and five. Players choose three from six of the available bloody knives to reveal cash prizes – up to 150 times the bet size can be won.

There is also a gamble feature, which is a bloodier realization of the simple card game found in other slots by this designer. The goal is to choose a higher card than the one displayed – victory doubles the stake, while it is forfeit in a loss. One welcome feature is the chance to wager all or half of any given win – this allows more risk-averse players to choose the gamble feature more often.

Our Take

Fugaso has built a truly horrific slot in Maniac House. For fans of blood and guts, it won’t get much better than this online slot, especially since the bonus features and RTP ensure that its substances matches its high style.