Dreadworks Slot Review

The Dreadworks Slot Game   

Print Studios describes this slot’s gist as an experience in Big Jack’s Toy Factory, which was once a place of joy. However, it’s now haunted with remnants of forgotten playthings that are now undead. It’s the kind of place where you’d rather eat thousands of jalapeno peppers than be.

Anyway, maybe a consolation that you’re virtually experiencing Dreadworks may help.

Adjust the brightness meter to your preference before proceeding into the game. Once inside, a spine-tingling soundtrack welcomes you into this gameplay. It adopts a 5 by 4 playing field printed against the gloomy factory’s storehouse.

Regardless of the darkness, you won’t miss spotting the controls compacted on the screen’s bottom-right corner. In essence, it should be effortless to navigate.

Symbols and Payouts

If you’ve played previous Print Studios releases, such as Darkness, you know the design team doesn’t hold back the symbols either. As such, expect to find evil creations on the reels.

As the game describes, the symbols serve both terror and rewards equally! But for now, let’s focus on the latter.

You win on 26 paylines when 3+ identical icons land consecutively from the leftmost reel to the right. The paytable shows that all the payouts reflect the current bet configuration, making it easy to evaluate your wins.

I’ll start with Dreadworks' low-paying category, which consists of the letters G, O, T, Y, and A. They are worth 0.2-1x, 0.2-1.2x, 0.3-1.4x, 0.4-1.6x, and 0.4-2x the stake, respectively.

Then, the high-valued tier has the following creations:

• Spinning Top - 0.6x, 1x, and 4x the stake.
• Teddy Bear - 0.7x, 1.5x, and 5x the bet.
• Doll in Red Frame - 1x, 2x, and 6x the stake.
• Doll in Blue Frame - 2x, 5x, and 10x the bet.
• White-haired Doll - 5x, 10x, and 50x the stake.

Further, the slot has two wilds: regular and Jack In the Box. Both can land anywhere on the reels and count for any symbol except the Bonus to form winning combinations.

Dreadworks Slot Bonus Features

Remember how I mentioned the slot’s goodness hides deeper? They include SuperSpinners, Jack In the Box Wilds, a Big Jack Bonus, and a Feature Bet.

SuperSpinners

Dreadworks has 15 SuperSpinners between the reels. Any winline that crosses a SuperSpinner with a number and the SuperSpinner is to the left of a winning symbol; the number multiplies the win from the said payline. For clarity, multiple SuperSpinners linked to the same winline will multiply the win one by one.

Jack In the Box Wilds

In addition to substituting for all symbols except the bonus icon, it randomly distributes its number to SuperSpinners in view, boosting their values. Also, multiple mystery symbols can be added to the reels, potentially triggering new winning combinations.

Big Jack Bonus

Hit 3, 4, or 5 Bonus symbols anywhere in the base game to trigger this feature with 5, 7, and 9 free spins, respectively. Winning on a low-valued symbol during this bonus grants an extra spin and ejects the symbol from the reels for the entire bonus.

Remove all the low-paying symbols to get +4 additional spins and trigger Big Jack—covers 3, 4, or 5 reels and turns into a random symbol for every spin.

Feature Bet

Dreadworks offers this feature to help you choose among three options for activating different bonus modes that remain active until deactivated. They include:

• Scatter Boost - 1.2x the bet.
• Enhanced Scatter Boost - 10x the stake.
• Bonus - 99x the bet.

How to Win at Dreadworks Slot

The only thing you should dread about this slot is probably $hitt!ng your pants out of fear. However, the gameplay is as smooth as butter!

The gameplay has a conventional matrix with 5 columns and 4 rows. Further, its 26 paylines structure pays like any other usual paylines game. In short, a win happens when you match consecutive symbols on a predefined line from the furthest left side to the right.

You start a single spin by clicking on the more prominent circular button. Otherwise, the smaller circle on its bottom left lets you activate up to 1000 spins to play automatically. Meanwhile, use the Lightning Bolt function to change the spin speeds and the Menu for the paytable, help, and settings options.  

Dreadworks Slot RTP & Volatility

The default RTP of 96.08% can change to 96.15%, 96.16%, or 96.20%, determined by the selected feature bet. Meanwhile, a staggering win cap of 20,000x the bet backs its high variance model!        

My Concluding Thoughts

First, this eerie slot may only be suitable for some audiences. But, Naah! I have to give the credit where it’s due and hand the Print Studios team its flowers because whatever motivation for creating highly immersive slots they are on is working! For the optimum immersive experience, try playing with your AirPods/headphones.

After fighting my anxiety and choosing to explore this slot’s dark side, I noticed Dreadworks wasn’t a bad experience. Thanks to its features compacted beneath the haunted and undead dolls.

Although the features weren’t plentiful, they were the right mixture of SuperSpinner multipliers, which graced Darkness, Jack In the Box wilds, and free spins. Plus, the feature bet should be handy if you can’t wait for prolonged periods for the bonuses to trigger naturally. Remember that, ultimately, the race is to win up to 20,000x bet, compensating for the menacing theme!