A slot with an excellent name is always a treat to find, although it does bring with it the concern that perhaps more effort was put into the title of the slot than into the actual gameplay.This is the concern with Polterheist, a slot from NextGen and Side City Studios that is based around Western outlaws who are also ghosts, and was almost definitely created as a result of the name being thought up, as opposed to the other way around.
About the slot
With five reels and 100 paylines, Polterheist is playable from 50p to £125 a spin on all compatible desktop, mobile, and tablet devices.As you can probably imagine, the design here isn’t the most serious you’ll ever stumble across. A playful and fun tone is present throughout, with five different Western style ghosts appearing on the reels, including their leader, Goldie Goldrush (apparently the creative naming ran out at the slot’s title).Goldie is also the most valuable symbol here and will pay out 10x your stake for five on a payline, while the lower values are represented by neon 10, J, Q, K, and A symbols, which isn’t exactly on theme, but we can look past that.
Gameplay
The wild symbol appears on the middle three reels, and in the base game, the Haunted Wilds feature can trigger randomly in the base game and add extra wilds to the reels.The Ghost Break-In feature also triggers randomly in the base game and creates a guaranteed winning combination, but the Free Spins feature is the main event here.Triggered with three scatter symbols, you will be given eight free spins with a multiplier of 2, 3x, or 5x attached to every spin, and the ability to re-trigger.Polterheist may be a fairly simple slot, but it’s well executed on every level.
