Blood and Shadow is a volatile horror-themed slot machine from NoLimit City with 5x4 reels and 1,024 ways to win. In addition to awarding two Candle Spins per upgrade, the Ritual Bar also removes low-paying symbols and upgrades mid-value symbols to premiums. Attain level 5 to trigger the Cursed Spins Bonus and win up to 6,666 times your wager.
As the game's premium symbols, there are five frightening-looking characters that pay between 3 and 8 times your wager for 5 of a kind victories. Wilds substitute for pay symbols to help enhance and/or complete wins, and the Cascading mechanism removes all winning symbols from the grid. New and/or existing symbols descend down to fill the empty spaces, and this continues as long as you continue to win.
The Ritual Bar is located beneath the grid, and mid- and high-level symbols contribute 1 or 2 points per removed winning symbol, respectively. The dispersion icon adds +10 to this metre, and the Ritual Bar/Meter has 5 levels. It resets each time you gain a level, and you need 20, 30, 40, 60, or 80 points, accordingly, to fill the metre at levels 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.Each level attained eliminates the symbol with the lowest value from all spins and upgrades a medium symbol to a premium symbol.
You receive two Candle Spins every time you level up via the Ritual Bar up until level 4. Levelling up from level 4 to level 5 unlocks the Cursed games Bonus Round, which grants six free games. During Candle Spins, the Ritual Bar functions identically to how it does in the main game.During the Candle Spins feature, Sticky Wilds can appear on reels 2 through 5 and fall to the bottom of the grid. They remain immobile and accrue at the bottom per Candle Spin, but wilds are eliminated if they contribute to a winning combination.The Ritual Bar is inactive during the Cursed Spins Bonus Round, which is played on a 5x5 grid with 3,125 ways to win. During the bonus round, only premium character symbols will appear, and you will receive one additional spin for each scatter that lands.
The xSplit symbol will only appear during the Cursed Spins Bonus Round, and it will divide or double all symbols on the row it appears on. Multiple xSplit symbols can appear per row, but only one per reel.
