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Hacksaw Gaming · 2023 · vampire hunters / multiplier wilds

Bloodthirst on a phone

PORTRAIT ✓ 2.2 s TO PLAYABLE TIGHT BUTTONS FREE DEMO

You can run this one-handed on a bus. 2.2 s to load, portrait holds, tight buttons.

The phone check

Yes HOLDS PORTRAIT 202 of 306 do
2.2 s TO PLAYABLE Over the 2.1 s median
Tight buttons TOUCH TARGETS tight in portrait
4 TAPS FROM THE LOBBY Search box to a spinning board

Upright, the spin button shrinks and the bet stepper crowds it. A wide thumb hits the wrong one. The demo pulls about 9 MB before the first tap registers, which on a poor bar is where the 2.2 s goes. Getting money back out is a separate count and we keep it at cashout.

This title ships in more than one return build

Hacksaw Gaming licenses 2 configurations of Bloodthirst. The spread from top to bottom is 1.54 points, which is about C$15 in expected cost per C$1,000 staked. Same reels, same features, different maths.

ConfigurationReturnHouse edge Cost per C$1,000 vs the top build
Highest build the studio licenses 96.26% 3.74% baseline
Lowest build 94.72% 5.28% C$15

How to see which one you are on, in three taps

  1. Open the demo and tap the burger or the ⓘ in the game's own toolbar, not the casino's.
  2. Scroll the info panel to the bottom. The return figure is printed in the rules footer.
  3. Compare it to the table above. If it is not the top row, that is the build you are being served.

123 of the 306 titles on this board carry more than one build, so this is worth doing once per game rather than once ever.

Where it sits on the board

That puts it 152 of 306 on our phone score, which weighs orientation first, then how long you wait, then whether the buttons are a sensible size. That is 0.1 s slower than the 2.1 s median, every time you open it.

For context, 26 of the 32 Hacksaw Gaming games on this board hold portrait and the studio median is 1.6 s.

What the game is

Out in 2023. Hacksaw Gaming built it as 5x4 with vampire hunters / multiplier wilds. Vampire-hunter slot with blood-meter mechanics that upgrade wild multipliers in the bonus rounds.

Volatility reads very high, so the balance moves in lumps, and fifty spins will mislead you either way. Twenty dollars buys around 100 spins at the C$0.20 floor. Ceiling is 10,000x and it is not going to happen to you.

The rest of it

StudioHacksaw Gaming
Released2023
Board5x4
Mechanicvampire hunters / multiplier wilds
VolatilityVery high
Top licensed return96.26%
House edge on that build3.74%
Max win10,000x
Minimum stakeC$0.20
Spins on twenty dollarsabout 100
Free demoyes, no account needed
Tagsbonus-buy

Done with the demo?

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