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Zombie Carnival Review

The idea is hardly unheard of, as there are several similarly themed slots in the circus genre, but Zombie Carnival still comes across as a somewhat original theme in its execution. It’s not really as spooky as it could have been though, something the daytime setting and the caricature characters make sure of. This is more of a horror comedy than a truly scary game, and it has a lighthearted vibe hanging over it.

Pragmatic Play has done a decent job with the audiovisual presentation, but it’s not really enough to keep the base game entertaining. The mystery symbols help a bit, but they get old pretty soon, and then you’re left with the bonus round as the sole highlight of this game. It comes with zombie bear wilds that eat brain scatters, which is kind of fun, and this is how the wild multiplier increases for possible payouts up to 5,000x your stake.

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Zombie Carnival Slot Features

The 4 zombie carnival characters serve as premium symbols, and they pay between 1.5 to 5 x your stake for 6 of a kind wins. Wild symbols step in for all regular pay symbols to help complete wins, but you get no wilds in the base game. Gift-wrapped boxes serve as mystery symbols, and they turn into a random matching symbol at the end of the spin. Mystery symbols can appear both in the base game and in the bonus round.

The Bonus Round triggers when you land at least 2 brain scatters anywhere on reels 2 to 5, and this awards 6 free spins. It’s an advantage to get more than 2 triggering scatters though, as they all turn into wilds that remain in play for the duration of the feature. When you land brain scatters in the bonus round, the closest zombie bear wild will move to an adjacent position and eat the brain. It then moves to the position the scatter was in.

This upgrades the wild with +1 added to its multiplier, and it also awards +1 extra free spin added to your tally. The wild multiplier will boost any win it’s part of, and multipliers are multiplied together if more than one wild is part of the same win. Each wild can only consume 1 brain scatter per spin, so if there is an excess of scatters they turn into zombie bear wilds that act in the same manner.

Finally, non-UK players, and anyone eligible, may take advantage of the Bonus Buy feature. This will set you back 80x your stake, and it guarantees that at least 2 scatters land on the spin that follows. The RTP does not change if you purchase the bonus round, and the feature triggers organically once every 172 spins on average.

The 200 Spins Zombie Carnival Slot Experience

You get to see some smaller base game wins, before we purchase the bonus round at 1:12 into the 3-minute highlights video. This gave us 2 triggering brain scatters and 6 free spins, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

Underneath it all, this is fairly standard stuff from Pragmatic Play, although the zombie circus theme makes it stand out somewhat in terms of visuals. The base game feels pretty barebones, as the mystery symbol feature is not quite enough to liven it up. The 4,096 win ways makes it theoretically possible to crack the 5,000x potential on a single spin though, so there is that.

Of course, you are more likely to close in on the win cap when the bonus round triggers, but getting more than 2 triggering scatters didn’t seem all that easy. Most of the time you will have 2 wilds move around to eat brains and increase their multiplier value, as we seldom saw an excess of scatters land during the feature. You’re bound to get plenty of extra spins most of the time though, but overall this comes across as a mediocre shelf-filler that will soon be forgotten.

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Zombie Circus - is a similarly themed Relax Gaming installment, and the base game is pretty barebones here as well. You get fun animations though, and the bonus round comes with symbols that are transformed into wilds. The max win is 5,000x your stake, just like in the game at hand.

Respin Circus - is an animal-themed ELK Studios release, and the respin flow feature triggers on every win. Winning symbols are sticky as you get a chance to improve your win, and a similar dynamic plays out when you trigger the bonus round. This can lead to up to 24 free spins, and the max win is 2,500x your stake.

Creepy Carnival - is a somewhat unknown and early release from NoLimit City, but it might be worth checking out if you want a darker atmosphere. You can look forward to free win spins with multipliers, free star spins with extra wilds and a bonus round with 20 extra win ways and an x5 win multiplier. The max win is capped at €100,000.