A vampire raccoon, a butcher working the fires of hell and a haunted sanatorium have all landed on slot reels this year, and Halloween is still four weeks away. Hacksaw Gaming opened October with Le Vampire on Thursday, and its 97.57% return is one of the highest of any horror slot on the market.
At Solarbet, three of the studios behind this year’s horror wave sit in the slot lobby: Hacksaw Gaming, Pragmatic Play and Evoplay. Pragmatic Play slots carry a VPN-only flag on the site, so which games a player can reach depends on the studio.
Hacksaw Gaming Opens October With Le Vampire
Hacksaw’s newest release casts Smokey the Raccoon as a Nosferatu-style Count in a castle full of bats. It is the 14th game in the studio’s “Le” series. The game runs on a 6×5 Cluster Pays grid, where wins need five or more matching symbols connected together.
- Golden Squares: reveal Coins worth up to 500x the bet, Clovers that multiply up to 20x, and collector symbols.
- Blood Squares: a new addition that delivers higher-value Coins.
- Free spins: three modes, each with a Symbol Bar that upgrades symbols.
- Numbers: a 97.57% RTP, medium volatility and a 15,000x max win.
Medium volatility and a high RTP make Le Vampire the gentlest entry point among this season’s horror slots.
Three more Hacksaw titles round out the studio’s horror lineup:
- Evil Eyes (September 2024): set in a lonely graveyard with 3,125 ways to win. When the Evil Eye symbol lands under a win, the Evil Spread feature marks the winning symbols and spreads them across the reels. It runs at high volatility with a 96.24% RTP and a 12,500x max win.
- Dark Spiral (March 2026): a Japanese anime-style horror slot set in an art room full of mirrors. Summoning symbols reveal stacks of up to 12 matching or wild symbols, opening up as many as 331,776 ways to win. Its three free spins modes are Shattered, Twisted and Tortured, with a 96.22% RTP and a 10,000x cap.
- Death Becomes You (June 2026): players duel monsters and death across 14 paylines. VS symbols expand into wild reels with multipliers up to 100x, and spelling DEATH across a row triggers the Duel with Death feature. The max win is 15,000x.
Pragmatic Play Brings Hell Butcher and a Haunted Sanatorium
Pragmatic Play doesn’t chase extreme volatility the way some horror specialists do. Its approach is polished, easy-to-play games that bring the theme to a wider audience.
Hell Butcher arrived on June 29, 2026, and is set in a lava-filled underworld on a 6×6 Cluster Pays grid.
- Tumbles: each win clears the grid for new symbols to drop in.
- Hell Butcher Wild: hooks one of four multipliers sitting under the grid and replaces it with double the highest value on show. Multipliers can reach 128x in the base game and 512x in free spins.
- Numbers: a 96.55% RTP, medium volatility and a 20,000x max win.
Sanatorium Secrets launched on June 1, 2026, in a mist-covered gothic house with 4,096 ways to win.
- Wilds: 1×4 wilds worth up to 8x and 2×4 wilds worth up to 64x.
- Puzzle feature: free spins open with a puzzle. Landing pieces turns symbols wild and raises minimum multipliers. Filling the whole board awards the 10,000x max win.
- Numbers: a 96.47% RTP and medium volatility.
Zombie School Megaways is the studio’s undead option. It offers up to 117,649 ways to win, with reels that can grow after each winning tumble.
Four to six scatters trigger 10 to 20 free spins, where each tumble win is multiplied by the number of symbols that hit. A higher-volatility Persistent Multiplier round adds every tumble multiplier into a running total, and the max win is 10,000x.
The catch at Solarbet: every Pragmatic Play slot on the site is marked VPN-only, so these three games won’t be open to every player who signs up.
Evoplay Keeps It Light, and What Solarbet Adds
For players who want spooky without the gore, Evoplay offers two lighter options.
Trick or Treat Joker puts a grinning Joker among pumpkins, cobwebs and bats on a classic fruit-machine layout. Evoplay CEO Ivan Kravchuk called it “equal parts spooky and fun.”
Its main feature is the Wild Respin. A wild landing on reels two, three or four expands to fill the whole reel and triggers a respin, with up to three respins in a single round.
Cursed Can moves the scares to an enchanted garden full of mischievous vegetables. During free spins, each Cursed Can symbol drains a crop’s watering meter. Once the meter is empty, that crop turns wild for the rest of the round, and a Random Event feature can highlight up to three reels.
Solarbet’s slot promotions apply across all three studios:
- Welcome offer: up to 300% on slots and fishing, part of a package worth up to $5,000 across the first three deposits. A smaller 120% option carries just 6x turnover.
- Starter Pack: a $50 bonus on a $50 deposit at 5x turnover.
- Slots Extra Boost: worth up to $128.
- Mixed Group reloads: a choice of 25% up to $1,000 at 17x turnover, or 5% up to $1,000 at 4x.
- Rebates: slots rebates in the Mixed Group run from 0.25% to 0.45%.
RTP can vary from site to site, so many studios release their games in several versions, and the operator chooses which one to run, so it’s worth opening the game’s info panel to check the live figure before spinning.
The bottom line: the scariest number on any horror slot is usually the volatility rating, not the theme. Le Vampire, Hell Butcher and Sanatorium Secrets suit longer sessions, while Evil Eyes is the riskier choice for players chasing bigger swings.
