Blood & Shadow 2 Slot Review

18/11/2024 | Categories: Nolimit City Slots | Published by: Joe | Last updated: 18/11/2024

We have been slacking off with our Nolimit City reviews. There are no two ways about that. That is on us, as this studio, which was bought out by Evolution in 2022, has consistently been churning out quality games and has expanded globally over the past year. In 2024, we can remember reading that Nolimit City entered the South African market, and its slots were introduced in six US states via Evolution in the summer of 2024. These are only a few pieces of news connected to this provider we can think of the top of our heads.

Game-wise, Nolimit has been releasing two titles per month, and in October 2024, it set loose Brute Force and Blood & Shadow 2. The latter is a sequel to a game that appeared online in March 2023, and it is doing exceptionally well for a Nolimit City product, ranking in the top one hundred most-played games in loads of developed markets, including Norway, Finland, Ireland, South Africa, Malta, Korea, Argentina, to name a few. Here, we focus on what it offers and how good we think Blood & Shadow 2 is in satisfying our and your gaming needs.

Theme & Design

Blood & Shadow 2 is a horror spinner of the vampire variety. We say that because the main character has fanged teeth. If you have been a long-time online gambler, then you know that this is a sub-genre that products like Games Global’s Immortal Romance and NetEnt Blood Suckers have dominated as its top picks. Nevertheless, if you ask us, we would say that this game’s motif is more the occult and has a black magic theme.

We have mentioned before that as far as games with eerie atmospheres go, Print Studio’s Darkness and their Dreadworks slots are unmatched when it comes to creating a feeling of uneasiness among the game of Chance lovers when they spin digital reels looking for sizeable prizes.

As noted above, this is a sequel to a 2023 title, which, in all honesty, does not look too different from this one. Both games have the same visual 2000s comic book look, and they get set in the same church, leaning on primarily greys, and an identical cast of symbols. Although posed differently. We must say that the look of this slot is a bit more polished, but not by much. You still get more details in the graphics here.

There is no music in the base game in Blood & Shadow 2. There are only sounds and tones that look to build up a creepy mood, which gets enhanced by various sound effects that help the gameplay seem more energetic here by complementing the grid movements, as the symbol layout and background move and react to gameplay happenings. You get dynamic music in the bonus rounds, where the animations ramp up, and splashes of color get into the mix.

Overall, Blood & Shadow 2 has a presentation that we would expect from Nolimit’s team; it is one that is exciting and should keep you engaged with enough variety. We quite enjoyed some of the imagery here, not finding it scary but somewhat amusing. The spin functions sit right of the reel grid on a desktop browser, and you have the settings, mute, and bet selection ones in the bottom left corner of your computer screen.

Specs & Gameplay

We expect pretty exciting specs for any Nolimit City creation, and that is what we got here. First off, we must note that this is a super high variance game that this studio rates as ten out of ten on its scale. It has four RTP versions, with the most standard one being 96.09% and the other three being 94.01%, 92.02%, and 87.05%. The max win here stands at x16,161 your stake, and the number of paylines in this 5×4/5 cascading game goes up to 3,125. The betting range here is $0.20 to $100 per spin, and allegedly, the free spin bonus activation frequency is one in eighteen.

You need three or more matching tokens to land on adjacent reels only to attain rewards in this game, with winning combos paying left to right and only the highest combination getting paid out. The low-pay images here are five drawn symbols that produce wins of x0.15 to x0.4 for five-of-a-kind combinations. Then you have four animal mediums and a zombie-like woman that produce wins of x0.6 to x1.2 when five of these hit, and lastly are the four screeching creatures plus the title vampire, which are this game’s premiums, yielding wins from x2 to x5 when five matching ones from this group hit on a spin. A skull wild substitutes all the rattled-off pay tokens and pays x5 for five wilds landing in view.

Bonus Features

Like in the original, you also get the five-level ritual Bar here, where as you level up, it resets, but you get to carry over extra points. The wilds get locked at the bottom and gradually unlock from left to right at each new level. You need twenty points to unlock the first level, thirty for the second, forty for the third, sixty for the fourth, and eighty for the fifth. The bar fills via winning combos and scatters. Medium tokens add one for a win, high pay two, and scatter ten points. When you move up a level, the low pays get removed, and mediums transform into high-pay symbols.

Advancing to a novel level gets you two Candle Spins, and at level four, six Reign of Terror Spins get provided; in both wilds, they fall to the bottom, where they remain sticky.

Two xSplit symbols enhance the gameplay in Blood and Shadow 2, with Dagger xSplits splitting symbols on a row and Guillotine ones affecting an entire reel, each carrying an x2 multiplier. Also, both turn wild after splitting.

The Halifax Gibbet Spins instantly boost the Ritual Bar to level three, granting six Candle Spins, where low and medium symbols get upgraded to high-pay ones. The touched-upon Reign of Terror Spins start with six gaming rounds where the Ritual Bar goes away, and the grid expands to a 5×5 layout, with only high pays allowed to hit. Landed scatters here get you an extra spin, and if you buy this feature, you will get ten.

Blood and Shadow 2 has an xBet function costing x2.5 which give you three times better odds of you activating the Reign of Terror Spins, and in allowed jurisdictions, you can also buy other features in this game for varying prices.

GOSU Verdict

Blood and Shadow 2 is similar to its predecessor, but it does update that game for the better. We expected a good slot from Nolimit City, and that is what we got here, as this is the usual dynamic fare from this provider that we have come to expect. If you liked the first one or are a fan of horror spinners in general, we suggest checking this one out; it should give you more than a few thrills in more than a few different ways.