Spooky and Fun: Best Day of the Dead Spinners

24/07/2024 | Categories: Gambling Guides | Published by: Joe | Last updated: 24/07/2024

We watched the terrific Pixar 2017 film Coco the other day, and it hit us that we have seen loads of Day of the Dead slots. Hence, we decided to dive deeper into this sub-genre and uncover how many online gambling games feature this motif. To our surprise, the number of Internet slots with this theme surpassed over a hundred, with many of these titles created by some of the industry’s best game studios.

For those who have not heard of this Mexican holiday, called Día de los Muertos in America’s northern neighbor, it gets celebrated at the start of November and blends ancient traditions with Catholic elements. The latter is so due to the influence of Spanish colonizers on the indigenous population. Mexicans celebrate this holiday by creating alters that usually contain photos, various mementos, and favorite foods of the celebrated deceased in their homes in their honor. Festivities, such as large public gatherings and parades, are also a part of Day of the Dead celebrations that traditionally go on for two days. While primarily characteristic of Mexico, Día de los Muertos now also gets celebrated worldwide, where there are Mexican communities, especially in parts of Latin America. Here, we give you five super popular online slots that exploit the Day of the Dead holiday for its theme.

Day Of the Dinero

Gameburger Studios is a game developer that made its name in the online gambling arena through its nine series of slots. You may have played several super famous editions to this collection, such as 9 Masks of Fire or 9 Pots of Gold, which are still doing excellently in multiple top markets. Day of the Dinero is a Gameburger release that ranks highly among this company’s creations at the time of writing, and that should come as no surprise, as it is one of this company’s most recent ones, coming out on the 25th of June, 2024. It is a low-variance title with a ranging RTP that sits at 96% at most sites, and it has a betting range that moves from $0.20 to $50 per spin. It boasts a hit frequency that is 29 and a surprisingly high max win of x5,000 your stake.

The visuals here are charming, with the skeleton mariachi character and his two dog companions very likely to win you over in this Coco-likes symbol collection product with a hold-and-win mechanic and rising rewards jackpot feature with five enticing prizes available. The free spins mode here can award up to twelve on-the-house reel rotations, with up to x5 pot multiplier, and an additional one to three spins can get won in this mode.

Day of Dead

Of course, Pragmatic Play has a Day of the Dead slot. This renowned Maltese supplier has over six hundred reel-spinning products in its library, so they have covered pretty much all available themes. Their – Day of Dead game came out in October 2021, using many elements commonly associated with this Mexican holiday, including people with painted-on skull masks.

The variance level in Day of Dead is high, the RTP is 95.52% at default, the max wins x4,5000, and the wagering starts at $0.20, going up to $100, with the action in this twenty payline title occurring on a 5×4 grid. The chief features here are Tombstone Wilds, which expand, a walking wild respin mode, and a free respin round where as long as there are Walking Wilds present, it goes on. You start with two in escrow above the grid, and at least one gets sent to an arbitrary reel when this mode begins.

Muerto En Mictlan

Based on our expertise in translating Spanish using online tools, we came to the conclusion that Muerto En Mictlan translates to Dead in Mictlan. That is the underworld in Aztec mythology. Muerto En Mictlan must have been Play’n GO’s answer to Pragmatic Play’s Day of Dead, the opposite, or just a coincidence, as these two slots came out at the same time. Per some scholars, the Day of the Dead’s birth stems from an ancient Aztec festival dedicated to Mictecacihuatl, the queen of the underworld.

Play’n GO makes no bones that this is a Day of the Dead game, as it advertised it using a slogan that stated that gamblers should light their candles and celebrate this holiday, letting their spirits get guided by this slot’s two characters Catrina and Catrin, to the underworld, Mictlan. Thus, to capture this marketing, Muerto En Mictlan implements a spins mechanic that advances you through four underworld levels through scatter collection. In the initial tier, you must select from four wild features, and each one is available only once per level, unavailable in subsequent ones. There are six RTP versions of this game (84.2% to 96.2%), all featuring a max win of x100,000, high variance, and a top bet of $100.

Esqueleto Explosivo 2

Here we have a sequel to a 2015 Thunderkick gaming product that is still holding its own in some place and has not drifted off into obscurity. We assume this is why Thunderkick decided to release a successor five years later. It is one that features ninety-nine paylines compared to its predecessor’s seventeen, has a max bet of $100, a boosted RTP of 96.13%, medium-high variance, and a max exposure of x5,000.

The prime allures of this game are its Explosivo Wilds, the bonus free spin mode where you can earn more complimentary betting rounds while collecting wilds. Please note that Esqueleto Explosivo 2 is a cascading spinner where multipliers up to x64 can get unlocked. The presentation here is a bit too skully for us, but it tries to jazz things up by having each skull character play a different role in a musical band.