Blood and Shadow 2 Slot (Nolimit City)

The Blood and Shadow 2 slot is played initially with 5 reels, 4 rows and 1,024 ways to win. Landing 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols from left to right across adjacent reels, in any position, and starting from the leftmost reel will award a winning combination. Only the highest win per way to win is paid.

Bets-wise, you can play Blood & Shadow 2 from as little as 20p a spin. With Nolimit City setting a maximum of £100 per spin, the max bet may vary by country or slot site. To change your bet, use the ‘Coins’ icon which will display all available options on a pop-up screen. Non-UK players can take advantage of Autoplay and Turbo Mode functionality.

The Blood and Shadow 2 RTP rate is 96.09% which is above the slot game average of 96%. 30% of that return is for the base game with 66.09% for the bonus features. Nolimit City has also created 94.01% and 92.02% RTP alternative settings which may be used at your chosen slot or casino site. As with all demo slot games on OLBG, the Blood and Shadow 2 free demo uses the highest setting.

In the extreme bracket when it comes to volatility (10/10), the hit frequency rate is 27.14%. This means that a winning combination will land on average every 3.68 spins. However, the main free spins feature will be triggered every 18 spins!

Finally, the Blood and Shadow 2 slot comes with 16,161 times bet max wins. Known as Enlightenment, the max win probability is 1 in 3.3 million spins (3,282,994 spins to be precise). This is for the 96.09% RTP version. Winning 100 times your total bet or higher will occur once every 757 spins on average.

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With a horror theme, the Blood and Shadow 2 slot game is the sequel to Blood and Shadow (which was released in March 2023). Based on Shadow girl, who is known to the world for her mastery of forbidden arts, she’s back with desires of your blood and new dark tricks to share with the world.

With similar graphics to the first outing, the setting is the same abandoned church which is very dark, gothic and is filled with candles, ravens, wolves and various scary creatures. Instead of an altar, there is a pentagram blazed in flames and a guillotine. The soundtrack is eerie and haunting as you’d expect.

On the reels, you have low-value eye, snake, ram horns, teeth and Shadow Girl drawings. The medium-value symbols are represented by ravens, snakes, goats, wolves and witches. Finally, the high-value symbols include a demon raven, demon snake, demon goat, demo wolf and the demon witch (Shadow Girl). The demo witch/Shadow Girl symbol pays the most awarding 5 times your total bet for 5 in combination. Below, you’ll find a list of all symbol payouts:

• Eye Drawing: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.05, 0.1 or 0.15 x bet
• Snake Drawing: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.05, 0.15 or 0.2 x bet
• Raven Horns Drawing: 3, 4, or 5 =  0.1, 0.2 or 0.25 x bet
• Teeth Drawing: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.15, 0.25 or 0.3 x bet
• Shadow Girl Drawing: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 0.3 or 0.4 x bet
• Raven: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.25, 0.4 or 0.6 x bet
• Snake: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.3, 0.5 or 0.7 x bet
• Goat: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.35, 0.6 or 0.9 x bet
• Wolf: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.4, 0.7 or 1.1 x bet
• Witch: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.45, 0.8 or 1.2 x bet
• Demon Raven: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 1 or 2 x bet
• Demon Snake: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.75, 1.5 or 3 x bet
• Demon Goat: 3, 4 or 5 = 1, 2 or 4 x bet
• Demon Wolf: 3, 4 or 5 = 1.25, 2.5 or 4 x bet
• Shadow Girl: 3, 4 or 5 = 1.5, 3 or 5 x bet

Blood and Shadow 2 also benefits from various special symbols. There is a Wild symbol that substitutes for all symbols above with 5 in combination paying 5 times your total bet. Other symbols include a Sticky Wild, 2 xSplit Wilds and an Eye Scatter. More details will be provided on these symbols below in the Bonus Features section.

Blood and Shadow 2 Mobile

With Nolimit City using HTML5 technology for all slots, Blood and Shadow 2 can be played on any device including laptops, PCs, tablets and mobiles. If you use an iOS or Android smartphone, Portrait Mode will be deployed allowing for more of your handheld screen to be used for a better playing experience.

The Blood and Shadow 2 slot comes with 8 bonus features. Wins lead to tumbles are well as the Ritual Bar filled which then removes low-value symbols and replaces medium-value ones with higher-value equivalents. Filling the various Ritual Bar levels will award Candle Spins which can lead to the Reign of Terror Spins where only high-value symbols appear on 3,125 ways to win. Look out for sticky wilds and 2 xSplit Wilds which split rows and reels for symbol sizes up to 32x.

Ritual Bar 

When you fire up Blood and Shadow 2, you will notice a 5x5 reel setup. With the bottom row locked, you’ll begin with 1,024 ways to win.

There is a Ritual Bar under the bottom row which is filled with Wild symbols with each level progression unlocking a wild symbol starting from the left. Winning combinations are destroyed with the remaining symbols tumbling down and allow for new symbols to tumble/fall in.

With 5 levels of progression, the Ritual Bar resets for each level up. To level up, you need to landing a certain number of winning symbols:

If you land an Eye Scatter symbol or a winning combination made up of medium and high-value symbols, the Ritual Bar advances quicker:

• Medium-value symbol: +1 per winning symbol
• High-value symbol: +2 per winning symbol
• Eye Scatter symbol: +10 per scatter symbol

With each level you reach, the lowest-value symbol is removed from the reels as well converting medium-value symbols into their high-value equivalent. Finally, the Ritual Bar resets on every new base game spin.

Candle Spins

When you reach a new level of the Rituar Bar, you will trigger the Candle Spins feature with 2 free spins until level 4 and 6 free spins when you advance to the Reign of Terror Spins feature.

Before any new level played, any plausible wins will be paid out before you move to the next level. During the feature, the Ritual Bar is in play as in the base game.

Sticky Wild

Look out for the Sticky Wild symbol landing during the Candle Spins or Reign of Terror Spins features. When it appears, it will drop down to the bottom of the reel and becomes a sticky wild until it’s part of a winning combination.

xSplit

Furthermore, the Blood and Shadow 2 slot comes with 2 types of xSplit Wild symbols:

• Dagger xSplit Wild: splits the row it appears on
• Guillotine xSplit Wild: splits all symbols below it on the reel is appears on

xSplit Wilds always appear with a 2x multiplier. Symbols that are split by xSplit Wilds also get their multiplier values respectively. With both Dagger and Guillotine xSplit Wilds transforming into wilds after the split, the maximum symbol size reaching up to 32.

Halifax Gibbet Spins 

Available to non-UK players, you can purchase the Halifax Gibbet Spins feature for 100 times your total bet. With the RTP rate at 96.03%,  the Ritual Bar progresses instantly to level 3 with 6 Candle Spins awarded. As a result, 3 low and medium-value symbols are replaced with 3 high-value symbols.

Reign of Terror Spins 

Reaching the last level of the Ritual Bar will see you play the Reign of Terror Spins feature. With 6 free spins awarded, any wins before you trigger the feature will be have to be completed.

Once in, the Ritual Bar is removed and you play with 5 rows and 3,125 ways to win. Furthermore, only high-value symbols appear on the reels. Landing an Eye Scatter symbol will reward you with 1 additional free spin. If you buy your way into the feature, you will begin with 10 free spins.

Nolimit Booster

As with other Nolimit City slots, there is a Nolimit Boost feature which offers 2 options. Below are all the details:

• xBet: Costing 2.5 times your total bet, you are 3 times more likely to trigge the Reign of Terror Spins feature. The RTP rate will be 96.05%.
• xBet 2: Costing 66 times your total bet, you are guaranteed 1 spin at level 5 of the Rituar Bar with Dagger and Guillotine xSplit Wild symbols. The RTP rate will be 96.04%.

Nolimit Bonus

Finally, players outside the United Kingdom can take advantage of the Nolimit Bonus feature. With 3 options available, below is a table highlighting all the details:

With the Lucky Draw option, you’ll have a 40% chance of level 3 or level 4 of the Ritual Bar and a 20% chance of level 5 of the Ritual Bar.

More terrifying that the original game, the Blood and Shadow 2 slot owes a lot to its prequel in terms of gameplay. With tumbles and the Ritual Bar filled in the same way, you’ll benefit from low-value symbols removed from the reels and medium-value ones transforming into their high-value counterparts.

Collecting symbols has been used by Nolimit City in the Gluttony slot where Wild Pot symbols that are part of a win will connect nearby food symbols and increase its multiplier.

Nolimit City has added a Sticky Wild as well as 2 xSplit Wilds with the latter splitting rows (Dagger) and reels (Guillotine). They can lead to 32 symbols on each reel. In the Halifax Gibbet Spins feature, you’ll get 6 free spins with 3 low-value and medium-value symbols replaced with 3 high-one ones. The downside is that you can only buy this feature as it cannot be triggered from the base game.

Focusing on the Reign of Terror Spins feature, you will play with an extra row of symbols with 3,125 ways to win. With just high-value symbols on the reels, you’ll benefit from all the same base game features including xSplit Wilds and sticky wilds.

With 16,161 times bet max wins, the Blood and Shadow 2 slot comes with a lot higher win potential than the original game (6,666 times bet payouts). However, the gameplay is virtually identical with a few additional extras such as xSplit Wilds. It feels more like an update than a slot sequel as such but it’s worth trying if you’re a fan of the original.

If you want more terrifying games, check out OLBG’s guide to the best Halloween slots. The top 13 list includes Serial, Mental and Disturbed from Nolimit City as well as games from Print Studios, Microgaming, Push Gaming and Hacksaw Gaming.

The Blood and Shadow 2 slot review was written by Chris Taylor from our OLBG Expert team who has written over 10,000 slot game reviews in an iGaming career spanning over 2 decades. It was then verified/checked by Jenny Mason, our prime Slot reviewer who has 17+ years working in online gambling, top UK brands. 

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