Full Moon Fever: Slot Overview

It’s amusing how many ideas people have about what a full moon does to us—some positive, some downright ominous. The darker tales include turning folks into werewolves, sending them mad, or even bringing 30 days of bad luck if you look at it through glasses. On the flip side, you’ll hear claims that love is more likely under a full moon, that women are more fertile then, and that picking flowers and berries during a blue moon boosts your looks. Basically, stepping into the glow of Earth’s nearest celestial neighbour can supposedly be either the best thing ever, the worst thing ever… or, as many would argue in our science-led age, absolutely nothing at all.

Offering its own “will it or won’t it” set of results is Full Moon Fever, an online slot from developer Blueprint Gaming. The setting looks like old London, where a bright full moon would have been handy for travelling at night given the lack of modern street lighting. In fact, a 2018 iNews report stated that ‘London has the eighth highest level of light pollution in the world making the sky 67 times brighter than it would be without the contribution of humans’. It’s little wonder astronomers at the Royal Observatory Greenwich aren’t gazing into deep space (without the right filters) like they once did. But back to Full Moon Fever: the game presents a cartoon, period-style London scene, washed in the glow of a gigantic full moon.

Built into the game—like cheese in the moon, or however that old story goes—is Full Moon Fever’s highly volatile math model. It delivers a return to player of 96.02% regardless of how you play, and it accepts stakes from 10 p/c to $/€100 per spin. Alternatively, switching on the extra bet increases the stake by 20% while upping the chance of triggering free spins. Hit spin and a 6×4 gaming grid starts rolling, offering 4,096 ways to win.

The top of Full Moon Fever’s pay table is packed with a proper Dickensian cast—minus the werewolf, naturally, who appears alongside 5 other character symbols as the premium pays, with J-A card ranks making up the lower tier. Landing five of a premium symbol on a winning way returns 0.8 to 5 times the bet, while 5 matching royals award 0.4x the bet. Full Moon wilds can show up on every reel except the leftmost one, and they substitute for any regular paying symbol. When a wild lands, it expands to cover the entire reel it appears on.

Full Moon Fever: Slot Features

The base game in Full Moon Fever doesn’t offer much beyond the expanding wilds, so the main action is in the free spins feature. It activates when 3, 4, 5, or 6 scatters land, awarding 12 free spins plus a cash prize worth 2x, 5x, 10x, or 100x the bet, respectively.

During free spins, each time a Full Moon wild symbol lands, it upgrades the lowest character symbol into a werewolf symbol. On top of that, hitting 1, 2, 3, or 4 wilds grants 1, 3, 5, or 7 extra free spins, respectively. Once all character symbols have been converted into the werewolf, any further wild causes the werewolf to change from paying left to right to paying from anywhere. Finally, when the feature ends, players can either take their winnings or purchase an additional free spin to extend the bonus. The cost depends on how far the character conversion has progressed.

Bonus Buy

If you want instant access to Full Moon Fever’s bonus round, you can pay 75 times the bet to enter it directly.

Full Moon Fever: Slot Verdict

Just as there are endless opinions on what the moon can and can’t do, one idea around Full Moon Fever is that it might—just might—have taken inspiration from Pragmatic Play’s slot Curse of the Werewolf Megaways. Both games are set in a London-like town from an earlier era, and both revolve around transforming high-paying symbols. Full Moon Fever also feels very close in execution to Blueprint Gaming’s Eye of Horus, since symbols are upgraded during free spins and wilds expand to fill their reels when they land.

So yes, there will be players who instantly feel comfortable inside Full Moon Fever, and that may well have been part of the plan. Evolution often happens in small increments, and Blueprint Gaming has repeatedly shown it’s a studio content to make slight tweaks to earlier ideas and release them steadily to the gambling audience. That’s not a complaint—just an observation. It also means you can often enter a Blueprint Gaming slot expecting familiar, reliable mechanics—with a little added on top. In Full Moon Fever, the fresher elements are the pay-from-anywhere effect after the final symbol upgrade in free spins, plus the option to keep the bonus alive by paying for single extra free spins. As ever, these post-feature opportunities feel brilliant when they pay off, and painful when they don’t.

If you really manage to provoke this werewolf, Full Moon Fever steps in with a win cap of €250,000 to keep the chaos somewhat contained. It never quite came across as a must-play, but it’s still something for Pink Elephants-style players to howl about.