Old Drac: Slot Overview

Guard your necks, players: Hacksaw Gaming collaborator Backseat Gaming has summoned the undead to sink their teeth into the scatter-paying online slot Old Drac. Legend has it Bram Stoker’s notorious novel ‘Dracula’ drew inspiration from Vlad the Impaler, born in 1431, so if that link holds, Drac could be nearing 600 years old—pretty ancient by human standards. In slot terms, Old Drac also leans on familiar territory, serving up a well-worn mix of scatter pays, cascading wins, and multiplier symbols.

Old Drac’s jaunt to Transylvania drops you into a nighttime scene of bare trees, a huge full moon, and a spiked, fenced-in mansion. The old chap tags along beside the reels, cane in hand, flashing a broad, fang-filled grin. It’s not outright ‘Dracula: Dead and Loving It’ slapstick, but with its wide-eyed vampire and cute bat, the vibe skews more playful spooky than serious horror—unlike, for example, Red Tiger’s Dracula Awakening.

As a scatter pays title, wins land when 8 or more matching symbols appear anywhere on the 6×5 play area. Any winning symbols disappear, then the empty spaces are refilled as new symbols cascade down. This continues until no further win is created. If you’re tracking down the best RTP like a vampire stalking prey, you’ll want the 96.29% version, and the math model volatility is high. Stakes run from 10 c, and the maximum is $/€100.

Low pays come as gem shapes—triangles, diamonds, pentagons, octagons, and hearts—while rings, candles, cups, and bats sit at the top end. An 8 OAK win returns 0.1x to 1.5x, and a 19+ OAK hit pays 50x to 300x the bet.

Old Drac: Slot Features

Old Drac draws its power from Garlic symbol multipliers, two bonus rounds—The Garlic Hunt and Drac Attack—each featuring a progressive element, plus a set of feature buys.

Total Win Bar and Garlic Symbols

Every win is collected in the Total Win Bar above the reels. Garlic symbols act as multiplier symbols, revealing values from x2 to x200. Once the reels stop producing new wins, all Garlic multipliers are added together and then applied to the total shown in the Total Win Bar. Garlic symbols only come into play when there is at least one winning combo on the grid.

The Garlic Hunt

10 Garlic Hunt free spins are awarded for landing 4 Drac scatters in the base game. During the bonus, a progression ladder gradually increases the minimum possible multiplier values on Garlic symbols. The ladder has four levels: x5, x10, x25, and x100, and these are unlocked by hitting an extra 2, 3, 3, and 5 Drac scatters, respectively. Each time you move up a level, you receive +5 free spins.

Drac Attack

10 Drac Attach free spins are triggered by landing 5 Drac scatters in the main game. The feature works like The Garlic Hunt, except you begin on a random level of 1 to 4 on the progression ladder.

Feature Buy

Old Drac’s feature buy menu includes BonusHunt FeatureSpins for 2x the bet, making each spin 3 times more likely to trigger a bonus; Garlic Blast FeatureSpins for 15x, guaranteeing Garlic symbols with x2 to x25 multipliers; and Garlic Mayhem FeatureSpins for 50x, guaranteeing Garlic symbols with x25 to x200 multipliers. You can also purchase The Garlic Hunt for 100x or Drac Attack for 200x.

Old Drac: Slot Verdict

Much like the saying about old dogs and new tricks, it seems you can’t teach an old Dracula anything too radical either. Old Drac does bring a couple of fresher ideas, but largely it sticks to a route established by scatter pays heavyweights like Gates of Olympus. In slot design, scatter pays naturally pair with multiplier symbols and cascades like a classic comfort combo. Studios keep returning to it, and players clearly do too, judging by how many games are built around the formula.

Old Drac uses that feature set effectively, even if it doesn’t feel especially groundbreaking. Where it tries to separate itself is in the bonus round. Rather than stacking a growing total multiplier, Old Drac focuses on levelling up the minimum multiplier values, which does help it stand apart from Gates-style free spins. The approach shifts the feel: the tension of building a rising total multiplier is gone, but higher minimum multipliers offer a different kind of appeal—and potentially a rewarding one, since Old Drac’s 12,500x cap is more than double the limit Pragmatic Play put on GOO.

Also, unlike an older scatter pays staple such as Sweet Bonanza, Old Drac is happy to drop Garlic multiplier symbols not just in free spins, but in the base game as well. So while it’s clearly built on established foundations and can’t really be called trailblazing, it still brings enough positives to tempt scatter pays fans to give it a go.