Shadow Trials Slot Demo by Ovryx Gaming

Shadow Trials by Ovryx Gaming Slot Overview

Shadow Trials by Ovryx Gaming brings striking gothic fantasy to a blue cathedral watched over by a red-eyed lich. Its tumbling reels share a mechanic with Knight Fall, but here the lich’s lasers drain heroes’ lives, turning their symbol types into Wilds throughout the remaining free spins.

The distinctive Level Up feature strengthens the lich’s lasers, while Wild multipliers within a win add together. High volatility and a maximum win of 100,000x the bet complement the layered bonus rounds. Explore the transformations yourself with the free demo on BonusTiime, without an account or deposit.

Shadow Trials Slot Specifications

Shadow Trials uses a 6×5 board with up to 15,625 ways to win. The house edge sits at 3.99%, which suits its high-risk, high-reward setup.

RTP (Return to Player)

96.01% RTP gives Shadow Trials a competitive return profile. The house edge sits at 3.99%.

Volatility

High volatility means sharper swings, so bankroll control matters if you prefer longer sessions.

Max Win

100,000x the bet is the cap; a €1 spin tops out at €100,000.

Shadow Trials Slot Features

Shadow Trials mixes tumbling ways, Wild multipliers, Level Up upgrades, free spins, and multiple bonus buys, including a Max Spin mode that counts Wilds without tumbles or ways.

Game Overview

The base game runs on a board where paying symbols need matching runs across reels, and every win removes every symbol of that kind before the grid refills. That tumbling structure keeps the action moving and feeds into the larger bonus systems.

How Ways Work

A paying symbol wins when it lands on reel 1, reel 2, and reel 3, then pays more if the run continues into reels 4, 5, and 6. The ways count multiplies the symbol’s positions on each reel, so wider runs create stronger results.

The Whole Kind Blows

When a symbol wins, every copy of that symbol on the board disappears, not just the ones in the active run. That makes each hit more than a small payout event, because the board can open up quickly and create fresh tumble chains.

How It Plays

After every win, the board tumbles. Symbols fall into place, fresh symbols drop in, and the round continues until nothing else pays. This gives Shadow Trials a fast rhythm and lets one strong board state trigger several follow-up wins.

Wild

Wild symbols appear only in free spins. They replace any paying symbol on any reel, and Wilds alone across all 6 reels form a Wild line worth 50x a way. Over 3 to 5 reels Wilds only stand in for the symbols and pay nothing on their own. A Wild can also carry a multiplier, which makes it central to the bonus-round damage output.

Scatter

Scatter symbols drive the bonus entry system. 3 open the Bonus, 4 open the Super Bonus, and 5 open the Ultra Bonus. In free spins, each Scatter adds one more free spin, while Scatters themselves never blow during tumbles.

Level Up

Level Up symbols only matter in free spins. When the tumbling stops, every Level Up on the board raises the lich one level, up to level 4. The level stays for the rest of the round, so it directly strengthens later laser hits.

The Lich

At the start of every free spin, the lich fires 1 to 5 lasers. A hero loses one of its 3 lives, and with none left that hero turns into a Wild for good, on the board and for the rest of the bonus. A low symbol becomes a Wild carrying the lich’s multiplier, but only on that cell. A Wild gets the lich’s multiplier added to its own, and at level 0 it still climbs one step. The lich never fires at a Scatter or a Level Up.

The Level

The lich’s level determines what a lasered Wild receives. Level 0 gives no multiplier, level 1 gives 2x, level 2 gives 3x, level 3 gives 4x, and level 4 gives 5x. Wild multipliers in one win add together, which raises the round’s value.

Free Spins

3 Scatters open the Bonus for 8 free spins, 4 Scatters open the Super Bonus for 8 free spins, 5 Scatters open the Ultra Bonus for 10 free spins, and 3 to 5 Prismatic Scatters open the Mystery Bonus for 12 free spins.

Buying a Bonus

The buy menu lets players pay to force specific bonus outcomes or access stronger variants. Every bought mode runs Safe or Extreme: the same return, spread differently. Safe is the slow rinse, where a bought Bonus, Ultra Bonus or Mystery Bonus always pays something. Extreme makes most buys pay back a fraction of the price or nothing, and in exchange the biggest rounds land far more often. Guaranteed 2 Mystery and Max Spin are Extreme only.

• Guaranteed 1: x3 the bet per spin; every spin lands at least one gold Scatter.
• Guaranteed 2: x10 the bet per spin; every spin lands at least two gold Scatters, one short of the Bonus.
• Guaranteed 2 Mystery: x250 the bet per spin, Extreme only; a reveal that starts on two Prismatic Scatters, where landing a third gives the Mystery Bonus and anything else pays nothing.
• Max Spin: x1,000 the bet per spin, Extreme only; one spin with no tumbles, no Scatters and no ways, paid only by the Wilds that land, from 7 up to the full board of 30 for the 100,000x maximum.
• Bonus: x100 the bet; 8 free spins with the lich firing his lasers every spin.
• Ultra Bonus: x350 the bet; 10 free spins with the lich firing more lasers.
• Mystery Bonus: x500 the bet per spin; a reveal that lands on nothing, the Bonus, the Super Bonus, the Ultra Bonus or, on three or more Prismatic Scatters, the Mystery Bonus.

Shadow Trials Slot Review

Shadow Trials builds its identity with a gothic board, a blue cathedral backdrop, and a lich that sits at the centre of the action. The dark fantasy art gives the slot a clear character, while the hero portraits and laser concept make the theme feel tied to the mechanics rather than pasted on.

The strongest part of Shadow Trials is how free spins layer with Wild multipliers and Level Up upgrades. High volatility and the 100,000x ceiling create proper tension, and the bought modes add variety, but the buy menu also shows how much of the design leans on paid access to the better outcomes.

Shadow Trials suits players who want a feature rich slot with a sharp theme and a clear ceiling. It fits high volatility fans best, especially those who enjoy systems that escalate through bonus states, but it may feel too dependent on the bonus structure for anyone wanting a cleaner base game.

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