Le Vampire Demo: Free Play and Review

Fangs, skulls and pistols that turn Epic

Clusters start at five touching symbols of one kind. Once one pays, Super Cascades wipe that symbol type off the grid and new symbols fall in. The card letters from J to A are worth 0.2x for five up to 50x for fourteen or more. Above them sit four high symbols: the fangs and a cross with a garlic bulb (0.4x to 75x), the skull and a gold pistol (0.6x to 100x). A blue W substitutes for all of them.

Epic symbols exist only in the bonuses. When a high symbol wins there, the win is paid first, and then that whole symbol type, including every copy that lands later, is redrawn in red for the rest of the round. Its pays double, which puts an Epic skull or pistol at 1.2x for five and 200x for fourteen or more. Every square under a winning Epic symbol becomes a Blood Square instead of a Golden one.

A Blood Square works like a Golden Square in every way but one: when it opens, it never shows a Bronze Coin. For an Epic cluster that is a second gain on top of the doubled pay, because the cheapest Coin, the 0.2x to 4x Bronze, can no longer turn up on its squares when the next Rainbow opens them.

Four Levels on the bar, eight extra spins at most

The bar sits right of the logo, above the grid: the fangs, the cross, the skull and the pistol, each with a "+2FS" badge, and a small Rainbow under its right end. Each symbol lights up when it turns Epic, and every light is one Level.

All three start with 10 free spins, and no FS symbol can land inside them, so the bar is the only way to add spins. Four Levels give eight, which puts the longest possible bonus at 18 free spins, unless the 15,000x cap ends it sooner. The studio's game page says Do Your Fang gives an Epic Rainbow on every spin after Level 4. GAME INFO in the client says the next spin, and we follow the client.

Only Coffin Break turned up in our log, 8 times. Between them the bar reached 6 Levels: one bonus got two, four got one and three got none, so the rounds lasted 10 to 14 spins.

Blood Rain needs an Epic Rainbow

Once all wins of the spin are paid, a Rainbow opens the lit squares. Each square becomes a Coin, a Green Clover that multiplies its neighbours by x2 to x20, a Gold Clover that does it to the whole grid, a Bag of Gold that collects the 3x3 block around it, or a Pot of Gold that collects everything. Emptied squares open again until nothing is left to collect.

An Epic Rainbow lights all 30 positions before the reveal, and it can also start a Blood Rain, which turns all 30 into Blood Squares. Coin values here differ from Le Bandit's: Silver stops at 10x, Gold runs 20x to 50x, and above them come Diamonds, 100x to 500x. The grid never holds more than one Rainbow of either kind, and no Rainbow arrives on a spin that has an FS symbol.

We never saw an Epic Rainbow. In 500 logged spins a plain Rainbow landed 10 times in the base game, and those ten paid €189.20 in Coins. Each base spin that paid 10x or more included one of them.

A full bar and one Rainbow worth 1,456x

Our script bought Coffin Break at €120.00 for the clip. All four high symbols turned Epic during the round, and the last "+2FS" banner came up with a Rainbow drawn behind it while TOTAL WIN read €45.20.

The next spin brought that Rainbow onto a grid where most squares were lit, many of them red from Epic wins. The reveal shows the Blood Square rule at work: every Bronze Coin sits on a gold square, and the red ones hold Silver and Gold.

The Pot of Gold already read 317 and the second Green Clover drew x4 a moment later. GAME INFO has Clovers multiply Coins and Pots before any Pot collects, and the counter climbed through the thirties before it jumped.

That one Rainbow paid €2,912.00. The last six spins added €6.80, and the round ended after 18 free spins at €2,968.80, 1,484.4x the bet on a 60x buy.

8 Coffin Breaks, none past Level 2

Our 500 paid spins at €2.00 brought a bonus once every 62.5 spins, and every one of them was the 3 FS kind.

The balance dipped to €4,970.80 on spin 89, and the next spin started a bonus. The best one came on spin 144: a high symbol turned Epic on its fourth free spin, a Rainbow on free spin 10 paid €322.00 with two x2 Green Clovers and two Bags of Gold, and the round finished on €335.20, 167.6x.

The other 492 spins returned €425.20, under half their cost, and 34.6% of all spins paid something, their median 0.6x, while dry spells never went past 16. The best base spin, 15.8x on spin 247, was a Rainbow with a Bag of Gold. With the bonuses, 143.9% came back and the session ended on €5,439.20. That is a good run for a 3 out of 5 game, not a forecast.

What the five cards cost, and which RTP you get

Two cards sell Rainbows by the spin. Rainbow Bite FeatureSpins charges 75x a spin for a Rainbow or Epic Rainbow each time, and Rainbow Epic Drop FeatureSpins charges 500x for an Epic Rainbow on every spin. With either one running, the lowest Coin rises to 1x and FS symbols stay away until DISABLE is pressed.

At 60x, Coffin Break is cheaper than Le Bandit's Luck of the Bandit at 100x, and four of the five cards carry a Low volatility label. Only the 500x Epic Drop says Very high. Do Your Fang cannot be bought.

The demo and its GAME INFO run 96.36%. Hacksaw's game page lists five versions, rounded to 97%, 96%, 94%, 92% and 86%, and casino listings give the top one as 97.57%, above the demo's, while OLBG names 96.36% as the one sites are most likely to use. Any of the five may be installed at a casino, 94.30%, 92.31% and 86.27% among them. Some countries go further and take the BUY BONUS button away.

12 Le games here, and three different bars

The Golden Square loop came from Le Bandit and runs through several of these games: wins light squares, a Rainbow opens them, Clovers multiply, collectors gather. This table lists the Le games already reviewed on this site, oldest release first, with figures from the same registry as this page.

Bars are where the newer games split. In Le Fisherman the Big Catch Bar counts FS symbols, five to a Level, and each Level is worth +5 free spins.

The Blast Bar of Le Digger counts removed symbols and raises the lowest Coin with each fill. Le Vampire's bar counts symbol types, so it can never pass four Levels, and it also changes the paytable on the way.

Le Vampire is Le Bandit's square-and-Rainbow game with a second layer on top: wins in the bonus upgrade the paytable, stain the grid red and buy extra spins, and all three feed the same Rainbow at the end. Our eight natural bonuses never took the bar past Level 2, so what this page shows of a full bar comes from a single bought round.