Life and Death Demo: Free Play and Review
Life and Death · Hacksaw Gaming · RTP 96.36% · max win 15,000x · checked on the demo server
Released March 2025Demo client 1.18.0
Four Horsemen ride the middle reels of Life and Death, one to a reel from 2 to 5, each a Wild Multiplier with its own band of values: Pestilence 2x to 4x, War 5x to 9x, Famine 10x to 25x and Death 30x to 200x. Outside Reckoning, a Horseman grows into a Wild Reel only on its own reel. Hacksaw Gaming put the game out in March 2025, 6x5 with 19 paylines and a cap of 15,000x the bet. Hacksaw's own demo of it sits below, free and open to anyone without registration.
- Provider
- Hacksaw Gaming
- Released
- March 2025
- Grid and wins
- 6x5, 19 paylines
- Volatility
- 4 out of 5 (Hacksaw)
- RTP
- 96.36% default. Other versions: 94.26%, 92.33%, 88.24%
- Max win
- 15,000x the bet
- Demo bet range
- €0.10 to €2,000.00, starts at €2.00
- Buy menu
- 4 options, 3x to 200x the bet
- Wild Multipliers
- One per reel from 2 to 5, 2x up to 200x
- Free spins
- Devastation (3 FS), Reckoning (4 FS), both for sale
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Coloured arches numbered I to IV top reels 2 to 5 in that window and mark whose reel is whose. Every spin on this page was played at the €2.00 that client 1.18.0 opens with, on €5,000.00 of play money; bets go from €0.10 to €2,000.00.
Each rider has a reel and a price band
The four bands, as GAME INFO gives them, never overlap.
| Own reel | Horseman | Values |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | I, Blue Pestilence | 2x, 3x, 4x |
| 3 | II, Red War | 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x |
| 4 | III, Yellow Famine | 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x |
| 5 | IV, Green Death | 30x, 40x, 50x, 75x, 100x, 200x |
Any Horseman may land on any of reels 2 to 5, never two on one reel. Away from home it is a single wild that multiplies each line through it, and values on one line are added. On spin 4 a Pestilence Wild Reel and a second 2x Pestilence made 4x and turned a €2.00 line into €8.00.
Landing on its own reel, a rider fills the whole column and keeps its value, provided that Wild Reel would then be part of a win.
A Horseman sat on its own reel 23 times in our log and stayed a single symbol, since a full reel would have completed no line.
Lines pay three to six symbols from reel 1, at most 50x for six two-faced heads, and there is no plain Wild.
On which reel can each Horseman grow into a Wild Reel?
Only its own: Pestilence on reel 2, War on 3, Famine on 4 and Death on 5, and only when the full Wild Reel would be part of a win. Elsewhere on reels 2 to 5 a Horseman stays a single wild. In Reckoning, once a Horseman has landed on its own reel, that Death Reel lets it expand on any central reel. All 37 Wild Reels in our 500 spins grew on their home reels.
Devastation on our screen, Death Reels on paper
Devastation starts on three FS scatters at once and Reckoning on four, with 10 free spins each, and inside a bonus a pair of scatters is worth 2 more spins, a trio 4.
Devastation brings Wild Multipliers more often. Reckoning adds Death Reels. Once a Horseman lands on its own reel, that reel stays active for the rest of the bonus, and the rider can then expand on any central reel where it joins a win.
Devastation cost us €200.00, and its first six spins made €4.00. On the seventh, Death landed at 40x on reel 2, next to a 3x Pestilence on reel 3.
Neither grew into a reel, yet both counted as wilds. The middle line read 10, 40x, 3x, 10 and paid four 10s, €0.60 times 43, for €25.80. Hand lines crossing the 40x and a €2.00 line of suns lifted the spin to €187.80, 93.9x the bet. Three more spins added €27.60, and TOTAL WIN ended at €219.40.
Green Death never rode in 500 spins
The server's replies to our 500 paid spins at €2.00 are all logged, down to the reel of each Horseman and the value of every one that joined a win.
Horsemen came on 194 spins: Pestilence 148 times, War 41, Famine 10, Death not once. Famine missed reel 4 each time, so all 37 Wild Reels were Pestilence (26) or War (11), at 2x to 8x.
Lines with a Wild Multiplier paid €480.00 of the €562.00 returned (56.2%), and the best spin, 466, was a 5x War reel worth €60.00, 30x the bet. No bonus began. Two scatters, which came 15 times, were the most any grid showed.
Paying for Horsemen or for free spins
BonusHunt and Four Horsemen are charged per spin and run until switched off; the other two cards buy a bonus.
| Option | Price | At €2.00 | RTP | Volatility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BonusHunt FeatureSpins Each spin is 5 times more likely to trigger a bonus game | 3x per spin | €6.00 | 96.29% | Very high |
| Four Horsemen FeatureSpins Each spin guarantees that at least 3 Wild Multipliers land; FS symbols cannot land | 60x per spin | €120.00 | 96.29% | Extreme |
| Devastation 10 free spins with enhanced base game features and an increased chance of landing Wild Multipliers | 100x | €200.00 | 96.32% | High |
| Reckoning 10 free spins with activated Death Reels that guarantee Wild Reel expansion after being activated | 200x | €400.00 | 96.31% | Extreme |
Four Horsemen FeatureSpins, 60x a spin, guarantee three or more Wild Multipliers and no FS symbols, so they never reach a bonus. Of the two bonuses, Reckoning is the dearer at twice the price of Devastation.
In the demo the RTP is 96.36% and the cards return 96.29% to 96.32%. Listings name 94.26%, 92.33% and 88.24% versions that a casino may run instead, and some countries disable the buy.
Four rulings on the Horsemen
GAME INFO for the rules, our log for the counts.
Can the same Horseman land twice in one spin?
Yes, on different reels. Our log has 5 such spins, all with two Pestilence symbols; on spin 4 one filled reel 2, the other stayed a 2x wild on reel 3.
What happens to a Horseman on another rider's reel?
It stays a single wild and multiplies every winning line it is part of, as Death at 40x on reel 2 did in our bought Devastation.
Does Reckoning start with its Death Reels switched on?
No. A reel turns into a Death Reel when its own Horseman lands there during the bonus, and stays one to the end.
Can FS scatters land on the outer reels?
No, only on reels 2 to 5, and never on a reel holding a Wild Multiplier. In our 500 spins 102 grids had one FS symbol and 15 had two.
Le Pharaoh's grid, with a multiplier on every middle reel
Like this game, Le Pharaoh runs 6x5 with 19 paylines and stops at 15,000x, but sticky re-drops and coins do its paying.
Le Zeus, also 6x5 on 19 lines, keeps its Mystery symbols to reels 2 to 5. Hacksaw rates it and Le Pharaoh 3 for volatility, this one 4.
Our base game lived on the two cheapest riders, which made every Wild Reel and most of the money. Death, the rider with the big numbers, missed all 500 spins, and in the bought bonus a single 40x Death off its own reel sat in the spin that paid most of €219.40. Read the 200x as a ceiling on one symbol. The home page lists the other Hacksaw games we tested.