Witchcraft Riches drops BGaming into a dark witch’s hideout filled with glowing mushrooms, beetles, ritual bones and suspicious-looking potions. A 300-year-old witch watches over the grid while cascading wins keep throwing fresh ingredients into the mix, giving the whole game a suitably strange Halloween atmosphere.
The real magic sits inside the multiplier potions. Values can reach 500x, several potions add together and Free Spins turn them into a running Total Multiplier that can keep growing throughout the feature. It is a simple mechanic, but one that gives longer bonus rounds a clear sense of progression.
Witchcraft Riches uses a 6-reel, 5-row grid with Scatter Pays. Matching symbols do not need to connect on paylines; the total number of identical symbols visible determines the payout. Winning symbols disappear after each hit and fresh ones fall into their places, allowing the same paid spin to continue through several cascades.
RTP is 96.68%, volatility is high and the maximum win reaches 5,000x the bet. BGaming lists a hit rate of one win in roughly 3.64 spins, which is about 27.47%.
Multiplier potions can appear during both regular spins and cascades with values from 2x to 500x. Once the cascade sequence ends, all multiplier values still visible are added together and applied to the combined win from that sequence. A 10x and 25x potion therefore produce a 35x multiplier rather than multiplying each other.
Landing 4, 5 or 6 Scatters awards 15, 16 or 17 Free Spins respectively. Three or more additional Scatters during the feature add 5 extra spins.
Multiplier potions become much more important here. Their values can feed a persistent Total Multiplier whenever they appear on winning spins, allowing the total to grow throughout the bonus rather than disappearing after one cascade. The accumulated multiplier comes into play again when another multiplier lands alongside a win.
There are two shortcuts for reaching Free Spins faster, although they cannot be used at the same time.
Chance x2 keeps the regular game intact with a better bonus frequency, while the direct purchase skips straight to the part where the persistent multiplier mechanic becomes useful.
Witchcraft Riches has a very simple idea, but the multiplier potions give it enough tension to work. Watching several values build during a cascade is satisfying, and the persistent Total Multiplier makes Free Spins clearly more interesting than the base game.
The downside is that everything outside the multipliers feels rather thin. There is no Wild, ordinary symbol wins are modest and a 5,000x max win is hardly intimidating by modern BGaming standards. Still, the bonus has enough progression to stop this witch from feeling completely generic.
Our rating: 6.5/10
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