Fat Drac

Fat Drac Overview

Push Gaming is back with another game in their 'fat' series, this time taking on the most famous vampire of all time - Dracula. What Bram Stoker would have thought about his most villainous and complex character becoming an obese cartoon isn't worth thinking about. However, for the purposes of a stellar online slot game, the gimmick works very well. In addition to this fun twist on a classic theme, there are also some interesting features, some fun gaming dynamics and a return to player percentage of 96.75%. Add all this together, and players are looking at a truly exciting slot.

The features for Fat Drac comprise four bonuses. The first and the most instantly gratifying is the instant prize bubble feature, triggered when the Fat Drac symbol lands on the reels. When this symbol lands, it reveals either a paying symbol or a bat symbol.

If it is a bar symbol, the instant prize bubble feature is triggered. The Bat will then fly to one of the bubbles to the left of the reels and reward you with whatever the bubble's contents are. These can be instant prizes of up to 50,000x your stake. This game also has a e, a Fat Bat featur Coffin Pick feature, and a Free spins feature. All bonuses will be explained in more detail later on in the review.

Theme and Symbols

Joining its sister games Fat Santa and Fat Rabbit, Fat Dracula takes a light-hearted approach to the story of Dracula. Indeed, Push Gaming turns a serious horror novel into a silly and child-like theme that reflects the fun and easy-going tone Push Gaming usually approach their games with. The animations, graphics and use of colour remind us of the aesthetic used in Hotel Transylvania, the children's film that collates all the classic horror story characters under one roof for hijinks and silliness.

The background for this game is a depiction of the terrifying path leading to Fat Drac's gothic castle. To the left of the reels is a craggy and scary tree cast in blue light. To the right of the reels is a skull chained to a small pedestal with glowing eyes. The castle itself looks almost to be floating eerily above a lake or forest. The entire screen, in fact, has been blurred to obfuscate the true details of the setting, giving it that mysterious feeling.

The playing window for Fat Drac has been designed to look like the entrance to a crypt, with spooky gargoyles and skulls decorating the supporting columns.

The symbols for this game are split into low-paying, high paying and special symbols. The low-paying symbols are the playing card suits of spades, diamonds, hearts and clubs. The most you can receive for these symbols is a payout of 1x your stake. The more valuable symbols comprise the vampire teeth in a glass cake stand, the skeleton gentlemen in a purple suit and the moustachioed ginger man wearing the ruff. Finally, the specials are the golden bat wild, the Fat Drac Reveal symbol, the Bat, the Fat Bat, the Coffin, and the Goblet Scatter.

Game Play

Fat Drac is played on a 5-reel, 5-row machine with 40 fixed pay lines. To win combinations, players must land three or more matching symbols on pay lines moving from left to right, starting from the leftmost reel.

The betting range for Fat Drac is 10p to £100 per spin. To adjust their bet levels, players can toggle their stake up and down using the tool located at the bottom left-hand side of the screen.

Further information, including a short tutorial and a display of the paytable, can be found via the menu button in the right-hand corner of the screen. The spin and auto spin buttons are located in the centre of the screen.
Volatility for this slot is rated in the very high range. The return to player percentage for Fat Drac is 96.57%, which is above average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 50,000x your stake.

Features

The first feature in this game, as we have mentioned, is the instant prize bubble feature. To trigger this feature, a Fat Drac symbol needs to land on the reels and transform into a bat symbol. If this is the case, then the feature will be triggered. Following this sequence, the bat icon will fly over to the left-hand side of the reels and collect a bubble that awards you the instant prize within it. These instant prizes can range all the way up to 50,000x the stake. They are available in both the base and free spins games.
Next on the feature list is the Fat Bat feature. Now and then, you may notice a rumbling accompanied by the reels becoming dark during the base game. If the Fat Bat feature is activated, the Fat Bat will drop onto the reels and collect all seven instant prize bubbles shown on the reels' left-hand side.

The penultimate feature is the Coffin Pick feature. This feature is triggered when a coffin symbol finds its way onto the reels in the base game. If this happens, players are given a choice of 4 options to award up to 5 bats. The chosen bats will fly over to the instant prize bubbles and collect the prizes attached to them.

Finally, we have the free spins game triggered when the Fat Drac icon lands on the reels with at least one goblet scatter in the base game. If this should happen, you will be awarded five free spins. Goblets of blood make Fat Drac even fatter, with each one adding to a meter. For every level that Fat Drac moves up, the fatter Drac becomes, and the more additional spins are awarded. There are a total of five levels to move up, ultimately getting Fat Drac to become a 5x5 symbol as well as earning 15 new spins.

The Coffin Pick feature is also active in the free spins round, triggered by landing Coffin symbols.
However, in the free spins game, players can choose from a selection of free spins, getting a blood goblet icon or more bats. Finally, the instant prize bubble and Fat Bat features are also available in the free spins game.

Conclusion

With an incredible visual appeal, features aplenty and an awesome cast of characters, Fat Drac is as fun as it is rewarding. With a really impressive RTP, players should also have confidence that they might end up with some really interesting wins too. Sadly, due to the incredibly high volatility, features might be difficult to come by. All in all, though, Push Gaming have done a terrific job with their latest Fat slot.