What Is The Count?

The Count sets its story in a gothic vampire manor, led by an aristocratic Count and his ever-present skeleton companion. The presentation favors moody purples and blood reds over a comedic take on the genre, with hammers, stakes, headstones and coffins filling out a paytable that never lets the horror theme slip.

The grid runs on a 5-reel, 5-row layout with 19 paylines, evaluating winning combinations of 3 to 5 matching symbols. Card ranks J through A pay a flat 1x for five-of-a-kind, while mid-tier symbols — hammers, stakes, headstones, coffins, skulls and spiders — pay 2x to 5x, with both the Bloody Wild and Bat Wild varieties capping at 5x.

Bloody Wilds and the Symbol Counter

How Expanding Wilds and Wild Bats Combine

Blood symbols are the base game's core mechanic, expanding into Bloody Wilds whenever they land and revealing a multiplier between x2 and x500 — genuinely one of the widest multiplier ranges in Hacksaw's current catalog. Wild Bat symbols work alongside them, carrying their own additive multiplier also ranging from x2 to x500, with every value from multiple Wilds or Bats appearing in the same winning combination added together rather than applied separately. A rarer Epic Wild Bat spreads its own multiplier value across every other expanded Wild and Bat symbol currently on the grid, compounding a hot sequence considerably further.

Bat to the Bone, Rest in Pieces and the Hidden Bonus

Three scatters trigger Bat to the Bone, ten free spins with a noticeably increased chance of Wild Bats landing throughout the round. Four scatters unlock Rest in Pieces, which adds a progressive Symbol Counter split into five sections — filling every section transforms all remaining low-paying symbols into Wild Bats for the rest of the feature, turning what starts as a standard free spins round into an increasingly Wild-heavy grid. Five scatters reveal Count on Blood, the Hidden Epic Bonus, which folds in the same Symbol Counter mechanic while also increasing the chance of the powerful Epic Wild Bat and guaranteeing five Wild Bats on every single spin of the round. Landing 2 or 3 additional scatters during any mode adds 2 or 4 extra spins respectively.

Four feature buy options are on offer: BonusHunt FeatureSpins at 3x the bet increases the trigger chance fivefold, Fangtasia FeatureSpins at 50x guarantees at least three Wild Bats, Bat to the Bone can be bought directly for 100x, and Rest in Pieces for 300x.

RTP, Volatility and the Realistic Odds

Default RTP is 96.36%, with 94.28%, 92.34% and 86.19% configurations also available depending on the operator. Volatility is rated high at 4 out of 5, and a 31% hit frequency fits a game whose real value comes from stacking wide-range multipliers rather than frequent small wins.

The 12,500x max win is most realistically chased through Count on Blood, where five guaranteed Wild Bats per spin and a boosted Epic Wild Bat chance give the additive multiplier system its best possible starting conditions. Bets run $/€0.10 to $/€75 per spin.

Similar Slots Worth Exploring

Fans of Hacksaw's horror catalog should also try The Wildwood Curse, another gothic-leaning release built around expanding Wild multipliers, albeit through a cursed-forest slasher lens rather than a vampire manor. Players who enjoy an additive multiplier system that keeps growing across a round might also appreciate Stormborn's own sticky Wild multiplier structure.

Our Verdict

The Count earns its place in Hacksaw's horror catalog through a genuinely wide x2 to x500 multiplier range on both its Bloody Wilds and Wild Bats, and the progressive Symbol Counter in Rest in Pieces gives the mid-tier bonus a real sense of building momentum as low-pay symbols steadily convert into Wilds. Count on Blood's guaranteed five Wild Bats per spin makes the Hidden Epic Bonus feel like a genuinely different, higher-stakes experience rather than a simple frequency bump on the standard mode. High volatility and a 31% hit frequency mean this rewards patience, but the gothic presentation and layered multiplier system make the wait worthwhile.

Where to play it

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