House of Doom 2 The Crypt: Slot Overview
House of Doom 2: The Crypt is Play'n GO's sequel to the 2018 Candlemass-branded original, built on a 5-reel, 3-row, 20-payline grid with stakes from 0.20 to 100 per spin. Default RTP sits at 96.25% with a volatility rating around 7/10, leaning medium-high. The hook here is three rotating base game domains, each with its own doom metal track and its own wild modifier.
Symbols and Paytable
Low pays are gothic-script 10 to A card royals. Premiums are daggers, a nightshade flower, lit candles and a spiky skull at the top of the ladder. Premium hits pay decently for five of a kind, but nothing in the base paytable is going to carry a session on its own.
Four female character wilds drive the math: Queen of the Damned, Fire Mistress, Metal Priestess, and the Crypt Spins-exclusive Spirit of Unity. All four pay 25x stake for five on a line and substitute for everything except the Crypt scatter. The Crypt scatter only lands on reels 1, 3 and 5, and upgrades to a Flaming Crypt scatter when caught inside a Spirit Gate.
Symbol Payouts
Bonus Features and Crypt Spins
Spirit Gate Frames appear at random on the reels in the base game. Land a wild inside one and it expands to cover the reel, then triggers a respin with the active domain's modifier. Queen of the Damned plants Spirit Gates on every reel for the respin. Fire Mistress slaps a random 2x, 3x, 5x or 10x multiplier on the respin win. Metal Priestess upgrades all premium relics to the top skull symbol.
Three Crypt scatters on reels 1, 3 and 5 trigger free spins with at least one Spirit Gate guaranteed per spin. Catch three Flaming Crypt scatters, either through a Queen respin or upgraded scatters in free spins, and you get 8 Crypt Spins. This is where Spirit of Unity enters: drop her in a Spirit Gate and you get a respin with all three modifiers stacked simultaneously. Retriggers are unlimited.
Bonus Buy Options
A wild landing inside a Spirit Gate expands to fill the reel and triggers a respin with a domain-specific modifier (Queen of the Damned, Fire Mistress, or Metal Priestess).
Feature Cost: N/A
Triggered by 3 Crypt scatters on reels 1, 3 and 5. At least one Spirit Gate per spin, with the modifier tied to the active base game zone.
Feature Cost: N/A
8 spins awarded by 3 Flaming Crypt scatters. Spirit of Unity wild can land in a Spirit Gate and activate all three modifiers simultaneously. Retriggerable indefinitely.
Feature Cost: N/A
RTP, Volatility and Max Win
Default RTP is 96.25%, but Play'n GO ships this title with multiple RTP configurations and operators can run it as low as 94.25%. That is a 2% gap in house edge, which translates to roughly 40% faster bankroll burn on the bad version. For serious players, always check the info screen in real money mode and confirm you are on the 96.25% build before sinking volume into it.
Max win is capped at 6,000x stake. At 100 per spin that is 600,000 in theoretical top payout, hit only when free spins, modifier stacks and premium alignment all converge. The ceiling is too low for this variance profile when you compare it to Testament at 20,000x or other Play'n GO metal entries. Bonus hunters chasing top-end will look elsewhere.
Bankroll and Bonus Buy
There is no bonus buy here. Every Crypt Spins entry has to be earned through natural play, which means the variance curve hits in full and session outcomes hinge on whether you trigger at all. Sources are split on this: one positions a buy as available in some markets, but the bulk of evidence and the official math suggest no buy in the standard release.
With a proper bankroll I would budget at least 500x stake to ride out base game dry spells before the first meaningful Crypt Spins hit. The medium-high volatility and 20 paylines mean dead spin frequency is moderate, not punishing, but the max win cap limits how much you can recover in a single bonus. Treat it as a session grinder, not a one-shot ceiling chase.
