Cursed Moon Power Collection

The Slay Collector is at the heart of the game. Coin and Instant Prize symbols can land across the central reels, while Dante appears as the Collector on the outside reels to scoop up their values.

Cash Collect is hardly a new trick, but it works particularly well with the other mechanics in Cursed Moon. A decent collection can become considerably more interesting once multipliers and Instant Prizes get involved, meaning there's usually a little more to watch for than simply landing a screen full of Coins.

The Soul Fire Multiplier adds some extra bite to those collections. Soul Fire symbols increase the multiplier applied to collected values, creating the potential for what initially looks like a fairly ordinary collection to become considerably more valuable.

More importantly from a gameplay perspective, it works alongside the Collector rather than feeling like another feature that's simply been thrown onto the reels for the sake of having one.

This is arguably Cursed Moon's most interesting feature.

Landing Level Up symbols allows Dante to progress through five levels, with higher levels unlocking improvements that become particularly important during Free Spins. These include enhanced collections and stacked Coin symbols.

It gives the game something that plenty of Cash Collect slots lack: a sense of progression. You're not simply waiting for the next collection or bonus to arrive, there's something developing in the background.

The Level Lock mechanic can preserve Dante's progression for a future Free Spins round rather than sending him straight back to square one.

It's not the flashiest feature in the game, but it's a useful addition because it makes the Level Up system feel more meaningful. Building your character only to lose everything immediately would rather take the fun out of all that monster slaying.

Free Spins start with eight spins and expand the playing area, while Level Up symbols can continue improving the feature and award additional spins.

This is where Cursed Moon is at its strongest. Instead of abandoning everything established during normal play and introducing a completely unrelated bonus, Free Spins build upon the same collection, multiplier and progression mechanics.

It makes the bonus feel like the payoff to what's been happening beforehand rather than a separate game that's been bolted onto the side.

Cursed Moon doesn't rely on a traditional progressive jackpot. Instead, Instant Prizes can appear within the Cash Collect mechanic and be collected alongside regular Coin values.

I prefer how they're incorporated here because they're visibly part of the gameplay. They're something you can actually see sitting on the reels waiting to be collected rather than an enormous jackpot meter hovering above proceedings and having very little relationship with what's happening underneath.