Blood Suckers in South Africa: Scatter Pays and the Coffin Bonus
Blood Suckers is NetEnt's vampire slot on a plain grid of five reels and three rows, with 25 bet lines. Its rules give it three separate ways to pay beyond the lines: scatters that pay from two symbols anywhere, ten free spins in which line wins are tripled, and a bonus game where you open coffins until one holds no vampire. NetEnt's page lists a return to player of 98.00%.
Figures from provider data, September 2026. The RTP is the figure the studio publishes; check the ranking and the game's own info screen before you deposit.
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What Blood Suckers looks like
Images: NetEnt, official game page (netent.com); Our still from NetEnt's official promo video (games.evolution.com).
How Blood Suckers works
The game's help describes it as a 5-reel, 3-row video slot featuring Free Spins and a Bonus game. NetEnt's page lists 25 play lines, and its free spins text speaks of fixed lines. By the help, a wild standing in for a symbol pays the highest winning combination it can make on a bet line.
Three kinds of special symbol share the reels. The wild, which NetEnt describes as a close-up of a vampire biting into a victim's neck, replaces every symbol except the scatter and the bonus symbol. The scatter, marked SCATTER on a screaming vampire bride in NetEnt's own symbol art, pays wherever it lands. The bonus symbol is a coffin with a bloodied stake and mallet across it in the same art.
NetEnt adds one detail about the wild: it also acts as a regular symbol and pays on its own when it lands in the right formation, so wilds can make a paying combination of their own rather than only help other symbols.
What the scatters pay
From the game's help: two or more scatters in the main game or in free spins award a win. NetEnt's page adds that the scatter multiplier is applied to the total bet.
| Scatters | Win | Also |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 times the bet | - |
| 3 | 4 times the bet | Starts 10 free spins |
| 4 | 25 times the bet | Starts 10 free spins |
| 5 | 100 times the bet | Starts 10 free spins |
Why two scatters already matter
By the help, two scatters already return twice the total bet, wherever they sit on the grid. On a R2.50 spin that is R5 by our sum, R10 for three, R62.50 for four and R250 for five.
Ten free spins, and what is tripled 🎁
Three or more scatters anywhere in the main game start 10 free spins at the same bet and lines as the spin that triggered them. Three or more scatters during the free spins add 10 more, so the round can run past its first ten. NetEnt's page says the round's total is added to your balance once the feature ends.
The two official texts word the multiplier differently. NetEnt's game page says all wins in free spins, both bet line and scatter, are tripled. The game's help says: 'Bet line wins in Free Spins are tripled, except for the bet line wins in the additional Free Spins and Bonus game.' Read as written, the help leaves the ten added spins and the coffin game outside the tripling and says nothing of scatter wins. We cannot tell from outside which wording a given build follows, so the help screen inside your casino's version of the game is the text to read.
The Vampire Slaying bonus game
The bonus starts when three or more bonus symbols land on an active bet line, in a row from the left and without gaps. By the help it can start in the main game or during free spins, and only once per spin.
The bonus screen is a room of coffins. You open them one at a time; in NetEnt's page a coffin with a sleeping vampire inside means a wooden stake comes down and coins go to the Total Bonus counter, and by the help each such coffin gives a random win amount. The game ends at the first coffin without a vampire, where NetEnt's page has bats fly out, and the bonus total is added to the spin that started it.
Blood Suckers in figures
From NetEnt's game page, Evolution's games site and the game's help.
| Detail | Blood Suckers |
|---|---|
| Grid | 5 reels, 3 rows |
| Bet lines | 25, by NetEnt's page |
| Return to player | 98.00% on both NetEnt's page and Evolution's games site |
| Hit frequency | 45% on NetEnt's page |
| Free spins | 10 for 3 or more scatters, 10 more inside the round |
| Bonus game | 3 or more bonus symbols on a line from the left |
| Release | NetEnt's page shows 10 November 2009; Evolution's games site gives 2013 |
| Bonus buy | None listed by NetEnt |
Reading the numbers before a session
NetEnt gives a hit frequency of 45%: by our arithmetic, a little under one spin in two returns something, and a little over one in two returns nothing. The figure says how often a spin pays, not how much it pays.
On volatility the group's two sites part ways. The badge on NetEnt's page reads Medium, which is what our facts panel shows; Evolution's games site files the game under low. The 98.00% return is a long-run average over a very large number of spins and says nothing about one evening's result. No staking pattern or betting system beats the house edge, so pick a stake you can hold for the whole session; NetEnt's page lists a range of 0.25 to 50.00 euro, and each casino sets its own rand steps.
The original, not the sequels
NetEnt's Blood Suckers 2 and Red Tiger's Blood Suckers Megaways share the name but are separate games with their own rules and figures. This review covers the original with 25 lines and the coffin bonus, and the casinos listed on this page are those where we have found that game.
Blood Suckers RTP and volatility 📊
NetEnt gives Blood Suckers's return to player as 98.00%.
Volatility is medium: small wins mixed with occasional bigger ones.
Paying for Blood Suckers in rand
Blood Suckers is in the lobby at 10 operators we list: all of them take cards; 9 take Ozow; 6 take Capitec Pay; 9 take cash vouchers.
The smallest first deposit for Blood Suckers among them is R1, at Luckyfish.
Blood Suckers winnings are paid by EFT to an account in your own name, after FICA.
Get FICA done first · How to deposit in rand · Every payment method
Is Blood Suckers legal in South Africa? 📜
Blood Suckers is a slot. In South Africa you find it at licensed bookmakers, next to their sports markets.
All 10 operators we list for Blood Suckers hold a South African provincial licence.
Before you play with real money ⚠️
Set your Blood Suckers budget and a deposit limit before the first round, not after a losing one. If it stops being fun, the South African Responsible Gambling Foundation helpline is free on 0800 006 008.
Pros, cons and verdict ⚖️
- NetEnt's page and Evolution's games site both list a 98.00% return
- Two scatters anywhere already pay twice the bet
- Free spins can be extended by three more scatters, 10 spins at a time
- A second feature, the coffin game, starts from the line and also inside free spins
- The help leaves line wins in added free spins out of the tripling
- The coffin game ends at the first empty coffin, with random wins
- No bonus buy is listed by NetEnt
Blood Suckers keeps a classic 25-line grid and spreads its value across scatter pays, ten free spins with tripled line wins and a coffin game. Its 98.00% return is the figure both official sites give, and NetEnt puts its hit frequency at 45%. It suits a player who likes short, readable rules; anyone after a bonus buy or a single large feature will find neither here.
Blood Suckers FAQ ❓
What is the RTP of Blood Suckers?
NetEnt's game page and Evolution's games site both give 98.00%. The game's own help states, under Return to Player, the theoretical return of the version you open, so that line is the one to read at your casino.
How do you trigger free spins in Blood Suckers?
Three or more scatters anywhere on the reels in the main game start 10 free spins at the same bet. Three or more scatters during the round add 10 more, and the scatters also pay 4, 25 or 100 times the bet on their own.
Are all wins tripled in Blood Suckers free spins?
The two official texts differ. NetEnt's page says all wins, line and scatter, are tripled. The game's help says line wins are tripled except for line wins in the additional free spins and the bonus game. The help screen of your casino's version is the one to check.
How does the Blood Suckers bonus game work?
Three or more bonus symbols on a line from the left start it, in the main game or in free spins. You open coffins one by one; each with a vampire adds a random win, and the game ends at the first coffin without one.
How often does Blood Suckers pay?
By NetEnt's figure, 45% of spins return something, which our arithmetic puts at just under half. That is an average over a very large number of spins; it says nothing about the size of those wins or about how your own session will go.
Where to play Blood Suckers in South Africa
Licensed South African operators we have found carrying Blood Suckers, each with its licence and our score, and the date where we saw the game in the lobby ourselves. Ordered by that score. How we score Offers checked September 2026.
Also carrying Blood Suckers. Bonus, payment and payout terms for each are on its review.
