Voodoo: the sorcerer who works as wild and scatter
Voodoo arrived in December 2016, announced by Endorphina on the 7th of that month. The studio took a deliberately contrary position: while the rest of the sector was pushing out Christmas machines, it published a dark game drawn from voodoo rituals and traditions, with Damballa the serpent god and the raven among its symbols.
The structure is short: five reels, three rows, ten paylines. On the official paytable the young woman is the best-paying symbol at 100x the base bet for five in a row, ahead of the serpent at 50x. The stake range the studio publishes runs from 0.10 EUR to 160 EUR per spin, and the stated RTP is 96.04% with volatility classified as high.
What makes the game distinctive is the voodoo sorcerer symbol, which carries two roles at once.
- Wild: it substitutes for every other symbol to complete a combination on a line.
- Scatter: three or more occurrences trigger 10 free spins, and five occurrences pay 200x the base bet, the highest payout published for this game.
That combination is rarer than it sounds. It means a single symbol can either rescue a line already part-formed or open the feature outright, which makes every appearance worth watching without the game needing a second special symbol at all.
The feature itself is built on expanding symbols. During free spins, any symbol taking part in a winning combination expands to cover the whole of the reel it sits on. On a three-row grid the effect is immediate: one winning line frequently turns into several. Endorphina also states that ten further free spins can be won back during the feature, which allows for genuinely extended sequences.
Two options complete the set. The Risk Game, the studio's classic card gamble, lets you stake a win after a paying spin. And Bonus Pop, Endorphina's in-house bonus buy, is listed among the game's features with an explicit caveat from the studio: it is not available at every casino, since access depends on the jurisdiction, and it runs at a lower RTP than the base game. No purchase price is published for this title.
Endorphina publishes no win cap for Voodoo. The documented reference remains the scatter at 200x the base bet, to which the cumulative effect of the expanding symbols during free spins is added. The high volatility stated by the studio describes the expected profile accurately: ten lines, a single special symbol, and a feature that holds most of the value.
That concentration is the real trade-off in this title. Outside the free spins, a ten-line game pays in short bursts and the wait for the feature to open can run long; in exchange, a free spins sequence with expanding symbols can stack several complete lines on a single spin. Players who prefer a steady rhythm will find it on the same studio's hundred-line machines. The game runs on mobile and desktop alike, with nothing to install.
