Cursed Moon Power Collection is Play'n GO's gothic horror follow-up to its Power Collection line, sending a cursed vampire hunter after Dracula across a 1,024-ways grid. It pairs a persistent, level-based multiplier system with a coin-collection mechanic, and carries a published maximum win of 15,000x the stake at high volatility.
Contents
- The Story
- Theme, Gameplay & Symbols
- Presentation & Sound
- How to Play
- Features & Mechanics
- Volatility & Win Potential
- Pros & Cons
- Final Verdict
The Story
Play'n GO frames Cursed Moon Power Collection around Dante, a monster hunter who was bitten and cursed during his own hunt for Dracula, and who now has to destroy the vampire lord to reclaim his humanity. It's a fairly standard gothic-horror premise, but it gives the reel symbols and the level-up mechanic a narrative thread — werewolves, zombies and vampire thralls as the "monsters" Dante fights his way through as the game's power meter climbs.
Theme, Gameplay & Symbols
Cursed Moon Power Collection plays out on a 5-reel, 4-row grid (expanding to five rows during Free Spins) with 1,024 ways to win, rising to 3,125 ways once the bonus round kicks in. The art direction is comic-book gothic rather than anything cutesy — moonlit graveyards, wrought-iron cathedral arches and a fully rendered Dante standing to the side of the reels, sword drawn, as your guide through the round.
Low-value symbols are the usual royal-card icons (A, K, Q, J) rendered in blood-red gothic lettering, while the premium symbols are Dante's adversaries: a snarling werewolf, a rotting zombie, a green-skinned orc-like brute and a vampire thrall, each worth progressively more the higher up the paytable it sits. A gold Wild substitutes for every paying symbol, and a Scatter drives entry into the Free Spins round.
Presentation & Sound
The presentation leans hard into R-rated horror-comic styling rather than anything soft or storybook-like — sharp fangs, exaggerated claws and a permanently overcast, blood-moon sky sit behind the reels throughout. The soundtrack is a moody, string-and-choir horror score that swells during bigger wins, and symbol animations (werewolves lunging, zombies clawing forward) have enough weight to them that the theme reads as intentionally adult and menacing rather than playful. There's no attempt anywhere in the art or copy to soften the horror angle into something that would appeal to a younger audience — it's pitched squarely at fans of vampire and slasher-adjacent horror media.
How to Play
- Set your stake using the bet selector. Cursed Moon Power Collection's own paytable runs from £0.10 up to £100 per spin, though UK-licensed casinos cap real-money stakes at £5 per spin for players aged 25 and over, and £2 per spin for 18–24-year-olds, regardless of the game's own maximum.
- Press spin. Wins are calculated across the 1,024 ways, meaning matching symbols on adjacent reels from the leftmost reel outward form a win, regardless of exact position on each reel.
- Watch the five collection meters that run along the row above the reels. "Level Up" symbols push a shared meter forward across both the base game and Free Spins, each stage unlocking a new twist on the coin-collection mechanic.
- Coin symbols land on the three middle reels and are gathered by "Collector" symbols on reels one and five; the value collected depends on which level the meter has reached (see Features & Mechanics below).
- Landing enough Scatters triggers Free Spins, where the grid expands to five rows, the level-up meter locks in place rather than resetting, and the round plays out with whichever coin-collection upgrades were already unlocked.
Features & Mechanics
The Level Up system is the game's core mechanic: a five-tier meter that advances via dedicated Level Up symbols, in both the base game and Free Spins, and — unusually — doesn't reset once Free Spins ends, so progress carries over between sessions of play. According to Play'n GO's own game description, each tier unlocks a new twist on the central coin-collection loop:
- Early levels introduce standard Coin symbols collected by the Collector symbols on the outer reels.
- Mid levels start doubling individual collection events when they land.
- Higher levels add stacked Cash symbols across the three middle reels, increasing how many coins can be collected in a single spin.
- The top level introduces a guaranteed Instant Win symbol into the mix, adding a further payout on top of whatever the coin collection round has already built up.
A separate multiplier ladder (x1 through x5) sits above the reels and climbs independently as certain symbols land, applying to coin values collected while it's active. Independent slot trackers differ slightly on the exact value of the top-tier collection event, so rather than state a specific number this review hasn't independently verified, it's fairest to describe it qualitatively: the biggest single payout comes from combining a maxed-out Level Up meter with the multiplier ladder at its highest setting during Free Spins, on top of the game's stated 15,000x ceiling on any one spin.
Volatility & Win Potential
Play'n GO ships Cursed Moon Power Collection at a default 96.20% RTP, with four lower-RTP configurations (94.20%, 91.20%, 87.20% and 84.20%) that individual operators can choose to run instead — always worth checking the in-game paytable's RTP figure on whichever licensed site you play at. Independent slot-tracking sites rate the game as high volatility (one source puts it at 8 out of 10), with a hit frequency of roughly 1 in 3.9 spins and a published maximum win of 15,000x the stake.
Betting ranges from £0.10 to £100 per spin in the game's own paytable. UK-licensed operators cap this at £5 per spin for players 25 and over, and £2 per spin for 18–24-year-olds, under UKGC stake-limit rules — so the practical betting range for a UK player will sit well below the game's own built-in maximum.
Pros & Cons
- Pro: The Level Up meter persisting across the base game and Free Spins gives the coin-collection feature more long-term structure than a typical reset-every-spin bonus mechanic.
- Pro: 1,024 ways to win (3,125 in Free Spins) keeps the base game paying reasonably often for a high-volatility title, backed by a hit frequency of around 1 in 3.9 spins.
- Con: The gothic-vampire theme, while well produced, is a crowded genre in current slot releases and doesn't bring a distinct visual hook beyond solid execution.
- Con: Play'n GO's own game page doesn't publish exact figures for every collection-event tier, so some of the feature's higher-end payout detail can only be described qualitatively rather than with hard numbers.
Final Verdict
Cursed Moon Power Collection is a well-produced, high-volatility ways-to-win slot whose persistent Level Up meter gives its coin-collection feature more structure than most reset-every-round bonus mechanics manage. The gothic vampire-hunter theme won't be new ground for horror-slot fans, but the execution is solid, the 96.20% RTP sits at a fair level for Play'n GO's current catalogue, and the meter-carrying-over design rewards longer sessions rather than treating every spin as a blank slate. Worth trying at low stakes to see the Level Up system build up before committing bigger bets.
