Psycho Slot

Are you brave enough to spend a night in the Bates Motel? That's the premise in Psycho, a 5 reel, 25 payline slot based on Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1960 spine chiller of a movie. This horror themed slot comes with a bonus round that offers up to 40 free spins as well as wild multipliers that can reach up to 40x. Play from between 25p and £50 per spin.



The fruit of a partnership between NextGen Gaming and movie studio Universal, Psycho has a suitably creepy atmosphere that's completely in keeping with the source material. The reels are set against a hillside featuring the infamous Bates Motel - it's dark, raining and gloomy and creates just the right sort of atmosphere.

Look out for characters including Norman Bates and Marion Crane on the reels alongside a room key, peeping eye and torn envelope - even the playing card symbols are adorned with evil looking birds. The soundtrack is equally eerie. It's just a shame it's not the classic Bernard Hermann score.

The wilds can deliver big results in both the base game and the Free Spins feature. The wild substitutes for every symbol bar the scatter. So far so standard. Wild wins can also be boosted by a randomly added multiplier that can boost your win by 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x or even 20x!

The chief attraction as far as features go is the Free Spins feature - 3 scatters (the Bates Motel) will get you 10 free spins. Four and it's 15 free spins with 20 on offer if you land 5 scatters. The bonus round is based on the infamous shower scene with the reels set against a shower curtain.

More wilds can appear during the feature than in the base game - their value can increase too, reaching an enormous 40x if you get really lucky. You can re-trigger more free spins if you land the scatters during the feature (so up to 40 are possible).

Psycho is a very enjoyable slot to play - the graphics and sound are excellent, as are the animations that accompany the free spins round. There isn’t a huge amount of features on show but the free spins round has the potential to be very rewarding thanks to the big multipliers. The variance here is on the high side of medium - don't expect the free spins round to hit that often but watch out when it does.

Alfred Hitchcock's movie version of Psycho rightly gained classic status - the slot version is a worthy addition to this highly successful franchise. If you want to play slots produced in co-operation with Universal, NetEnt offer you Dracula and Microgaming offer you Bridesmaids.