Introduction to Any Witch Way
Any Witch Way is a casino slot from Blueprint Gaming that teaches you the way of the witch, filled with potions, familiars, and oversized hats. A few months before the usual Halloween seasonal releases start to fall in, Blueprint Gaming is early out of the gate with Any Witch Way, a game that leans more into its cute aesthetic, nostalgic visuals, and the non-stop narrator than into complex features and mechanics. Built on a 9x8 playing grid, the game is all about its Cascading reels, filled with cute animals and various-colored elixirs, and the gameplay loop doesn’t really stray too far from this foundation. By landing winning clusters, you fill up your cauldron, leading to the Free Spins bonus game, which helps you land more and bigger wins through Wild Multipliers. So, while not being all too complicated, the game still carries a certain charm, and a surprisingly hefty max win of 50,000X the bet.
Don your robes, as today we’re going to the cabin deep in the woods to learn all about brewing Wild Multipliers and big wins. If you want to check out the game for yourself, then don’t miss out on the Any Witch Way demo.
Theme, Gameplay & Payouts
Any Witch Way is a video slot from Blueprint Gaming with 9 Reels, 8 Rows, and uses Winning Clusters, needing a minimum of 6+ symbols to form a win. You can choose between making a Min.bet of 0.1 and a Max.bet of 500. Any Witch Way comes with an average RTP of 96.08% and medium volatility, making the game not feel as explosive as many would expect when it comes to a game with a max win of 50,000X the bet.
The game is set in a dark forest, lit up by fireflies and the magic brewing out of the witch’s cauldron. The cauldron sits next to the playing grid, with the witch on the opposite end, who will narrate as you play the game, piping in with encouraging words for each winning cluster hit. You can play the game on most notepads, mobiles, and desktops.
The lower-paying symbols are various potions and elixirs, ranging from green, blue, orange, and pink. Creating a win with 15 or more of the same symbols will pay out 1.5X to 2X the bet. The higher-paying symbols are familiars, and these are the frog, the cat, and the owl. Landing a win with 15 or more of the same symbols pays out 5X to 10X the bet. The game only comes with one Special Symbol in the form of the Wild Symbol, which can come with Multipliers during the bonus game, but more on that in the Feature section.
Special Features & Mechanics
What is the max win in the slot Any Witch Way?
You can win up to 50,000X the bet.
What features are available in the slot Any Witch Way?
The features are Wild Symbols, Cascades, and Free Spins.
Wild Symbols
Wild Symbols help create winning combinations by being able to substitute for all symbols.
Cascades
After landing a winning cluster, the Cascades trigger and remove the winning symbols, and allow new symbols to fall in from above. The Cascades will continue until no more wins are being made, thus ending the spin.
Free Spins
By landing winning clusters, the Cauldron next to the playing grid starts filling up, and after collecting 37 symbols in one spin, you will be awarded the Free Spins feature with 10 spins. During the bonus game, if a Cluster Win does not contain a Wild Symbol, it will create one behind after the win, with a Multiplier equal to the number of wins connected. Each time a Wild Symbol is part of a Cluster Win, it will gain a Multiplier, which increases each time it is part of a Cluster Win, up to a maximum of 20X. You can retrigger the feature by collecting 57 winning symbols during the bonus game.
Final Thoughts on Any Witch Way
If you ask us, we would say that we believe the idea behind this release was that Blueprint Gaming set out to deliver on something simple that could serve as a great starting point for newcomers to iGaming. But, at the same time, still keeping an engaging and familiar gameplay foundation for regular slot lovers, and we also would guess that the stats, especially the max win of 50,000X the bet, are doing some hefty lifting in the background. Thematically-wise, Any Witch Way goes all in on the typical Witch stereotypes, brewing potions out of their cauldrons and keeping a flock of pets as their familiars, and we think that Blueprint Gaming converted this pretty well with some more nostalgic graphics and nice details on top. However, that doesn’t mean this game is a masterpiece. As we said before, the game, at its core, is quite simple, and even smaller details, such as narrations and the symbol lighting up as you hover over it, aren’t really enough to make the game stand out. With that said, let us move on to the features and gameplay.
To discuss the gameplay, we can start with the stats, as the game surprised us with its average RTP of 96.08% and huge max win of 50,000X the bet. As the game is all about Cascades, the gameplay loop boils down to trying to keep streaks of wins going for as long as possible to build up sizeable payouts. However, the paytable is only okay at best, so that’s where the Free Spins feature comes in. While Wilds are part of the base game loop, the addition of Multipliers, as well as new Wilds being formed from Cluster Wins, makes them a lot more valuable in the bonus game. Multiplier Wild Symbols do more than just create Cluster Wins, as they also help build up the Cauldron for retriggers, which rewards additional spins, and in turn, leads to more wins. For being very light on features, this feedback loop of creating more wins, leading to more Wild Multipliers, leading to more spins, feels good and can be very engaging, and is the best that this game can offer, and can make for some pretty fun max win hunts. So, as we said, this is a straightforward game that can appeal to both casuals and veterans in different ways, and it actually kinda surprised us when we started spinning. However, as we previously mentioned, it is no masterpiece, with its flaws being reliant on Cascades and maybe a bit too few features.
Any Witch Way is a slot with a simple game plan, brewing Wild Multipliers and wins through Cascades.
