The Arcadem-owned video slot Eternal Night—launched on August 18, 2021—is seemingly an adaptation of the 1993 film The Nightmare Before Christmas. Set in the fictitious Halloween Town, the film’s main character is a beloved kingly skeleton named Jack Skellington who is fighting against an army of vengeful living dead monsters led by The Pumpkin King.

Themes: Halloween, afterlife, revenge, immortality, monster, horror, superhuman, and weapons. Eight symbols (scatter, knight Skeleton, crisscrossing weapons, A, K, Q, J, and 10) require three to five winning combinations. Two symbols (ranger and knight Balthazar) require two to five winning combinations.

Eternal Night Game Characteristics

Eternal Night has two sets of unlockable pay lines, three sets of free games, three multipliers, eleven symbols, dynamic grid, $0.05 to $1500.00 regular payouts, X25 coin-multiplying factor, and fourteen total bets.

Eternal Night has a regular gray 5X3 grid, which is set in a bloody rural graveyard beside a derelict stony house silhouetted against twilight. The “extra bet” icon transforms the basic grid’s 243 rightward winning ways into a 5X4 grid with up to 1024 winning ways.

Eternal Night ‘s coins: $0.01, $0.02, $0.04, $0.05, $0.07, $0.10, $0.15, $0.20, $0.30, $0.50, $0.70, $1.00, $2.00, and $3.00. Eternal Night ‘s total bets: $0.25 (minimum bet), $0.50, $1.00, $1.25, $1.75, $2.50, $3.75, $5.00, $7.50, $12.50, $17.50, $25.00, $50.00, and $75.00 (regular maximum bet).

Eternal Night has two special and nine ordinary symbols. Special symbols: a substituting blue-and-off white “wild” headstone; and the free games activator is an off-white “Eternal Night scatter” headstone.

Ordinary symbols: a camouflaged ginger-haired ranger, carrying an assault rifle and military-grade radio system; the horned and living dead medieval knight commander Balthazar in brown robe; a smoky armored and horned living dead knight Skeleton; crisscrossing sword and rifle; and marigold A, K, Q, J, and 10.

The Eternal Night’s payouts vary. Three 10 or J pay X0.20, four 10 or J pay X0.40, and five 10 or J pay X1. Three K or Q pay X0.40, four K or Q pay X0.80, and five K or Q pay X2. Three A pay X0.80, four A pay X1.60, and five A pay X4.

Three crisscrossing weapons or skeletons pay X2, four weapons or skeletons pay X4, and five weapons or skeletons pay X16. Three scatters pay X4, four scatters pay X8, and five scatters pay X20. Two Balthazar or rangers pay X2, three Balthazar or rangers pay X4, four Balthazar or rangers pay X10, and four Balthazar or rangers pay X40.

3+ “Eternal Night Scatter” offer batches of selectable free games: five free games featuring the Skeleton, with X5 win multiplier; ten free games featuring Balthazar, with X3 win multiplier; and 15 free games featuring the ranger, with X2 win multiplier.

The “extra bet” icon, a X2 factor on regular total bets, has: $0.50, $1.00, $2.00, $2.50, $3.50, $5.00, $7.50, $10.00, $15.00, $25.00, $35.00, $50.00, $100.00, and $150.00 (game’s maximum bet). The maximum X6500 single win is a $975000.00 non-progressive jackpot.

The Eternal Night software: HTML5 technology, mobile/desktop versions, history, 10-250 auto spins with X1 to X100 limits, and turbo mode. Background music: spooky white noise amid cawing and tolling bell; and chinking sound effects. The animated 3D graphics: dolly zoom, burning candle, swaying tree, and gesturing skeletal hand.

Luck in Eternal Night

A game of chance, Eternal Night’s RTP rate is 95.01%; its house edge is 4.99%.