Dead Headz

Hacksaw Gaming's partner-studio roster picks up a new name in Dead Headz, credited to Jinx Gaming's debut release. The 5x5 grid drops the reels into a zombie apocalypse rendered in gritty, dark-toned visuals, trading elaborate scenery for a tense, stripped-back look that matches its combat-driven bonus round.

Base-game wins form across 19 paylines from standard spinning reels. A wild symbol can appear on any reel — never more than one per reel — substituting for every regular paying symbol, and whenever it contributes to a win it reveals its own multiplier somewhere between x2 and x20. Land wild multipliers in more than one position on the same winning line and their values combine before the payout is applied; get a wild on all five reels within a single payline and the game instantly pays 100x the stake, regardless of what those multipliers would otherwise add up to.

Three, four or five scatter symbols swap the reels out entirely for Shoot & Loot Waves, a separate bonus round played out on its own 3-reel, 6-row layout. The scatter count also sets a starting multiplier that applies across all three reels — x1 from three scatters, x5 from four, or x10 from five. A spinning cylinder kicks off every wave, dropping as many as three bullets across the three reels, and each one shoots whichever zombie sits closest on the reel it lands on. New zombies spawn at the back of their reel every wave and creep forward if they survive the round. Being shot pays into a meter above that zombie's reel: a red zombie multiplies every reel's meter at once by x2 to x20, an orange one multiplies just its own reel's meter by the same range, a green zombie adds a flat value to all three meters together, and a blue one adds that value to only its own reel. Added amounts run from +1 to +20 each time. If any zombie makes it all the way forward before being shot, the wave ends immediately and the three meters are totalled up for the final payout.

A single bonus-buy option is available too, priced at 150x the stake to jump directly into the wave-survival round.

Dead Headz pays at 96.31% RTP under high volatility with a maximum win of 10,000x the stake, and bets run from 0.10 to 100 per spin. Between the stacking wild multipliers in the base game and the escalating reel meters in the bonus, most of its win potential is decided by how many waves a session survives before a zombie gets through.