The Library

Although it is not in the title, The Library uses the Stackways feature from Hacksaw. With this you could already play in Mayan Stackways and Ronin Stackways. Because the symbols expand over the entire reel in the bonus game, the slot feels like a ‘Book of’ game.

Moreover, it is a very volatile online video slot with an RTP of 96.34%. The question now is of course whether Kitsune Studios will become a big name? How The Library comes out of the test, you can read in this slot machine review.

The Library compared to 4 other slots from provider Hacksaw Gaming

How do you play The Library?

The Library gives you a playing field with 5 reels and 4 rows. However, the number of ways to win can go up to 100,000 Win Ways. In the bonus round you even have a chance to win 3.2 million Ways to Win. That is even more than with Megaways slots.

You can bet $0.10 to $100 on each spin. The idea is that you see the same symbol on the first three reels and hopefully also on the fourth and fifth reels. Win Ways run from left to right.

The Library does not have a Wild symbol, but it does have four writers: Lewis Carroll, Dante Alighieri, Edgar Allan Poe and Beatrix Potter. With Five of a Kind you win 1.5 to 3 times your bet. In addition, you have five card symbols with a payout of up to 0.60 times the bet.

Bonus features of The Library

You can win up to 10,000 times your bet in The Library. That is not bad, but you can only achieve this with the help of bonus features. We discuss what they are and how you trigger them.

Where better to play a ‘Book of’ inspired slot machine than in the library? Well that is exactly what Kitsune Studios thought with The Library.

Stackways

There are two different types of Stackways symbols. The regular version that immediately shows the number 2, 3 or 4. In addition, you have Revealing Stackways where you first see a question mark. You will get 5 to 10 Stackways with it.

First you get the profit of possible combinations. After this, the software checks whether you can form a profit with the Stackways. If so, The Library chooses which symbol can make the longest combination and this is chosen as the Stackways symbol. Each reel is filled with as many symbols as the number of the features.

Stack the Shelves

The Library slot very appropriately uses a book as a Scatter. Unlike ‘Book of’ slots, it is not Wild. However, it can give you the Stack the Shelves bonus when you collect three.

You get 10 Free Spins. Plus a random symbol is chosen to automatically trigger Stackways from three pieces. This is the same as in ‘Book of’ slots, with the difference that the number of symbols always varies from 2 to 10 per reel. If there is a Stackways on the same reel, you can add the value.

With 4 Scatters you get 10 Super Stack the Shelves. Now there is not one, but there are two special symbols.

Finally, you get 2 or 4 extra Free Spins by spinning 2 or 3 Scatters. If you manage to collect four in the regular Stack the Shelves, you get an upgrade to the Super version. And you get 4 extra spins on top of that.

Buy Bonus

The Buy Bonus menu gives you three options. With the Bonushunt you have five times more chance of the bonus game by paying 3 times your bet per spin. Or you can buy Stackways Featurespins for 50 times the bet. You then get at least 2 Stackways symbols in your playing field.

Finally, you can buy Stack the Shelves or Super Stack the Shelves for 150 times your bet. It even seems that the upgraded bonus occurs more often.

What do we think of the The Library Slot?

What else do you do with your debut than make a kind of Book of Ra clone? That immediately sets the tone for us that Kitsune Studios does not want or dare to be original yet. In addition, the gameplay is not very smooth. The reels seem to stutter and with two Scatters the other reels spin back one symbol before they stop.

Then Stackways symbols look for the longest possible combination, not the one that yields the most. This makes it difficult to make many Ways to Win with one of the writers.

The theme also seems to simply flow from the fact that they wanted to use a book as a Scatter. But the four writers do get an interesting look, fitting their legacy.