The Divine Comedy by Dante is a classic that most people have heard of but few have read. Now Leander Games has launched a new slot game based on this classic, which will spread knowledge about the contents of The Divine Comedy. The video slot is titled Afterlife Inferno. It is live at online casinos like InterCasino. In order that players better understand the symbols and gaming features, a brief summary of The Divine Comedy is provided before the game rules. Dante travels through the various stages of afterlife guided by the poet Virgil, who is sent for his help by Beatrice.

The reels are set in the background of an inferno. The game logo is the wild symbol with a 2x multiplier property. It also awards the top line payouts with the five-of-a-kind combination paying 5000 times the line bet. Dante, Beatrice and Virgil award the next highest payouts. There are three other thematic symbols. Dis is the ruler of the underworld, Geryon is the farrier from the Circle of Violence to the Circle of Fraud and Skiff is the boat that ferries souls across the Acheron. Some of these symbols change in the thematic free spins features. The low paying symbols are ominously designed playing card icons. There is some subtle win animation in the high paying symbols, but given the theme of the slot game it could have been more dramatic.

Hell Freezes Over feature will be randomly triggered after any spin. The payouts are awarded and then the regular wild symbols transform into wild reels. You can get up to five wild reels. The wild reels are held and a respin is awarded. This is repeated till no new wild symbols appear on the screen. Wild reels do not have the 2x multiplier property.

The grand scatter symbol awards payouts multiplied by the total bet when three or more appear on the reels. They also trigger the free spins bonus in which players can select from one of the three features on offer. The Inferno offer awards 15 free spins with a randomly determined multiplier between 3x and 15x for each spin. The free spins can be retriggered. The purgatory offers also awards 15 free spins that can be retriggered. In this feature the payout multiplier increases by 1x whenever you hit a winning spin. The Paradise offer awards 12 free spins with temporary sticky wilds. The wild symbol will remain on the reels for the number of free spins indicated.