Book of Shadows by Nolimit City: headline RTP 96.01%, High volatility, max win x30 338.
An RTP of 96.01% means a house edge of 3.99% — the expected cost is 3.99 units per 100 staked over the long run, whatever a single session does.
Book of Shadows is a high volatility game: the return arrives in rare, large payouts, so long dry spells are normal rather than a malfunction. Size stakes for the drought, not the average.
The advertised ceiling is x30 338. Max win figures describe the tail of the distribution, not a realistic target: on most games with a ceiling this high the probability per spin is below one in a million.
We measured 5 different RTP builds of this game across casinos: 96.01% at the best and 94.00% at the worst, a 2.01pp spread. That is the same game costing meaningfully more to play at one operator than another, and it is the reason we track builds at all.
Against our catalogue the number is below the median of 96.13%, higher than 33% of the games whose RTP we verified. That comparison matters more than the raw figure, because "96%" only sounds generous next to nothing.
Released 2020-08-20. Release date matters for RTP: newer titles are more likely to ship with several configurable builds, which is what lets two casinos price the same game differently.
Stakes run from 0.1 to 200 per spin on a 5-4 layout with fixed betways.
Book of Shadows is one of 143 Nolimit City titles in our catalogue, a studio averaging 96.10% RTP across the games we could verify. We found 10 of its titles served at a reduced RTP build by at least one operator.
See the full Nolimit City game list and RTP breakdown.
This title is tagged Book Of, Fantasy, Horror. A theme is art direction, not maths — two games sharing every symbol can be priced differently.
Book of Shadows has a published RTP of 96.01%, a house edge of 3.99%. We measured 5 different builds across casinos, from 96.01% down to 94.00%, so the operator you pick changes the number.
Yes. Book of Shadows has a free demo with the same mathematics as the real-money version — the only thing that changes is that the balance is not yours. A demo cannot tell you the RTP build a particular casino serves.
Book of Shadows is a Nolimit City game, so the outcome is produced by the studio's certified RNG rather than by the casino, and it is not provably fair in the cryptographic sense — you cannot recompute a spin from a seed. What the casino does control is which RTP build it serves, and on this title we measured a 2.01pp spread between operators. That is the real variable, and it is measurable.
Of the operators we measured, Stake serves the highest build at 96.01%. The full per-casino table is on this page, and our RTP builds report explains how the measurement works.