Gremlins After Midnight slot review: a bonus that builds

Gremlins After Midnight is Light & Wonder’s five-reel, 20-line film tie-in, released 10 September 2026. It has a three-spin Hold & Spin fed by Chicken Buckets, as the coverage describes it.

Updated 7 November 2026: details are re-sourced to primary documents, and lines with no primary document are cut.

Updated 6 November 2026: the score is removed; this is now an assessment of published documents. Details are re-sourced to primary documents; affiliate and comparison pages are no longer used.

This Gremlins After Midnight slot review rests on two pages this desk read on 6 November 2026: GamblingNews and iGamingToday. No Light & Wonder game page was found in this desk’s searches, and its portfolio page does not list the game. The RTP question has its own post.

The figures, reconciled

Gremlins After Midnight slot review: does the design work?

The Instant Win awards Box symbols that collect the values of all Fuzz Ball symbols, per GamblingNews. In the Hold & Spin the Chicken Buckets add features as the round runs, a build-up also explored in Corpse Cart. No page read prices the jackpot tiers or gives a hit frequency; every conflict above waits on the in-game paytable.

What is the RTP of Gremlins After Midnight?

Light & Wonder’s portfolio page does not list the game and this desk found no studio document giving an RTP, so none is printed here. Read the in-game paytable.

Does Gremlins After Midnight have a bonus buy?

Neither page read mentions one. Feature buys are unavailable in some jurisdictions, so check the paytable of the game you load.

How does the Hold and Spin work in Gremlins After Midnight?

Any combination of Orange, Purple or Green Chicken Buckets starts three spins in which only coin symbols land, and each spin where at least one coin lands resets the counter, per GamblingNews. The buckets feed three features: More Money, Jackpot and Expanded Reels.

Our assessment

This is an assessment of published documents, not of playing the game: coverage describes a Hold & Spin fed by Chicken Buckets, on trade-press descriptions with no studio sheet behind them.

The mechanics are the theme. Until the studio publishes its own sheet, the paytable in front of you outranks every figure above; this is entertainment with a house edge built in, for adults, played with limits set beforehand.

Documents read

Read on 6 November 2026:

• Light & Wonder iGaming portfolio: Lists titles Gremlins and Gremlins – Time to Tumble 87, with no figures beside them in the text read; does not list Gremlins After Midnight.