The free spins of Cruise Royale arrived on the second-to-last spin of my session, and the eight spins of the round were worth 321.00, mostly thanks to one of them at x3. Before that, the slot had spent 98 spins hovering around the starting balance. PG Soft launched this cruise-ship game in August 2023 with a single idea at its centre: a captain wild that does not vanish after a win but steps down and to the left, round after round, until she walks off the first reel.
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A deck of 10,000 ways
Six reels of four rows sit under a horizontal reel that adds one more position to reels two to five. Four, five, five, five, five and four positions multiply out to 10,000 ways on every single spin. Wins pay from the left, winning symbols are cleared, and the gaps refill from above and from the top reel.
The captain, a woman in a white cap, is the only wild. She can land only on that top reel, so a fresh wild always appears above the board before it starts moving.
A wild that walks
Spin 30 is the clearest example from my session. The captain appeared on the top reel early in a cascade.
After each round that paid, the rules move every wild one reel to the left and one row down instead of removing it. Over the next rounds she slid from the top reel into the main board and on towards reel one while the cascade kept paying.
The spin ended at 87.60, 7.3 times the stake. A wild that reaches reel one leaves on the next move, so a captain who lands far to the right has the longest walk ahead of her and the most rounds to help with.
Golden dice, lobster and cocktails
Prices are per way. I kept the opening 12.00 bet, 0.30 times level 2 times a base of 20, so 0.60 for each point in the table.
| Symbol | 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 |
|---|---|
| Golden dice | 10 / 25 / 50 / 100 |
| Cocktail, lobster plate | 5 / 10 / 15 / 25 |
| Magic hat, bowling, swim ring | 3 / 5 / 10 / 20 |
| A, K, Q | 2 / 4 / 6 / 10 |
| J, 10, 9 | 1 / 3 / 5 / 8 |
Six golden dice on a way pay 100 points, five times the 20-point stake, and no other symbol comes close. Everything else depends on the number of ways, which the walking wild raises for several rounds in a row.
Eight free spins, one multiplier step each
The scatter is a ship's wheel; four of them buy a ticket to 8 free spins, and a fifth or sixth adds two spins each. A counter on the deck starts the round at x1 and moves up a step after each free spin, paying or not. Wilds left on the board when a free spin ends stay for the next one and keep walking. A +1 symbol on the reels adds one more free spin.
Spin 99 brought four scatters after a base cascade worth 31.80. My eight free spins went like this:
| Free spin | Multiplier | Win | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 and 2 | x1, x2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | x3 | 101.40 | 304.20 |
| 4 | x4 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | x5 | 1.20 | 6.00 |
| 6 | x6 | 1.80 | 10.80 |
| 7 and 8 | x7, x8 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 321.00 |
The third free spin came with two captains on reel one and a board of tens and lobsters, and its 101.40 was tripled.
The order mattered more than the size: the same 101.40 on the last free spin would have been paid at x8, 811.20. With the base cascade included, spin 99 paid 352.80.
The voyage in numbers
After 100 spins at 12.00 the balance stood at 100,247.80, up 247.80, so the game returned 1,447.80 on 1,200.00. After 98 spins it had been 192.00 down; spin 99 with the free spins (352.80) and a 111.00 Big Win on spin 100 turned the result around. Fifty-two spins paid something, more than half, but most of those wins were small: before the last two spins only 30, 26 and 69 had reached 70.00. More studio demos, each with its own test session, are on the home page.
| Feature | Specification |
|---|---|
| Provider | PG Soft |
| Released | August 2023 |
| Board | 6 x 4 plus a top reel over reels 2 to 5, cascades |
| Ways | 10,000 fixed, base bet 20 |
| Wild | Top reel only; moves one reel left and one row down after each win |
| Free spins | 8 for 4 scatters, +2 per extra; multiplier +1 per free spin; +1 symbol |
| RTP | 96.65% |
| Max win | 2,500x the bet |
RTP and maximum come from PG Soft; a spin or a round that hits 2,500x stops there. Werewolf's Hunt also runs on a fixed 10,000 ways, but builds it from reels of four and five rows and adds multiplier tiles instead of a moving wild.