At the end of my Yakuza Honor bonus the five boxes under the grid read x11, x4, x11, x20 and x8. Those boxes are the whole point of this August 2024 PG Soft slot: one sits under each reel, every winning symbol on a reel pushes its box up, and a win is multiplied by the boxes of the reels it covers. Over 100 demo spins at 12.00 three spins went past 400.00, and the best of them paid 593.40.
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Yakuza Honor available at Cafe Casino
Same game, real money
Cafe Casino runs the same Yakuza Honor with the same math and adds a welcome bonus for players from the United States:
300% up to $2,000 + 150 FS 18+ · T&Cs apply · the demo stays free
Boss, mask, blade and bottle
| Symbol | 4 | 6 | 9 | 13-16 | 25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yakuza boss | 25 | 50 | 80 | 200 | 2,000 |
| Purple mask | 15 | 35 | 75 | 150 | 1,000 |
| Katana | 10 | 30 | 60 | 100 | 500 |
| Sake bottle | 8 | 20 | 50 | 80 | 300 |
| Four kanji tokens | 3 to 5 | 8 to 10 | 20 to 40 | 50 to 60 | 200 |
Without the boxes the game pays modestly: four kanji tokens return 1.80 to 3.00, a quarter of the bet at most.
A 5x5 grid of clusters
Wins are clusters: four or more matching symbols touching horizontally or vertically, anywhere on the five-by-five grid. Winners explode and the gaps refill. A crossed-katana wild covers every symbol except the gold scatter.
The board above is the demo's opening screen, with four boss portraits worth +5 each. I kept the opening bet of 12.00, and one point of the paytable was 0.60.
How the boxes grow
- At the start of every base spin all five boxes are switched off.
- After a win is paid, a winning symbol on a reel switches that reel's box on at x1, and every further winning symbol there adds 1.
- A boss portrait on a reel during a winning spin adds 5 to that reel's box before wins are paid.
- A win counts the boxes only under the reels its symbols sit on, and those values are added together.
There is a second effect. A cluster of five gives a wild at a random spot after it is paid, six give two wilds, and seven or more give three, which helps the cascade keep going and the boxes keep climbing.
The session
The demo ended on 100,691.80, so 1,891.80 came back on 1,200.00. Twenty-five spins paid. Spins 79, 10, 61 and 4 (593.40, 418.80, 404.40 and 193.80) made 1,610.40; the other 21 wins came to 281.40, and none of them reached 50.00. From spin 64 to spin 77 nothing paid at all.
| Feature | Specification |
|---|---|
| Provider | PG Soft |
| Released | August 2024 |
| Grid | 5 x 5, clusters of 4+ touching symbols, cascades |
| Multipliers | One box per reel, +1 per winning symbol, +5 per boss portrait |
| Wild Symbol Feature | 1, 2 or 3 wilds after clusters of 5, 6 or 7+ |
| Free spins | 12 for 3 scatters, +2 per extra; boxes kept for the round |
| RTP | 96.75% (PG Soft) |
| Max win | 2,500x the bet |
Songkran Splash uses a similar idea, with multiplier buckets over the three middle reels of a 720-way board.
The home page shows what else from the studio has been through the same 100-spin test.
Spin 61: a boss portrait and x8
The first round paid 30.00 and switched on the boxes under reels four and five. A boss portrait at the top of reel five added five to its box.
The next cluster ran through those reels, and its 46.80 was paid at x8: 374.40. With the first round the spin came to 404.40, almost 34 stakes.
Spin 79: every box lit
My best spin was a long cascade in which wins kept landing across the whole grid. The boxes went from switched off to x2, x4, x5, x4 and x2, single rounds were paid at x6, x9 and x13, and the running total stood at 184.80 halfway through.
The spin ended as a Super Mega Win of 593.40, 49.45 stakes, without any free spins involved.
Boxes that never empty in the bonus round
Twelve free spins follow three scatters; any scatter beyond the third adds two. In the feature the boxes are reset only once, at the start, and keep everything they collect until the last free spin. My round came on spin 10 after a cascade worth 53.40.
The early free spins paid little while the boxes filled. Halfway through, one free spin paid 186.00, and by the last spin the box under reel four had reached x20 and the five added up to x54.
The 12 free spins paid 365.40, and spin 10 as a whole 418.80, about 35 stakes.
