KokeshiPop

AvatarUX names this release after Kokeshi, the limbless Japanese wooden dolls carved for children for well over a century, and wraps it in an origami-style pagoda set against a quiet rural backdrop. It's the studio's fifteenth title on its PopWins engine, opening on a grid of 5 reels by 3 rows for 486 ways to win before that number starts climbing.

A win needs three or more matching icons across neighbouring reels starting from either edge of the grid, with five-symbol combinations counting in a single direction only. Whenever a win lands, the winning icons clear away and two fresh symbols drop in behind them, a chain that keeps firing for as long as a new match keeps appearing. Reel height isn't fixed either: the base game can stretch to six symbols tall and free spins to seven, pushing the ways as high as 19,208 once the grid is fully open.

Twelve regular symbols fill the paytable. Card ranks ten through ace hold the bottom of the scale, amulets, swords and cats occupy the middle tier, and three coloured characters plus a single top-tier icon pay the most, worth 1x, 1.5x, 2x and 5x the bet across those tiers respectively. A waving cat wild covers for any regular symbol, though it only shows up once free spins are running.

Filling every reel to its maximum height during the base game hands out a starting multiplier of 5x, 10x or 20x, which then doubles on each further win within that same spin before the grid clears and refills for the next one. Landing three, four or five scatters opens 5, 8 or 12 free spins, where reels begin four symbols tall and can grow to seven. A running multiplier starts at 1x here too, doubling whenever two or more wins land on a single spin, and reaching the seven-high ceiling applies a random boost of 5x, 10x or 20x to whatever the multiplier already stands at, alongside two bonus spins and a full reset of the grid. A Gamble Wheel sits between the trigger and the round itself, offering a shot at climbing to the next spin tier on a win or sending play back to the base game on a loss.

A direct entry into the bonus costs 60x the stake for a gambleable five spins, or 240x for twelve spins guaranteed, and an Ante Bet that raises the wager by a quarter doubles the odds of triggering the feature without buying in. Medium volatility, a 10,000x ceiling and three selectable RTP settings — 96.09%, 94.0% and 90.5% — back a betting range of 0.20 to 50 per spin.