Popeye

Lady Luck Games built Popeye around the Sailor Man's dockside world, with a wood-heavy port town behind the reels and the cartoon's regular cast worked into the symbol set. The Stockholm studio released the title on 19 April 2023, putting the sailor, Olive Oyl, Bluto and J. Wellington Wimpy into a five-reel, three-row grid with 20 fixed paylines.

Card royals from ten to ace fill the lower-paying spots, while Wimpy, Bluto, Olive Oyl and Popeye himself carry the higher values, paying between 1.8 and 2.4 times the stake for a five-symbol run of the low cards and up to 30 times the stake for the top character symbols. A can of spinach acts as the wild across all five reels, substituting for any paying symbol and worth 100 times the bet when it completes a full line.

Each reel carries its own multiplier, shown above the columns and starting at x2. Landing a multiplier symbol raises that reel's value, and any wild that lands takes on the multiplier too; the totals reset once a new paid spin begins. A second mechanic runs off coin symbols: they can flip into new coins in the base game, and once five or more are showing, on either a normal spin or during free spins, a bonus round opens. That round hands out three spins at a time, resetting to three whenever a fresh symbol lands, and clearing a whole reel of coins removes them and pays their combined value multiplied by that reel's current figure; any coins still showing when the spins run out pay at their base value instead.

Free spins need three dedicated symbols to land on reels one, three and five together. A bottle spin then decides the award, handing out 10, 12 or 15 spins, and coins flip automatically on every spin during the round rather than only sometimes. Once a spin resolves and any triggered round has finished, a gamble option lets a player call a card colour for a double or a suit for a quadruple. Popeye also opens its bonus rounds for a direct purchase: 10 free spins for 35 times the stake, 15 free spins for 60 times the stake, or the coin bonus round outright for 20 times the stake.

The game returns 96.1% under its top RTP setting, with 94.0% and 88.0% configurations also available depending on where it's hosted, and Lady Luck Games rates it medium volatility with a 29% hit frequency. Stakes run from 10p up to £100 a spin, and the maximum win is capped at 5,300 times the bet.