Sakura Fortune

Quickspin's 2017 release Sakura Fortune plays out across a 5-reel, 4-row grid using 40 fixed paylines, with matching symbols needing to line up from the leftmost reel to pay. The paytable runs from stacks of gold, silver, and bronze coin symbols at the low end, up through jade lion and dragon statues and armored warriors, to an Emperor and Empress pairing as the top-paying pair, worth 5-10 times the stake for five in a row.

The reels sit inside a soft, floral Japanese setting, with falling cherry blossom petals running through the presentation. The mechanical centerpiece is a four-high Princess figure that acts as a wild across reels 2, 3, and 4, substituting for any paying symbol and sometimes appearing only partially in view.

When two of those Princess wilds land as full four-high stacks, a respin round begins, and the number of respins awarded matches the number of wilds present at that moment; a partial wild can also nudge into a complete stack to help trigger it, and the round continues for as long as fresh wilds keep appearing. A separate scatter trigger, three or more matching symbols landing consecutively from the left, opens the free spins feature, where any Princess wild that appears immediately expands across its whole reel, stays locked there for the rest of the round, and adds one more spin to the counter.

Sakura Fortune pays back 96.58% of turnover in its standard configuration, though Quickspin also distributes it at 90.02% in some markets, so the return can vary by where it is played. Volatility is rated 4.83 out of 5, among the higher end of the scale, and the maximum single-spin win is capped at 1,023 times the stake. Stakes range from 0.20 to 100 per spin. With features running through nudges, respins, and expanding wilds all tied to the same wild symbol, the game tends to generate frequent smaller flurries of activity between the rarer big free-spins hits.