Shadow Treasure

Hacksaw Gaming credits Shadow Treasure to a female adventurer working her way through a dim, ruin-strewn setting with nothing but an old map and a compass, spread across five reels, four rows and 14 fixed paylines. Betting runs from 10 cents to 100 a spin, and the game carries a high-volatility rating with a return of 96.29% and a top prize of 12,000x the stake, available in both the base game and its bonus round.

Coloured gems - purple, blue, green, orange and red - make up the lower-value symbols, each worth 0.7x to 1.5x for five matching, and a map, compass, backpack and the explorer herself sit at the top of the paytable, worth 2x to 5x for the same length. A wild lands on any reel, covers every regular symbol, and is worth 10x the stake by itself across a full line.

Reel multipliers climb above each column from x2 to x500 and stay hidden until that reel is packed entirely with winning symbols, at which point its value becomes available. What gets paid out depends on an unbroken run of unlocked reels counting in from the left - miss the first reel and none of the multipliers count, no matter how many further along have opened up. Tied to this is a stacking respin mechanic: any symbols that complete a win are held in place while the remaining spaces spin again, and the cycle continues each time a fresh win appears until the reels settle and the round pays.

A meter tracks scatters as they land through the base game and its respins, and four of them opens 15 free spins. Every scatter past the fourth tacks on another five, capping the round at 45 spins in total. The respin and locking rules stay the same inside the feature, though the reel multipliers change shape - whatever values have unlocked above the reels are totalled together and paid regardless of whether they run consecutively, resetting at the start of each new free spin, and scatters stop appearing for the rest of the round. A direct purchase into the 15-spin round costs 100 times the current stake.