Tale of Kyubiko

Play'n GO frames Tale of Kyubiko around Inari, a shapeshifting spirit from Japanese folklore said to lead night travellers off the path, appearing as either fox or human on the reels of a 3x3, 5-payline grid. Pagodas, distant mountains and falling cherry blossom set the backdrop, paired with an anime-influenced art style and score.

Card suit symbols make up the four lowest-paying tiles, worth 0.1x to 0.4x the stake, while three animal characters pay between 2x and 8x. A masked wild pays 10x on its own when it lands as a full combination, and every wild in the game substitutes for the regular paying symbols.

Inari herself appears as a stacked wild covering a full reel or only part of one. When she lands partially in view, there's a chance she gets nudged into covering the entire reel if doing so completes a winning line.

Any win formed by that stacked wild triggers a free respin, during which Inari relocates to a different reel and her artwork shifts a step further from fox toward human form. Each move also raises a multiplier shown beside the reels, climbing from x2 to x5, x10 and finally x25 before resetting once the respins run out.

Tale of Kyubiko pays out at up to 96.29% RTP, though Play'n GO also ships lower configurations at 94.29%, 91.29%, 87.29% and down to 84.29% depending on where it's offered. Volatility carries a medium, 5-out-of-10 rating, bets run from 0.10 to 100, and the maximum win is 2,250x the stake. It released in January 2022, and with only nine symbol positions on the grid, most of a session's shape comes down to how often the Inari wild lands and how long her respin streaks run before the multiplier resets.