The Cursed King

Our recorded The Cursed King bonus

We have opened The Cursed King once on 2 Oct 2026 on stream and logged the result. The best of them paid 19.3× the bet. That is too few open to say anything about how the game behaves — it is a record of what happened on that occasion, nothing more.

Backseat Gaming, a sibling studio to Hacksaw Gaming, sets The Cursed King inside a stone-carved Ancient Egyptian tomb, complete with a flaming brazier, statues, carved walls and an exotic, flowing soundtrack running underneath the reels. The grid runs 5 reels by 5 rows, with 19 paylines evaluating wins that need at least three matching symbols connecting from the leftmost reel.

Card-rank symbols from ten through ace make up the low-paying end of the paytable, worth 1 to 1.5x the stake for five of a kind. The higher-value tier is built from Egyptian iconography, a piece of jewellery, a scorpion, a scarab, a jar-shaped object and a winged bird, paying 4 to 10x for a full line of five. A wild substitutes for every regular symbol and pays 10x the stake on its own five-of-a-kind line.

Cursed King Wild Reels form the central mechanic: when a Pharaoh symbol lands and the grid already holds at least one winning combination, that Pharaoh expands into a full wild reel carrying a multiplier between x2 and x100. Multiple Cursed King reels appearing in the same winning spin have their multipliers added together rather than only the highest one applying.

The Free Spins Bonus Game triggers from 3, 4 or 5 scatters, awarding 3, 4 or 5 free spins in turn. Landing a Cursed King during the bonus grants a respin that doesn't count against the remaining spin total, and any expanded Cursed King reel already in view shifts one position left or right with each respin; two that move into each other merge into a single reel with combined multipliers, while one that shifts off either edge of the grid is removed. Scatters don't appear once the bonus has started.

Three feature-buy options sit on the purchase menu. A 2x-stake buy triples the natural chance of triggering a bonus round on each spin without guaranteeing anything specific. A 50x-stake option guarantees at least one Pharaoh symbol on the buy spin and keeps respins running for as long as a Cursed King stays on the grid. The most expensive route, at 125x the stake, buys straight into The Cursed King's Free Spins Bonus Game via a 3-to-5 scatter trigger.

Backseat Gaming lists The Cursed King's RTP at 96.31% by default, with high volatility (4/5) and a 26% hit frequency across a 0.10 to 100 bet range. The maximum win is set at 12,500x the stake, reached most readily when multiple Cursed King reels stack their multipliers together inside the same free-spins sequence.