Cash Elevator: Slot Overview

Are you bold enough to ride up to the 13th floor in Reel Kingdom’s imaginatively themed slot Cash Elevator? Bold, because the studio has gone with a pretty offbeat concept to frame the action. The core mechanics are more familiar, featuring a Hold-&-Spin round alongside a free spins bonus. What helps Cash Elevator stand out is its ascending/descending reels idea, where more symbols are stripped from the reels the higher you climb. Reach the top and you’ll find features triggering and the chance of sizeable wins.

If you’ve played Book of Gems Megaways, you may have spotted how developer Skywind included a Tom Hardy lookalike as the central character. In Cash Elevator, Reel Kingdom pulls a similar trick with a long-legged leading lady who resembles a Steampunk cosplay Angelina Jolie. Coincidence or pure wishful thinking – that’s for you to decide. Alongside her is a bellboy with razor-sharp cheekbones, who switches into zombie mode during a feature. It leans into the game’s dead lover angle, though shambling zombies with peeling, diseased flesh aren’t quite as alluring as pale, brooding vampires, so it’s hard to say whether this vibe will really take off.

Powered by Pragmatic Play, the action plays out on a 5-reel, 3-row layout with 20 fixed paylines for landing wins. Payouts arrive when three to five matching symbols connect on adjacent reels, starting from the first feel. Any device will do for this lift ride, with stakes ranging from 20 p/c to $/€100 per spin. This isn’t a sleek, modern elevator experience, but more like a rattly old iron-barred cage you sometimes find in charming old Pensions or guesthouses abroad. In other words, Cash Elevator runs on a highly volatile math model and comes with a default theoretical return of 96.64%.

Intricately styled royal icons serve as the lower-paying 9-A symbols, while the higher pays include trunks, automobiles, keys, rotary phones, pocket watches, cats in the moonlight, and logs. These premium picture symbols pay 5 to 50 times the stake for five of a kind across a payline. Two wild symbols appear too, though they mainly come into play during free spins – so let’s get into that.

Cash Elevator: Slot Features

The first mechanic to explain is the Cash Elevator feature, which is permanently active in the base game. The slot presents an elevator inside a building with 13 floors plus a basement. Play begins on floor 1, where every pay symbol from the paytable can appear on the reels. From floor 2 onward, the lowest-value symbol is removed from the reels. As an example, by the 12th floor, the lowest-value symbol becomes the cat tile.

There are two ways of shifting through floors. The first happens when you land a winning combination using the lowest symbol available on that floor – the elevator then rises by one level. The second involves arrow symbols that can land on reel 3; when they do, the game moves up or down (depending on the arrow direction) by 1-3 floors. As expected, changing the bet level resets any stored progress, returning you to level 1. If the lift drops to the basement, it’s sent to a random floor from 1 to 12.

Then there’s Dead Lovers Free spins, which activates when a full 1×3 wild symbol lands on reels 2 or 4. Before the feature begins, players choose 1 of 3 options to receive 6 to 12 free spins. If two wilds trigger the bonus, the award increases to 12 to 24 free spins.

Once the round starts, the game jumps to a random floor from 1 to 12. Full reel wilds begin on the outer reels, then shift to other positions based on what lands during the feature. If the wilds meet in the middle, the bellboy transforms into his zombie version and +5 extra spins are added.

Upon reaching the 13th floor, the Hold-and-Spin feature triggers. A fresh board is used where only special symbols or blanks can land. Each new symbol resets the spin counter to 4, and the feature ends when spins are exhausted or the grid fills up. Possible symbols include money tiles with a cash value, multipliers that boost the total feature win by up to 10x, or other money symbols whose value depends on your current floor. When the feature finishes, you’re moved to a random floor from 1 to 12.

Cash Elevator: Slot Verdict

By Reel Kingdom standards, Cash Elevator feels genuinely different. We’re more accustomed to classic fruit setups, ‘book’ titles, Irish themes, or Fishin’ Frenzy-style clones, so this one comes as a surprise. Zombie romance isn’t exactly common territory – especially when one half of the couple also works as a bellhop – giving the whole thing a strange Love in an Elevator vibe, only with the undead and Angelina Jolie.

It’s unfortunate that the execution doesn’t fully match the ambition behind the concept. Cash Elevator has moments that feel a bit like “that’ll do,” which drags the overall package down. It’s small stuff, like the stiff two-step animation, or how birds remain fixed in place and appear to stand on thin air when the action drops down to the basement. Sure, these are minor issues and no studio nails everything, but they accumulate and take away from the experience. The visuals also feel inconsistent, jumping between photorealistic elements or brief hallway-running video clips, while the rest sticks to standard hand-drawn art. It ends up resembling a film that’s part live-action and part animation, like Hop or Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

One thing that could keep Cash Elevator on players’ radar is its max win potential. A top prize of 5,100x the bet is nearly as unexpected as the theme itself. How attainable it is, though, is another matter. The Hold-and-Win feature doesn’t seem especially built for monster payouts, so you’ll likely need plenty of romantic retriggers in free spins to get anywhere near that ceiling.

Still, it’s refreshing to see Reel Kingdom take a bigger swing and attempt something new, at least in terms of theme. Cash Elevator could have landed with more impact if a few rough edges elsewhere had been smoothed out, but it does feel like a step forward.