Cloud Princess: Slot Overview

In the ever-growing world of scatter paying slots, it often feels like the easiest route is: if you can’t beat them, you may as well join them. “Them,” here, is the reigning heavyweight Pragmatic Play’s Gates of Olympus 1000, with Sweet Bonanza 1000 close behind. We’ve seen plenty of Gates lookalikes, along with games that borrow its core ideas and then try to twist them into something new. In that second camp sits Cloud Princess—which is a bit unexpected, considering it comes from scratch card-to-online-slot standouts Hacksaw Gaming, a studio better known for setting trends than chasing them. Still, with Cloud Princess, Hacksaw has lifted several key GOO ingredients, steered them in new directions, and wrapped everything in a sparkling anime crown.

Whatever your opinion of Cloud Princess, the anime influence is impossible to miss. It also seems to take clear cues from Twilight Princess 1000, not only in theme but in how it plays. The princess floats beside the grid, managing to look both coy and bold, while her world is, quite literally, packed with clouds. The reels sit inside an icy-white structure decorated with fitting carvings, and the soundtrack is the kind that—if you shut your eyes and sink back—can make you imagine drifting on a cloud into a fantasy realm of romance, adventure, and wide-eyed heroes. In short, if a manga/anime slot is on your list, Cloud Princess nails the look and the sound.

Symbols drop onto a 6×5 gaming grid, and a payout is created whenever 8 or more identical pay symbols appear anywhere on the screen. Beneath the fluffy visuals sits a medium volatile math model offered in four RTP settings. If you’re hunting the best version, you’ll want the 96.24% configuration. Betting runs from 10 c to $/€100 per spin, and there are four bonus buys available.

Cloud Princess uses ten pay symbols. Five are jewel-like items for the lower values, while the higher pays are represented by 5 more detailed, quirky objects. Together, they strongly reinforce the anime aesthetic. An 8-symbol scatter win returns 0.2 to 2 times the bet, while at the top end, a 19+ scatter win awards 50 to 400 times the bet. There are no wild symbols on the reels in any part of the game.

Cloud Princess: Slot Features

Alongside a cascading wins mechanic that clears winning symbols and drops new ones into place, Cloud Princess includes 3 types of Multiplier symbol, a Cloud Surge bonus round, a Divine Boost bonus round, plus bonus buys.

Multiplier Symbols

When a spin produces at least one win and a multiplier symbol also lands, the multiplier symbol applies its value to the total win at the end of that spin. If multiple multiplier symbols appear under these conditions, their values are combined. The highest multiplier symbol value that can be reached is x10,000. There are three types of Multiplier symbols:

• Normal multiplier symbol – lands with a visible value of x2, x3, or x4 which increases by +1 with each new cascade.
• Super multiplier symbol – lands and reveals a value of x5, x10x, x15, or x20 when it activates, increasing by +2 on each new cascade.
• Epic multiplier symbol – lands with a visible value of x5, x10, x50, or x100, and doubles on each new cascade.

Cloud Surge

Landing 3 FS scatter symbols in the base game activates 10 free spins in this mode. During each spin, all wins are collected above the reels as a pending win amount. That total is updated after every cascade that produces a win. If one or more multipliers land, their values are added together and applied to the total win at the end of the spin. Landing 2 FS scatter symbols grants +2 free spins, while 3 FS scatter symbols grants +4 free spins.

Divine Boost

Hitting 4 FS scatter symbols in the base game starts this feature with 10 free spins. It introduces a progressive Divine Multiplier that collects all multiplier symbol values that are included in a win. Those multiplier values are stored in the progressive Divine Multiplier, which increases with each subsequent winning spin that contains multiplier symbols. Multiplier values are added to the Divine Multiplier first, and then applied to the total win at the end of the free spin.

For clarity: if a spin wins but no multiplier symbol lands, the Divine Multiplier is not applied. If multiplier symbols appear but there are no wins, the multipliers are not added to the Divine Multiplier, and it stays inactive. Landing 2 FS scatter symbols grants +2 free spins, while 3 FS scatter symbols grants +4 free spins.

Bonus Buy

The bonus buy options in Cloud Princess are: BonusHunt FeatureSpins – 3x the bet, each spin is 5 times more likely to trigger a bonus game, Heavenly FeatureSpins – 50x the bet, each spin guarantees at least one win and one multiplier symbol, Cloud Surge – 100x the bet, and Divine Boost – 200x the bet.

Cloud Princess: Slot Verdict

Hacksaw Gaming has played with scatter pays before—Dragon’s Domain, for instance—but it’s not a format the studio has leaned on heavily. That might explain why Cloud Princess pulls in so many familiar ideas. On the other hand, “cautious” isn’t a label normally pinned on a developer that has shown it can innovate boldly, so there’s probably more behind Cloud Princess existing in the first place. It’s unusual to see a Hacksaw Gaming release feel this derivative. Cloud Princess wears its Pragmatic Play influence openly, and even carries hints of Play’n GO‘s Moon Princess (which arguably helped kick off the wider trend). The theme is easy enough to forgive—no one owns anime or manga—but the gameplay sits uncomfortably close in places. Scatter pays, multiplier symbols, and a growing total multiplier during free spins? Hmm—and the way the mechanics link together, double hmm. Cloud Princess lands very much in Sweet Bonanza, Gate of Olympus, and so on territory.

As mentioned, it’s not common for Hacksaw to mirror others this plainly, especially when the studio is usually overflowing with genuinely fresh concepts. That said, a few extra touches do add a small dose of individuality. One of the most eye-catching rules is the outrageous maximum Multiplier symbol value of x10,000. That figure also matches the game’s maximum win potential of 10,000x the bet. Seeing a multiplier climb anywhere near that is the kind of moment that would make anyone’s pulse jump. The most obvious route would be landing an x100 Epic Multiplier symbol and then doubling it repeatedly. The multiplier symbol growth mechanic is one of Cloud Princess’ smarter ideas, though it’s worth noting we saw something similar not long ago in 4ThePlayer’s 2 Sweet 4 U. Even so, Cloud Princess appears to offer more explosive growth potential.

One of the more distinctive aspects of Cloud Princess is simply its overall feel. The feature set may look familiar, but the way it plays out is slightly different, meaning Gates fans, for example, may not instantly click with it. Needing 4 scatters to reach the progressive multiplier feature, plus the added layer of multiplier symbol value growth, changes the rhythm; it ultimately plays and performs like a Hacksaw Gaming slot. So while Cloud Princess can’t fully shake the imitation claims, it still ends up as an attractive entry in the scatter pays/multiplier symbol slot lineup.