Sultan Spins: Slot Overview

Say the words, ‘online slot with an Arabian twist’, and you’ll usually end up with something rooted in One Thousand and One Nights—Aladdin, Ali Baba, or a familiar mix of magic lamps and genies. That’s a bit of a shame, considering how many useful things trace back to the Arab world—algebra, for instance. Maybe because online gambling is illegal across large parts of the region (the UAE being one example), it’s a setting casino developers don’t explore much. Ancient Egypt aside, of course. Going against the usual pattern, Relax Gaming has delivered Sultan Spins, an online slot that drops players into an Arabic-inspired world for a while.

It’s presented as a warm, sunlit location, and although Sultan Spins seems fictional, the skyline includes buildings resembling the Burj Khalifa and the Burj Al Arab. Classic-looking structures sit alongside the skyscrapers, blending old and new beside a water feature—so if players want, they can imagine they’re spinning from a villa on one of those man-made islands. All of this plays out to a fairly standard Arabian-style soundtrack. Music tastes vary, but this one ended up getting muted more than once.

Gold is everywhere in Sultan Spins, and the 5-reel, 4-row grid is no exception. Action runs across 40 paylines, paying standard left-to-right wins starting from the far-left reel. The RTP is listed at 96.1%, and the volatility is in the high region. Stakes range from 10 c to $/€200 per spin, and unlike the Dream Drop progressive jackpot system, there’s no official link between bet size and the odds of landing a Jackpot.

The paytable is packed with flashy, gold-plated items: metallic J-A card ranks cover the low end, while the higher symbols include a golden shisha, golden sneakers, a golden car, and a gold boat. A 5-of-a-kind line of low pays returns 2.5 times the bet, while landing 5 matching high symbols pays 12 to 20 times the bet. Wilds can appear on every reel, substitute for all regular pay symbols, and deliver up to 50x for a 5-wild line win.

Sultan Spins: Slot Features

Feature-wise, Sultan Spins offers progressive local Jackpots, plus a free spins mode with level progression and multipliers on line wins.

Local Jackpot Feature

Each reel has a Jackpot value displayed above it. When a Gem symbol lands on a reel, it increases the prize above that reel by the current bet amount. After the Jackpot has been boosted, the Gem reveals either a pay symbol, a wild symbol that may expand into a wild reel, or a Jackpot Spin. The Jackpot Spin is played on a mini reel with jackpot prizes, and once a jackpot is collected, that specific prize resets. There are five jackpots: White Gem before 25x, Blue Gem before 50x, Green Gem before 250x, Purple Gem before 1,250x, and Red Gem before 5,000x the bet.

Free Spins

Trigger free spins by landing 3 scatter symbols. In the bonus, any scatters that appear are collected, and every 5th scatter collected unlocks a new level. There are 5 different levels, and once unlocked, they’re played one after another. Each unlocked level awards +7 free spins: Level 1 = x1 multiplier,  Level 2 = x2 multiplier, Level 3 = x4 multiplier, Level 4 = x6 multiplier, Level 5 = x8 multiplier.

The Local Jackpot feature can also occur during free spins, but the multipliers affect line wins only. Any scatters collected in free spins that don’t unlock a level are stored and carried into the base game. Landing 2 scatter symbols in the base awards 1 of the 5 collection spots required to unlock a new level.

Sultan Spins: Slot Verdict

A definite plus for Sultan Spins is getting an Arabic-themed slot that doesn’t lean on a genie. Even so, it still paints Gulf countries in a fairly familiar, glossy way—like everything is dipped in gold and everyone is loaded. That said, plenty of the imagery coming out of places like Dubai does revolve around people showing off luxury goods, supercars, or low-number licence plates that sell for absurd amounts. There’s no doubt big money circulates in parts of the region, though as always, it’s not something everyone has access to.

Sultan Spins gives players a shot at landing some winnings through its comparatively modest local jackpot prizes and the free spins multiplier setup. “Modest” is said with Relax Gaming’s huge Dream Drop network in mind. Since Sultan Spins is local rather than networked, the prizes are naturally smaller—though up to 5,000x is still nothing to dismiss. Real Sultans probably have more than that tucked away in loose change behind a leopard-skin sofa in room 789 of a summer palace. One of the summer palaces, anyway. Still, this slot does let players indulge in a bit of high-end fantasy in a setting that isn’t especially common in online slots—unless it’s another Aladdin or Ali Baba title.

Overall, Sultan Spins has a touch of originality, but it also came across as one of Relax Gaming’s less impressive releases. The max win is 5,000x for line wins (and does not interact with the Jackpot feature), so the top-end potential is respectable, yet the Local Jackpot raises questions. For example, it must be won before 5,000x, but how long does it realistically take to build that far—100,000 spins? Hard to say. It can start to feel repetitive when a hundred spins disappear in a haze of gold plating and the main prize has only climbed by 3x. Patient players, or anyone who likes the idea of a Gulf-flavoured punt, may enjoy it, but Relax Gaming’s deep catalogue makes it easy to find more thrilling options.