About Cruise Royale
Released on 30 August 2023, Cruise Royale puts the player aboard a luxury liner and — unusually for PG Soft — commits to low volatility. The 4-5-5-5-5-4 grid opens up 10,000 ways to win, with a 96.63% RTP and a 28.23% hit frequency: in practice you connect roughly once every three and a half spins, which explains why sessions feel steadier than on the studio's wide-grid titles. Wins trigger cascades, and that is where the signature mechanic comes in: wilds only appear on the horizontal reel above the grid, then travel diagonally down and to the left on each successive cascade, gradually sweeping across the reels. In free spins, two rules change and reshape the rhythm: wilds are no longer removed from one round to the next, and the multiplier, starting at x1, gains +1 on every free spin. The bonus triggers on 4 scatters for 8 rounds, plus 2 rounds per extra scatter, or can be bought for 75x the stake in permitted markets. The trade-off has to be accepted, though: the win ceiling is only 2,500x, far below the 25,000x and beyond of PG Soft's other wide grids.
