8 Dragons

Q: What is the RTP of 8 Dragons?

96.37%, the figure Pragmatic Play publishes on the official game sheet and which SlotCatalog confirms. That is slightly below the 96.5% the studio applies across much of its catalogue, but the gap stays marginal. As always with this supplier, the rate actually applied can be checked in the game rules, from the machine's menu.

Q: What stakes does 8 Dragons accept?

From 0.20 € to 100 € per spin. The floor matches the supplier's usual minimum on a twenty-line grid. The 100 € ceiling, however, sits below what the studio's more recent releases offer, which often reach 125 € or beyond.

7.0/10

Release June 2017· Updated September 2026

The Asian-themed machine from June 2017 whose bonus is chosen: five dragons, five trades between length and multiplier, and a retrigger that always returns the spin count picked at the start.

RTP

96.39%

Volatility

Medium

Max Win

2 568x

Grid

5x3 grid

Bonus Buy

20 paylinesMystery stacked symbolsDragons stacked in pairs (x2 win)Stacked wilds on reels 2-3-4Scatter enveloppe rougeFree spins of your choice (5 dragons)No Bonus Buy

7.0

BetsRank Verdict

Our read of the game, based on the data the studio publishes

8 Dragons is a June 2017 machine that has aged well, for a simple reason: it rests on a choice that genuinely matters. When three red envelopes land, the game does not hand out a batch of free spins, it opens a menu of five dragons, each offering a different trade between length and intensity. The pink dragon gives five spins with a multiplier that can reach 15x. The purple gives eight spins at up to 10x. The green, fifteen spins at 6x. The blue, twenty spins but a multiplier capped at 4x. The fifth, the orange one, hides both the spin count and the multiplier. Menus of this kind exist elsewhere, but this one is better graded than most, and above all there is a detail few write-ups mention: a retrigger awards the same number of spins as the option originally chosen. Taking twenty spins with the blue dragon is therefore not just twenty spins; it is twenty spins on every retrigger, with no announced limit. The pink dragon, conversely, pays hard but only reloads in batches of five. The opening choice does not shape one round, it shapes the behaviour of the whole bonus until it ends. The base game has an idea of its own too. Every reel carries mystery stacked symbols: any paying symbol can arrive stacked, on any spin. Across twenty lines that produces very readable screens, where you can see whether the spin will pay before it settles. The dragons themselves always arrive stacked in pairs, and when they take part in a combination they double the win. Stacked wilds land on reels 2, 3 and 4 and likewise double the combinations they complete. Two reservations. The first is a wobble in the supplier's own documentation: the official Pragmatic Play sheet advertises stacked dragons in free spins carrying a random multiplier "up to 30x", while the documented choice grid tops out at 15x on the pink dragon. The gap points to the orange dragon, the only one whose values are unpublished — but the studio confirms this nowhere. The second concerns the win ceiling, which Pragmatic Play does not publish and on which the specialist databases do not agree at all. On a game whose whole appeal is the promise of a big bonus, that is an awkward blank. What remains is a 96.39% RTP, medium volatility, stakes from 0.20 € to 100 €, and a title that does exactly what it says: an honest Asian-themed game with no bonus buy, whose single decision asked of the player is also its most interesting feature.

Strengths

+Five genuinely differentiated free spin options, from 5 spins at 15x to 20 spins at 4x
+A retrigger returns the same spin count as the chosen option: the opening choice compounds
+Mystery stacked symbols on all five reels on every base game spin
+Dragons always stacked in pairs, doubling the win when they join a combination
+A 96.39% RTP, read in the game's rules
+Medium volatility across twenty lines: the base game leaves no long silent stretches

To consider

−The win ceiling is published by nobody and the specialist databases contradict each other
−The official sheet advertises a multiplier "up to 30x" that the documented choice grid does not show
−The orange dragon hides its values: the option cannot be assessed before taking it
−No bonus buy, even though the whole game is built around the free spins round
−A 100 € stake ceiling, below the supplier's more recent titles
−Very generic Asian artwork, indistinct from the rest of the series at Pragmatic Play

8 Dragons: five dragons, five different bonuses

8 Dragons was released in June 2017 and belongs to the long line of Asian-themed machines in the Pragmatic Play catalogue. The grid runs five reels by three rows, crossed by twenty paylines. The stake range spans 0.20 € to 100 € per spin, and the official return figure is 96.37%, published by the supplier on its own product sheet. The base game rests on two complementary ideas. The first is the mystery stacked symbol system: on any spin, every reel can fill with the same paying symbol, whichever it happens to be. That produces very readable screens, where the outcome can be read before the reels settle. The second concerns the dragons, which never arrive alone: they always come stacked in groups of two, and when they enter a winning combination they double its value. On top of that, stacked wilds land on reels 2, 3 and 4 in the base game and likewise double the combinations they complete. The red envelope serves as the scatter symbol. Three or more envelopes open the free spins round, and this is where the title sets itself apart. Rather than awarding a fixed batch, the game presents five dragons and lets the player decide. The pink dragon grants five spins, with a multiplier that can reach 15x. The purple grants eight, with the multiplier capped at 10x. The green climbs to fifteen spins but drops back to 6x. The blue offers twenty spins, the longest run, against a multiplier limited to 4x. The orange dragon, finally, conceals both the spin count and the multiplier value. During the round, it is the stacked dragons that carry the multiplier, drawn at random from the range matching the chosen option. One detail changes a great deal: the feature can retrigger with no announced limit, and each retrigger awards the same number of spins as the option chosen at the start. The opening choice therefore does not commit only the first series, it sets the rhythm of the entire bonus. Twenty spins reloading in twenties behave nothing like five spins reloading in fives. One documentation point deserves flagging. The official Pragmatic Play sheet states that during free spins the stacked dragons carry a random multiplier that can reach 30x, depending on the choice made. Yet the grid of five options as documented tops out at 15x, on the pink dragon. The gap logically points to the orange dragon, whose values are not published, but the studio confirms this nowhere. The game offers no bonus buy, and the supplier publishes no win ceiling. The values recorded in the specialist databases do not corroborate one another on this point.

How 8 Dragons works

▸Mystery stacked symbols: on every base game spin, any paying symbol can cover an entire reel.
▸Dragons stacked in pairs: they always arrive two at a time and double the win of any combination they join.
▸Stacked wilds on reels 2, 3 and 4 in the base game, likewise doubling the combinations they complete.
▸Red envelope scatter: three or more envelopes open the free spins round.
▸Five bonus options: pink dragon 5 spins up to 15x, purple 8 spins up to 10x, green 15 spins up to 6x, blue 20 spins up to 4x.
▸Mystery orange dragon: spin count and multiplier drawn at random, with values unpublished.
▸Retrigger with no announced limit, awarding each time the same spin count as the option picked at the start.

The game in pictures

Screenshots of the actual game, not promotional art — every screen is described from what it shows.

8 Dragons — The base game — The base game spans 5 reels and 3 rows. The red envelope SCATTER, outlined in white, sits on the middle row of the second reel, at a displayed bet of $2.00.

8 Dragons — Game rules — Paytable at a $2.00 bet: the tiger pays $50.00 for five symbols and is the only one to pay from two, for $0.20. Then come the dragon-turtle at $13.00, the carp at $10.00, the coins and the ingot at $7.00, then A, K, Q and J at $5.00 and the 10 and 9 at $4.00.

8 Dragons — Game rules, page 2 — The WILD appears only on reels 2, 3 and 4, where it is stacked in groups of two; a full stack multiplies the round's total win by 2X in the base game. The page adds that every reel holds MYSTERY STACKED SYMBOLS and that 3 or more SCATTERs trigger the Free Spins.

8 Dragons — How to play — The HOW TO PLAY page presents the interface: the chevron button cycles through normal speed, quick spin and turbo spin, and clicking the CREDIT and BET labels switches the display between coins view and cash view.

8 Dragons — Settings menu — The SETTINGS MENU gathers INTRO SCREEN, AMBIENT, SOUND FX and GAME HISTORY, and the bet menu is set through the COINS PER LINE and COIN VALUE fields, which show the total bet in both coins and cash.

8 Dragons — Autoplay — Last page of the panel (7/7), devoted to AUTOPLAY: automatic spins start by clicking their number and the SKIP SCREENS option skips the feature introduction and end screens.

8 Dragons — Buying the feature — The "MULTIPLIES SPIN WIN BY 2X" banner appears above the grid as a reminder of what a full stack of WILD dragons does; the SCATTER envelope is still outlined on the second reel, at a $2.00 bet.

❓Frequently asked questions about 8 Dragons

What is the RTP of 8 Dragons?▾

96.

37%, the figure Pragmatic Play publishes on the official game sheet and which SlotCatalog confirms. That is slightly below the 96. 5% the studio applies across much of its catalogue, but the gap stays marginal. As always with this supplier, the rate actually applied can be checked in the game rules, from the machine's menu.

How do you choose between the five dragons?▾

The trade is always the same: more spins against less multiplier.

The pink dragon gives five spins up to 15x, the purple eight spins up to 10x, the green fifteen spins up to 6x, the blue twenty spins up to 4x. The often-forgotten factor is the retrigger, which returns the same spin count as the original option: over a long round, the blue dragon reloads in twenties, the pink in fives.

What does the orange dragon hide?▾

The spin count and the multiplier are drawn at random, and the studio does not publish the corresponding ranges.

It is the only option that cannot be assessed before taking it. The official game sheet also mentions a multiplier that can reach 30x, a value the grid of the other four dragons never touches: it probably comes from here, without confirmation from the supplier.

How many paylines does 8 Dragons have?▾

Twenty lines on a grid of five reels and three rows.

Some listings in circulation wrongly quote 243 ways to win, which belongs to a different game in the catalogue. Twenty lines, combined with the mystery stacking system, explain the title's regular win frequency and medium volatility.

What is the volatility of 8 Dragons?▾

Medium.

The twenty lines and the mystery stacking system produce regular base wins, and the free spins round, even in its most aggressive form, stays capped at modest multipliers compared with the supplier's recent titles. The session moves along without prolonged troughs or spectacular peaks.

What is the maximum win on 8 Dragons?▾

Pragmatic Play publishes no official cap for this 2017 title.

The specialist databases put forward values that do not corroborate one another at all. BetsRank therefore flags this data point as unresolved rather than repeating an unverifiable figure, which is all the more awkward on a game built around its bonus round.

Does 8 Dragons offer a bonus buy?▾

No.

The game dates from June 2017, before the feature buy became widespread at Pragmatic Play. Free spins can only be obtained by landing three or more red envelopes on the grid, which weighs on a title whose interest lies precisely in that round.

What stakes does 8 Dragons accept?▾

From 0.

20 € to 100 € per spin. The floor matches the supplier's usual minimum on a twenty-line grid. The 100 € ceiling, however, sits below what the studio's more recent releases offer, which often reach 125 € or beyond.