Always Up! x10000

Q: What is the RTP of Always Up! x10000?

96.1%, published by BGaming as a single value with no alternative tier flagged. It is a market-average figure, neither generous nor punitive, and it does not vary with the Scatter tier or the buy format chosen. For comparison, the first Always Up!, released four months earlier on a 3x3 grid, shows 96.07%, three hundredths lower.

Q: What is the bet range?

From 0.10 to 24 per spin. The ceiling is low, even for BGaming, and it is tight for a game the studio itself classes as very high volatility. It is nevertheless what determines the advertised maximum win: 10,490 times 24 gives exactly €251,760, the amount published on the official sheet. In practice, that makes the 800x buy tier unrealistic at the top of the range, since it would cost 19,200 for a single round.

Q: Does picking a rocket have any effect?

No. As in the first Always Up!, nothing distinguishes the five rockets before launch: no informative colour, no potential indicator, no history. The outcome is determined by the random number generator the moment you press START. The act of selecting is staging, intended to create a sense of involvement in a mini-game that offers none.

6.9/10

Release February 2026· Updated September 2026

5x3, 10 fixed lines, 96.1% RTP — the game that promises x10,000 in its name and caps at x9,990 in its bonus

RTP

96.1%

Volatility

Very High

Max Win

10 490x

Grid

5x3

Bonus Buy

Yes

Bonus fusée (choix parmi 5 fusées, multiplicateur croissant avec l'altitude)Plafond de manche selon le nombre de Scatters (x999 / x2 997 / x9 990)Achat de bonus à trois paliers (80x / 240x / 800x)Mystery Buy à 100x (Scatters et plafond tirés au sort)

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6.9

BetsRank Verdict

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

Let us begin with what nobody points out: this game is called x10000, and its bonus cannot reach 10,000x. The best tier, the one demanding five Scatters, caps at x9,990. Ten times less than the name suggests? No — ten units less, which is somehow more irritating. The 10,490x maximum multiplier stated at the top of the sheet comes from addition: 9,990x from a maxed bonus, plus the 500x the best-paying symbol returns for five of a kind in the base game. It is coherent, it is verifiable, but it is not what the title promises. That said, once the reservation is on the table, the bonus structure is one of the most honest we have seen from BGaming. The round's ceiling is announced before you play, according to how many Scatters you landed: three Scatters open a round capped at 999x, four at 2,997x, five at 9,990x. You therefore know exactly what your maximum is before pressing START. Very few games display their ceiling on the way into the round. The detail that stopped us is elsewhere, in the buy price grid. The three-Scatter tier costs 80x and caps at 999x. The four-Scatter tier costs 240x and caps at 2,997x. The five-Scatter tier costs 800x and caps at 9,990x. Divide each ceiling by its price: 12.4875 every time, to the digit. BGaming set all three tiers on exactly the same ratio, which means none of them is a better buy than the others in ceiling terms. The choice is therefore not an economic one but a matter of temperament: the same theoretical proposition, spread across three risk scales. It is rigorous, and it has gone entirely unnoticed. Two real weaknesses remain. The base game is skeletal — ten lines, no mechanic of its own, a win once every 11.55 spins — and exists only to lead to the Scatters. And the 24 bet ceiling is oddly low for a game its own studio classes as very high volatility: buying the 800x tier at the maximum stake costs 19,200 a round, which makes sense for essentially nobody.

Strengths

+Each bonus round's ceiling is announced before you play: x999, x2,997 or x9,990 depending on the Scatter count
+All three buy tiers are priced on exactly the same ceiling-to-cost ratio (12.4875), with no trap for the player
+A genuinely decomposable maximum win: 9,990x from the bonus plus 500x from the top symbol gives the advertised 10,490x
+A 96.1% RTP, in line with the market and unchanged whichever Scatter tier you land on
+A 0.10 bet floor, which makes the 80x buy tier reachable for 8

To consider

−The title says x10000 while no bonus tier exceeds x9,990: 10,000x is only reachable by adding a base-game win on top
−A skeletal base game: ten lines, no mechanic of its own, and a win only once every 11.55 spins
−The choice among five rockets remains purely decorative, exactly as in the first Always Up!
−A bet ceiling of just 24, very tight for a game BGaming itself classes as very high volatility
−The 800x buy tier costs 19,200 a round at the maximum stake, a price with no real use

Always Up! x10000 in detail

Always Up! x10000 was released on 4 February 2026, four months after Always Up!, whose bonus mechanic it reuses wholesale and widens. The setting is the same — Chinese New Year, lanterns, firecrackers, lotus flowers, ingots and golden purses against a night sky — but the grid moves from 3x3 to 5x3 and the lines from five to ten. The paytable is modest: the lowest symbol, a blue sign, returns 3 times the bet for five of a kind; the green, purple and red fireworks pay 12 times; premium symbols, from the lotus to the golden bag, climb from 12 to 500 times the bet for five in a row. That 500x is the absolute ceiling of what can be obtained without the bonus, and it matters for what follows. The RTP published by BGaming is 96.1%, a single value with no alternative tier flagged. The studio classes the game as "very high" volatility on its own sheet, while several independent listings settle for "high". We keep the supplier's value. The published hit frequency is 1 spin in 11.55, roughly 8.7% of spins paying: that is low, and it confirms the diagnosis — the base game is merely a corridor leading to the bonus. The bonus reuses the principle of the first game. Five rockets appear at the bottom of the screen, the player designates one and presses START. They all lift off, each carrying a multiplier that grows with altitude, and they burst into fireworks at randomly determined heights. The multiplier reached by the chosen rocket is applied to the stake. As in the first game, nothing distinguishes the five rockets before the draw: the pick is staging, not a decision. What is new, and it is substantial, is the ceiling system. The number of Scatters landed determines the maximum reachable during the round: three Scatters open a round capped at 999 times the bet, four at 2,997 times, five at 9,990 times. The player therefore knows the ceiling before the rockets even launch. That is uncommon transparency, and it changes the texture of the round: a three-Scatter round has no chance of producing a large win, and the game does not pretend otherwise. That leads straight to the most awkward observation about the title. The game is called x10000, yet no bonus tier allows 10,000 times the bet. The best, at five Scatters, stops at 9,990x. The 10,490x maximum multiplier shown at the top of the official sheet is explained by addition: 9,990x from a maximal bonus round, plus the 500x the premium symbol can produce in five of a kind on the base game of the same spin. The arithmetic works, but you have to reconstruct it yourself, and the game's name remains misleading by exactly ten units. The bonus buy comes in four formats. Eighty times the bet guarantees three Scatters and a 999x ceiling. Two hundred and forty times the bet guarantees four Scatters and a 2,997x ceiling. Eight hundred times the bet guarantees five Scatters and the maximum 9,990x ceiling. Alongside them, a Mystery Buy at one hundred times the bet assigns a randomised Scatter count and maximum multiplier. One calculation nobody seems to have run deserves stating. Divide each ceiling by its buy price: 999 over 80 gives 12.4875; 2,997 over 240 gives 12.4875; 9,990 over 800 gives 12.4875 again. All three tiers are priced on exactly the same ratio. None is a better buy than the others from a ceiling standpoint: the studio has simply offered the same deal at three different risk scales. It is a rigorous construction, rarely documented, and it has a direct practical consequence: choose your tier by the variance you are willing to absorb, not by a supposed value ranking, because the value is identical throughout. The bet range runs from 0.10 to 24 per spin. The ceiling is low, even for this studio, and it determines the advertised maximum win: 10,490 times 24 gives exactly €251,760, the figure BGaming publishes on its sheet. This is one of the rare titles in the catalogue where the advertised amount really is the product of the multiplier and the maximum stake, rather than the flat €250,000 cap the studio copies elsewhere. On the other hand, that 24 ceiling makes the 800x buy tier practically unusable at the top of the range: 19,200 for a single round.

Always Up! x10000 features

▸5x3 grid and 10 fixed paylines: the lowest symbol pays 3x for five of a kind, premium symbols up to 500x.
▸Rocket bonus: five rockets appear, the player picks one, and all launch with a multiplier that grows with altitude before bursting at a random height.
▸Pre-announced ceilings: 3 Scatters open a round capped at 999x, 4 Scatters at 2,997x, 5 Scatters at 9,990x.
▸Bonus buy at 80x the bet for three guaranteed Scatters and a 999x round ceiling.
▸Bonus buy at 240x the bet for four guaranteed Scatters and a 2,997x round ceiling.
▸Bonus buy at 800x the bet for five guaranteed Scatters and the maximum 9,990x ceiling.
▸Mystery Buy at 100x the bet: the Scatter count and maximum multiplier are randomised before the round.
▸Bet range from 0.10 to 24, a published hit frequency of 1 in 11.55 and a single 96.1% RTP.

💰 Bonus Buy: 80x (3 Scatters), 240x (4 Scatters), 800x (5 Scatters), or 100x as a Mystery Buy

The game in pictures

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

Always Up! x10000 — The base game — A 5x3 grid at a total bet of 2.00 FUN: a vertical "10 LINES" banner runs along reel 5 and the BUY BONUS button sits in the top left corner of the roof. The white dragon, standing to the left of the frame, holds a rocket and is not part of the reels.

Always Up! x10000 — Game rules, page 1 — The Scatter is a crate of multicoloured rockets; the page attaches no line win to it. Below, the paytable is stated in currency for a 2.00 FUN bet: the red pouch pays 1,000.00 FUN for five, the ingot 400.00, the coins 100.00 and the lotus 24.00.

Always Up! x10000 — Game rules, page 2 — The three firecracker bundles, red, purple and green, pay exactly the same: 3.00, 10.00 and then 24.00 FUN. The 福 character, despite its golden frame, is the weakest symbol on the table, at 6.00 FUN for five.

Always Up! x10000 — Game rules, page 3 — The illustration shows four Scatters lit at once, two on the top row and two on the bottom row, spread across four different reels. The caption below the image sets the condition: 3 or more Scatters on a single spin trigger the Bonus game.

Always Up! x10000 — Game rules, page 4 — CHOOSE YOUR ROCKET screen: five identical rockets in a row, the third one highlighted. The text explains that they all take off, that the multiplier grows with altitude and that they explode at random heights.

Always Up! x10000 — Game rules, page 5 — The number of triggering Scatters sets the round's maximum multiplier: 999× at 3, 2997× at 4, 9990× at 5. Below the text, the Buy bonus panel shows four scrolls for a 2.00 FUN bet: 160.00 FUN for 3 Scatters, 480.00 for 4, 1,600.00 for 5, and 200.00 for a random number.

Always Up! x10000 — Game rules, page 6 — The "About the game" page: BGaming states multipliers that can reach 9990× the bet in the bonus round. The How to play section carries an explicit note: the visual elements that change while playing are decorative and affect neither the outcome nor the RTP.

Always Up! x10000 — Game rules, page 7 — The Autospins settings here offer only four stop conditions: on any win, above a single win entered in the field, and on a rise or a fall of the balance. A checkbox also lets the game skip the "Click to continue" pop-ups.

Always Up! x10000 — Game rules, page 8 — The Buy Bonus block states that the purchased round can be triggered by a chosen or a random number of Scatters, and that prices follow the bet: if the bet changes, the prices change as well. Further down, Spin Results recalls that only the highest win is paid on each active payline.

Always Up! x10000 — Game rules, page 9 — One line distinguishes three caps: 10490× for the game as a whole, 9990× for the bonus round and only 500× for the main game. The Return to Player block then gives 96.1% overall, then 96% with 3 Scatters bought and 95.99% with 4.

Always Up! x10000 — Game rules, page 10 — The Return to Player block can be read in full: 96.1% overall, 96% for the 3-Scatter buy, 95.99% at 4, 96% at 5 and 96.06% for the random-Scatter buy, the only value above the base RTP.

❓Always Up! x10000 FAQ

Can you really win 10,000 times your bet on Always Up! x10000?▾

Not from the bonus alone, and that is the game's most debatable point.

The best tier, at five Scatters, caps at 9,990 times the bet. The 10,490x maximum multiplier stated on the official sheet is obtained by adding a base-game win to that: the premium symbol in five of a kind returns 500x, and 9,990 plus 500 does indeed give 10,490. The game's name therefore remains misleading, by exactly ten units.

What is the RTP of Always Up! x10000?▾

96.

1%, published by BGaming as a single value with no alternative tier flagged. It is a market-average figure, neither generous nor punitive, and it does not vary with the Scatter tier or the buy format chosen. For comparison, the first Always Up! , released four months earlier on a 3x3 grid, shows 96. 07%, three hundredths lower.

How do the bonus ceilings work?▾

The number of Scatters landed sets the maximum reachable during the round, and it is announced before the round begins.

Three Scatters open a round capped at 999 times the bet, four at 2,997 times, five at 9,990 times. That is rare transparency: the player knows exactly the best possible outcome before launching the rockets. A three-Scatter round will never produce a very large win, and the game does not claim otherwise.

How much do the bonus buys cost?▾

Four formats.

Eighty times the bet for three guaranteed Scatters and a 999x ceiling. Two hundred and forty times the bet for four Scatters and a 2,997x ceiling. Eight hundred times the bet for five Scatters and the maximum 9,990x ceiling. Finally a Mystery Buy at one hundred times the bet, which randomises the Scatter count and maximum multiplier. At the 0. 10 minimum stake, those tiers cost 8, 24, 80 and 10 respectively.

Which buy tier offers the best value?▾

None, and it is mathematically demonstrable.

Divide each tier's ceiling by its price: 999 over 80 gives 12. 4875, 2,997 over 240 gives 12. 4875, 9,990 over 800 gives 12. 4875. BGaming set all three offers on exactly the same ratio. The choice is therefore not a value calculation but a matter of temperament: the same theoretical proposition across three risk scales. Choose according to the variance you are prepared to absorb.

What is the bet range?▾

From 0.

10 to 24 per spin. The ceiling is low, even for BGaming, and it is tight for a game the studio itself classes as very high volatility. It is nevertheless what determines the advertised maximum win: 10,490 times 24 gives exactly €251,760, the amount published on the official sheet. In practice, that makes the 800x buy tier unrealistic at the top of the range, since it would cost 19,200 for a single round.

Does picking a rocket have any effect?▾

No.

As in the first Always Up! , nothing distinguishes the five rockets before launch: no informative colour, no potential indicator, no history. The outcome is determined by the random number generator the moment you press START. The act of selecting is staging, intended to create a sense of involvement in a mini-game that offers none.

How does it differ from the first Always Up!?▾

The grid moves from 3x3 to 5x3 and the lines from five to ten, but above all the bonus changes scale.

The first game offered a single round capped at 559x; this one offers three pre-announced tiers up to 9,990x, and four buy formats instead of one. The RTP stays comparable, 96. 1% against 96. 07%. The bet ceiling, however, drops from 450 to 24, which completely changes the player profile being targeted.