Raiden Shogun slot multipliers: the figure that only goes up
One number in the Raiden Shogun slot behaves unlike anything else on the screen. During the Habanero game's free games a multiplier sits above the reels, grows when the bamboo cut turns one up, and does not go back down until the feature is over.
The multiplier lives above the reels, away from the balance, where it can be read in one glance.
Where the number lives
The multiplier is framed in red and gold above the reels, on the opposite side of the field from the balance and the stake. That separation is deliberate: the one figure on screen that is not money should not sit in the row where the money is. Its position does not move while symbols change, so it can be found without looking for it.
The placement makes sense only because the value persists. A number that reset every spin would belong beside the win amount; a number that carries the whole feature belongs where the feature is, above the field, in its own frame.
What adds to it
Multiplier values come out of the same bamboo the Wilds come out of. The cut fires, the bamboo transforms, and what is underneath may be a value rather than a stack. The animation therefore has two possible outcomes and the player can see which one landed and where.
Reading it takes two glances rather than one: the reel to see where the cut landed, the panel to see what the total has become. That split is the design — the reel says what happened, the panel says what it is worth from now on.
Stacking without a reset
Values accumulate and the total holds from one free game to the next until the award is exhausted. There is no partial reset after a win and no decay between spins. The effect is that the back half of a long award is worth more than the front half, and the thirty-eight game award has far more room for that than the eight game one.
This also explains the shape of the game's variance. A total that climbs and a column of Wilds that can land on three reels are two mechanics that multiply each other rather than add, which is the ordinary reason a studio rates a game very high on volatility.
The ceiling, and what it is not
The published ceiling is x10,516 the stake on our source and on one listing outside; a larger comparison table prints x10,000. Either way it is the top of the range, reached when a long award, a run of cuts and the accumulated total line up. It is not a target, a promise or an expectation.
A useful piece of scale sits in the captures on this site. The largest paid win in them is 18,077.16 against a 625 stake — about twenty-nine times it. The distance between twenty-nine and ten thousand is the part of the game the volatility rating is about.
During the free games. The panel appears above the reels with the feature and holds its total until the last free game is spun.
What makes the multiplier go up?
Values revealed by the bamboo cut. Transformed bamboo can turn up a multiplier instead of, or as well as, a stacked Wild.
Does the multiplier reset after a win?
No. It does not reset during the feature at all — the total carries from one free game to the next until the award is used up.
Does the multiplier work in the base game?
The panel belongs to the free games. Outside the feature the cut reveals stacked Wilds on reels one, three and five, and the accumulating total is not in play.
Age, limits and help
18 and over in the UK. This is a very high volatility game with a feature that
is designed to be chased, and a buy button that will sell you the feature at around
fifty-six times your stake. Decide what the session is worth before the first spin, and
let the account's own deposit and loss limits hold that line instead of your judgement
forty spins in.
If it has stopped being entertainment, the national gambling helpline is free, answers
round the clock, every day of the week, and runs on two numbers rather than one —
0808 8020 133 in England and Scotland, and 0808 2819 265 in Wales. Check which of the two is yours before you dial.
GamStop is a free self-exclusion scheme that shuts the accounts you hold with operators licensed in Great Britain, and it is a form you fill in rather than a call
you have to make.
