Blackbeard Battle Of The Seas

Blackbeard Battle Of The Seas Slot Review

Blackbeard stands guard at his ship’s rail, one boot propped on a barrel and a flintlock raised, while the reels spin over an aged sepia sea chart with faint coastlines showing through behind the symbols. BulletProof‘s Blackbeard Battle Of The Seas puts its money on one duel: a bonus round where wilds fire cannons and nobody leaves until a ship goes under.

It runs on a 5×3 grid with 20 fixed paylines, a 96.0% RTP, medium-high volatility and a 537x maximum win – a modest ceiling that tells you where the game’s priorities sit. Sister titles from the same studio include Vault Raiders DoubleMax, Banana Twist and the treasure-hunting Roby Dick. The captain is waiting at the rail.

Base Game & Features

Wins pay left to right across the 20 fixed lines, with only the highest combination per line counting. Betting starts at 0.20 and tops out at 400 per spin. Every prize in the paytable is a multiple of the total bet, which makes the figures below easy to read against whatever you’re wagering.

The wild substitutes for everything except the Bonus symbol, and the Bonus symbol doesn’t need a payline at all. Three of them anywhere in view on reels 1, 3 and 5 awards a bonus game. The high symbols sit well clear of the card suits:

• Blackbeard logo: 2 = 0.2x, 3 = 2.5x, 4 = 10x, 5 = 25x the total bet
• Treasure Chest: 3 = 2x, 4 = 8x, 5 = 15x
• Parrot: 3 = 1x, 4 = 2x, 5 = 10x
• Skull in a red bandana: 3 = 0.2x, 4 = 1x, 5 = 5x
• Blue Spade, Green Club, Purple Diamond, Red Heart: 3 = 0.2x, 4 = 1x, 5 = 5x

There’s a clear gap between the top two symbols and everything below them. With a 22% hit frequency, roughly one spin in five connects at all, and most of those wins will be small. The base game’s job is keeping you afloat between bonus triggers, and it has two tools for that.

Floating Skull Modifiers

On any base game spin, three floating skulls can drift into view. You pick one, Blackbeard shoots it, and one of four prizes is spun onto the reels:

• 5 of a kind – one or more five-of-a-kind wins land
• Big Win – a big win lands
• Bonus Game – three Bonus symbols land to award a feature
• Super Wild – between one and three Super Wild symbols land

It’s a simple pick mechanism, but the Bonus Game prize is the valuable one: it’s the only route to the features besides buying in. The Super Wild prize feeds directly into the game’s best symbol.

Super Wilds

Whenever a Super Wild lands in view it expands to three symbols high, and each of the three reel cells it occupies acts as a wild. On a 5×3 grid that means one Super Wild can blanket an entire reel. It’s the one symbol here that feels bigger than its paytable entry suggests, and where the base game’s biggest wins come from.

Blackbeard Battle Of The Seas Free Spins & Sea Battle

Landing three Bonus symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5 doesn’t just award a feature; it asks you to choose. You pick one of the three Bonus symbols, and what it reveals decides the round. One hides the Super Spins feature, the other two reveal the Sea Battle, so the fight is twice as likely as the spins.

Sea Battle

This is the feature the game is built around. It’s a run of free spins with no fixed end: the round continues until either Blackbeard sinks or all four enemy pirates do, the last of them being Long John Silver. Every win is played at the lines and bet of the triggering spin.

Each battle puts two wilds in play, Blackbeard’s and the current pirate’s. Every Blackbeard wild that lands fires his cannons at the enemy ship; three hits and that pirate sinks and the next battle begins. Every pirate wild that lands returns fire, and seven hits on Blackbeard ends the whole feature.

Blackbeard’s health never resets between pirates, so the damage carries from one duel to the next. If both wilds land on the same spin, Blackbeard fires first and then the enemy pirate, and it’s possible for both ships to go down together. The prizes give the ladder its shape:

• Beating pirate one increases the reel multiplier to x2
• Beating pirate two increases it to x3
• Beating pirate three increases it to x5
• Sinking Long John Silver awards 50x the base stake

Super Spins

The quieter of the two features. The triggering Bonus symbols change into Super Wilds locked on reels 1, 3 and 5, and you’re awarded between three and ten free spins with those expanded wilds staying put throughout. Everything runs at the triggering lines and bet.

Three full-reel wilds for up to ten spins can build something substantial. It’s a straight exchange next to the Sea Battle’s escalating duel, though, and the short spin count means there’s no retrigger to extend it.

Buy a Bonus

You can skip the base game entirely and buy straight into a feature, at a cost of 80x your chosen stake. You don’t choose which feature you get, either. The Buy a Bonus round randomly awards either the Sea Battle or the Super Spins when it starts, so you’re paying 80x for a coin flip on which round you’d actually want.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.2/10

Most of a session on this game is waiting: one spin in five connects, most of those pay pocket change, and the skulls are your only company until three Bonus symbols show up. The reason to sit through it is the Sea Battle, a duel with an actual ending, where the damage to your own ship carries from one pirate to the next. Rounds like that hold attention in a way a spin counter never does.

The Sea Battle is easily the best thing here, because every spin inside it matters twice – once as a win, once as a cannon shot. The cost of that single good idea is everything around it: the 537x ceiling is thin for a game this volatile, so even a run of successful duels tops out well short of what medium-high volatility usually promises.

For players who enjoy a feature with a proper arc, this voyage pays its way. Chasers of four-figure multipliers will find the horizon closes in fast, and this isn’t their ship. Everyone else can step aboard – Blackbeard kept a barrel for you.

Blackbeard Battle Of The Seas FAQs

• What is the RTP of Blackbeard Battle Of The Seas?

  The overall theoretical return to player is 96.0%.
• Is Blackbeard Battle Of The Seas high volatility?

  It’s rated medium-high volatility, with a 22% hit frequency, so wins are reasonably regular but the bigger results come from the bonus features.
• How do you trigger the bonus in Blackbeard Battle Of The Seas?

  Land three Bonus symbols anywhere in view on reels 1, 3 and 5, then pick one of them. One reveals the Super Spins feature and the other two reveal the Sea Battle.
• How does the Sea Battle feature work?

  It’s a run of free spins that only ends when either Blackbeard or all four enemy pirates are sunk. Blackbeard wilds fire at the enemy ship, pirate wilds fire back, three hits sink a pirate and seven hits sink Blackbeard. Beating the first three pirates raises the reel multiplier to x2, x3 and x5, and sinking Long John Silver pays 50x the base stake.
• Can you buy the bonus on Blackbeard Battle Of The Seas?

  Yes. Buy a Bonus costs 80x your chosen stake and drops you straight into either the Sea Battle or Super Spins, with the feature chosen at random when the round starts.
• What is the minimum and maximum bet on Blackbeard Battle Of The Seas?

  Stakes run from 0.20 to 400 per spin.
• What is the maximum win on Blackbeard Battle Of The Seas?

  The maximum win is 537x the stake.
• How many paylines does Blackbeard Battle Of The Seas have?

  There are 20 fixed paylines, paying left to right, with only the highest winning combination per line paid out.
• Who makes Blackbeard Battle Of The Seas?

  BulletProof Games.