Bursting Crowns 20 Slot Review
A fruit machine floating in a red casino haze, gold crowns arcing over the reels and a spotlight bleeding up from below. That’s the world Bursting Crowns 20 builds, and it commits to it completely: every reel sits in its own gold-outlined frame, flanked by rotated plaques reading 20 LINES, like a cabinet someone polished before switching it on.
The argument here is restraint. GameArt has built a 5×3, 20-payline slot around a single mechanic, the expanding wild, and resisted the urge to bolt on a bonus round. The pink star and the bell both pay as scatters, the sevens pay 100x the bet for five, and that’s the whole offer.
It sits alongside Legends of the Wild Moon and Sugar Loot Spark in the studio’s catalogue, though it’s a plainer proposition than either. Plain is the point here, and the paytable decides whether the point lands.
Base Game & Features
The setup is as traditional as it gets: five reels, three rows, 20 fixed paylines. A win needs matching symbols running consecutively from left to right along a payline, and only the highest win on each line is paid. All wins occur on paylines; there’s no scatter-pays grid or cluster mechanic hiding underneath.
The symbols are the classic fruit-machine roster, and every pay is quoted as a multiple of the total bet:
- 7 – 0.75x for three, 12.5x for four, 100x for five
- Dollar sign – 2.5x for four, 10x for five
- Watermelon – 0.75x for three, 2.5x for four, 10x for five
- Grapes – 1.25x for four, 7.5x for five
- Cherry – 0.5x for three, 0.75x for four, 3.75x for five
- Plum – 0.5x for three, 0.75x for four, 3.75x for five
- Orange – 0.5x for three, 0.75x for four, 3.75x for five
- Lemon – 0.5x for three, 0.75x for four, 3.75x for five
The structure is worth a look. The sevens sit alone at the top, the four low fruits share a single pay tier between them, and the dollar sign, watermelon and grapes fill the middle. The sevens also pay from three of a kind where the dollar sign and grapes start at four, so the low end of the ladder is where most of the line hits come from.
Two symbols don’t appear on that list at all, because they aren’t standard payline symbols: the scatters, covered below. And there’s no RTP figure published for this one, so the paytable and the scatter pays are the numbers to judge it by.
The paytable itself is tied to your bet. Change the stake and the displayed values move with it, so what you see always reflects what you’d actually be paid at the current bet level.
The Expanding Wild
The crown is the wild, and it’s the one mechanic holding the game together. Its terms are simple:
- Lands on reels 2, 3 and 4 only
- Substitutes for every symbol except the scatters
- Expands to fill its entire reel whenever it can help form a win
A single crown on the middle reel can turn a dead spin into several winning lines at once. The expansion isn’t automatic either: the crown only fills its reel when doing so would complete a win, so a wild landing on a losing spin just sits there. It’s a small distinction, but it keeps the expansions meaningful.
Because the wild is confined to the centre three reels, it can’t build a five-of-a-kind on its own. What it does is connect the outer reels. Two or three crowns can land together and cover every middle reel at once, which is where the multi-line hits come from, and the paytable’s front-loaded sevens mean those connections matter most at the top of the ladder.
Play Options
You set a total bet and spin; the space bar works too where it’s available. Autoplay runs a chosen number of games in succession and can be set to stop on a win or loss limit, so a run ends when the limit hits regardless of how many spins were queued. Fast and Turbo Spin modes speed up or strip out animations, and Quick Play skips them mid-game.
Bursting Crowns 20 Bonus Features & Scatter Pays
There’s no free spins round here. The scatters pay on their own, and that’s the extent of the bonus offer. Two symbols carry the role:
- Pink Star – lands on reels 1, 3 and 5 only; three of them pay 20x the total bet
- Bell – five bells pay 500x the total bet, the largest single prize anywhere in the game
Note the asymmetry. The star needs three of a possible three reels, so its 20x is a genuine, reachable target. The bell’s 500x is five symbols with no reel restriction stated, and it towers over everything else on the board. That bell is the reason to keep the stake flat rather than chase.
The wild doesn’t substitute for either of them, so the scatters can’t be stitched together with crowns. They pay what they pay, or they don’t pay at all.
With no bonus round to buy and no feature ladder to climb, the pacing is entirely down to the base reel: wild expansions for the regular wins, scatters for the spikes. That’s a design choice, not an omission, and it shapes everything about how a session plays out.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 6.1/10
Bursting Crowns 20 is a fruit machine with one good idea and the confidence not to pad it. The expanding wild does real work on the centre reels, and when a crown stacks against sevens the payline hits feel earned rather than gifted. The red haze and gold trim give the cabinet a warmth most retro slots skip, which counts for something when the feature list is this short.
The weakness is the ceiling. With no bonus round and a top symbol pay of 100x, the bell scatter at 500x carries nearly all the upside on its own, and it’s a long way from frequent. The rest of the paytable is small-change fruit.
It suits players who want a clean, fast, traditional spinner with one reliable mechanic and no menus to learn, and it will satisfy them. Anyone chasing a bonus round or a four-figure multiplier should look elsewhere in the GameArt catalogue. As a modern take on the cabinet classic, though, the crown fits.
Bursting Crowns 20 FAQs
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How many paylines does Bursting Crowns 20 have?
Bursting Crowns 20 has 20 fixed paylines. -
What is the grid size of Bursting Crowns 20?
It’s a 5×3 reel slot: five reels and three rows. -
When is Bursting Crowns 20 released?
Bursting Crowns 20’s release date is 12 December 2026. -
Who makes Bursting Crowns 20?
Bursting Crowns 20 is made by GameArt. -
How does the expanding wild work in Bursting Crowns 20?
The crown wild lands on reels 2, 3 and 4 only, substitutes for all symbols except the scatters, and expands to fill its whole reel whenever it can complete a win. -
Where do the scatters land in Bursting Crowns 20?
The pink star scatter appears on reels 1, 3 and 5 only. Three of them pay 20x the total bet. The bell scatter pays 500x the bet for five. -
Does Bursting Crowns 20 have a free spins bonus?
No. The game’s features are the expanding wild and scatter pays; there’s no free spins round. -
Can you set limits on Autoplay in Bursting Crowns 20?
Yes. Autoplay can be set to stop automatically once a loss or win limit is reached, regardless of how many spins you had queued. Fast, Turbo and Quick Play modes are toggled in the Autoplay and Settings menus.
