Carnaval Forever

Carnaval Forever Slot Review

Fireworks burst over a night-time street party, gilded feathered headdresses rising either side of the reels in swirls of gold and orange, and a parade float glows faintly beneath the grid. Carnaval Forever makes a promise almost no slot dares to: not one spin of its free spins round can end without paying something.

The game runs on a 5×3 grid with 10 win lines and an RTP of 96.63%, paying left to right with only the highest win counting on each line. Every free spin here is a winning spin, a promise very few slots make. Betsoft have covered similar ground in Take the Bank and Back to Venus, both of which also build a bonus around coins you collect.

Reels, Symbols and the Carnaval Stage

The paytable stacks carnival costumed characters at the top and card royals at the bottom. Values below are multiples of the total bet.

• Wild (Carnaval Stage) – 5x for three, 20x for four, 100x for five
• Crowned man with gold staff – 2.5x, 15x, 75x for three to five
• Purple feathered woman / Red costume woman – 2x, 10x, 50x
• Green masked woman / Blue feathered woman – 1x, 5x, 25x
• A / K – 0.5x, 5x, 15x
• Q / J – 0.3x, 2x, 7.5x
• 10 – 0.3x, 1.5x, 5x

All values are multiples of the total bet rather than a line bet, a distinction that matters on a 10-line game. The character symbols carry the personality: a crowned man with a gold staff leads the cast, flanked by purple and red feathered dancers, with the green masked and blue feathered women behind them.

The Wild is the richest symbol on the reels, outpaying even the crowned man. It substitutes for everything except the Carnaval Queen and the Bonus Buy Coin, and it won’t stand in for a symbol when its own combination pays more. That makes full wild lines the prize the base game quietly builds towards.

Free Spins With the Carnaval Queen

The Carnaval Queen is the game’s scatter, and she doesn’t need to sit on a win line. Land her anywhere in view three or more times and the feature begins. The awards step up with each extra Queen:

• 3 Queens – 5 free spins
• 4 Queens – 7 free spins
• 5 Queens – 9 free spins

The round runs at the bet of the spin that triggered it. The twist is that every free spin is a winning spin: each one awards a prize, so the round can’t run dry in the way most free spins rounds can.

Land another Queen during the feature and she adds two more spins, with no stated cap on how many times she can reappear. The wild won’t substitute for her, so every Queen that lands mid-round is pure spin fuel rather than part of a paying line.

The Double Up Game

After any standard win, a Double Up button opens a coin-flip gamble. It works like this:

• Choose GAMBLE ALL or GAMBLE 50% to set your stake
• Call HEADS or TAILS on the coin flip
• A correct call doubles the staked amount
• Repeat as many times as you like, or press COLLECT to bank what’s left

There’s no stated limit on repeat gambles, so a streak of correct calls can compound one modest win into something much bigger. One wrong call ends the streak and takes the staked amount with it. The half-stake option is what gives this old-school feature its nuance, letting you risk only part of a win while the rest stays banked.

Double Up is unavailable after the free spins feature, which keeps the two bonus systems separated.

Buy Feature and the Bonus Buy Coin

Impatient players can skip the queue entirely. The Buy Feature purchases entry into the free spins round with 10 free spins, and at the base bet of 0.30 the price reads 29.94, so it costs just shy of 100x the stake.

The clever part is the Bonus Buy Coin, which appears randomly on reels two and four. Each coin on the reels shaves a random amount off the buy price, between 0.06 and 0.60 at the base bet. That works out to anywhere from a fifth of the bet up to twice it.

Bring the cost all the way down to zero with enough coins and the game awards a free spin with a guaranteed win instead. A few working rules round the coin out:

• Coins fly off the reels before wins are calculated, with new symbols dropping into place behind them
• When the final coin needed for a zero-cost trigger appears, all coins are removed and any surplus is void
• The coin doesn’t appear during free spins, and the buy button switches off there too
• Discounts stay attached to the bet configuration they were earned at – switching stakes and switching back reapplies the saving

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.7/10

Carnaval Forever plays like a street party rather than a heist: modest prizes arrive steadily, and the game keeps handing you small decisions about what to do with them. The one reason somebody would choose it is that guarantee – a free spins round where no spin can come back empty, with a Queen who keeps extending the night.

Its strength is the coin system. The buy price doesn’t sit still, and because every coin on reels two and four quietly chips away at it, even a base-game spin with no win can still move you towards something. That’s rare design, and it gives the flat 10-line build a second layer most games in this format don’t have.

The weakness is the ceiling: five wilds, the top paytable symbol, pay 100x, and no maximum win is stated anywhere, so the game reads like one built on a steady drip of smaller ones. It suits players who enjoy that rhythm – collect, gamble, bank the discount, wait for the Queen – rather than anyone hunting a single life-changing spin. As festival nights go, this one is generous with its small moments, and honest about never promising more.

Carnaval Forever FAQs

• What is the RTP of Carnaval Forever?

  Carnaval Forever runs at an RTP of 96.63%, which sits comfortably above the industry average for an online slot.
• How many paylines does Carnaval Forever have?

  Carnaval Forever has 10 win lines, and wins are formed from the leftmost reel onwards. Only the highest combination on each line pays.
• What is the grid size of Carnaval Forever?

  Carnaval Forever plays on a classic 5×3 grid, with five reels and three rows of symbols.
• Can you buy the bonus on Carnaval Forever?

  Yes. The Buy Feature grants entry to 10 free spins, priced at 29.94 when the bet is set to 0.30. Bonus Buy Coins on the reels knock the price down, and enough of them bring it to zero for a guaranteed winning spin.
• How do you trigger free spins in Carnaval Forever?

  Landing three or more Carnaval Queen symbols anywhere on the reels starts the round. Three Queens are worth 5 spins, four give 7 and five give 9, every spin awards a prize, and another Queen mid-round adds two more spins.
• Who makes Carnaval Forever?

  Carnaval Forever is made by Betsoft, the studio behind titles like Take the Bank and Back to Venus.
• When is Carnaval Forever released?

  Carnaval Forever’s release date is 22 February 2019.
• Can you gamble your winnings in Carnaval Forever?

  Yes. After any standard win you can press Double Up to gamble half or all of your winnings on a coin flip, and repeat as many times as you like. It isn’t available after the free spins feature.