Cat’s Blessing

Cat’s Blessing Slot Review

Three plump lucky cats sit on a red temple roof at dusk, each hugging a gold coin medallion to its chest, with misty purple mountains drifting behind them and ingots heaped along the roofline. It’s a warm, generous image of fortune, and Cat’s Blessing carries it through every part of the game. This is Evoplay‘s Asian fortune slot, built around a single big idea: the main game’s bonus symbols carry real values, but you can’t collect a single one of them outside the Bonus Game.

It runs on a 5×3 grid with 20 fixed paylines, a 96.02% RTP and mid volatility, with four differently coloured bonus symbols feeding a booster-driven Bonus Game. Fans of Panda’s Coins and Piggy Bank: Coinstorm will recognise the shape, and it sits in the Evoplay catalogue alongside Honey Royale. The cats, at least, look confident in the arrangement.

Base Game: Paylines, Wilds and Bonus Symbols

Cat’s Blessing is a five-reel, three-row slot played across 20 fixed paylines. Wins form in sequence from the leftmost reel, and the more identical symbols that land in a row, the bigger the payout. There are ten regular symbols in total.

The reels sit inside a red and gold pavilion facade with carved gold trim, red wooden balconies along the lower edges and dark green shrubs framing the scene, all under soft pink and violet clouds. It’s a lush, painted look, more cartoon than solemn, and the coin-heaped roofline keeps the tone firmly on the fortune side of the theme.

The Wild lands only on reels two to five in the main game, standing in for any regular symbol in a winning combination. Bonus symbols are outside its reach. That’s the whole job, and it does it without fuss.

The more interesting symbols are the four Bonus types: Red, Purple, Green and Gold. Purple, Red and Green appear only in the main game, and each carries a random value from the same pool:

• 1x total bet
• 2x total bet
• 3x total bet
• 5x total bet
• 10x total bet
• 12x total bet
• 15x total bet
• MINI jackpot
• MEGA jackpot
• SUPER jackpot

Values are displayed in whatever currency you’re playing in. The Gold Bonus symbol appears only during the Bonus Game itself, and winnings for bonus symbols are paid only in the Bonus Game. In the main game, landing them is about the trigger, not the cash.

The Bonus Game and Its Boosters

Each round in which Purple, Red or Green bonus symbols land on the reels, there’s a chance the Bonus Game triggers with its matching booster attached. The colour matters: purple maps to Extra Wealth, red to Extra Reels and green to Extra Spin. Better still, the round can arrive with one, two or all three boosters active at once.

The trigger is a chance rather than a certainty, so a scatter landing is never a guarantee. Which colours landed in the triggering spin is what decides the shape of the round ahead.

Inside the round, only Gold Bonus symbols land on the reels, each carrying a value from the same list as their main-game cousins. The boosters then bend the round in their own direction.

Extra Wealth

In each round of the Bonus Game, there’s a chance the values of one to four random bonus symbols are increased, by 0.5x, 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x or 10x the total bet. It doesn’t apply to symbols carrying the Mini, Mega or Super jackpots, so the ladder stays fixed while everything around it grows.

Extra Reels

An additional bonus field is added at the start of the feature. Bonus symbols in the bottom field are duplicated into the corresponding positions on the top field, and both fields then spin independently for the rest of the round. At the end, prizes from both fields are summed into the total win.

In effect, the round plays out across two boards at once, and every symbol that starts in the bottom field gets a mirror in the top one. It’s the booster that most changes what a round is worth.

Extra Spin

The simplest of the three: the number of spins in the Bonus Game increases to four. It stacks cleanly with the other two, which is where the round’s bigger results come from.

The Jackpot Ladder

A four-tier jackpot ladder sits above the reels, quoted here as multiples of the bet:

• MINI – 35x the bet
• MEGA – 80x the bet
• SUPER – 350x the bet
• GRAND – 3,000x the bet

Bonus symbols can carry the Mini, Mega and Super values directly, which makes them part of the round’s ordinary payouts rather than a separate feature. The Grand sits at the top of the display on its own, unattached to any symbol value in the round itself. Extra Wealth boosts never touch the jackpot symbols, so the ladder pays exactly what it says.

Everything else the round can pay is built from symbol values and booster increases, and the game prints no maximum-win figure beyond the jackpot ladder, so the ladder’s top rung and a well-boosted board of Gold symbols between them define what a best-case round looks like.

Bonus Buy

There’s a Bonus Buy button in the interface for those who’d rather skip the wait, and it’s the only way to guarantee the round arrives. The buy sidesteps the trigger’s chance element entirely and puts you straight into the bonus field; the interface shows no purchase price or purchase details.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.1/10

This is a game you play for the trigger, not the spinning. Sessions in Cat’s Blessing are long stretches of watching the temple go by, waiting for the right colours to line up, and the pretty dusk-lit courtyard makes that easier than it sounds. The reason to sit down at it at all is the moment the Bonus Game finally arrives carrying more than one booster.

That stacking is the best thing here: a trigger with Extra Reels and Extra Spin together turns a small collect round into something with a genuine tail on it. The top of the ladder is the Grand at 3,000x the bet, the highest rung of the four-tier jackpot ladder.

It’s a good fit for coin-collect players who enjoy waiting for the big moment, and mid volatility keeps the wait fair. Players chasing huge potential will want more than the cats are holding. For everyone else, the roof is warm and the coins are real enough.

Cat’s Blessing FAQs

• What is the RTP of Cat’s Blessing?

  Cat’s Blessing runs at an RTP of 96.02%, which sits comfortably around the industry average.
• Is Cat’s Blessing high volatility?

  No. Cat’s Blessing is a mid volatility slot, so wins tend to arrive at a steadier rhythm than in high variance games, with the bigger results concentrated in the Bonus Game.
• How many paylines does Cat’s Blessing have?

  The game is played with 20 fixed paylines on every spin, with winning combinations forming from left to right.
• What is the grid size of Cat’s Blessing?

  Cat’s Blessing uses a 5×3 grid: five reels and three rows. During the Bonus Game with the Extra Reels booster, a second bonus field is added above the first.
• What do the boosters do in the Bonus Game?

  There are three boosters. Purple bonus symbols can trigger the round with Extra Wealth, which increases the value of one to four random symbols. Red symbols bring Extra Reels, adding a second bonus field with duplicated symbols. Green symbols bring Extra Spin, which raises the round to four spins. One, two or all three can be active at once.
• Which symbols appear in the Bonus Game?

  Only Gold Bonus symbols land during the Bonus Game. The Red, Purple and Green symbols exist purely in the main game, where landing them gives a chance of triggering the round, and all bonus symbol winnings are paid inside the Bonus Game itself.
• Can you buy the bonus on Cat’s Blessing?

  Yes, there’s a Bonus Buy option in the game interface that takes you straight into the Bonus Game, skipping the trigger’s chance element entirely.
• When is Cat’s Blessing released?

  Cat’s Blessing’s release date is 12 September 2024.