Dragon’s Cache Slot Review
A dragon’s hoard fills the screen: reels sunk into a slope of gold coins, a pickaxe jammed into the pile, three lidded chests perched along the top of the frame. Those chests are the argument of the whole game. The reels matter less than what lands on them, because the coloured coins – not the symbols – decide what your bonus round becomes.
Underneath sits an ordinary 5×4 grid with 40 paylines, running at 96.47% RTP with medium volatility and stakes from 0.20 to 50.00 per spin. SpinPlay Games built it, and it sits in a catalogue alongside Action Boost Max Dragon’s Cache, Amazing Link Riches and Action Boost Treasure Trove. The chests are where the gold actually is.
Base Game & Features
This is straightforward line-pay slot play. Wins run left to right from the first reel, and matching symbols have to land adjacent on a payline. Only the highest combination pays on each line, and the total payout is the sum of every line win from the spin. Nothing exotic, and nothing that needs a tutorial.
Each spin costs a total bet built from the initial bet multiplied by the cost of the paylines played. The number of lines is fixed rather than adjustable, so there’s no way to cheapen a spin by cutting lines.
The Eye symbol is the wild. It substitutes for everything except the Coin symbols, it can form its own winning combinations, and it lands stacked on all five reels. That stacking matters more than it sounds, because one of the bonus rounds turns it loose entirely.
Symbol values are modest, and they’re quoted as multiples of the total bet:
- Wild (Eye): 1x for three, 2x for four, 10x for five
- Gold Dragon: 0.5x for three, 1x for four, 5x for five
- Green Knight / Blue Knight: 0.25x for three, 0.5x for four, 2.5x for five
- Sword / Shield: 0.25x for three, 0.5x for four, 2x for five
The wild is the richest symbol on the grid, ahead of the Gold Dragon, which is unusual and rewards the stacked layout. The two knights share a payout tier, as do the sword and shield.
Every value shown moves with your bet, since the paytable scales to whatever stake you’ve set. It’s a compact paytable, and five-of-a-kind money is thin until a chest opens. The real work of the base game is putting coins where they need to go.
Dragon’s Cache Dragon Chest Free Spins
Dragon Coins are the engine of the whole game. Whenever one or more of them appear, there’s a chance the Dragon Chest Free Spins trigger, and each coin collects into the chest of the same colour above the reels.
The mix of coins that arrived when the feature sets off decides your Chest Upgrades. Land a green coin and a red coin together and you get both. One coin alone can be enough, which is why every Dragon Coin matters even when it shows up without company.
The animation of a coin flying to its chest doesn’t influence whether the feature fires. The trigger is decided the moment the coins land.
Green Chest Upgrade
Green coins open the wild round. Five free spins are awarded, 40 lines come into play, and every reel grows to a height of six symbol positions. Then the round’s signature move: any reel carrying a wild is nudged until all six positions on that reel are wild, and wins pay after the nudging.
A full reel of wilds in a six-row, 40-line layout changes every line that crosses it. On a good nudge, several of those lines pay at once.
Red Chest Upgrade
Red coins open the jackpot round, and 10 free spins are awarded. Every Gold Dragon Coin that lands gives you either a bonus credit prize equal to your current bet, or a letter towards one of the four jackpots:
- MEGA sits on top at 5,000 times the bet, spelled out from red M, E, G, A
- MAJOR follows at 500 times, needing purple M, A, J, O and R
- MINOR pays 50 times for the blue letters M, I, N, O, R
- MINI rounds it off at 10 times from a green M, I, N, I
Collect every letter for a jackpot and it pays, then the letters for that jackpot reset. Because they reset rather than clear, a single good round can pay the same jackpot more than once. Bonus credit prizes keep the spin-by-spin money ticking over while you chase letters.
Purple Chest Upgrade
Purple coins open the multiplier round. Five free spins are awarded, and every spin carries a random multiplier of 2, 3 or 5 applied to all line wins and bonus credit prizes.
Gold Dragon Coins behave differently here. Each one that lands during the round awards either one free spin, two free spins, or a bonus credit prize equal to your bet, so the round can grow well past its starting five spins if the coins keep coming.
Multiple Chest Upgrades
Upgrades stack. If a Red Chest Upgrade is among those triggered on a single base spin, 10 free spins are awarded; otherwise it’s five. All triggered upgrades run together, so the purple multiplier applies to line wins and credit prizes throughout. It doesn’t apply to jackpots, which pay their listed values regardless.
A red-plus-purple round is the combination everything feeds towards: jackpot letters, credit prizes and a multiplier running over both at once. The bet multiplier stays the same as the spin that triggered the feature, so the round plays out at whatever stake set it off.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.7/10
Most of your time here is spent in an ordinary base game, watching the same knights and swords line up for small money. The reason to sit through it is the hoard itself: every coin that lands has a destination, and even a spin that wins nothing moves you closer to a chest opening. Few slots make a dead spin feel like progress.
The chest system is the best thing in it. One trigger splits three ways into rounds that feel genuinely different, and they stack rather than compete – a red and purple round at the same time is the whole game paying off at once.
The reels themselves are the weak part. The wild tops out at 10x and nothing else comes close, so the base game never carries its own weight. This one suits patient players who enjoy a slow build and medium swings; anyone chasing big base-game hits will find the treasure thin until a chest opens. For the collectors, though, it’s a hoard worth sitting on.
Dragon’s Cache FAQs
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How do you trigger the Dragon Chest Free Spins?
Dragon Coins can set the feature off whenever they appear. Each one flies to the chest matching its colour above the reels, and the mix of coins that arrived decides your Chest Upgrades – green, red and purple each unlock a different round, and they can combine. -
What does the Green Chest Upgrade award in Dragon’s Cache?
A five-spin round on an expanded grid: every reel grows to six symbol positions and 40 lines come into play. Any reel that carries a wild is nudged until the whole reel is wild, and wins are calculated after those nudges. -
What does the Red Chest Upgrade award?
Ten free spins built around the jackpot ladder. Every Gold Dragon Coin that lands gives a credit prize equal to your bet or a letter towards MEGA, MAJOR, MINOR or MINI. Complete a set of letters and that jackpot pays, after which its letters reset and the chase starts again. -
What does the Purple Chest Upgrade award?
A five-spin round where every spin carries a random multiplier of 2, 3 or 5 over line wins and credit prizes. Gold Dragon Coins here add extra spins or a credit prize instead of jackpot letters. -
What are the Dragon’s Cache jackpot values?
The ladder steps from MINI at 10 times the bet, through MINOR at 50 times and MAJOR at 500 times, up to MEGA at 5,000 times the bet. Letters are collected during the Red Chest Upgrade, and the purple multiplier never applies to a jackpot. -
What is the RTP of Dragon’s Cache?
The RTP is 96.47%, which sits comfortably above the 96% industry average. -
Is Dragon’s Cache high volatility?
No, it’s a medium volatility slot. Wins hit on roughly 33.71% of spins, which supports a steadier session than a high-variance jackpot game. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on Dragon’s Cache?
Stakes run from 0.20 to 50.00 per spin.
