Grace Of Ebisu

Grace Of Ebisu Slot Review

Cherry blossom branches hang over a red lacquered pagoda, and a bearded old man sits at the water’s edge cradling an orange fish. That’s Ebisu, the Japanese god of fishermen and good fortune, and Pragmatic Play have given him a lush, storybook garden to preside over, with lily pads, misty hills and gold cloud scrollwork framing the reels. It’s a lovely spot, and unusually for a game this pretty, the maths underneath is doing all the heavy lifting: the calm exterior houses one of the more brutal high-volatility builds in the studio’s catalogue.

Grace Of Ebisu runs a 6×4 grid where symbols pay anywhere on screen, with tumbles, random multiplier symbols up to 500x, and a win cap of 5,000x the bet. RTP sits at 96.50%, volatility is high, and stakes run from 0.20 to 300 per spin. It sits in the same family as Gates of Olympus, Sugar Rush and Starlight Princess. Ebisu’s grace, in this case, is measurable.

Symbols Pay Anywhere

There are no paylines here. Symbols pay anywhere on the screen, and the total number of the same symbol visible at the end of a spin determines the win. Landing ten or more of a kind is where the money starts, with a second, richer tier from twelve symbols up.

Every symbol pays across two bands: a modest rate for ten or eleven on screen, and a much richer one for twelve through thirty. Wins with multiple symbols in one spin are all added together into the total. The values below are shown at the game’s example 2.00 stake.

• Geisha – 50.00 for 10-11 symbols, 100.00 for 12-30
• Koi Fish – 20.00 for 10-11, 50.00 for 12-30
• Frog – 10.00 for 10-11, 30.00 for 12-30
• Cherry Blossom Circle – 4.00 for 10-11, 24.00 for 12-30
• A – 3.00 for 10-11, 20.00 for 12-30
• K – 2.40 for 10-11, 16.00 for 12-30
• Q – 2.00 for 10-11, 10.00 for 12-30
• J – 1.80 for 10-11, 8.00 for 12-30
• 10 – 1.50 for 10-11, 4.00 for 12-30

There’s no wild. The special symbols are the multiplier orbs, covered below, and the scatter chest, which pays on any position: 100x the bet for six, 5x for five and 3x for four, with four or more also awarding free spins.

Tumbles and Multiplier Symbols

Every winning spin triggers the tumble feature. Winning symbols vanish, everything remaining drops to the bottom, and new symbols fall in from above. Tumbling continues as long as new wins keep forming, and there’s no limit to how many tumbles a single spin can chain.

All wins from a sequence are added together once it ends, and the total lands in the balance as one sum. That’s when the multiplier orbs settle their bill, and they’re the reason a modest tumble can finish far bigger than it started.

Multiplier Symbols

Coloured orbs can land on any reel, during both base game spins and tumbles, in the base game and the bonus alike. Each one that hits takes a random value from a ladder of fifteen possible stops:

• 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x and 8x at the low end
• 10x, 12x, 15x, 20x and 25x through the middle
• 50x, 100x, 250x and 500x at the top

When the tumble sequence finishes, every orb still on screen adds its value to the others, and the combined total multiplies the entire sequence win. An orb landing on a spin that wins nothing contributes nothing. Several orbs in one sequence is where the base game’s bigger results come from.

Free Spins

The scatter chest is the trigger: land four or more anywhere on screen and the round begins. Special reels are in play for the duration, and the round runs like this:

1. The round starts with 15 free spins.
2. Every multiplier orb that lands on a winning spin is added to a running total for the whole round.
3. That total multiplies every subsequent winning spin, and it keeps growing as new orbs land.
4. Three or more scatters at any point award five additional spins.
5. The whole round’s win is paid out once it completes.

The twist is what happens to the multipliers. In the base game they apply once and vanish. Here they stick around as a running total, so multipliers stop being one-off events and start compounding. An orb that lands on the first spin can still be lifting wins on the fifteenth.

Retriggers are generous by the standard of the family: three or more scatters during the round award five additional spins, not the usual four. With the running multiplier carrying over, those extra spins arrive at exactly the moment they’re worth the most.

Ante Bet and Bonus Buy

Two bet multipliers are on offer, and they change more than the stake. At the 25x multiplier, extra scatters sit on the reels and the natural trigger chance doubles, but the buy option disappears. At the 20x multiplier, the buy stays in the menu.

It’s a straight choice between hunting the bonus and buying it. The 25x route suits players happy to wait, with twice the natural trigger rate doing the work. The 20x route keeps the shortcut open, at the cost of the improved scatter frequency.

The buy itself costs 100x the base bet and drops you straight into the free spins round. The RTP is the same 96.50% whichever route you take, so the choice is purely about variance and patience.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.6/10

Playing Grace Of Ebisu is a long sit in a beautiful garden waiting for the fish to bite. That’s the honest shape of it: the base game is patient work, and the reason to choose it over plainer siblings is the setting itself, which is genuinely one of the nicer paint jobs this formula has worn.

The free spins round is the game’s real asset, and it’s a better build than most of the family gets – the running multiplier compounds across the whole round, and retriggers ask for just three scatters, so a round that starts well keeps paying for itself.

The weakness is the cap. A 5,000x ceiling is modest next to what the compounding multipliers seem to promise, and it quietly trims the very rounds that build biggest. Still, if you like your volatility dressed in cherry blossom, Ebisu’s garden is a fine place to wait for it.

Grace Of Ebisu FAQs

• How do you trigger free spins in Grace Of Ebisu?

  Four or more scatter chest symbols anywhere on the screen award the free spins round, which starts with 15 spins. During the round, three or more scatters award five additional spins.
• How do multiplier symbols work in Grace Of Ebisu?

  Multiplier orbs land randomly on any reel during spins and tumbles, taking values from 2x up to 500x. When a tumble sequence ends, all orbs on screen add together and multiply the total win of that sequence. In free spins, each winning multiplier is added to a running total for the whole round.
• What is the RTP of Grace Of Ebisu?

  The RTP is 96.50%, and it stays at 96.50% whether you use the ante bet or buy the free spins round.
• Is Grace Of Ebisu high volatility?

  Yes, it’s a high volatility game, so wins can be infrequent and the biggest results come from the free spins round and its running multiplier.
• Can you buy the bonus on Grace Of Ebisu?

  Yes. The free spins round can be bought instantly from the base game for 100x the base bet. The buy is disabled when the 25x ante bet is enabled.
• What does the ante bet do in Grace Of Ebisu?

  The 25x bet multiplier puts extra scatter symbols on the reels and doubles the chance of triggering free spins naturally, but it switches the bonus buy off. The 20x multiplier keeps the buy menu open.
• How does Grace Of Ebisu pay wins?

  Symbols pay anywhere on the screen rather than on paylines. The total number of the same symbol on screen at the end of a spin determines the win, with pays starting from ten of a kind.
• What is the maximum win on Grace Of Ebisu?

  The maximum win is capped at 5,000x the bet. If a round’s total win reaches that cap, the round ends immediately and the win is paid up to the cap.