Imperial Palace

Imperial Palace Slot Review

Cherry blossom crowds in from both edges of the screen, framing gold-capped columns and a pair of red-and-gold palace lanterns in a Chinese imperial courtyard at the height of spring, with hazy blue sky and distant tiled palace roofs showing through behind it. Beneath all that ornament sits an unusually honest piece of design: the paytable here is deliberately too weak to matter on its own, and nearly every win worth having is painted onto the reels by the game rather than landed.

It’s a setting Red Tiger have painted with real care, and the game inside it is a simple one built around a single idea: a brush that paints wilds onto the reels while you watch. Imperial Palace runs on a 5×4 grid with 20 paylines, a 96.16% RTP, and a maximum win of 1,010x your stake, with bets from 0.1 to 50 per spin. Players who enjoy the ornate Far East look will find cousins here in Emperor of India and Dragon’s Mirror.

How the Base Game Pays

Wins are paid when a symbol matches a payline pattern running from the leftmost side of the reels. With 20 fixed paylines and a hit frequency of 22.68%, roughly one spin in four connects with something.

The paytable splits into five themed symbols and six royals, with a modest gap between the richest row and the poorest. Here’s what each symbol pays at five, four and three of a kind:

• Pagoda/Temple: 6.9x / 2.9x / 1.4x
• Guzheng: 4.4x / 1.9x / 0.9x
• Vase: 3.5x / 1.6x / 0.8x
• Phoenix: 3x / 1.4x / 0.6x
• Flower: 2.5x / 1.2x / 0.5x
• A: 1.9x / 0.9x / 0.5x
• K: 1.8x / 0.8x / 0.5x
• Q: 1.6x / 0.6x / 0.4x
• J: 1.4x / 0.6x / 0.4x
• 10: 1.2x / 0.5x / 0.3x
• 9: 1x / 0.5x / 0.3x

The themed tier is where the money is. The Pagoda sits clearly clear of the Guzheng beneath it, and the Vase, Phoenix and Flower step down gently from there in a smooth curve rather than a cliff. No standard symbol reaches double figures, so every big result in this game needs wilds in it.

The royals are close together and close to the floor, with the whole A-to-9 stretch compressed into a narrow band. A full royal line barely clears your stake. What they do provide is filler for near-misses and small credits between the brush’s appearances, and at a hit rate of one spin in four those small credits arrive often enough to matter.

The wild is a gold coin marked WILD, painted onto the reels by the feature, and it’s the richest symbol in the game by some distance. It substitutes for the other symbols, and some versions carry a 2x, 3x or 5x multiplier on any win they help complete. Because it’s painted rather than landed, it can appear in places an ordinary symbol never would.

Stacked Pagoda symbols can fill whole reels to build the bigger base game wins, and multiple wilds covering the first couple of reels at once are a real possibility mid-spin. Combine a stacked reel with a few painted wilds on the lines beside it and the middle of the paytable suddenly pays like the top of it.

That’s the shape of the base game: steady, undemanding, waiting for the brush to arrive. The bet range of 0.1 to 50 per spin leaves room for both cautious spins and a serious push, and nothing in the paytable punishes either end of it.

The Brush of Good Fortune

The Brush of Good Fortune is the game’s signature modifier, and it’s what stops the base game from being a plain payline spinner. It appears while the reels are still spinning and paints wilds directly onto them. Nothing announces it in advance, and nothing builds up to it.

How much it paints varies. A brushstroke can cover reels one and two entirely, or scatter single wilds across the grid. A covered reel pair early in the spin matters more than it sounds, since every payline starts from the leftmost side and wilds there complete more lines than wilds further right.

When the multiplier versions land together, their values stack into what can become the game’s largest base game payouts. A single 5x wild turning a mid-table line into the best result on the screen is exactly the kind of swing this modifier exists to create.

There’s no bet requirement, no symbol to collect and no meter to fill: the brush simply arrives while the reels are turning, and its wilds count towards the next result. It’s a modifier that works purely by surprise, and it can strike on any spin.

During Free Spins the brush takes on a second job. It may wave past from left to right and add multipliers to the wilds already sitting on the reels, so a round that starts modestly can grow wilds as it runs. Everything the feature does flows through that one painted symbol.

Free Spins

Landing three trigger symbols starts the round. There’s no fixed award: when it begins you take your pick to reveal the number of free spins you’ve won, which adds a small moment of ceremony to an otherwise simple trigger. The pick is the round’s only decision, and it’s over in a second.

Inside the round, the brush’s left-to-right sweep is the mechanic to watch. It doesn’t just add new wilds; it upgrades the ones already on the reels with multipliers, and those upgrades persist for the spins that follow. Multiplier wilds built up during free spins are where the game’s bigger results live, and the round leans on them heavily.

The round sits within the game’s overall 1,010x ceiling, so the ceiling itself doesn’t change once you’re inside. There’s no bonus buy option, so the pick screen is the only way in: the route runs through ordinary spins, three symbols at a time.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.1/10

This is a slot you settle into rather than chase, and the reason to choose it is the brush: a beautifully framed little flourish that can turn an ordinary spin into the best result of the session without warning. Sessions move at a gentle palace pace, kept ticking by small wins, waiting for the paint to land.

The Free Spins round is the best thing here, because multiplier wilds that persist and stack give the game its only genuine escalation. The ceiling is the problem: 1,010x is a small number now, and there’s no route to more of it.

It’s for players who like a pretty, low-drama session and a feature with personality, and it isn’t for anyone hunting a life-changing multiplier. The blossom doesn’t hide that, but it doesn’t have to. The courtyard is still a pleasant place to sit.

Imperial Palace FAQs

• What does the Brush of Good Fortune do in Imperial Palace?

  The Brush of Good Fortune appears while the reels are spinning and paints wild symbols onto them. During Free Spins, the brush may also sweep past from left to right and add multipliers to the wilds.
• How do you trigger Free Spins in Imperial Palace?

  Landing three of the trigger symbols starts the round. When it begins, you take your pick to reveal the number of free spins awarded.
• What is the RTP of Imperial Palace?

  Imperial Palace has an RTP of 96.16%.
• How many paylines does Imperial Palace have?

  Imperial Palace has 20 paylines on a 5×4 grid, with all wins paid from the leftmost side of the reels.
• What is the maximum win on Imperial Palace?

  The maximum win on Imperial Palace is 1,010x your stake.
• What are the minimum and maximum bets on Imperial Palace?

  Bets run from 0.1 to 50 per spin.
• Can you buy the Free Spins bonus in Imperial Palace?

  No, there’s no bonus buy option. The only route into Free Spins is landing three trigger symbols during ordinary spins.
• What is the hit frequency of Imperial Palace?

  The hit frequency is 22.68%, which works out at roughly one winning spin in four.
• Does the Brush of Good Fortune only appear in the base game?

  No. The brush appears during ordinary spins and again inside Free Spins, where it may wave past from left to right and add multipliers to the wilds already on the reels.
• Who makes Imperial Palace?

  Imperial Palace is made by Red Tiger.