Multi Charm

Multi Charm Slot Review

An auburn-haired elf stands beside the reels at sunrise, shamrock in her braid, gold-flecked leaves sprouting from a vine-wound frame: this is the fairy-tale Ireland done properly, and Multi Charm leans on it hard. The claim worth making is that all of that polish is a distraction from a slow, deliberate game. Nearly every session here is spent filling a meter, and the free spins only pay what that meter earned – walk in early and you’re spinning the base paytable with extra steps.

Gong Gaming built it, and it sits alongside Buffalo Ways and Empire Shields in their small catalogue, with Lucky O’Mega also worth a look. It runs on a 5×4 grid with 25 paylines, 96% RTP and high volatility, with stakes from 0.50 to 125.00. There’s a rainbow at the end of this one; whether there’s gold is the question.

Base Game & Features

Wins pay left to right across 25 fixed lines on the 5×4 grid. Only the highest combination on each line counts. It’s a conventional setup, and the paytable underneath it is conventional too: the Beer Mug leads, the royals trail, and nothing in the base ladder pays more than 40x your line stake for five of a kind.

• Beer Mug – 0.28x for two, 2x for three, 10x for four, 40x for five
• Horseshoe, Green Hat – 1x for three, 3.2x for four, 14x for five
• Harp, Horn – 0.8x for three, 2.4x for four, 10x for five
• A, K – 0.6x for three, 2x for four, 8x for five
• Q, J – 0.4x for three, 1.6x for four, 4.8x for five
• 10 – 0.32x for three, 0.8x for four, 2.4x for five

The tiers tell their own story. There’s a steep drop from the Beer Mug, which pays for even two of a kind, down to the Horseshoe and Green Hat at 14x for five, and then a gentler slope through the instruments and the card symbols. The 10 sits at the bottom of the ladder.

Pair those numbers with the maths and the shape of the game becomes clear. A 41% hit rate means better than two spins in five land something, but nearly everything that lands comes from the lower tiers – three Qs at 0.4x, a couple of Harps at 0.8x. At the minimum 0.50 stake, spread across 25 lines, that’s coin-change wins arriving steadily while the balance drifts down. The Beer Mug is the only symbol that pays for a pair, which is what keeps the meter-spinning sessions affordable at the bottom of the range.

Wilds appear on the reels and substitute for any paying symbol, completing lines that would otherwise fall short. That’s their whole job here. A wild in the right spot turns three Aces into four, moving the payout from 0.6x to 2x, or four into five, moving it from 2x to 8x.

ProgressiveX

Coin symbols are the base game’s second job. Every coin that lands fills the Rainbow meter, and each time you fill it, the Free Spins multiplier increases by one. Coins also reveal a Free Spins symbol as they land.

The meter counts down how many coins the next fill needs, and the requirement shrinks as it fills: nine coins, then six, four, two, one. Hitting the x2 level brings up a banner and the multiplier climbs from there, one full meter at a time. Because each fill needs fewer coins than the last, the multiplier accelerates the deeper into a session you go – the first step costs nine coins, and by the fifth it costs one.

So the base game isn’t only spinning for line wins. It’s quietly building the multiplier your bonus round will run on, which gives otherwise dead spins something to feed. It also means a bonus triggered early, before the meter has moved, runs on the raw paytable alone – 10 spins at x1, where five of a kind Beer Mugs still pays just 40x.

Multi Charm Free Spins & ProgressiveX

Three, four or five Free Spins symbols anywhere on the reels award 10 free spins. Every win in the round is multiplied by the ProgressiveX level you brought in with you, and the higher the level, the bigger the multiplier. All bets and lines stay exactly as they were on the triggering spin, so what you were staking is what the round pays on.

Retriggers are unusually generous. Any Free Spins symbol during the round adds more spins, and it doesn’t take a full scatter line to do it:

• 5 symbols – +50 free spins
• 4 symbols – +20 free spins
• 3 symbols – +10 free spins
• 2 symbols – +5 free spins
• 1 symbol – +2 free spins

Retriggers are infinite. A single symbol adding two spins is rarer than it sounds; most games in this bracket demand three before anything happens. The ladder also front-loads its biggest awards, so a five-symbol drop mid-round doesn’t just extend it, it doubles the length of what you already had.

One number you won’t get is a maximum win. Multi Charm states no ceiling, so the honest answer on potential is the multiplier you build and the paytable you’re multiplying: a top line of 40x, scaled by however high the Rainbow meter climbed.

Because the multiplier is set before the round starts, the free spins themselves don’t escalate the way collection features inside a bonus round do. What you walk in with is what every win gets. The retrigger ladder is the only thing that grows the round once it’s running, which is why those +2 and +5 additions matter more here than they would elsewhere.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.1/10

Playing Multi Charm is a long walk through a very pretty meadow. Nothing much happens for stretches, wins trickle in coin-sized, and the whole point is the pot you’re filling at the end of the rainbow. That’s the one reason to pick it: a bonus entered after a real session of coin collecting is a different animal to anything the base game hints at, and the anticipation genuinely builds.

The retrigger ladder is the best thing in it – one symbol adding spins, forever, so a good round keeps feeding itself. The paytable is the problem. A 40x ceiling on the best line means the multipliers aren’t sweetening the wins, they’re carrying them, and a cold-triggered bonus can feel like a formality.

This is one for the patient: sessions here reward a long build and don’t apologise for the quiet stretches. Anyone after quick, frequent feature hits will be happier elsewhere in the meadow.

Multi Charm FAQs

• What is the RTP of Multi Charm?

  The RTP is 96%, which sits right at the industry standard for online slots.
• How do you trigger free spins in Multi Charm?

  Landing 3, 4 or 5 Free Spins symbols anywhere on the reels starts the round with 10 free spins. Any Free Spins symbol during the round retriggers it.
• What do Multi Charm retriggers award?

  5 symbols add 50 free spins, 4 add 20, 3 add 10, 2 add 5 and a single symbol adds 2. Retriggers are unlimited during the round.
• What does ProgressiveX do in Multi Charm?

  Every Coin symbol that lands fills the Rainbow meter. Each time you fill it, the Free Spins multiplier increases by one, and every win in the bonus round is multiplied by the level you reached.
• How many coins does the Rainbow meter need in Multi Charm?

  The first fill takes 9 Coins, then the requirement drops to 6, 4, 2 and 1 for each fill after that, so the Free Spins multiplier climbs faster the longer you play.
• Is Multi Charm high volatility?

  Yes, Multi Charm is a high-volatility slot with a 41% hit rate, so wins are frequent but usually small while the big money sits in the multiplied bonus round.
• What are the betting limits on Multi Charm?

  Stakes run from 0.50 to 125.00 per spin, with the same bet and lines carried into any free spins round you trigger.
• When is Multi Charm released?

  Multi Charm’s release date is 26 June 2023.
• Who makes Multi Charm?

  Multi Charm is made by Gong Gaming, whose other reviewed titles include Buffalo Ways, Empire Shields and Lucky O’Mega.