Mystic Spirits Slot Review
Carved totem poles crowd the edges of a night forest, their faces lit by a violet sky scattered with stars, ferns glowing warm along the bottom of the frame. It’s a dense, painted setting, and Mystic Spirits from Red Rake Gaming uses it to dress up an unusual arithmetic: the most interesting number in this game isn’t a multiplier, it’s a spin count. Where most slots build towards one enormous hit, this one builds towards a free spins total that can reach 300 on entry and keep climbing.
The chassis is conventional: a 5×4 grid, 50 paylines, an RTP of 95.1%, and a single feature doing the work. It sits on a shelf with Million Zeus 2, Secrets Of The Temple 2 and Viva Fiesta. The ceiling is modest: the largest prize recorded across two billion simulated games was 1,223.5x the bet.
Reels, Paylines and the Paytable
The game runs on five reels and four rows, with wins calculated from left to right across 50 fixed paylines. One symbol breaks that rule. The Shaman combines in both directions, so it pays right to left as well, which quietly widens its hit potential beyond every other symbol on the board.
Two further housekeeping rules keep the payouts tidy. Where a line could pay more than one win, only the highest counts. And where a combination of symbols would give more than one win, the configuration producing the highest multiplier takes the payout.
The Wild appears on reels two, three and four and substitutes for everything except the Wolf Spirit symbol. That’s the whole of its job, and on a four-row grid with 50 lines it does enough with it. Its absence from the outer reels matters, too: five-of-a-kind wins through a Wild are impossible, since the first and last reels must supply the real symbol.
Staking is handled through a total bet selector, with the chosen value applying to every spin, and autospin runs the game automatically for a selected number of rounds at that same level. The paytable values move with the currency being played, so nothing is locked to a fixed credit amount.
Pays are multiples of the total bet, not the line bet, which is worth holding in mind when the numbers look small at first glance. The ladder from top to bottom:
- Waterfall/landscape: 0.6x for three, 2.4x for four, 10x for five
- Tent/camp: 0.6x for three, 2x for four, 10x for five
- Axe, Pipe, Drum: 0.5x for three, 1x for four, 6x for five
- A, K, Q, J: 0.3x for three, 0.5x for four, 3x for five
The two premium symbols are where the theme lives on the reels. One is a waterfall landscape, the other a camp or tent, and the mid-tiers follow the same world: an axe, a pipe and a drum. Each of those three shares a single pay row, so an axe pays exactly what a drum pays at every count.
Below them sit the four royals, A through J, which carry the smallest steps on the ladder and will be the symbols you see completing lines most often. They’re the ballast of the base game: frequent, small, and never the reason a session turns.
It’s a compressed ladder, then. The top symbol returning 10x the total bet for a five-of-a-kind tells you the base game is built around frequent, modest returns rather than big line wins, and the free spins feature carries the real work.
Wolf Spirit Free Spins
Everything bonus-related runs through one symbol: the Wolf Spirit. It doesn’t substitute for anything, and nothing substitutes for it, which makes it the one symbol on the board playing its own game.
Land three, four or five of them and you’re awarded free spins, in addition to any payline win from that spin. The feature triggers independently of what the triggering spin pays, so a dead spin can still open the bonus. What you get:
- Three Wolf Spirit symbols: 10 free spins
- Four Wolf Spirit symbols: 20 free spins
- Five Wolf Spirit symbols: 50 free spins
- Any carried symbol values: added to the total on top
- Maximum on entry: 300 free spins
The twist is in the symbol itself. Each Wolf Spirit may carry a value, and that value gets added to the total free spins awarded on entry. For a game whose base paytable tops out at 10x, that’s where the arithmetic lives: the difference between a bare three-symbol trigger and a value-loaded one can be dozens of spins before the round has even begun.
Inside the Feature
The free spins round is played on special reels carrying more Wilds than the base game, at the same bet level as the spin that activated it. Since the Wild sits on the middle three reels and substitutes for everything except the Wolf Spirit, a Wild-heavy reel set across 50 paylines is where the meaningful wins in this game are made.
Retriggers work the same way as the original trigger. The same three, four or five symbol counts apply inside the feature, and any values the new Wolf Spirits carry feed the running total as well. A three-symbol landing mid-feature adds its ten spins plus whatever the symbols carry; a five-symbol landing adds fifty plus values.
Between the entry values and the retriggers, the spin count can keep climbing for as long as the Wolf Spirit keeps appearing. There’s no stated ceiling on the retriggered total, only on the entry count.
One practical note on interruption: if the game disconnects mid-feature, the round is randomly completed and the winnings stored, then credited on the next connection, with a full replay available through the betting history.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7/10
Mystic Spirits is a waiting game in the best sense: the reels turn, small wins trickle, and everything is pointed at one symbol. The spin total is what sets it apart from plainer five-reelers. Watching the Wolf Spirits stack their values into a feature that starts at 50 and grows from there is a proper pleasure, and the Wild-heavy reel set inside gives it somewhere to land.
Its strength is the feature’s generosity of pace rather than size; its weakness is the paytable underneath it, which tops out at 10x and makes the base game feel like a corridor between bonuses. The Shaman’s two-way pays help, but not enough to change that.
It suits players who like a long build and count spins as the prize. Anyone after a single life-changing hit should look elsewhere; the forest here rewards patience, not nerve.
Mystic Spirits FAQs
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What is the RTP of Mystic Spirits?
95.1%. That figure is the total expected return, measured across a simulation of two billion games. -
How do you trigger the free spins in Mystic Spirits?
Land three, four or five Wolf Spirit symbols to trigger the free spins feature with 10, 20 or 50 spins respectively. The trigger pays out independently of any line win on the same spin. -
What does the Wolf Spirit symbol do?
It’s the feature symbol. Three, four or five of them award 10, 20 or 50 free spins, and each symbol may also carry a value that’s added to the free spins total, up to a maximum of 300 spins on entry. The Wild can’t substitute for it. -
Can free spins retrigger in Mystic Spirits?
Yes. The same Wolf Spirit counts that open the feature also retrigger it, adding a fresh batch of spins plus any carried values to your running total. -
What does the Shaman symbol do in Mystic Spirits?
It’s the one symbol that pays both ways. Every other symbol only forms winning combinations from left to right, but the Shaman combines in both directions, so it can complete wins running right to left as well. -
How many paylines does Mystic Spirits have?
50 paylines on a 5×4 grid. Wins pay left to right, except the Shaman symbol, which combines in both directions. -
Can the Wild symbol substitute for the Wolf Spirit in Mystic Spirits?
No. The Wild substitutes for every symbol except the Wolf Spirit, and it only appears on the middle three reels. -
When is Mystic Spirits released?
Mystic Spirits’ release date is 24 May 2023.
