Riches of Robin Slot Review
A misty medieval town of slate spires and timber-framed houses sits behind the reels, all soft watercolour light and late-morning haze. Play’n GO have built Riches of Robin around a genuinely unusual idea: in this Sherwood, losing a spin is half the point. The 5×3 grid carries 20 fixed paylines and mid to high volatility, and the biggest fixed prize on the board sits at 1,600x the bet.
The theme puts it in familiar company alongside Sherwood Gold and Rascal Riches, with a dash of Court of Hearts pageantry. Three features share the work here, and two of them can fire on the same spin. It’s a game that pays you for failing, provided the right Money Bag is watching when you do.
Wilds, Scatters and the Money Bags of Sherwood
Wins pay left to right across the 20 fixed paylines, with no gaps allowed and only the highest combination counting per line. When multiple lines win in one round, the payouts stack, and feature wins are added on top of payline wins. Everything is settled at the end of the round.
The Wild is Robin himself, and he substitutes for everything except the Scatter. He’s also the richest symbol on the board:
- Wild (Robin): 2x the total bet for three, 5x for four, 20x for five
Those Wild pays are quoted against the total bet, not the line bet, which is worth keeping in mind when comparing them to other games. Five Robins across a payline return 20x everything staked on the spin.
The Scatter is a bullseye target, and it’s picky about where it lands. Only the middle row of the second and fourth columns can carry it, so every appearance is one of exactly two chances per spin.
Two Scatters trigger the Free Spins feature, which is a lower bar than most games set. The Instant Prize symbol is the Money Bag, and it’s the common thread through everything this game does well. Bags carry values from 20x up to 1,000x the bet, and three separate mechanics exist to hand them over.
Quick Hit: Turning Dead Spins Into Money
The Quick Hit is the game’s consolation prize, and it’s a good one. Rather than letting a losing spin simply vanish, the game gives some of them a second look. If a spin returns nothing and no feature has fired, any Money Bag sitting on the reels can be awarded on the spot.
The trigger conditions are specific, and they’re worth knowing exactly:
- The spin must win nothing on the paylines
- No feature can have been triggered on that spin
- Any Money Bag on any reel can then be awarded
The Quick Hit bar above the reels shows the prizes on offer, colour-coded and tied to your stake:
- Green: 32x the bet
- Blue: 160x the bet
- Purple: 1,600x the bet
Money Bags carry their own values from 20x up to 1,000x the bet, so a single lucky grab can outpay an ordinary line win by some distance. The purple tier of the Quick Hit bar sits above even that range, making it the largest fixed prize anywhere in the game.
Heist Re-spins: The Hold-and-Collect Round
Land four or more Money Bags in one spin and the Heist Re-spins begin. Every Money Bag on the reels locks in place, and you get three re-spins to add more. Only Money Bags appear during the round, so every re-spin is a live one.
The rules of the round are the classic countdown, step by step:
- All Money Bags from the triggering spin are held
- Three re-spins are awarded, counting down by one each time
- Any new Money Bag resets the counter back to three
- The round ends at zero with no new bags, or when every reel position is filled
All Instant Prizes are paid at the end of the re-spins, so a full board is the dream scenario. The reset mechanic means a hot streak can extend the round well beyond the initial three spins, and with bag values running to 1,000x the bet, a well-filled board is where this game does its biggest numbers.
Free Spins: Random Spins, Random Multipliers
Two Scatters, sitting on the middle row of columns two and four, award the Free Spins feature. What you get is drawn at random from two tables:
- Free spins: 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 or 20
- Multiplier: 2x, 3x, 4x or 5x
Neither draw is guaranteed to be generous. A six-spin round at 2x plays very differently to twenty spins at 5x, and the spread between the best and worst draws is wide enough to matter.
The multiplier applies to every win during the round. Both Quick Hit and Heist Re-spins stay active during Free Spins, which is where the layering starts to matter.
A free spin that lands four Money Bags launches the full hold-and-collect round. A free spin that wins nothing can still cash a Money Bag through the Quick Hit. The multiplier sits on top of all of it.
Two more Scatters during the round retrigger it, with the effects stacking:
- +2 additional free spins
- +1 to the multiplier, applied to the spins that remain
- Once the multiplier reaches 10x, further retriggers award +4 free spins instead
Stack retriggers and the multiplier climbs spin by spin, so a long round played at 8x or 10x is where the free spins stop being modest. The round is played at the same bet and paylines as the spin that triggered it, and the bet can’t be changed mid-round.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.3/10
Life in this Sherwood is mostly waiting, punctuated by moments where the game hands you something for nothing. That’s the one reason to pick it: a spin that loses can still pay, and no other part of the game is built without that idea in mind. It makes the long spells between features far easier to sit through than in a plain payline game.
Its biggest strength is the Free Spins round, where all three features run at once under a multiplier that climbs with every retrigger. A long round genuinely escalates rather than repeating itself.
The weakness is the door you come in by: two Scatters, each with only one landing position, so the round that justifies the whole design turns up rarely. This one suits patient players who enjoy collect-and-hold mechanics and don’t mind a quiet base game for the privilege. Steady small-win spinners will find the gaps between heists too long.
Riches of Robin FAQs
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Is Riches of Robin a high volatility slot?
The game sits at mid to high volatility, so payouts can be spaced out, with the Quick Hit, Heist Re-spins and Free Spins features carrying the bigger prizes. -
What is the Quick Hit feature in Riches of Robin?
The Quick Hit is a consolation mechanic. On a spin that wins nothing and triggers no feature, the game can hand over any Money Bag on the reels, and Quick Hit bar prizes run at 32x, 160x and 1,600x the bet. -
How many paylines does Riches of Robin have?
There are 20 fixed paylines. Wins pay left to right from the leftmost reel, and only the highest win counts on each line. -
What is the grid size of Riches of Robin?
The game plays on a 5×3 grid, formatted as five columns with three rows. -
How do you trigger Free Spins in Riches of Robin?
Two Scatter symbols trigger Free Spins. Scatters can only land on the middle row of column 2 and column 4, and the round awards a random number of spins (6 to 20) with a random multiplier (2x to 5x). -
How does the Heist Re-spins feature work?
Four or more Money Bags on the reels trigger Heist Re-spins. All Money Bags are held and three re-spins are awarded; each new Money Bag resets the counter to three. The round ends when the counter reaches zero or the reels fill, and all Instant Prizes are then paid. -
Can Free Spins retrigger in Riches of Robin?
Yes. Landing two Scatters during Free Spins awards +2 additional spins and +1 to the multiplier for the remaining spins. Once the multiplier reaches 10x, subsequent retriggers award +4 free spins instead. -
Are the Quick Hit and Heist Re-spins active during Free Spins?
Yes, both features run during the Free Spins round. A non-winning free spin can still award a Money Bag, four or more Bags trigger the full re-spin round, and the active multiplier applies to all of it.
