Secret Garden Slot Review
Ivy spills over a crumbling stone wall, loose daisy heads drift across the reels, and the title curls over the leaf canopy in thin yellow script, a flower standing in for one of the letters. Secret Garden keeps nearly all its money in two symbols and pays the rest of the garden in small change, which makes it a slot you play for the Roses and the Lock or not at all. It’s Eyecon working their classic 5×3, 25-payline pattern at 95.436% RTP, hand-drawn and cheerfully unmodern.
It grows in the same flowerbed as Fluffy Favourites and Irish Luck, two of the studio’s best-loved 25-liners, and it’s the quietest bloom in that bed. Enchanted Prince treads a similarly gentle path. A garden this simple stands or falls on its roses.
Base Game & Features
Wins pay left to right across the 25 lines, and each line win is multiplied by the wager on that payline. Only the highest combination counts on a given line. Wins on different paylines are added together, so a spin can collect several small line wins at once.
Scattered Roses play by their own rules. They pay in any position rather than on a line, the win is multiplied by the total wager rather than a per-line stake, and only the highest scatter combination is added to the line wins in a single spin. Two Roses anywhere already return 4x the total bet, so a scatter pair is a win even when it doesn’t open the bonus.
The reels are stocked with garden imagery: rainbows, suns, a brown bird, a dragonfly, a blue bird, mushrooms, trees, sunflowers, daffodils, butterflies and ladybugs. It’s a soft, flat cartoon style, bright and cheerful, and every symbol belongs to the setting. There’s nothing on these reels that isn’t growing, flying or shining in the garden.
What the Symbols Pay
Every value below is a multiple of the total bet rather than the line bet, so compare carefully with other games whose paytables quote per-line stakes. The top three tiers all start paying from two of a kind; the rest pay from three.
- Rainbow or Sun: 1,900x for five, 300x for four, 50x for three, 4x for two
- Brown Bird: 900x for five, 200x for four, 40x for three, 4x for two
- Dragonfly or Blue Bird: 500x for five, 150x for four, 20x for three, 4x for two
- Mushroom or Tree: 250x for five, 50x for four, 20x for three
- Sunflower or Daffodil: 200x for five, 40x for four, 10x for three
- Butterfly or Ladybug: 200x for five, 30x for four, 10x for three
Several symbols share a pay tier, which is a common Eyecon trait: the Rainbow and Sun pay identically, as do the Dragonfly and Blue Bird, the Mushroom and Tree, and the Butterfly and Ladybug. What a symbol looks like matters less than which tier it sits in, and the tiers fall away steeply below the top row.
The shape of that ladder is the shape of the game. Everything above the top two rows is decoration on most spins; the money sits at the summit, in the two special symbols, and in the bonus they open. Chasing five of anything other than the premium symbols is a slow way round the garden.
Those two-of-a-kind pays at the top are also worth a glance. A pair of premium symbols returns 4x the total bet on its own, which softens the dry spells between fuller combinations.
Wild and Scatter Pays
The two special symbols sit above the regular paytable entirely, and each has its own row of values:
- Gold Garden Lock (wild): 19,000x for five, 4,000x for four, 400x for three, 40x for two
- Red Rose (scatter): 900x for five, 40x for four, 10x for three, 4x for two
The Gold Garden Lock substitutes for everything except scattered Roses and doubles any line win it appears in. Five Locks on a line is the game’s single biggest prize, and even a lone pair returns a healthy multiple of the bet. Between the doubling and the substitute work, it’s the symbol doing the quiet heavy lifting on every spin.
Autoplay
Autoplay is built in, with a chosen number of automatic spins and a selectable loss limit to stop the session before losses run past a figure you set. Pressing the autoplay button again halts the run manually at any point.
Secret Garden Bonus Features & Free Spins
Three or more Red Rose scatters anywhere on the reels award the free games round, and it’s the one bonus Secret Garden offers:
- 15 free games from three or more scattered Roses
- every prize during the round is tripled
- the round runs on the same paylines and wager as the triggering spin
- it can be retriggered up to 15 times
There’s no separate reel set and no symbol change during the round. It plays exactly as the base game does, with every prize tripled, so the round is only ever as interesting as the reels themselves. What it can do is grow: each retrigger adds another 15 games, and with the limit set at 15 retriggers, a lucky run of Roses can carry on for a very long stay.
The tripling stacks with the wild’s doubling in the natural way. A line win that includes a Gold Garden Lock during the free games is doubled first, then tripled, so the round’s biggest line results come from the wild finishing premium combinations. That’s the whole arc of the bonus: Roses open the gate, the Lock pays the rent.
The Rose’s own scatter pay runs alongside all of this. Because scatters count in any position and pay against the total wager, the triggering spin itself usually collects something: three Roses bring 10x the total bet with the 15 free games, and five Roses pay 900x on the way in. Scatter wins during the round stack on top of any line wins from the same spin.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 6.9/10
You come to this garden for one reason: the free games, and the chance to stack retriggers until the round is three or four triggers deep. Spins in between are gentle, small-change stuff on 25 fixed lines, and the round itself changes nothing but the prize values. That single-mindedness is either the appeal or the problem, depending on what you came for.
The retriggers are the best thing here. Because each one adds a full 15 games on top of a round that’s already tripling everything, a lucky session of Roses compounds in a way most single-shot bonuses can’t. The weakness is the middle of the paytable: below the top tier the prizes fall away fast, and most base game wins are the kind you barely notice landing.
If you like your slots with collect-this and pick-that layered over the reels, this garden will feel empty. For anyone who enjoys an old-school 25-liner where one symbol does the work and the bonus can quietly grow and grow, it’s a pleasant place to spend an afternoon. The roses carry it, and they carry it well.
Secret Garden FAQs
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What is the RTP of Secret Garden?
Secret Garden runs at 95.436% RTP, a touch under what most modern releases offer. -
How many paylines does Secret Garden have?
There are 25 paylines, with line wins paying left to right and only the highest win on each line counting. Wins on different lines are added together. -
What is the grid size of Secret Garden?
It’s a 5×3 grid, five reels and three rows, spread across those 25 paylines. -
Who makes Secret Garden?
Eyecon make Secret Garden. You’ll find it alongside their other floral 25-liners, including Fluffy Favourites and Irish Luck. -
How do you trigger the free games in Secret Garden?
Land three or more Red Rose scatter symbols anywhere on the reels and you’re awarded 15 free games. The Roses don’t need to sit on a payline, as scatters count wherever they land. -
Are prizes different during Secret Garden’s free games?
Yes. Every prize during the round is tripled, it plays on the same paylines and wager as the triggering spin, and it can be retriggered up to 15 times. -
What does the Gold Garden Lock do in Secret Garden?
It’s the wild, and the game’s richest symbol at 19,000x the total bet for five of a kind. It stands in for every symbol except scattered Roses, and any line win it helps complete pays double. -
How do scatter wins pay in Secret Garden?
Rose scatter wins count in any position and are multiplied by the total wager rather than a per-line stake, with only the highest scatter combination paying per spin. Five Roses returns 900x the total bet, and even two Roses pay 4x.
