Story Of The Little Mermaid Slot Review
Bubbles rise through deep blue water, seaweed wraps itself around a gold-edged reel frame, and a blurred jellyfish drifts past clusters of pink coral. Story Of The Little Mermaid is a storybook underwater scene painted with real care, and it’s built on a single idea: one scatter, one round, and everything staked on how that round goes. Spinomenal know this fairy-tale territory well – Majestic King and Tiger Charms sit nearby, while Lilith Awakens takes a darker turn.
It runs on a 5×4 grid with 10 paylines, at 96.04% RTP and mid-to-high volatility, and the gap between a modest bonus and an enormous one is three scatters versus five. The top of the paytable reaches 10,000x the total bet, so the ceiling is genuinely high for a game this simple.
Symbols and Payouts
All symbols pay from left to right starting with the leftmost reel, and only the highest win on each winning line is paid, multiplied by the bet per line. Wins form on ten fixed lines across the five-by-four grid. It’s a straightforward setup, and the paytable reflects that: a small set of sea-themed premiums over a run of card royals.
Values below are multiples of the total bet:
- Treasure Chest – 700x for three, 3,000x for four, 10,000x for five
- Pearl Shell – 600x for three, 2,000x for four, 6,000x for five
- Fish / Starfish – 200x for three, 400x for four, 1,200x for five
- A / K – 150x for three, 200x for four, 400x for five
- Q / J – 100x for three, 150x for four, 200x for five
The shape of that ladder matters more than its length. The Treasure Chest pays more than three times what the Pearl Shell does at every tier, and the Pearl Shell in turn pays three times the Fish and Starfish at the top. Below them, the royals cluster tightly together – the A and K rows are barely distinguishable from the Q and J ones, so the lower half of the table is essentially flat.
Because wins are multiplied by the bet per line rather than the total stake, the effective cost of each line matters when you’re sizing up a session. Ten lines on a 5×4 grid also means the top two symbol tiers do most of the work: with four rows in play, five-of-a-kind combinations have more landing spots than a three-row layout offers, but they still need every reel to cooperate from the left.
The wild is the mermaid herself, and she counts as any symbol except the Free Spins scatter. Line up five wilds on a winning line and she pays the bet per line multiplied by 3,000, which makes her comfortably the richest symbol in the game.
The ceiling sits at the Treasure Chest’s five-of-a-kind, 10,000x the total bet, with the wild’s own top pay of bet per line x3,000 just behind it. Everything the reels can produce flows from that ladder and from what the free spins round adds on top.
Free Spins and the Stacked Wild
Three or more scattered Free Spins symbols trigger the free spins game, and the scatter count decides the size of the award. The steps between tiers are steep:
- Three scatters – 10 free spins
- Four scatters – 25 free spins
- Five or more scatters – 100 free spins
Each additional scatter more than doubles the award, and the jump from four to five is by far the largest. Going from 25 spins to 100 for a single extra symbol changes what a trigger is worth entirely, and it’s the reason the scatter count matters more here than in most games. A five-scatter trigger isn’t just a better version of a three-scatter one; it’s a different round in practice, four times longer and far more likely to catch the stacked wild in a productive spot.
The bet per line and the number of lines stay the same as in the game that triggered the round, so nothing shrinks once you’re inside. Scatters only count during the base game, which means the round can’t be extended from within – whatever you win, you win inside the spin count you walked in with.
The round’s engine is the stacked wild. On every free spin, a stacked wild – the mermaid again, filling a reel – sits on one randomly chosen reel. Wherever it lands, it substitutes for everything except the scatter, and with a full stack in play, multiple winning lines can complete at once. On a ten-line game, a stack that bridges the right gaps can turn a quiet spin into several simultaneous wins.
Because the stack moves rather than sticking, no two free spins are quite the same. A stack on the first reel can open every line at once; the same stack on the last reel can only finish combinations that the first four reels have already started. Over a long round, that randomness is what separates a modest result from a big one.
That’s the entire feature list. No pick-me rounds, no multipliers, no second bonus mode. The scatter and the stacked wild are the whole game beyond the base paytable, and the design puts all of its weight behind the one round it does offer.
There’s a BUY button on the interface, though no price is attached to it anywhere in the game’s own material, so what a shortcut into the round costs isn’t something we can put a figure on.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
This is a patient game wrapped in a beautiful one. The gold-framed seabed does the entertaining while the reels go quiet between triggers, and they do go quiet. The reason to sit through that is the round at the end: five scatters hand you a hundred spins with a guaranteed stacked wild on every one, and a scatter ladder that rewards each extra symbol more generously than the last.
That round is the strength, plainly, and it’s the whole strength. The weakness is everything around it – the base game has no modifiers, no second mode, and a paytable that only gets interesting at the top two rows.
Anyone after one well-fed bonus round rather than a parade of thin ones will settle happily into this fairy tale; anyone who builds sessions around layered mechanics won’t find them under this water. For an evening on the seabed with one very good feature, it more than suffices.
Story Of The Little Mermaid FAQs
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What is the RTP of Story Of The Little Mermaid?
The RTP is 96.04%. -
Is Story Of The Little Mermaid high volatility?
It’s rated mid-to-high volatility, so wins can be sizeable but spacing them out is part of the deal. -
How many paylines does Story Of The Little Mermaid have?
The game plays across 10 paylines, with wins paying left to right from the leftmost reel. -
What is the grid size of Story Of The Little Mermaid?
It’s a 5×4 grid – five reels and four rows. -
How do you trigger the free spins in Story Of The Little Mermaid?
Land three or more scattered Free Spins symbols during the base game. Three scatters award 10 free spins, four award 25, and five or more award 100. -
What does the stacked wild do in Story Of The Little Mermaid?
During free spins, a stacked wild appears on one random reel on every spin. It substitutes for all symbols except the Free Spins scatter, and five wilds on a winning line pay the bet per line multiplied by 3,000. -
Can free spins be retriggered in Story Of The Little Mermaid?
No. Scatters only trigger the round during the base game, so once you’re in, the spin count you entered with is all you get. -
Who makes Story Of The Little Mermaid?
Spinomenal. Story Of The Little Mermaid’s release date is 20 July 2023.
