The Robbin Gobblins

The Robbin Gobblins Slot Review

New York harbour, mid-heist: the Statue of Liberty has swapped her torch for a selfie stick, flame burning from her free hand, while a gang of goblins works the skyline across the water. The Robbin Gobblins hides its money in plain sight. Almost nothing in the base game pays worth having, and every real win in it is stolen goods – carried out by the goblins during the bonus round.

Exco have made a game where the stealing is the mechanic. The goblins aren’t decoration; they feed a multiplier ladder that climbs through the bonus round and never resets while it runs.

It runs on a 5×5 grid at 96.00% RTP, with seven free spins on offer and a Power Bar that can carry multipliers well into three figures. This harbour heist has range.

Base Game & Features

The base game plays out on that 5×5 grid against the harbour backdrop, with cumulus clouds stacked over the river and the city towers fading to hazy blue behind the Statue’s plinth. A wooden barrel sits half in frame on the sandy foreshore, foam-edged water lapping at it. Everything is heavy outlines and saturated daylight colour, which keeps the screen busy without crowding it.

The symbols split into five picture symbols and four letter characters, with the marked Ray Gun leading the paytable and the letters propping up the bottom. The letter set is unusual in itself: A, R, Q and F, spelling out nothing in particular.

• Ray Gun: 0.5x for three, 1x for four, 5x for five
• Green Barrel: 0.3x for three, 0.6x for four, 1.5x for five
• TV News: 0.2x for three, 0.5x for four, 1x for five
• Taco: 0.2x for three, 0.5x for four, 1x for five
• A, R, Q, F: 0.1x for three, 0.2x for four, 0.5x for five

Those are modest numbers. Even the top symbol returns 5x your stake for a full line, and the royals barely register at half that. The base game isn’t where the money lives. It’s where you wait for the goblins.

Two things run the show. Three Bonus Symbols landing on reels 1, 3 and 5 trigger the free spins, and the goblins themselves drive the multiplier engine once you’re inside. A bonus goblin grins from the corner of the grid, keeping the theme in view while you work.

The Power Bar

The Power Bar sits above the reels and holds the multiplier values. In free spins modes one, two and three it can reach up to 99x per reel. In mode four the ceiling jumps to 999x per reel. Goblins and Goblin Lives are what push it up there.

Goblins and Goblin Lives

Each Goblin level adds a fixed amount to the Power Bar and keeps re-spins active. The goblins appear as character portraits on the grid, green and purple, connected into the winning trail like any other symbol. A Goblin Life is consumed whenever the flow stalls, and the exact condition differs slightly by level.

• Goblin 1: adds 1x to the Power Bar
• Goblin 2: adds 2x
• Goblin 3: adds 3x
• Goblin 4: adds 10x
• Goblin 5: adds 20x

For Goblin 1, a Life burns only if no new symbol or Goblin lands at all. The higher levels are stricter: nothing new that’s a winner or a Goblin modifier, and a Life goes. The ladder’s shape is the interesting part: three small steps up front, then the top two levels carrying the real weight.

Free Spins & Hacks in The Robbin Gobblins

Three Bonus Symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5 award seven free spins, and the round you get is random: the game picks from four free spins modes when the trigger lands. The Power Bar multiplier does not reset between spins, which is the whole point of the round. Whatever you build, you keep.

The mode matters more than the spin count. Seven spins in a lower mode with a 99x ceiling is a different game entirely from seven spins in mode four, where every top-tier Goblin landing adds a chunk of a possible 999x per reel. The random draw at the door decides which version of the round you get.

Inside the round the presentation shifts. The background goes dark, winning symbols light up green and connect across the grid in a trail, and the Power Bar’s multiplier icons sit above the reels tallying the climb. Heart and rocket icons track the Goblin Lives top-left, and the counters along the bar show what’s stacked on each reel. It reads clearly, which matters in a round where the state of the ladder is the entire story.

Hacks

Hacks let you pay to trigger free spins instantly or to activate extra effects during play. There are four levels of Hacks, each carrying increasingly enhanced bonuses. The pink hack icon sits in the bottom-left corner of the interface whenever it’s available, in the base game and during play alike.

No prices are published for the tiers, so it’s worth checking the menu at your casino of choice before committing.

One thing this game doesn’t do is quote a maximum win figure. There’s no cap stated anywhere, which leaves the Power Bar arithmetic as the honest measure of what a round can pay.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.6/10

Playing this is mostly loitering in a very pretty harbour waiting for the goblins to show up. That’s the honest shape of it, and the reason anybody picks this game: when the heist finally starts, it’s properly exciting, and the Statue taking a selfie never stops being funny.

The best thing in it is a bonus round that keeps what it builds. Because nothing resets across the seven spins, a run of top goblins near the end can pay more than the same run at the start, and the random mode draw means you never know which heist you’re getting until you’re inside it. The worst thing is everything outside that round: symbol pays this small make the waiting feel long, and no amount of harbour scenery changes that.

It’s a good fit for players who like one big build and don’t mind a quiet grind to get there, and the Hacks menu covers anyone who’d rather not wait. Anyone who wants their base game to pull its weight should look elsewhere; the goblins only pay out after dark.

The Robbin Gobblins FAQs

• What is the RTP of The Robbin Gobblins?

  The Robbin Gobblins runs at 96.00% RTP in its default configuration.
• What is the grid size of The Robbin Gobblins?

  It plays on a 5×5 grid with symbols connecting in winning patterns across the reels.
• Can you buy the bonus on The Robbin Gobblins?

  Yes. The Hacks feature lets you pay to trigger free spins instantly or activate extra effects during play, via the pink hack icon in the bottom-left corner. There are four Hacks levels with increasingly enhanced bonuses.
• Who makes The Robbin Gobblins?

  The Robbin Gobblins is made by Exco.
• How do you trigger free spins in The Robbin Gobblins?

  Three Bonus Symbols landing on reels 1, 3 and 5 award seven free spins. The game randomly selects which of the four free spins modes you receive when the trigger lands.
• How high can the Power Bar multiplier go?

  The Power Bar can reach up to 99x per reel in free spins modes one, two and three, and up to 999x per reel in mode four.
• What do the Goblins do in The Robbin Gobblins?

  Each Goblin level adds a fixed multiplier to the Power Bar and keeps re-spins active: Goblin 1 adds 1x, Goblin 2 adds 2x, Goblin 3 adds 3x, Goblin 4 adds 10x and Goblin 5 adds 20x. A Goblin Life is consumed when no new winning symbol or Goblin lands.
• Does the Power Bar multiplier reset between free spins?

  No. The Power Bar multiplier does not reset between spins during free spins, so values you build carry through the whole round.