Tigers Claw Slot Review
Beneath an aurora-streaked night sky, a campfire burns outside a lit tepee on a frozen mountain ledge. Tigers Claw builds its whole appeal on patience: this is a slot that pays you back in volume of spins rather than size of prizes, and it’s honest about that from the first reel turn.
Betsoft have made the re-trigger the star – the free spins round can climb to 240 free spins in a single game, a ceiling few slots of this shape dare to offer. The maths runs at 95.14% RTP with high volatility, on a five-reel all-ways layout with 720 ways to win. It sits in the same painterly territory as Back To Venus and Wolf Moon Rising from Betsoft. The question is whether the long spins make up for the modest ladder underneath them.
Symbols and the 720 Ways to Win
The reels don’t sit in a neat rectangle. This is a 3-4-5-4-3 layout: reels one and five hold three symbols, two and four hold four, and the middle reel holds five. That growing middle is where combinations get wide – five matching symbols across the middle of the board opens up more ways than any other pattern.
Wins pay both left to right and right to left, and the number of ways on any spin is calculated by multiplying the matching symbols on each consecutive reel from either edge. Because both directions count, a symbol stacked on the outer reels does double duty.
Coinciding wins on different ways are combined, and only the longest combination of symbols pays out. Payouts scale with the bet you’ve set, so every figure in the paytable moves up and down with your stake rather than sitting at fixed credit values. The White Tiger is the richest symbol on the board, and the pay ladder steps down gently from there. All values are multiples of the total bet:
- White Tiger – 1x for three, 4x for four, 20x for five
- Eagle/Phoenix – 0.5x, 1.5x, 8x
- Mask – 0.4x, 1x, 6x
- Golden Idols – 0.3x, 0.8x, 3x
- Drum/Pouch – 0.2x, 0.5x, 2x
- Stone Carving – 0.1x, 0.4x, 1.5x
- Blue and Pink Diamonds – 0.1x, 0.3x, 1x
It’s a flat-looking ladder. The top symbol’s 20x is the biggest prize the reels themselves offer, and everything from the Mask down pays modestly even for five of a kind.
What balances that is volume: with 720 ways in play and wins counting from both edges, small returns land often enough to keep the reels ticking over between features.
The wild lands only on reels two, three and four, and substitutes for everything except the scatter and the free spin symbol. Its position on the three fattest reels means it can sit inside a lot of combinations at once. It can never complete a five-of-a-kind on its own, though, because it never reaches the outer reels.
Free Spins and the Shaman Scatter
Free Spins
A FREE SPIN symbol on every reel awards free spins and a prize. Every combination of five free spin symbols across the reels pays 8 free spins plus a prize of 1x the total bet.
That’s the modest start. The round can be re-triggered, and re-triggers stack up to a maximum of 240 free spins in a single game. The game itself celebrates the idea with an on-reel congratulations message for a 96-spin win, which tells you the designer expected long runs to be part of the experience.
Shaman Scatter
The Shaman Scatter pays anywhere on the reels, with no need for consecutive positions or a starting edge. Its prize ladder, as multiples of the total bet:
- Three scatters – 2x the total bet
- Four scatters – 10x the total bet
- Five scatters – 50x the total bet
That 50x top prize is the single biggest fixed award in the game – two and a half times what five White Tigers pay. It gives the base game a second target beyond the ways-to-win combinations.
Because scatters count anywhere, every spin carries a small chance of the full five landing at once.
The Double Up Game
After any standard win, the Double Up button opens a coin-flip gamble on your winnings. The flow is straightforward:
- Choose GAMBLE ALL or GAMBLE 50% to set how much of the win you’re risking
- Call HEADS or TAILS on the coin flip
- A correct call doubles the staked amount; a wrong call loses it
- Press COLLECT to bank what you’ve built and return to the reels
You can gamble as many times as you like, doubling repeatedly or banking after each flip. The 50% option is the quieter tool here: it lets you take half of a win off the table and keep flipping with the rest, so a bad run never costs you the original payout in full.
Double Up is unavailable after the free spins feature, so the big re-triggered rounds can’t be risked on a coin toss – a sensible guard, since a 200-spin run lost to tails would sting. For every other win, it’s the game’s one route to turning a modest ways payout into something bigger without waiting on another trigger.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 6.4/10
Playing Tigers Claw is a lot of waiting under a very pretty sky. The base game hands out small clusters through its 720 ways and rarely anything more, so the free spins round – and specifically the chance of a round that keeps re-triggering towards 240 spins – is the one reason to sit down at this machine. The campfire and the aurora do their part in making the wait pleasant.
The re-trigger ceiling is genuinely unusual, and it’s the strength here: eight spins grows into something long, and the 50x scatter gives the base game one prize worth watching for. The weakness is the ceiling on everything else – 20x for the best symbol is thin by modern standards, and 95.14% RTP lags the better-paying titles on the market.
This is one for players who like a bonus round that can turn into an evening rather than a single firework. Anyone chasing a headline top prize will find the ladder here too humble. For the patient, the mountain night is a good place to wait.
Tigers Claw FAQs
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What is the RTP of Tigers Claw?
Tigers Claw runs at an RTP of 95.14%, which sits a little below the 96% benchmark many modern slots aim for. -
Is Tigers Claw high volatility?
Yes, Tigers Claw is a high volatility slot. Wins can be spaced out, and the biggest value sits in the re-triggerable free spins round. -
How many paylines does Tigers Claw have?
Tigers Claw doesn’t use fixed paylines. It offers 720 ways to win, calculated by multiplying the matching symbols on each consecutive reel starting from the leftmost or rightmost reel. -
How do you trigger free spins in Tigers Claw?
You need a FREE SPIN symbol on every reel. Each combination of five free spin symbols awards 8 free spins plus a prize of 1x your total bet, and the round can be re-triggered up to a maximum of 240 free spins in a single game. -
What does the Shaman Scatter pay in Tigers Claw?
Landing three or more scatters anywhere on the reels wins a prize: 2x your total bet for three, 10x for four, and 50x for five. The scatters don’t need to sit on consecutive reels. -
Can you gamble your winnings in Tigers Claw?
Yes. After any standard win you can press Double Up to gamble half or all of your winnings on a heads-or-tails coin flip, and repeat as many times as you like. The Double Up game isn’t available after the free spins feature. -
Where does the wild symbol appear in Tigers Claw?
Only on the middle three reels. The wild stands in for any paying symbol, but it can’t substitute for the scatter or the free spin symbol, and it can’t complete a five-of-a-kind on its own because it never reaches the outer reels. -
Who makes Tigers Claw, and when was it released?
Tigers Claw is made by Betsoft, the studio behind titles such as Back To Venus and Wolf Moon Rising. Its release date is 27 March 2018.
