Unicorn Reels Slot Review
Tall trees close in from both edges of the screen, mist hangs in the air, and a carved wooden cabinet wrapped in vines sits in a forest clearing where pink-capped mushrooms cluster in the grass. The forest is the most extravagant thing about it. Wazdan have built a game where a single bonus round does all the serious paying, and the enchanted wood is mostly there to keep you company while you wait for it to arrive.
Unicorn Reels runs on a 5×4 grid with 10 fixed paylines, and it sits in the same family as Wazdan’s 9 Coins, Magic Spins and Sizzling Eggs, all of which lean on the same collect-the-symbols bonus engine. One unicorn round carries the whole game, and the forest is what you look at while it decides whether to arrive.
Horseshoes, Gems and the Clover Wild
All symbols pay from left to right across the 10 fixed lines, and only the highest win on each line is paid. Winning combinations need three, four or five matching symbols. There’s nothing unusual in the mechanics: this is straight five-reel line-pay territory, which suits a game whose real business happens elsewhere.
The reel set splits into three coloured horseshoes, three gems and the four card suits. The yellow horseshoe leads the standard pays, followed by the green and pink versions, with the gems and suits filling out the lower rungs. It’s a compact, readable paytable with no filler symbols.
The wild is a clover, and it stands in for everything except the scatter and the other special symbols. It’s also the richest symbol on the reels in its own right, ahead of even the yellow horseshoe. The scatter is an orb, and it ignores lines altogether: three or more anywhere on the grid pays a win.
Symbol pays below are shown as multiples of the total bet:
- Clover wild: 5x, 25x, 100x
- Scatter orb: 2x, 5x, 20x (paid anywhere)
- Yellow Horseshoe: 2x, 10x, 40x
- Green Horseshoe: 1.5x, 5x, 30x
- Pink Horseshoe: 1x, 4x, 20x
- Red Gem: 0.8x, 2.5x, 10x
- Orange Gem: 0.6x, 1.5x, 5x
- Purple Gem: 0.5x, 1x, 3x
- Spade: 0.4x, 0.8x, 2x
- Heart: 0.3x, 0.6x, 1.5x
- Diamond: 0.2x, 0.4x, 1x
- Club: 0.2x, 0.3x, 0.5x
In practice the base game is a steady drip of small line wins and the occasional scatter payout, with the unicorns themselves appearing as just another symbol until enough of them gather. The suit symbols dominate the lower end, so most spins that pay anything pay modestly. That’s the format’s rhythm: the reels exist to feed the feature.
A closer look at the spread tells you where the money sits. Five clover wilds on a line pay 100x the total bet, while five of the humble club pays half of one times the stake. The three horseshoes are the only regular symbols worth more than 10x for a full line. Everything else is there to keep the balance ticking between bonus rounds.
The spread is narrow. The difference between the best and worst five-of-a-kind on the standard grid is a hundred multiples of the bet, and only the top two rungs sit above 40x.
The scatter helps here, since it doesn’t need a line to count. Line wins and scatter pays can arrive on the same spin.
The Unicorn Jackpot Game
The feature arrives when at least five Unicorn symbols land anywhere on the reels. That’s the only trigger in the game, and once it fires, play moves off the 10 paylines entirely onto a 5×5 field of 25 positions. The unicorns that triggered the round stay where they are, and everything else clears the way.
From there the round runs on re-spins. You get three to start with, and every new Unicorn that lands locks into place and resets the count back to three. That resetting clock is the whole engine of the feature: one unicorn at a time, the round stays alive, and the gap between a five-symbol dud and a full board is measured in single sticky landings.
The round finishes when the re-spins are exhausted without a new Unicorn, or when every one of the 25 positions holds one. At the end, the prize is paid purely for the number of unicorns collected, on a ladder that climbs with every symbol. Ladder prizes, shown at a 60.00 stake:
- 25 Unicorns (Grand): 60,000.00
- 24 Unicorns: 32,400.00
- 23 Unicorns: 28,800.00
- 22 Unicorns: 25,200.00
- 21 Unicorns: 21,600.00
- 20 Unicorns (Major): 18,000.00
- 19 Unicorns: 10,800.00
- 18 Unicorns: 9,600.00
- 17 Unicorns: 8,400.00
- 16 Unicorns: 7,200.00
- 15 Unicorns (Minor): 6,000.00
- 14 Unicorns: 2,160.00
- 13 Unicorns: 1,920.00
- 12 Unicorns: 1,680.00
- 11 Unicorns: 1,440.00
- 10 Unicorns: 1,200.00
- 9 Unicorns: 1,080.00
- 8 Unicorns: 960.00
- 7 Unicorns: 840.00
- 6 Unicorns: 720.00
- 5 Unicorns: 600.00
The shape of that ladder matters more than its length. From five unicorns up to fifteen, the rungs rise in small, even steps, and fifteen to twenty climbs steadily through the Minor and on to the Major.
Above twenty, the gaps widen sharply: each of the last five positions is worth more than the whole bottom half of the ladder combined, and the Grand sits well clear of everything beneath it. Filling the board is the entire ambition of the feature.
Because every prize is a fixed multiple of the stake, the ladder scales exactly with your bet, and the three named tiers are simply the rungs at 25, 20 and 15 unicorns. There’s no separate pot being fed and no progressive contribution to wait on. What the ladder shows at 60.00 is what you’d get at 60.00, and every other stake pays in proportion.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7/10
Most of a session on Unicorn Reels is spent in the clearing, watching horseshoes and card suits tick over while the unicorns decide whether to gather. That patience is the whole product, and the misty wood is pleasant enough company in the meantime.
The strength is the round itself. Because the re-spin count resets on every landing, a round that finds its rhythm keeps paying its way up the board, and the upper rungs are genuinely worth the climb. The weakness is how little surrounds it: ten modest lines, no second feature, and a prize ladder that tops out at the Grand.
It’s a good pick for anyone who likes one well-made feature and doesn’t need variety, and the wrong one for players after depth or five-figure ceilings. A quiet spell in an enchanted wood isn’t a bad way to spend it.
Unicorn Reels FAQs
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How do you trigger the Unicorn Jackpot Game?
Landing at least five Unicorn symbols anywhere on the grid sets the round off, and no payline is needed to do it. -
How do re-spins work in the Unicorn Jackpot Game?
You begin with three re-spins. Every Unicorn that lands during them locks in place and sets the count back to three, and the round only stops when a full set of re-spins passes without a new Unicorn or when all 25 positions are filled. -
What does the scatter pay in Unicorn Reels?
The scatter orb pays anywhere on the grid, no payline needed. Three, four or five of them pay 2x, 5x and 20x the total bet respectively, and scatter pays can land on the same spin as line wins. -
How many paylines does Unicorn Reels have?
There are 10 fixed bet lines, with all symbols paying from left to right and only the highest win per line paid. -
What is the grid size of Unicorn Reels?
The base game plays on a 5×4 grid with 10 paylines, while the Unicorn Jackpot Game is played on a 5×5 field of 25 positions. -
What does the wild symbol do in Unicorn Reels?
A clover that substitutes for every regular symbol, though it can’t replace the scatter or the other specials. It’s also the game’s top payer, worth up to 100x the total bet for five of a kind. -
What is the top prize in the Unicorn Jackpot Game?
Filling all 25 positions with Unicorn symbols awards the Grand prize, which pays 60,000.00 at a 60.00 stake. The Major pays 18,000.00 for 20 Unicorns and the Minor pays 6,000.00 for 15, at the same stake. -
When is Unicorn Reels released?
Unicorn Reels’ release date is 27 January 2021.
