The Emperor's Curse — RTP, volatility and max win

The Emperor's Curse from ZeusPlay tells the story of a cursed East Asian emperor: demons, monsters and red masks set the scene, with hieroglyphs on a dark blue background. When an expanding wild lands, it stretches across its reel and triggers a respin.

The theme of The Emperor's Curse mixes Japanese horror with an imperial court: demons and monsters, red masks, a cursed emperor and written characters shape the symbols and the background in red and dark blue. Its reels form a 5×3 block, and 20 paylines cross it. With €0.10 as the minimum and €20 as the maximum, the bet band suits small and mid-sized wagers. ZeusPlay released The Emperor's Curse on June 11, 2023.

Since several wild features interlock in The Emperor's Curse and volatility runs medium to high, compare it in volatility of inferno slots.

There are 20 paylines; a hit lands when matching symbols line up on one of them. On the compact field of five reels by three rows, the wild features hit especially hard, because a wild that stretches over a whole reel serves several lines at once. Scatters open the free spins, which come with their own multiplier.

The base game revolves around wilds: extra wilds can appear on the reels at random, expanding wilds fill their reel and trigger a respin, and sticky wilds stay in place for the following spins. Expanding symbols can also spread over a whole reel. Alongside this, The Emperor's Curse collects energy symbols that drive progress in the game.

The free spins come from scatters. There, a free spins multiplier boosts wins, and more scatters award additional free spins.

Because wilds and symbols in The Emperor's Curse stretch over whole reels, inferno slots with expanding symbols make the most direct comparison.

As a multiplier boosts free spin wins in The Emperor's Curse, inferno slots with multipliers are the next stop that fits.

RTP 96%, higher than 48% of the 400 Inferno slots. Background: how RTP works on a slot. Volatility Medium-high, like 14 of the 114 slots in the Demon theme. Background: what slot volatility means. Max win 2,000× (€40,000 at the highest stake). Background: what max win means on a slot.

The 96% return places The Emperor's Curse right at the centre of the inferno slots. The 2,000× cap is on the low side by comparison. Medium-high volatility comes mainly from the linked wild features: many spins stay quiet until expanding and sticky wilds kick in together.

After The Emperor's Curse, consider slot games with a medium-high volatility level, demons at the centre and an almost equal RTP: