Paylines
10 Paylines (left to right)
GameArt keeps it old-school here. Royal Gems is a 5-reel, 3-row slot with ten fixed paylines and almost nothing bolted on top. No free spins. No wild. No bonus round waiting in the wings. What you spin is what you get, and for some players that plainness is exactly the appeal.
The reels sit inside an ornate gold frame, set against deep-blue velvet stitched with sequins and trimmed in glittering gold. Blue-gem 10 LINES markers run down both sides. The symbols read like a jewel box that got tipped out: a blazing gold lucky 7, a ruby-set crown, a pair of gold dice, then faceted gems in orange, green, blue and pink. Wins pay left to right from the leftmost reel, the standard way, so there's no both-ways scoring to soften the odds.
One symbol does the heavy lifting. A diamond-star brooch acts as the Scatter and pays from any position, no need to land it on a payline. That's really the lone twist on otherwise vanilla play. After a winning spin you can take the optional card gamble, flipping for red or black to double up, or calling the suit to go for quadruple. Guess wrong and the win's gone. It's the only way to stretch a payout on this game.
Now the part worth being honest about. Max win caps at 520x your bet, which is genuinely tiny by modern standards. You simply can't chase a life-changing hit here, and there's no feature to build toward one either. The RTP sits at 96.02% with medium volatility, so the swings stay gentle and your bankroll tends to drift rather than spike. If you want a tidy, low-stakes classic gem slot with a gamble to keep things mildly interesting, Royal Gems delivers that and not a great deal more.