Picture five brass urns lined up above the reels, each one swelling a little fatter every time a matching gem drops on its column. That's the heartbeat of Sultan Spins, Relax Gaming's 2024 trip into Arabian Nights territory, and it's where the real money lives. The line game is almost a side show.
Mechanically, you're looking at a 5×4 grid with 40 fixed paylines, an RTP of 96.10% on the standard build (operators can drop it to 94.00% if they want, which, fair warning, is worth checking before you spin), and a high volatility rating from the studio. Hit frequency lands around 21.32%, so wins arrive often enough to keep the bankroll breathing. Bets run from 0.10 up to 200 EUR per spin.
Now the headline. The line-win cap is 5,000x, which is unusually low for a Relax title. And that's deliberate. The studio shifted the ceiling into the Local Jackpot Feature instead. Each of the five reels has its own gem-coded pot above it; whenever a Gem symbol lands on its assigned reel, the pot grows by your bet size, then reveals one of four outcomes – a normal symbol, a single Wild, an entire expanding Wild reel, or a Jackpot Spin that pays out the pot directly. Those jackpot wins sit outside the 5,000x cap entirely, so they're where the genuinely big numbers come from.
The bonus side is a five-level free spins climb. Land 3+ Bonus symbols and you start with 7 free spins. Collect 5 more during the round, you bump up a level – more spins, bigger multiplier. Two Bonus symbols in the base game count as one collection point toward unlocking levels, and progress carries over between sessions. Multipliers apply only to line wins, not to jackpot pots. Slightly annoying, but logical given the math.
One niggle: there's no Buy Bonus, which feels odd in 2024 from a studio that usually offers one. If you like skipping straight to features, this isn't your slot. But if you enjoy chasing a slow-burn pot that genuinely accumulates, the dual-track design works. Visually it's all moonlit palace, gold filigree and jewelled icons; nothing groundbreaking, but it sells the fantasy cleanly.