Fairytale Legends – Hansel and Gretel

Fairytale Legends: Hansel and Gretel Overview

Fairytale Legends: Hansel and Gretel is a five-reel, three-row slot from NetEnt with 10 paylines, a 96.71% RTP and a medium-low volatility rating. It was released on 20 April 2017.

No maximum win is published for this title and we have not invented one. All figures below were read from demo play at a $90.00 total bet – 10 lines at level 9 with a coin value of 1.00, which is how NetEnt builds a stake.

At nine years old this is by some distance the oldest game in these batches, and it is worth seeing what a 2017 NetEnt release looks like beside the 2025 catalogue.

A Forest Under a Huge Moon

The art has aged extremely well. The reels are almost transparent, set in a moonlit clearing with a vast moon behind them, vines climbing the frame, fireflies drifting and blue stars scattered through the trees.

Hansel stands to the left of the reels and Gretel to the right, outside the frame, animated and reacting to the spins. They also appear as symbols on the reels.

The rest of the set is coloured candies – a green jelly triangle, a yellow diamond, a purple cushion and a red drop – above an ornate FL monogram and a treasure chest.

What the Reels Paid

The candy symbols pay small and often, which is exactly what a medium-low rating promises. A grid of yellow diamonds returned 315 – 3.5x the stake – and a set of green triangles 225, or 2.5x.

A column of FL monograms paid 180 (2x), and the game’s premium symbols are clearly the two children: a grid of Gretel portraits paid 900, which is 10x.

The best in these captures announces itself: BIG WIN! 1800, from a board of FL monograms – 20x the stake.

The candies are drawn as translucent jellies that glow from inside when they pay, and the reels themselves are almost invisible – there is no frame between the symbols and the forest behind them. It is a look modern games have largely abandoned in favour of solid panels.

Two Kinds of Burning Reel

Twice in these captures a whole reel lights up and holds. In one it is ablaze – an orange column of fire on the third reel, with doves flying out of it and Gretel filling the reels either side for 900.

In the other the fourth reel turns to shimmering gold, and the footer splits into two figures: WIN 270 and TOTAL WIN 1170. The second is the running total across a sequence of re-spins, so the lit reel persists while the others turn again.

That distinction – a per-spin win beside a running total – is the clearest signal in the interface that a multi-part feature is in progress.

Note also that the golden reel and the burning reel behave differently: the fire is a single spin with a full-reel wild, while the gold one runs a sequence and keeps a separate total. Two features, one visual idea, distinguished only by colour.

The Candy House Bonus

Three treasure chests land along the bottom row and the game cuts to a gingerbread house, headed CANDY HOUSE BONUS, with a chest standing open on either side of it.

The left chest is labelled FREE SPINS. The right is labelled COIN WIN. The bonus is a fork, and both branches are named before anything happens.

The chests that trigger it are drawn as ornate wooden caskets and land anywhere on the reels; one capture catches all three along the bottom row with the reels still lit from the previous win.

The house itself is drawn in detail – icing along the eaves, gumdrops pressed into the walls, a heart-shaped window – and the witch appears on the roof in one capture, hunched over her broom.

The Best Screen in This Batch

Take the Coin Win branch and the game does something we have not seen anywhere else. The screen splits: Gretel on the left beside a red plate reading x24.5, Hansel on the right beside a wall of candies.

The two captions state the choice in plain words. On the left: Great! Now you can pick the guaranteed prize. On the right: Or, you can select a candy for your final prize.

And down the right edge runs the full ladder of what the candies can be worth: x120, x60, x45, x36, x30, x24, x21, x18, x15, x12, x9 and down to x4.5.

So you are handed a guaranteed 24.5x and shown every alternative outcome before deciding whether to give it up. The upside is roughly five times the guarantee; the downside is about a fifth of it. Almost no modern game lays out a gamble this completely.

At the $90.00 stake that guaranteed multiplier is $2,205, against a top candy worth $10,800 and a bottom one worth $405.

What the Session Did

The cash field runs 1,175, 860, then up to 1,850, 1,580, 1,265, 2,435 and finally 1,715 across the captures.

That is a session that never moved more than about a thousand either way on a $90.00 stake – roughly eleven times the bet – while producing a 20x spin and a 13x re-spin sequence along the way. It is a textbook illustration of a medium-low rating.

A 96.71% Return

The return is above average, and paired with a medium-low volatility rating it describes a game that pays frequently and modestly. Nine years on, that combination is rarer than it was.

What is missing is a published maximum win. The candy ladder tops out at x120, and the largest reel win we recorded was 20x, so there is no figure on this page we would be comfortable presenting as a ceiling.

Who Should Play It

Fairytale Legends: Hansel and Gretel is for players who want a gentle ten-line game with genuinely beautiful artwork and the most honest bonus screen in these batches. Naming both branches of the Candy House Bonus, offering a guaranteed multiplier, and printing every alternative outcome beside it is a standard the current catalogue rarely meets.

The reservations are its age – the interface is the 2017 NetEnt layout, with coin value and level controls rather than a single stake field – and the absence of a published maximum win.

Where to Play Fairytale Legends: Hansel and Gretel

You can try this game on SunClub Online Casino. There’s a unique casino bonus offer of 400% up to £1500 for a limited time.

All six of our partner casinos also carry two unrelated games with the same characters – Hansel And Gretel Candyhouse from Red Tiger and Hansel and Gretel from KA Gaming – so check the studio before you launch. This one was listed under NetEnt in all six libraries when we checked on 22 September 2026.