Queen of Water

Queen of Water Overview

Queen of Water is an underwater slot from Spinomenal, released on 21 August 2023. It belongs to the studio’s long-running “Queen of” family – the same frame of five reels, 25 fixed paylines, a stacking Queen wild and a gamble-your-free-spins screen that also runs through Queen of the Forest – Night Whispers and Queen of the Forest – Autumn Kingdom. SlotCatalog lists an RTP of 91.72% (the game is offered in several RTP versions), a maximum win of 2,000x the bet, and stakes from 0.25 to 250.

The Reels and the Queen Wild

The reels sit inside an ornate shell-and-coral frame on a sunken sea floor, with shoals of fish drifting behind them. The premium symbols are sea creatures – a red starfish, a pearl oyster, a jellyfish and a fish – and the lower tier is the usual set of card royals from 10 to A.

The Queen herself is the wild. When she lands she fills her whole reel, and our screenshots show her stacked on three reels side by side, turning the right half of the grid into one solid block of WILD.

Our Base-Game Wins

We played at 10 per line, a total bet of 250. Three wins from the demo:

• 800 (3.2x) – a screen full of Ks across the middle rows.
• 700 (2.8x) – a line of Js spread over the grid.
• 300 (1.2x) – three starfish on the top row, with a Bonus symbol and a Queen wild also in view.

Bet Settings

The 25 lines are always active, so the only thing you choose is the stake per line. The control at the bottom left sets it, and the total bet is simply 25 times that figure: 5 per line gives 125, 10 per line gives 250 – the two stakes used in our screenshots. The published range of 0.25 to 250 per spin therefore works out to 0.01 to 10 per line.

Free Spins: Collect or Gamble

The feature opens with a choice rather than a fixed award. The panel headed “Gamble to get” offers two buttons:

• Collect 10 Free Spins – take the standard award and start.
• Gamble – flip a coin. The silver side drops you to 5 free spins, the gold side lifts you to 15.

A ladder at the top of the panel shows how far the gamble can go: 15, 20, 30 and finally 50 free spins. Each step is a coin flip, so you can walk the award up – or lose most of it – before the reels spin. In our session we took the safe route and the game confirmed: “Congratulations! You have won 10 Free Spins”.

Reading the Gamble Ladder

The ladder deserves a closer look, because it is the one place where the player, not the reels, decides how volatile the round will be. Each rung shows a large number – 15, 20, 30, 50 – with a smaller figure printed beneath it (5 under 15, 10 under the higher rungs). The small figures appear to be the award you fall back to if a flip goes wrong, which means the gamble never wipes the feature out completely.

In practice that gives two very different ways to play the same trigger. Collecting straight away guarantees 10 spins with the Queen wild. Climbing the ladder turns the bonus into a lottery on its length: reach 50 spins and the stacked wilds have five times as many chances to line up; miss the first flip and you are left with 5.

The Bonus Symbol

The free spins are triggered by the Bonus symbol – a scallop shell with a pearl, marked BONUS. One of our base-game screenshots shows it on reel 4 next to a Queen wild on reel 5, on the same spin that paid 300 for the starfish line.

What the Free Spins Delivered

This round was played at a total bet of 125 (5 per line), and it is where the Queen earns her place.

• With 4 free spins left, a single spin paid a Mega Win of 1,600 (12.8x), taking the round total to 4,300 (34.4x).
• On the last free spin the Queen stood on reels 3, 4 and 5 at once, and a column of Ks on the left completed the lines. The win meter closed at 5,700 – 45.6x the bet for the whole round.

That final picture shows the mechanic at its best: three full wild reels mean any symbol on the first two reels pays on almost every line.

Buying the Feature

If you do not want to wait for the scatters, the Buy Feature triggers 10 free spins directly. At a bet of 125 the price was 3,875 = 31x the bet. Our round above returned 5,700, so in this case the purchase would have paid for itself, but with a 2,000x cap and a heavy reliance on stacked wilds, results vary widely from round to round.

The Queen Family

Spinomenal reuses this engine across several themes, and the numbers line up exactly. Night Whispers shows the same 3,875 buy price at a 125 bet, the same gamble panel with the same 5 / 15 coin and the same 15-20-30-50 ladder, and the same 2,000x ceiling. The difference is the theme and the RTP version: Night Whispers is listed at 95.89%, Queen of Water at 91.72%. There is also a newer sequel, Queen of Water – Tides of Fortune, and a one-reel spin-off, both available at our partner casinos.

Theme and Presentation

The Queen is drawn with long golden hair and a blue gown that ripples like water, and the win celebrations burst into a treasure chest overflowing with pearls and jewels.

RTP and Numbers

The 91.72% RTP is on the low side, and SlotCatalog marks the game as having RTP ranges, so the version you meet can differ. No volatility rating is published.

Who It Is For

Queen of Water suits players who enjoy classic stacked-wild slots and like a little risk before the bonus even starts. The gamble ladder from 10 to 50 free spins is the most interesting decision in the game, and the Queen stacking across several reels is what turns a modest session into a 40x round.

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