Spooky Kabuki

Spooky Kabuki Overview

Spooky Kabuki is a dark Japanese ghost slot made by Slightly Edgy, a studio that releases its games through Yggdrasil. It came out on 30 September 2026 and takes you backstage in an old haunted kabuki theatre, where demon masks come alive after the last performance.

The base game plays on 5 reels and 3 rows with 25 paylines, and the free spins move to a bigger 5x5 grid with 40 paylines. The game rules list an RTP of 94.0%, the volatility is high, and the max win is 5,067x the bet. Bets range from 0.10 to 125 per spin.

Theme and Graphics

The reels sit on a wooden stage between old painted screens of kabuki actors and ghosts, with a glowing red paper lantern on the left. The dim purple light and the shadowy masks give the game a creepy, quiet mood. The five high-paying symbols are colourful kabuki spirit masks – red, blue, purple, brown and green demons – and the five low symbols are the letters A, K, Q, J and 10, drawn in a brush style.

Symbols and Paytable

At a bet of 100, the paytable showed these values for 3, 4 and 5 of a kind:

• Red mask and Wild: 200, 1,000 and 2,000 (2x, 10x and 20x the bet),
• Blue mask: 150, 750 and 1,500,
• Purple mask: 120, 600 and 1,200,
• Brown mask: 100, 500 and 1,000,
• Green mask: 80, 400 and 800,
• A, K, Q, J and 10: from 50/250/500 down to 10/50/100.

Wins pay from left to right on the paylines, and only the highest win per line is paid.

Wild Symbol

The Wild is the Kurogo – the black-hooded stagehand of kabuki theatre. It substitutes for all paying symbols, but not for the Scatter, the Multiplier or the Kabuki Drop. The Wild appears both in the base game and in the free spins, and five Wilds on a line pay the same as the top mask.

Shamisen Scatter

The Shamisen, a traditional three-stringed instrument, is the Scatter. It pays anywhere on the board, one per reel: 1x, 2x, 5x, 10x or 25x the bet for 1 to 5 Scatters. The Scatter only appears in the base game.

Taiko Drum Multiplier

After a winning spin, a Taiko drum Multiplier symbol can land in the base game or in the free spins. The win is shown first, then the drum reveals a random multiplier from x2 to x5, which is applied to the total win of the spin. Only one drum can land per spin. In our demo, a Scatter win of 100 was tripled to 300 by an x3 drum.

Golden Bet

The Golden Bet costs an extra 0.5x the bet per spin, and in return every spin comes with a guaranteed Multiplier.

Curtain Call Free Spins

The Kabuki Drop – a lit theatre curtain with the shadow of a dancer – lands only on reels 1, 3 and 5. Landing all three triggers the Curtain Call Bonus Game with 10 free spins on the 5x5 grid with 40 paylines, at the same bet as the triggering spin. The Wild and the Multiplier stay active, but the Scatter and the Kabuki Drop do not appear, so the free spins cannot be retriggered. The red lantern on the left counts down the remaining spins.

Buy Bonus and Walking Wilds

Where allowed, the Curtain Call Bonus Game can be bought in three ways, each with an RTP of 94.0%:

• 10 free spins for 70x the bet,
• 10 free spins with 1 Walking Wild for 200x,
• 10 free spins with 2 Walking Wilds for 300x.

The bought Wilds become Walking Wilds for the whole round. Before the reels stop on each spin, every Walking Wild can move up, down, left or right, up to 3 steps, and then stays in its new place for that spin. With two Walking Wilds, both move at the same time. Other Wilds that land in the round stay normal Wilds.

Our Demo Session

In the free spins, the bigger 5x5 grid makes long lines much easier. On one spin, four Kurogo Wilds and a blue mask filled the bottom row and paid 15x the bet as five blue masks, while the lantern showed 8 spins still to go. The round total was already close to 100x at that point.

RTP and Volatility

The 94.0% RTP is below the usual 96%, and the bonus buys have the same RTP. With high volatility, the base game can be quiet for a while, and most of the value comes from the free spins and the Taiko drum, which can multiply a whole spin by up to x5.

Who Should Play It

Spooky Kabuki is for players who like Japanese horror themes, classic paylines and a clear, simple bonus. The Taiko drum and the Walking Wilds add the excitement. Try the free demo first.

Where to Play Spooky Kabuki

You can try this game on 7gold Online Casino. There’s a unique casino bonus offer of 400% up to £1500 for a limited time.

Spooky Kabuki was listed in all six of our partner casino libraries when we checked on 9 October 2026.