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Evoplay has taken the look of a classic fruit machine, squeezed it onto a 3×3 grid, and made the whole thing about collecting gold coins. The King: Crimson Crown looks like a classic, old-school fruit machine, but the real magic happens behind the scenes.
The game has a decent maximum win of 3,554x your bet. But honestly? The main reason people will play this game is for the Bonus round. That’s where the jackpots are hiding, and surprisingly, buying your way into the bonus actually gives you better odds than playing the regular spins.
Here is a breakdown of how it plays.
How It Works: Coins and the King
Most of the big money in this game comes from two special symbols: Gold Coins and the King.
Here is the catch: they never land on the same reel. Gold Coins (which carry cash values or jackpots) only land on reels 1 and 3. The grinning King only lands in the middle on reel 2.
To win the money on the coins, you need a King to land at the exact same time. When he does, he scoops up all the coin values on the screen and adds them to your win. If a coin lands, but the King doesn’t show up to collect it, you win absolutely nothing. During my regular spins, I saw plenty of coins, but the King was nowhere to be found. Because of this, the “base game” can feel a bit slow, with long stretches of just matching basic fruit symbols.
The Bonus Game (Where the Action Is)
To trigger the Bonus, you need a Bonus symbol on all three reels. When this happens, the game does something really cool: it throws all the fruit symbols in the trash.
For the rest of the round, the only things that can land on the reels are cash coins, Kings, or blank spaces. You start with 3 spins. Every time a new symbol lands, your spins reset back to 3.
I decided to pay to skip the line and just buy the bonus feature for 52x my bet, which cost 520.00. I ended up winning back 230.00. It wasn’t a massive win, just a couple of low-value coins and one King, but that’s the gamble you take!
Jackpots and the Max Win
The game features four fixed jackpots:
- Mini: 20x your bet
- Minor: 35x your bet
- Major: 100x your bet
- Grand: 1,000x your bet
The game states that you can only win these jackpots during the Bonus game. Interestingly, the Grand jackpot (1,000x) isn’t the highest possible win. The game’s absolute maximum win is 3,554x. This means you can’t hit the max win with just one lucky coin; you’d need a wild bonus round with multiple Kings scooping up lots of high-value coins.
The Bonus Buys (A Rare Twist)
You can choose to buy straight into the Bonus game. There are two options:
- 52x your bet: Starts the bonus with 1 guaranteed King.
- 92x your bet: Starts the bonus with 3 guaranteed Kings.
Here is something you rarely see in slot machines: buying the bonus actually improves your odds. The regular game has a Return to Player (RTP) of 95.95%. But if you buy the cheaper bonus, the RTP goes up to 96.07%, and the more expensive one bumps it to 96.12%. It’s a tiny increase, so it won’t make you rich, but usually, games punish you for buying the bonus. Here, they reward you.
Looks and Symbols
Visually, it looks like a pub slot machine dressed up in royal colors. The classic fruit symbols look great, but they don’t pay much. A line of cherries only pays 1x your bet. The Wild symbol is the best payer at 50x.
The cartoon King and the gold coins look a little silly next to the realistic fruit, but that’s actually helpful, it makes it very obvious which symbols you should be paying attention to.
Quick Warning: Don’t Get Confused!
Evoplay actually has another game with almost the same name, just “Crimson Crown” with no King in front of it. The older one is a bigger 5×3 game with higher jackpots and a bigger max win. If you are looking up stats for this game online and see giant numbers, you are probably looking at the older version.
Pros and Cons
What’s Great:
- Buying the bonus actually gives you slightly better odds than spinning normally.
- The Bonus round removes all the “junk” fruit symbols so you only see cash and blanks.
- The small 3×3 grid is incredibly easy to understand at a glance.
- The jackpots are fixed amounts, so you always know exactly what you are chasing.
What’s Not So Great:
- The regular base game can be pretty boring. Seeing a high-value coin land without a King to collect it is frustrating.
- The regular RTP of 95.95% is a little below the industry average of 96%.
- The max win of 3,554x is a bit low for a game that revolves entirely around collecting coins.
- There’s no official volatility rating published, so it’s hard to know exactly how swingy the game is before you play.
The Verdict
If you take away the option to buy the bonus, this is just a very basic, somewhat thin fruit machine where you’re waiting for two specific symbols to line up.
However, this game is clearly designed for people who love Bonus rounds. The fact that the game actually gives you slightly better odds when you buy the feature is a really unique twist. If you like simple, easy-to-read games and enjoy the thrill of a “hold-and-spin” bonus round, this one is definitely worth checking out.