Cappadocia (Pragmatic Play) Slot Demo & Review

I could reel off a long list of cluster pays slots from Pragmatic Play, but they’re all fairly similar, so instead, why not consider slots from other developers that use the mechanic? Personally, when I’m in the cluster pays mood, I go with the likes of Hacksaw Gaming’s Le Bandit, which has the same 10,000x the stake maximum win as Cappadocia but features more bonus games, or Play’n Go’s iconic Gemix slot. Both titles scored well here, and their demos always attract many of our readers. 

Right, back to Cappadocia and in this section, I’ll take you through the symbol rewards you’ll hope to land when playing. Offering the best payouts is the Ring, which returns 120x the stake when it is part of a 15+ symbol combination. The Jug follows that with 80x, and the Plate delivers up to 72x. All that’s left are the Purple, Red, Green, and Blue Hot Air Balloon symbols, which can return up to 64x, 48x, 32x, and 16x, respectively. 

Pragmatic Play is one of the best developers when it comes to catering to all sizes of bankrolls. Low and high rollers alike will appreciate the betting range on Cappadocia, which supports minimum bets of €0.20 per spin and a maximum bet of €240.00.

At the heart of Cappadocia is a 7×7 gaming grid that uses a cluster pays mechanic to calculate payouts. If you’re new to this mechanic, not to worry, as it’s sfairly straightforward. When five or more matching symbols are connected vertically or horizontally, that is classed as a cluster, and you’re paid out depending on the number of symbols within it. 

After winning combos form, the cascading reels mechanic kicks into action. It removes all winning symbols from the reels, allowing more to fall in from above them. That new symbol drop can create additional wins; when that happens, the process repeats.

Golden Balloon Wilds

In addition to new symbols dropping into the grid after winning combos, a Balloon Wild symbol will appear in one position left vacant by symbols. When they first appear, they will hold win multiplier values of 1x, but each further combination they help to create on the spin will increase that multiplier by 1x. After that increase, the Balloon WIld will float one position up, down, left or right. 

That all sounds great, right? But the best is yet to come, as multiple Wild Symbols involved in the same winning combination will result in their multiplier values being multiplied with each other before they’re applied to the symbol payout.

Those Balloon Wild Multiplier symbols are the main attraction on Cappadocia, and they’re even more valuable should you trigger the slot’s bonus game. Once a spin reveals 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 scatter symbols anywhere on the reels, you receive 10, 12, 14, 16, or 18 free spins, respectively.

Free Spins Feature

Where this bonus game differentiates from regular spins, aside from them being free, is that Wild Balloon symbols that appear will remain on the reels until the end of the bonus. Their multiplier values remain persistent, meaning they will not reset between spins. Furthermore, you can re-trigger the free spins from within the bonus.

Bonus buy

As Pragmatic Play fans would probably expect, a buy bonus feature allows you to skip straight to the free spins bonus. You can purchase it outright at the cost of 100x your current spin bet.