Coven Rising Slot Review

Four witches kneel around a stone ritual disc in a night forest, and every spin happens inside that circle. The board is 43 gem-cut runestones arranged 1-4-7-6-7-6-7-4-1 across nine columns, so it reads as a summoning ring rather than a grid.

Matching stones pay in clusters of five or more, connected in any direction including diagonals. Each stone also carries a level from 1 to 5 that decides what it is worth. And one cell, dead centre, is where the coven actually does anything: all four witch modifiers land there and nowhere else.

The maths is the surprise. Medium volatility, a 5,000x ceiling, 96.42% base RTP. Pragmatic Play's last dozen cluster games all sat at the top end of the volatility scale with far bigger max wins, so the shape is the experiment here and the numbers stayed cautious. It goes live on 17 September 2026.

A Latin incantation is carved around the rim of the disc, NOS SUMUS MALEFICI ... UNUM SUMUS, and it turns slowly past as the stones settle. Four hooded figures kneel at the compass points in orange, green, red and blue, wands raised, threads of pale lightning arcing off the tips into the stone. The symbols are cut gems with a rune burning inside them. Dead cells are bundles of crossed sticks, which is smart: you can see at a glance how much of the board is doing nothing.

Pragmatic Play painted this one instead of cartooning it. The logo hangs off a branch with a red-eyed crow perched beside it and a small skull underneath, and the level upgrades are visible on the stones themselves, bare rock at level 1, then a metal setting, then a diamond inlay, then a full gold filigree crest at level 5.

Free spins throw the palette out. The forest floor becomes scorched red earth cut with burning sigils, the hoods come down so the four faces are finally visible, and a gold coin hovers over the middle of the disc counting up. One gripe, and it is not small: the base game is muddy. Grey and purple stones on wet grey rock, and a busy board takes work to read.

The rhythm is small and steady. Something pays roughly one spin in three, most of it loose change, and the balance drifts instead of lurching. On a 43-cell board with blanks scattered through it, plenty of spins look busy and amount to nothing at all.

Where the eye goes is the centre. Once it clicks that every modifier in the game comes out of that one cell, the whole board reorganises around it and a spin becomes a single question: did the middle go green? That is a decent piece of design, honestly, because it gives a cluster game a focal point instead of the usual scan-the-whole-grid squint.

The base game asks for patience it does not always repay. Long runs of tiny clusters, blanks sitting on the positions you want, and rounds that end right as the board was getting somewhere. The bonus is where it stops being fiddly and starts making sense, which is also why the 100x buy will probably look like the fair price of admission to a lot of players. Give it two sessions and the arithmetic clicks. Before that, wins land and you will not always know why.

The circle is not decoration. Nine columns of uneven height change what a cluster can be, and the single modifier cell gives the game a centre of gravity most cluster slots lack. After two years of candy and fruit on 7x7 grids, this is the art department off the leash, and for my money it is the best-looking thing the studio has shipped in a while.

Whether the experiment pays off is the harder question. The maths stays cautious, and the level system, clever as it is, mostly produces a stream of small wins that take effort to parse. The board is the most interesting thing about the game, which is not the same as saying the game is exciting.

Load it for the circle and the bonus round. Just do not go in expecting the ceiling to move.