Royal Respin Deluxe Slot by Playtech

You make one decision before anything spins. A select screen asks you to lock in 1, 5 or 9 paylines, and whatever you pick stays fixed for the session, so nine lines running across a 3x3 grid is as busy as this ever gets. It's a genuine fruit-machine build, not a modern game dressed up as one.

The paying symbols climb through the usual BAR ladder: a pink neon single BAR at the bottom, an orange double BAR above it, then the triple BAR, with a red 7 and a green 7/BAR combo sharing the top of the table. That red 7 and the triple BAR are where the ceiling lives, and the 10,000x headline is counted off your line bet rather than the full stake, which matters a lot when you're only feeding one active line.

One feature carries the whole game, and it hangs on a single position. The flaming 2X, 3X, 4X and 5X medallions can drop anywhere, but only when one lands dead centre on the middle reel does anything happen: the two outer reels spin again and every win on that spin is multiplied by the value shown. No wild, no scatter, no free games, no jackpot, no bonus buy. That centre-reel medallion is the only route to a big number.

Presentation is old-school Vegas polished up, three chrome-rimmed reels in a glowing gold surround on a deep-purple starfield, the crowned metallic logo glinting off to the side.