Epic Tower

Epic Tower Overview

Epic Tower is a building-themed slot from Mancala Gaming, released on 14 February 2024. It starts small – a 3x3 grid inside the stone base of a tower with 5 paylines – and the whole idea of the game is to make that tower grow, floor by floor, towards a red dragon perched on a floating island above the clouds. SlotCatalog lists a 95% RTP and a remarkable maximum win of 27,573x the bet; no volatility rating is published. Cascading wins, a wild with multipliers, scatters, a level-up meter and a bonus buy make up the feature set.

A Tower That Grows

The reels are not a fixed grid. Each row of the tower is a floor, and the game tracks how high the building has grown with a meter on the left labelled LEVELS, which counts towards 33. Next to it are two more counters: SCATTERS, which fills as lightning scatters land, and PAYLINES, which shows how many lines the current tower is playing.

Our screenshots show how the two numbers move together:

• 3 floors – 5 paylines (the base tower, level 3/33)
• 4 floors – 8 paylines (level 4/33)
• 6 floors – 14 paylines (level 6/33)
• 7 floors – 17 paylines (level 7/33)

Every new floor adds lines, so a taller tower means more ways for the same symbols to connect. This is where the 27,573x ceiling becomes believable: the maximum is not reached on the small starting grid but on a tower many floors high.

The Symbols

The low symbols are carved wooden letters – 10, J, Q, K and A – that light up in fiery orange when they are part of a win. The higher symbols are the builder’s tools and armour: a pickaxe, a dagger, a hammer and a golden Viking helmet, which also turn gold when they pay. The wild is a red shield marked with a golden W, and the scatter is a blue-and-gold lightning emblem.

The Multiplier Bag

To the right of the tower hangs a leather bag with a winged helmet on top and a number on the front. It is the wild multiplier, and it changes during play – our screenshots show it at x2 and at x4. When it is active, wild wins are multiplied: on one spin the reels showed DEM 120.00 while the winnings box still read DEM 60.00, with the x2 bag glowing beside the tower. The buy screen confirms the mechanic in plain words: during the bonus you “collect Wilds with additional multipliers”.

What Our Spins Showed

We played the demo at a DEM 200 total bet. On the small starting tower the wins were modest:

• 220.00 – 1.1x: a J line completed by two wild shields on the middle floor.
• 200.00 – 1x: the Viking helmet next to a wild on the middle floor, with another wild below.
• 120.00 – 0.6x after the x2 bag, on a four-floor tower with 8 lines.
• 20.00 – 0.1x: a single hammer win.

The picture changes as the tower grows. With seven floors and 17 lines, and the bag at x4, one spin paid DEM 320.00 on a line finished by a wild; on a six-floor tower with 14 lines the session winnings had reached DEM 582.50 while three glowing energy orbs sat on the reels and the scatter counter showed 1.

More Features in the Catalogue

SlotCatalog’s feature list for Epic Tower is longer than what a handful of screenshots can show. It names cascading (avalanche) wins, where winning symbols are removed and new ones fall into place; a level-up mechanic, which is the tower meter on the left; reelset changing, which describes the grid growing from three floors upwards; and symbol collection (energy), which matches the glowing orbs and the lightning counter. Together they describe a game in which one spin can lead to the next: cascades keep the reels moving, collected energy feeds the meters, and the meters make the tower taller.

The practical consequence is that the size of the tower matters more than any single symbol value. The same J line that paid 220 on three floors has far more ways to repeat itself on a seven-floor tower with 17 lines, and every extra floor also gives the wild shields more places to land next to the multiplier bag.

Free Spins

The bonus starts with a parchment scroll: “Congratulations! You won 8 Free Spins!”. The rules are summed up on the buy screen: the tower grows with each free spin, and wilds are collected with additional multipliers. In other words, every free spin adds a floor and more paylines, and the multiplier bag keeps climbing – the combination that produces the game’s biggest results. Our seven-floor spin with the x4 bag came from a round with three free spins still to go.

Buying the Bonus

The Buy Bonus star in the top right corner opens a dialog with a stone dwarf king. At a stake of DEM 200.00 per spin the total cost is DEM 14,000.00 – 70x the bet – for the 8 free spins. The balance on that screen was DEM 14,220, just enough to afford it once.

Graphics and Setting

Epic Tower is one of Mancala’s most colourful games. The tower is built from grey stone with golden braces and a wooden scaffold on top, and it stands on a grassy island floating in a bright blue sky, with smaller islands of gold coins drifting past. The red dragon watches from a rocky ledge on the left, next to the chunky orange EPIC TOWER logo. The side meters and the large round buttons on the right keep the interface readable even when the tower reaches the top of the screen.

Who It Is For

Epic Tower is for players who like a slot that changes shape as they play. The base game is small and gentle, but the growing tower, the multiplier bag and the 70x bonus buy give it a much higher ceiling than its 3x3 start suggests. With a 95% RTP and a top prize above 27,000x, it is a game of patience: most of its value sits in the free spins, when the tower rises floor by floor.

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