New Year Royale

New Year Royale is a Hold and Win slot from Mascot Gaming, due for release on 26 November 2026. Its setting is a snowy railway platform at midnight: a station clock stands just before twelve, and a singer, a lady in a white fur coat, a conductor and an elderly gentleman wait for the New Year train. The game uses a 5x4 grid with 40 fixed paylines, the volatility is high, and the top prize is 6,500x the bet. Free spins, coin respins with four jackpots and two buy options make up the feature list.

A Night Train At The Station

The reels sit in a golden frame, with a red stage curtain on each side and the four jackpot plaques stacked on the left. The mood is festive but not noisy: deep blue backgrounds, warm lamp light and a mulled wine jug on the table in the corner during the coin bonus. During the free spins, the scene moves into a vault full of safe-deposit boxes, jewels and gold bars, which gives the bonus round its own look. A banner above the reels changes with each spin and reminds the player what the special symbols do.

Symbols And Paytable

All wins are paid on the 40 lines. The blonde singer is the best character symbol and pays 100x the line bet for five of a kind, 7.5x for four, 0.75x for three and 0.1x for two. The redhead lady pays 25x for five, the conductor 10x and the gentleman 5x. The four card suits are the low symbols and pay 2.5x for five of a kind.

The steam locomotive Wild is the strongest symbol on the paytable: five of them pay 175x. It substitutes for every symbol except the Scatter and the Coins, and it often lands in tall stacks that cover several rows.

The lower prizes on the paytable are easy to read. The conductor pays 1.75x for four of a kind and 0.35x for three, the redhead lady pays 3.25x for four and 0.5x for three, and the gentleman pays 1x for four and 0.2x for three. The four suit symbols pay 0.5x for four and 0.15x for three. Because the wins are counted per line, a stacked locomotive in the first reels can turn a quiet spin into several line wins at the same time.

Scatters And Free Spins

The clock Scatter starts the bonus: 3, 4 or 5 Scatters award 10, 12 or 15 free spins. The spins play automatically at the bet that triggered them, and wins are paid by the normal paytable. New Scatters inside the round add more spins, with 3, 4 or 5 of them giving 3, 5 or 8 extra free spins. Coin symbols can appear in the free spins too, so the round can reach the jackpots and the coin bonus without leaving it.

Coins, Collect And Jackpots

The round gold Coin symbols carry a cash value and do not pay on the lines. When a Coin lands together with a Collect symbol, the values of all Coins on screen are added to the win. The green Mini, blue Minor and red Major jackpot coins work the same way: if one lands with a Collect symbol, the jackpot is paid at once. On the left side of the grid the jackpot values are shown as Mini 450x, Minor 900x, Major 2,000x and Grand 6,500x the bet.

The Coin symbols are easy to spot, because each one has a different colour and a value printed on it, such as 0.25x, 1.50x, 5.00x, 25.00x or 40.00x at a 1.00 bet. The Collect symbol is a purple coin, and it works as a collector rather than a prize: without Coins on screen it does nothing, but together with them it can bring a very large total in a single spin. A banner at the top of the screen explains this each time, for example that Collect gathers all Coin values and jackpots on screen.

The Hold And Win Bonus

Six or more Coin symbols trigger the Hold and Win Bonus, in the base game as well as in the free spins. The Coins are locked in place and the player gets 3 respins. Only empty positions spin, and every new Coin that lands resets the counter to three. The round goes on until the respins run out or all 20 positions are filled. Coin values, Collect symbols and jackpot symbols can all land during the bonus, and a screen full of Coins awards the Grand Jackpot, which is the 6,500x top prize of the game.

In practice, the Coin bonus is where the biggest wins come from. A bonus that starts with six Coins already has several prizes locked on the grid, and every respin that adds a Coin gives the player three fresh chances. In the demo, a bought bonus at a 1.00 bet started with a full screen of Coin values from 0.25x to 40.00x, and the locked Coins were shown against a frosty window with snow falling outside. The bonus is paid at the end of the respins, and the total is the sum of all Coin values plus any jackpot that landed.

Buy Options And The Risk Feature

The Buy Feature menu offers two choices, and the prices below are the ones shown in the demo at a 1.00 bet:

• 12 Free Spins for 125x the bet;
• Hold and Win Bonus, which starts with 3 resetting respins, for 150x the bet.

Bought features always play at the bet that was active at the moment of purchase. After any winning spin, a Risk gamble is also available: the player picks one of the face-down cards against a card drawn by the game, a higher card doubles the win and a lower one loses it, and the gamble stops after seven steps or at a ceiling of 2,500x the total bet. The Buy and Risk options are switched off in Autoplay mode.

Mascot Gaming And The Release

Mascot Gaming is a studio known for coin-based and crash-style titles, and New Year Royale follows the Hold and Win line of the company with a winter theme. The game was announced in the studio’s Q4 roadmap for 26 November 2026, so the demo above gives an early look before the official launch. Check the rules inside the game.

Who May Like It

New Year Royale suits players who enjoy coin-and-jackpot slots with a seasonal theme and do not mind high volatility. The 40 lines and the stacked locomotive Wild keep the base game active between bonuses, while the free spins and the respin bonus carry the big-win chances. Bets start at 0.20,, and the game is built for desktop and mobile alike.