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Eastern Fury arrives with five priced ways to alter the base game

Pragmatic Play's 27 August release publishes a 96.53% headline RTP and, per review coverage, a 10,000x ceiling. The document worth filing is the price list attached to its features.

By Staff, Spin & Tell

A release note usually opens with the paint. Eastern Fury, which Pragmatic Play put out on 27 August 2026, is better read from the back of the frame — not the theme, but the price list stapled to it.

What the studio publishes

The studio’s own game page describes a five-by-five grid on which expanding wilds land on the fifth reel in both base and bonus play, covering the reel and taking one of two competing multiplier values between 2x and 100x. The same page gives a published RTP of 96.53% and describes scatter-triggered free spins with sticky wilds, plus a Super Free Spins variant whose minimum multiplier value is lifted to 10x. Bigwinboard’s review supplies what the studio page leaves out: a 10,000x ceiling, medium volatility, a bet range of 0.20 to 240 and a hit frequency it puts at one in 4.21 spins. The ceiling is a statement about the shape of a distribution, not a forecast of anything a session will meet.

Five priced entries

The ladder is the part worth filing. Per Bigwinboard, an ante bet lifts the stake to five times normal in exchange for eleven times the chance of triggering free spins; Super Spin 1 costs 20x and guarantees an expanding wild on every spin; Super Spin 2 costs 300x and guarantees one carrying a 10x-to-100x multiplier; and the buy menu sells free spins at 100x or super free spins at 500x. Three of the five reprice the base game and two skip it outright, all priced in a line, subject to local regulation.

Read as a design document rather than a menu, the ladder says where the studio parked the value — in the super variant, at both ends of the shop — and prices the shortest walk to it highest. iGamingToday’s review of the same game tabulates the special bets differently again, listing 20x, 100x, 400x and 6,000x figures that do not reconcile with Bigwinboard’s. We are not going to adjudicate between two secondary tables. The paytable inside the game you have actually loaded is the authoritative copy, and on a title with this many priced doors it is the only copy that describes your session.

Three builds, one headline

Bigwinboard’s specification box lists three RTP configurations — 96.53%, 95.49% and 94.53% — where the studio page publishes only the top figure. If those are operator-selectable, as such spreads usually are, two of the three builds cost meaningfully more per spin than the number in the marketing, and no promotional sheet is obliged to say which one an operator has installed. Pragmatic’s August opened on a single headline figure. It closes on three.

None of which argues for hurrying. A medium-volatility game with a 10,000x top end and a 500x door is one to bring a decided budget to rather than to find one during. Availability, as ever, varies by jurisdiction.