Played on a basic 3×3, 5-payline reel set, players score a win when three matching symbols land across them. Essentially a fruit slot at its core, it’s fair to say Tale of Kyubiko is not one of Play’n GO’s big hitters.

Tale of Kyubiko keeps symbols to a minimum as well, where seven regular paying tiles accompany two wild symbols. The first four are low-value card suits paying 0.1 to 0.4x the bet, then come three animal characters paying 2 to 8 times the stake.

Better values can be had from the individual mask wild, which pays 10x the bet when it forms a win on its own. Otherwise, all wilds in the game replace any of the paying symbols.

Sometimes, a simple-looking three-reel slot can pack in way more features than originally suspected. However, Tale of Kyubiko is not one of these games, relying on a stacked walking wild delivering most of the thrills, assisted by a progressive multiplier as it moves around the grid.

Inari’s Fortune
Inari is the stacked wild and can land fully or partially in view. Occasionally, when Inari does land partially in view, there is a chance it is nudged to cover the whole reel – if it would form a winning combination.

Inari’s Dance
When the Inari stacked wild forms a winning combination, a free respin is triggered. Between respins, Inari moves from her current reel to a new position. What’s neat is the image on the wild tracks Inari’s shapeshifting progress from fox to human form.

Also, when the wild stack moves, the win multiplier increases by +1 step. Multiplier values are displayed to the left of the reels, ascending from x2, x5, x10, to x25. When respins end, the multiplier resets.