Cursed Seas Slot Review

Cursed Seas Slot Overview

Cursed Seas is a new casino slot from Hacksaw Gaming where you can join a group of pirates on a journey through dangerous territory. Pirates are a recurring theme in the gaming world, and understandably so, as their risky lifestyle interacts well with slots that have high volatility and can generate big treasures. Like the recently released Stormforged, it is once again a feature-packed gaming adventure that you can enjoy in this edition. A slot that is targeted at adrenaline junkies and big win hunters, this adventure among pillaging pirates guarantees a captivating gaming experience. It is now time to find out what stats the game has.

Cursed Seas is a video slot from Hacksaw Gaming that has 5 reels, 4 rows, and 26 paylines. You can choose between making a Min.bet of 0.10 and a Max.bet of 100. The game has been created with 4 different RTPs, with an RTP of 96.22% by default, but players can also choose to use one of the lower RTPs of either 94.24%, 92.21%, or 88.38%. Cursed Seas has a hit frequency of 37% and medium/high volatility, where you can win up to 12500X the bet.

In this game adventure among looting pirates, you have some great features to help you in your quest for big wins. The features are Wild Symbol, Cursed Chests, Sunken Treasure Bonus Game, Dead Men Tell No Tales Bonus Game, and Bonus Buy.

Cursed Seas Slot Information

The game's design is a pirate theme where you follow a group of seafarers to a cursed sea. In the background of the reels, you can see a pirate ship traveling through a stormy place with high waves. You can play this slot on all devices - notepads, desktops, and mobiles. You create a winning combination by landing 3 or more of the same symbol type on adjacent positions starting on the leftmost reel.

The lower-paying symbols are an anchor, a compass, a flag, a revolver, and a skull. If you create a win with 5 of the same symbol type, it gives between 1X to 1.5X the bet. The higher-paying symbols are pirates with touches of color in brown, green, turquoise, and orange. If you create a win with 5 of the same symbol type, it gives between 3X to 10X the bet. During the spins, you can land wild symbols showing a treasure chest with a W on it, and the treasure chest with turquoise smoke is the game's cursed chest symbol. The lantern that lights up with a magical glow in turquoise color is the game's scatter symbol. It is now time to find out what the features do.

Cursed Seas Slot Features

What is the max win in the slot Cursed Seas?

You can win up to 12500X the bet.

What features are available in the slot Cursed Seas?

The features are Wild Symbol, Cursed Chests, Sunken Treasure Bonus Game, Dead Men Tell No Tales Bonus Game, and Bonus Buy.

Wild Symbol

The game's wild symbol helps enable more winning combinations by substituting for other paying symbols.

Cursed Chests

During the spins, you can land cursed chests, and they will, just like the wilds, substitute for other paying symbols. If it is part of a win, its position and all positions above it will receive a cursed area. This cursed chest will receive a multiplier for wins linked to the cursed area. If you create a win that crosses several multipliers, they will be added together first and then applied to the win. The cursed chests can show either 2X, 3X, 4X, 5X, 10X, 15X, 20X, 25X, 50X, 100X or 200X.

Sunken Treasure Bonus Game

If you land 3 scatter symbols, the sunken treasure bonus game is triggered, and you are welcomed with 10 free spins. By landing 2, 3, or 4 scatter symbols during the bonus game, you get 2, 4, or 6 extra free spins, respectively. The cursed chests you land will create cursed areas that remain during the whole bonus game, and you will collect the multipliers to a total win multiplier that appears above the reels. It is then applied to wins created with one or more symbols included in the cursed area.

Dead Men Tell No Tales Bonus Game

If you land 4 scatter symbols, the dead men tell no tales bonus game is activated, and you are then welcomed with 3 respins. During the spins, you can land cursed skull multipliers, tormented skull multipliers, Kraken multipliers, and blank symbols. Each time you land any of the first three symbols, they reset the respins to 3 again. Each reel will start with a multiplier of 1X, which will gradually increase by landing any of the multiplier symbols, and the values will remain during the whole bonus round.

Cursed Skull Multiplier = This will add its value to the reels total multiplier, showing values of 1X, 2X, 5X, 10X, 15X, 20X, 25X, 50X, 100X, 150X, 200X, 250X, or 500X. When you land a cursed skull, it will create a cursed area from its position that extends over all positions above it.

Tormented Skull Multiplier = This will multiply its value by the reel's total multiplier, where it can show values of 2X, 3X, 5X, 10X, 15X, 20X, or 25X.

Kraken Multiplier = This will apply its value to the multipliers on all reels, where it can show values of 1X, 2X, 5X, 10X, 15X, 20X, 25X, 50X, 100X, 150X, 200X, 250X, or 500X.

When you run out of spins, the multipliers on the reels will fill in the cursed area on the corresponding reels.

Bonus Buy

If you want to take advantage of the different features immediately, you can use the bonus buy option. You can then choose from the following options:

3X Active (Bonus Hunt Feature Spins) = You have 5 times the chance to activate the bonus game. There's an RTP of 96.21% and very high volatility.

100X (Sunken Treasure) = You activate the sunken treasure bonus game. It has an RTP of 96.26% and high volatility.

200X (Dead Men Tell No Tales) = You activate the dead men tell no tales bonus game. It has an RTP of 96.33% and high volatility.

Cursed Seas Slot Conclusion

The ocean is huge, and this slot shows room for another pirate slot to set sail toward big treasures. It's a game that comes packed with many compelling features and even a bonus buy that has several options to choose from, which has become a nice standard in recent releases from this game provider. It's a game with two X destinations you want to reach to get the bigger wins, but in our test, even the trip there during the base game proved to be rewarding with the help of the wild and cursed chest symbols. The cursed chest is something that joins into the sunken treasure feature, generating cursed areas that can give hefty wins toward the end of the spins. The dead men tell no tales is a respin feature where you collect multipliers to the respective reels,. The fun twist is that you want to generate as large cursed areas as possible, as these will be filled with the collected multipliers, thus constituting the total win.

Hacksaw Gaming certainly has a peculiar design within its releases, where the background image could just as well be framed and hung on a wall. There is rather eerie music that plays during the spins that, give the game that charming mystique that makes the spins extra exciting to take part in. There is a higher volatility which results in the balance changing greatly in size during the spins, and a great size potential max win has been applied. A good range of bet sizes makes it attractive for more players to participate in the game. The theme, together with the different ways that the cursed multipliers appear throughout the spins, makes this a very festive slot.

Cursed Seas is a slot where you sail the stormy seas with pirates in search of the big wins that can amount to an incredible 12500X the bet.