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Battle Royal Slot Overview

Not “Battle Royale” as in the Japanese dystopian novel/film, but “Battle Royal”, as in the royal family of England. Play'n GO slots have tackled many themes before, but the Tudor dynasty isn’t as common as Ancient Egypt or Greek mythology. You’re dropped into the conflicts between Henry VIII and his wives, played across 5 reels. You don’t just have to look for the 20 paylines, but also choose who’ll live or die.

Divorced, Beheaded, Died

School children across the UK learn this rhyme about the six wives of Henry VIII, ruler of England (not yet the United Kingdom) in the 1500’s. Divorced, beheaded, died / Divorced, beheaded, survived. Each queen struggled with her husband’s cruelty, and his obsessive search for a male heir (never mind that his daughter, Elizabeth I, would become one of England’s most successful monarchs).

The Royal Hall

Like many generically Medieval slots, Battle Royal takes place in a vast hall, with a soaring ceiling and hanging pennants. Card suits have swirling, regal patterns, but more importantly, the queens themselves: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Ann of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr are depicted on their own playing cards, with their own colours (blue, purple, green, red, orange and gold). Trigger the Battle Royal bonus features to explore more of the castle and grounds.

Battle Royal RTP & Volatility

The RTP of the Battle Royal slot is 96.56%. The volatility is high.

How to Play Battle Royal

Watch out for those guillotines:

1. If you’re not a king, you can’t just raise taxes on your subjects or declare you’ve found winning symbols, so set a budget.


2. Betting starts at 20p. You’ll see some options in a row under the reels, with + and - signs to reach the extremes.


3. Info shows you the paytable, the question mark shows you the rules.


4. The speaker is a mute button, other settings are in the menu.


5. Hit spin.

Self-exclusion can be helpful if you have trouble stopping at your limits.

Have fun and be responsible.

How to Win at Battle Royal

For the wives of Henry VIII, winning meant surviving marriage, but in the Battle Royal slot, it means winning symbols, feature triggers, choosing the right queen for a bonus prize, and opening treasure chests without being caught by an angry ghost. Easy-peasy. Be ready to take a timeout if needed.

Battle Royal Gameplay Flow & Systems

Once you start spinning the base game of the Battle Royal slot, it shouldn’t take too long to see some smaller wins or a single scatter symbol. Even finding the second scatter isn’t too difficult compared to slots with more complicated trigger mechanisms. Actual free spins can go on what feels like indefinitely because you’re waiting for the guillotine to take out every queen. You’ll see more wilds, and gameplay could eventually lead into the Long Live the King pick game. That you can play more at your own pace.

Battle Royal Win Rules & Symbols

Bonuses involve choosing 1 of 6 queens, but in Battle Royal, you want the same queen to appear at least 3 times, on a payline. The same goes for card suits. You have 20 paylines to try and form left-to-right winning combinations of matching symbols, or find 2 scatter symbols.

Battle Royal Top Win

• Card suits have top wins of between 1.5x and 3x.


• Living queens pay between 15x and 30x for 5-of-a-kind. Ghost queens all have a max value of 30x.


• Henry is a wild symbol, and can pay up to 30x on his own. The scatter symbol doesn’t pay individually.


• Overall, the max win available is x5000.

Battle Royal Bonuses

Bonuses include the free spins feature, with its unusual addition of guillotine blades, as well as Long Live the King, a pick game where Henry needs to grab the treasure before those beheaded ghosts catch up with him. Both are covered in this part of our Battle Royal slot overview.

Free Spins

When 2 scatters land, you need to pick just one to decide which bonus you’ll play. If it’s free spins, you’ll need to choose your queen. Each reel has a guillotine, and between spins, random blades will fall to decapitate any unfortunate monarch in their paths. Beheaded queens become ghosts, turning wild and also increasing their payout potential. Spins continue until only one queen is left. If she’s yours, you receive a bonus payout. Then you have to decide her fate on the final guillotine for entry into Long Live the King.

Long Live the King

In this pick game, whether triggered from free spins or the other base game scatter, you play Henry VIII. The action moves to a courtyard with 6 chests, 5 of which have instant win prize, 1 of which also a key with a mystery multiplier. You can’t escape the courtyard without that key, and with vengeful ghost queens hunting you, escape is a priority. Will you try to open every chest first? Or will you grab what you can and go?

Max-win 600x

Volatility High

Top RTP 96.56%

Battle Royal Overview Summary

Some people love any depiction of the Tudor monarchy and its dramatic history. Battle Royal tries to play into that drama by adding things that you don’t see in games like Rise of Olympus: falling guillotine blades, decapitated women and newly formed ghosts. Similarly, the pick game is less leisurely than just choosing the usual treasure chests, because those ghosts are a constant threat (though you may think it serves Henry right for being so terrible to his wives).