Sky Pearls - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Sky Pearls Slot Review

Gems are a common feature in slots, but pearls don’t appear with the frequency of, say, diamonds. Asian-themed slots don’t normally float among purple clouds. And 4x4 is not the layout you’d usually expect to see, especially paying from anywhere rather than having fixed paylines. Our Sky Pearls slot review will try to explore all these features, including the bonus game.

Pearls Before Fu Dogs

Pearls are shiny and valuable, which makes them just the sort of thing a slot might want to utilise on its reels. Normally, however, you’d expect them to be growing in the heart of an oyster or adorning a necklace, not floating in the sky next to the traditional creatures of the Asian-themed video slot. 

Fu dogs, also known as lion dogs, are protector figures often used to guard temples and tombs. They’re joined by fish, frogs and turtles (or maybe tortoises?) all carved in gleaming gold but with different-coloured backgrounds to help them stand apart. The blazing form of the dragon, also in gold, is the wild. These traditional figures are joined by a soundtrack in the East Asian style.

The Purple Sky

If you’ve played many Asian-themed slots before, you’ll know that red and gold are usually the order of the day. As soon as you see that colour scheme, you have an idea what you’re facing. The Sky Pearls slot does something a bit different. That sky of the title is a hazy pink and purple background behind the reels, the faint silhouette of the clouds joined by the looming statuesque forms of two dragons overseeing everything.

Sky Pearls RTP and Variance

The RTP of the Sky Pearls slot is 95.72%. There is no official variance information.

How to Play Sky Pearls

Time to soar into the world of real money slots:

1. Once you’ve finished reading our Sky Pearls slot review, you can load the game. Head to the menu first: it’s where you’ll find the paytable and rules.


2. Take a look at your current balance and figure yourself out a budget with loss and single win limits. That can guide you when you open the bet page. The minimum is 0.10.


3. If you want to mute the sound, that’s an option on the main screen.


4. Making the reels spin can be done by clicking the spin button, pressing the space bar or pressing the enter key on your keyboard.


5. Some casinos will let you include timeout or self-exclusion functions as part of your account. If not, you’ll have to stay firmly on top of your budget as you play. Don’t chase losses. 


6. Stay in control; be responsible.

How to Win at Sky Pearls

Once upon a time, trying to win when playing slots meant trying to create winning symbols across a limited number of fixed paylines, usually over three or five reels. Modern games can play around with their formats a little more. In the Sky Pearls slot, every paying symbol is functionally a scatter symbol. You still need matching combinations for a payout, but as long as at least eight symbols are identical, they’ll pay from anywhere on the reels.

Top Wins

• The base game of the Sky Pearls slot comes with eight regular paying symbols. They start paying in combinations of eight, but top wins come for 16-of-a-kind.


• Generic card symbols have the lowest payout potential. The top win multiplier for the J is x8 your bet.


• If you find 16 fu dogs, the win multiplier is x200.


• Wilds don’t pay in their own right but can stand in for other symbols to complete a combination. Bonus symbols only pay during the bonus game.

Sky Pearls Bonuses 

Referring to the “Sky Pearls bonus features” in this section is a little misleading, as the base game doesn’t have any unexpected surprises, and there’s only one bonus round. If you prefer slots heavily layered with free spins and multipliers, you may have to look elsewhere, perhaps at other 3 Oaks Gaming (Booongo) slots, but this hold and win game does have four levels of jackpot.

Hold and Win

Plenty of slots have variations on the hold and win game, though the exact mechanics will differ. First you need to find enough bonus symbols - pearls that make the big one besides the reels gleam. Then you have three re-spins, to start with at least. Find more bonus symbols during the round and the total will reset to three again.

During hold and win, only bonus and jackpot symbols are in play, and they will stick to the reels wherever they land. Each bonus symbol has its own value. There are more possible levels of jackpot: mini, minor, major and grand. At the end of the feature, your total win is added up based on the symbols and jackpots you’ve collected. You only win the grand jackpot if you’ve filled all 16 positions.

Max-win 1,000x

Volatility Low

Top RTP 95.72%

Sky Pearls Review - Summary 

The Sky Pearls slot has a distinctive and atmospheric look. That’s partly because of the unusual 4x4 layout, and partly the non-standard colour scheme and the way it depicts what could have been a standard Asian-themed game. As for the gameplay, the ability to pay from anywhere will excite some players, and a bonus game is always welcome, but some people will wish there were free spins or multipliers as well.