Coven Rising

Coven Rising is a Pragmatic Play slot, released on 17 September 2026, that sets a cluster-pays game inside a witches' ritual circle. Its round stone board has 43 positions, and every rune gem on it has five levels of value. Four witches take turns in the centre spot, collecting coins, raising levels, filling blanks or adding wilds. The rules label it medium volatility; the top RTP is 96.42% and wins cap at 5,000x. Our Coven Rising demo test covers 100 base spins at $1 plus both bonus buys.

What is the Coven Rising slot about?

Four robed witches, in yellow, green, red and blue, stand at the corners of a forest clearing and cast lightning at a round stone board. A Latin incantation runs around its rim, a crow watches from the logo, and the witch of the moment sits in the centre spot. In free spins the ground turns to cracked lava.

The board is laid out in columns of 1, 4, 7, 6, 7, 6, 7, 4 and 1 positions. Five or more matching gems touching sideways, up, down or diagonally form a cluster. Winning gems pay and then respin in place rather than tumbling, and the respins continue while new clusters form. Woven blank symbols fill some spaces and never pay.

Before our first spin at $1: the ritual circle of rune gems, with the Green Witch in the centre. FluxPlays demo test, 16 October 2026.

Every gem starts at level 1 and can rise during spins, respins and features, up to level 5. Values are per gem, so a cluster pays the value times its size. At a $1 bet a red gem is worth $0.50 at level 1 and $50 at level 5, a white one $0.05 to $5. Five level-1 white gems pay $0.25, the typical small base-game win.

Pragmatic Play gives a hit rate of 35.34%, about one spin in 2.83, with free spins arriving once in 336.51 spins on average. In our test 34 of 100 base spins paid.

Coven Rising bonus features

The four witches

Witches land only in the centre spot, each in a normal or an upgraded version, and they respin along with the winning gems, so a new witch can arrive in the middle of a chain:

• Green Witch: collects and pays every coin on the board. Upgraded, she first adds 1 to 5 coins on blank spaces.
• Red Witch: raises one random gem a level. Upgraded, she raises every gem a level.
• Yellow Witch: turns up to 5 blanks into random symbols. Upgraded, she turns every blank.
• Blue Witch: makes the centre spot wild. Upgraded, she adds 2 more wilds at random.

Coins are worth 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, 100x, 250x or 500x the bet, and they pay only when a Green Witch collects them. The wild stands in for gems but not for scatters, coins or witches.

The rules: Red Witch level-ups last until the end of free spins, in either version. FluxPlays demo test, 16 October 2026.

Free spins

Three, four, five or six scatters award 12, 16, 20 or 24 free spins on special reels, and two or more scatters during the round add 2 spins each. Two rules change. Red Witch level-ups, from either version, now last until the round ends. One review site ties that to the upgraded Red Witch only, but the rules apply it to both.

A Green Witch collection also leaves its total on the highest coin, which stays on the board until it is collected again, a bigger coin replaces it or the round ends. A round that reaches 5,000x the bet ends at once.

Ante bet and buys

The ante bet, which we did not test, triples the stake for seven times the free spins chance, at 96.50% RTP. The bonus buys cost 100x for free spins at 96.48% and 200x for Super Free Spins at 96.49%, where blanks cannot land in the centre spot.

The two buys at a $1 base bet: $100 for free spins, $200 for no blanks in the centre. FluxPlays demo test, 16 October 2026.

Our Coven Rising demo test

We played 100 base spins at $1, one spin at a time and without autoplay, and got $72.95 back from 34 wins. Eighteen of them paid under $1, and none reached 10x. The longest dry run was 11 spins, from spin 77 to 87, and the balance never rose above where it started.

The witches made the best moments. On spin 37 an upgraded Red Witch levelled up every gem for $7.00. On spin 42 the Green Witch collected coins worth $1, $4 and $4 for $9.00. Spin 23 showed the respins at work, paying four times in a row for $6.95.

Spin 37 of 100 at $1: an upgraded Red Witch levelled every gem, for $7.00. FluxPlays demo test, 16 October 2026.

The biggest base win, $9.05 on spin 94, was a four-step respin chain that began with the Green Witch in the centre, with one gem raised to level 2 along the way. It was a single result; the other 99 spins returned $63.90. Free spins never triggered naturally, so we bought both rounds.

Spin 94 of 100 at $1: a respin chain that started with the Green Witch, $9.05. FluxPlays demo test, 16 October 2026.

The $100 buy gave 12 free spins. Red Witches lifted gems to level 2 and 3, one as far as level 4, and a Green Witch on free spin 5 collected $9.00 and left a held coin that grew to 19x. The best hits were a $19.75 respin chain on free spin 6 and a $19.00 collection on free spin 11. The round paid $52.45.

The $200 Super Free Spins ran 16 spins and went much further. Red Witches pushed two gems to level 5, upgraded Yellow Witches filled every blank, and the held coin grew to 44x. Long respin chains had the round at $127.95 by free spin 9, then added $95.00 on spin 14, $78.00 on spin 15 and $56.00 on the last spin.

Our $200 Super Free Spins buy: $356.95 in 16 free spins. FluxPlays demo test, 16 October 2026.

That round paid $356.95, almost 1.8 times its price, but it is one round: a single result, not evidence that the Super buy pays more than it costs. Results by part of the test, with the base game first:

• Base game, 100 spins at $1: $100.00 in, $72.95 back
• Free Spins buy at 100x: $100.00 in, $52.45 back
• Super Free Spins buy at 200x: $200.00 in, $356.95 back

In all we staked $400.00 and got $482.35 back. We saw every witch at work except the upgraded Blue Witch, whose extra wilds we could not pick out on screen in the Super round. The ante bet stayed off under our protocol, and 100 spins and two buys cannot measure a 96.42% RTP or the volatility.

Is Coven Rising worth trying?

There is a lot going on for a cluster game, and it hangs together. A witch in the centre spot can change any spin, the respins let one witch change a whole chain, and the level system means the same gem can be worth a hundred times more by the end of a free spins round, because Red Witch level-ups stay put.

The cost is a small-change base game. A five-gem cluster at level 1 pays $0.25 to $2.50, coins mean nothing without a Green Witch, and in the base game a level-up lasts only for the spin it happens in. The 5,000x cap is modest here, and the 96.42% top RTP sits a little under the buys and ante (one review site prints 96.24%; the rules say 96.42%).

Every source we checked, and the game's own rules page, call it medium volatility.

Jade Legends is a 7x7 cluster game we have tested that also turns on a collector, a dragon that converts marked spots into coins, but it tumbles where Coven Rising respins in place. Cosmic Clusters! shares the medium label and the 5,000x cap, with coins that pay in clusters and come back as one bigger coin.