About 5 Lions Reborn
5 Lions Reborn was released on 7 April 2025 as an exclusive and on 17 April in wide distribution, according to SlotCatalog and Bigwinboard. Our entry said 23 January 2025: the date has been corrected. The game drops the Megaways engine of the two previous instalments and returns to the series' classic format.
The grid is a 5×3 with 243 ways to win, with no fixed lines: matching symbols pay as soon as they occupy adjacent reels starting from the left. The décor reuses the series' Chinese imagery — guardian lions, coins and golden dragons.
The wild appears on the middle reels and substitutes for every symbol except the scatters. Its real purpose only shows up during the bonus.
Three scatters open the free spins, and the game then offers seven packages built on a clear logic: the shorter the session, the higher the starting multiplier. 20 spins at x2, 15 spins at x3, 13 spins at x5, 10 spins at x8, 8 spins at x10, 6 spins at x15, and a seventh mystery entry that draws the pairing at random.
Here is the rule that makes the game interesting: during free spins, every paying combination containing a wild raises the multiplier by its starting value. The x15 package therefore does not stay stuck at x15 — it moves to x30, then x45, in steps of fifteen. The x2 one climbs two at a time but gets eighteen more spins to do it. The theoretical return is identical from one option to the next; the shape of the curve is nothing alike.
A second useful detail: those same combinations can add 1 to 3 free spins to the counter, at random. A short session is therefore not necessarily a brief one.
The game uses three scatter types. The ordinary scatter triggers the bonus in threes. The golden scatter can randomly open the free spins straight from the base game. The super scatter can, in the same way, open the Super Free Spins, which start on the best configuration outright: 20 spins and an x15 starting multiplier.
The standard RTP is 96.50%, meaning €3.50 of theoretical margin per €100 staked. That is the figure Pragmatic Play publishes on its own game page. SlotCatalog headlines a 95.50% version instead; two lowered settings do exist, at 95.50% and 94.50%, and nothing on screen says which one a given operator is running.
Stakes run from €0.30 to €150 per spin — our entry said €125, a value now corrected. The ceiling is 5,000x, meaning €1,500 at the minimum stake and €750,000 at the maximum, with a probability SlotCatalog estimates at 1 in 3,952,569 spins. In exchange, the hit rate is comfortable: one paying spin in 3.28.
Two bonus buys are offered, not a single 100x one as our entry claimed. The first costs 80x the stake and places three triggering scatters on the following spin. The second, at 500x, opens the Super Free Spins directly: €150 on a €0.30 stake. Both are unavailable in the United Kingdom.
