Cloudforge

Cloudforge Features: Wilds That Climb and Reels That Bite Back

Every multiplier in Cloudforge traces back to the exterminator in the gas mask, a wild who arrives as a single tile and rarely stays that size for long. He substitutes for all paying symbols except the bonus, and six of him across a payline pay 50x the bet without any help, which puts him level with the goblin captain at the top of the paytable.

The Exterminator Grows a Step at a Time

The wild lands as a head-and-shoulders portrait, then pushes upward through the reel one position at a time, and every step adds 1x to the multiplier he carries. As he stretches, the artwork resolves into a full-body trooper in plate armour with a purple cape, and the running multiplier sits printed across his chest.

Position therefore matters a great deal. A wild that drops onto the bottom row of a five-high reel has four steps of climbing ahead of it, while one that lands near the top has almost nowhere to go and finishes with a modest number attached. Across the demo session the base game produced wilds carrying anything from 5x to 14x, and the difference came down to where they started.

That multiplier applies to any line win running through the reel the wild occupies. One wild on reel three at 6x turned a three-symbol low-pay combination worth 0.30x into a 1.80x return, which is the kind of correction that keeps a cold stretch from feeling pointless.

Electric Reels Fill the Column and Double It

Reels can electrify at random during the base game and throughout Extermination Spins, and the effect is easy to spot because a cyan lightning outline runs down both edges of the reel. Any wild landing on an electrified reel behaves differently from a normal one.

Instead of stopping at the top, the wild expands upward, reaches the ceiling, then reverses and expands downward until it occupies all five positions. Once the column is full, the multiplier it has accumulated doubles. A wild that climbed to 5x on the way up leaves the process holding 10x and covering the entire reel, which is why electric reels carry so much weight in a game built on line wins.

The combination gets genuinely dangerous when an electric reel sits in the middle of the grid. A full wild column on reel four means every one of the 20 paylines passes through a wild at that point, so near-misses turn into completed combinations across the board.

Coinciding Wilds Multiply Instead of Adding

Two wilds landing on the same reel trigger the one mechanic that breaks the steady arithmetic everywhere else. The topmost wild expands first, the lower one follows, and at the moment they meet their respective multipliers multiply together rather than adding.

Two modest wilds carrying 4x and 3x produce 12x on contact, so a pair of unremarkable landings can outperform a single long climb. This is also the mechanic that makes the guaranteed two-wild SuperCharge option worth its 15x price tag, because paying for a second wild buys the chance of multiplication rather than another increment.

Where the Numbers Land in the Base Game

Base game wilds are settled on the spin they appear. The multiplier applies to that round’s line wins and then clears, so nothing carries forward and each spin starts from scratch. Both bonus rounds change that rule completely, and the global multiplier they introduce is where the 10,000x ceiling stops being theoretical.

Cloudforge Symbols and Paytable: Goblins, Gadgets and Bomb Orbs

Cloudforge splits twelve paying symbols across three tiers, and the gap between them is wide enough to matter. The goblin captain at the top pays 50x for six across a line, while the cheapest orb manages 4x for the same feat, so a full line of lows barely registers next to a full line of premiums.

Six-of-a-kind combinations are the ones worth chasing, because the jump from five to six is steep across the entire table. The captain more than triples from 15x to 50x on that final symbol, and the pattern repeats all the way down.

The Goblin Captain and the Exterminator Share the Top

The highest paying symbol is a green goblin in a purple peaked cap with round pink goggles, a white moustache and a brass gun tucked under one arm. He is the only premium in the game, which concentrates the top end considerably compared with slots that spread four or five high symbols across similar money.

The exterminator wild matches him exactly at 50x for six. That parity is unusual and genuinely useful, because a fully wild electric reel contributing to a six-wild line pays top money in its own right rather than merely substituting into someone else’s combination.

Four Gadgets Fill the Middle

The mid tier is the exterminator’s kit, each piece framed on its own coloured tile. A brass ray pistol sits on red, a glowing gas canister on yellow, a green-glass sprayer on green, and a brass compass device on blue. The pistol and canister pay identically at 25x for six, while the sprayer and compass share 12.5x.

Colour coding does real work on a 6×5 grid. Picking out four near-identical brass objects at a glance would be awkward, so the tile backgrounds let you read the grid by colour rather than by shape, and the two pay tiers map cleanly onto the pairs.

Six Bomb Orbs Carry the Bottom

Low symbols are spherical bombs distinguished by their bands and studs rather than by colour alone, which rewards a moment of attention but reads clearly enough once you know what to look for. They run in three pay pairs at 8x, 6x and 4x for six across.

Low symbols are also where the multipliers earn their keep. A six-symbol line of the cheapest orb pays 4x on its own, but the same line in a bonus round with the global multiplier sitting at x27 turns into a serious return, which is exactly how the biggest hit of the demo session landed.

Full Paytable

Figures below show the return for each combination as a multiple of the total bet.

How the Lines Are Counted

All 20 paylines run from the leftmost reel across, and only the longest matching combination per symbol pays. A run of four identical orbs pays the four-symbol figure rather than that plus the three-symbol one, so nothing stacks within a single symbol on a single line.

Wilds substitute for every paying symbol but never for the scatter or Super Scatter, which keeps the bonus triggers honest. The lines themselves cover straight rows, alternating zigzags and shallow V shapes, and the ones that bend through the middle rows are the ones a full wild column on reel three or four tends to complete.

The Cloudforge SuperCharge Menu: Six Ways to Change the Maths

Most slots give you a bonus buy and leave it there. Cloudforge stacks five purchases behind the SC button and adds a sixth option on the reels themselves, and they do not simply scale from cheap to expensive along one axis. Two of them buy wilds, one strips the grid down to bonus symbols, two buy the bonus rounds outright, and Enhanced Bet quietly shifts you onto a different reel set.

Everything except Enhanced Bet is base game only, and none of them combine. Arming one cancels any other, so the menu is a choice between approaches rather than a set of stacking upgrades.

What Each Option Costs

• 1 Guaranteed Wild, 3x bet. One exterminator is certain to land somewhere on the grid. The cheapest way to keep multipliers in play through a cold run, and at triple stake it barely registers against the alternatives.
• 2 Guaranteed Wilds, 15x bet. Two wilds land, which opens the door to Coinciding Wilds if both arrive on the same reel. The five-fold jump in price over the single wild buys the multiplication mechanic rather than simply doubling your chances.
• Bonus Reels, 10x bet. Every regular paying symbol disappears from the reels and only bonus symbols can land, with an improved chance of reaching the bonus round. The grid fills with blank blocker tiles and the whole spin becomes a scatter hunt with no line wins possible.
• Extermination Spins, 80x bet. Guarantees the three-scatter trigger and drops you straight into eight spins with the global multiplier running.
• Eradication Spins, 200x bet. Guarantees the Super Scatter entry, so every spin of the eight carries its guaranteed electric reel.
• Enhanced Bet, 2. 5x bet. Adds 250% to the stake and quadruples the probability of reaching Extermination Spins by moving you onto a reel set carrying more scatters.

Buying In Pays Slightly Better

Both bonus round purchases run at 96.50% RTP against the 96.10% of the base game. The gap is small but it points the right way, which is not always the case with bonus buys, and it applies equally to the 80x and 200x options.

Working out which purchase represents better value depends on what you want from the round rather than the headline percentage. The 200x Eradication buy costs two and a half times the Extermination buy for the same eight spins and the same retrigger rule, with the guaranteed electric reel as the only structural difference. That guarantee removes the scenario where a round drifts for several spins with nothing electrified, which is precisely the failure mode that makes the cheaper buy feel like a coin flip.

Check Which RTP Version Your Casino Runs

Relax ships Cloudforge in several configurations and the operator chooses which one goes live. The default is 96.10%, with alternative builds at 94%, 92% and 90%, plus a separate 86% version for the UK market. That spread is wide enough to change the game materially, and nothing in the interface announces which one you are playing.

The game rules screen inside the client states the figure directly, so opening the menu and reading the return line takes a few seconds and settles the question. Doing that before committing to an 80x or 200x purchase is worth the detour, because the buy-in RTP tracks the base configuration rather than sitting at a fixed 96.50% regardless.

Stakes and the Fine Print

Bets run from 0.10 to 100.00, and the ceiling matters when the menu is open. A 200x Eradication purchase at maximum stake is a very different proposition from the same purchase at the minimum, and the menu prices update live against whatever you have set.

Once a spin starts the stake locks for that round and cannot be changed. If the balance drops below your selected bet, the game lowers it automatically to the highest level you can still afford, though that behaviour depends on the market you are playing in.

Cloudforge Sound Design: Engines, Insects and a Scatter That Climbs

The cabin runs on an ambience loop with the twin gun barrels outside firing on their own schedule, three randomised variants per side, so the defence of the airship carries on whether or not you are listening.

The Scatter Announces Itself Before You See It

Scatter landings get three separate cues rather than one repeated sound, with a dedicated anticipation sting reserved for the third. Reading a 6×5 grid for brass contraptions takes a moment, and the audio gets there first, so the bonus round rarely arrives as a surprise.

The wild gets the most elaborate treatment in the game: separate sounds for the landing, each step of the expansion, the column completing and the multiplier resolving. That layering makes the climb legible by ear, so you can track how far the exterminator is growing without watching the number on his chest.

Symbols, Tiers and Separate Beds

All eleven paying symbols carry their own win cue, duplicated in mono so identification survives on phone speakers. Big, Mega and Epic wins each get a one-shot plus a looping bed, with a transition cue carrying the audio upward as a total climbs.

The music separates the three states cleanly. Base play alternates between two long tracks that avoid an obvious repeat, Extermination Spins takes a bonus bed of similar length, and Eradication Spins runs something shorter and more urgent.

Who Are Relax Gaming?

Relax Gaming started in March 2010 as a technical supplier rather than a slot studio, founded by Patrik Österåker and Jani Tekoniemi to sell gaming solutions to operators. Poker came first, with a Fast Poker Network launched in 2012 and a full flagship product built alongside Unibet two years later.

From Poker Supplier to Slot Heavyweight

The pivot into casino content is what made the name. Relax now runs two aggregation programmes, Silver Bullet for studios it represents commercially and Powered By Relax for those that stay independent, which gives operators access to thousands of games through a single integration while Relax keeps building its own.

Kindred Group bought in during 2013 and completed a full acquisition on 1 October 2021, valuing the company at up to 320 million euros. Relax kept its own board and management, and the output has not slowed since, with hubs across Malta, Estonia, Sweden and Serbia.

The in-house catalogue is where most players know the studio from. The Money Train series turned bonus buys into a headline feature rather than a side option, and the latest instalment pushes its ceiling to 100,000x. Dream Drop arrived in 2022 as a five-tier progressive layered across existing titles, starting with Temple Tumble 2.

Cloudforge sits firmly in that tradition without borrowing from it. No jackpot tiers, no tumbling grid, just line wins and a multiplier that refuses to reset, which is a quieter build than Relax usually ships and leans harder on a single mechanic doing its job well.

Licensing runs through the UK Gambling Commission, the Malta Gaming Authority, Gibraltar, Romania’s ONJN and Ontario’s AGCO, with eCOGRA handling testing.