A Stroll Through the Seasons with the Hanafuda Slot from Popiplay

Celebrate the beauty of nature with the uniquely styled Hanafuda slot from Popiplay. This serene, feature-packed title is unlike anything else, and it is a true testament to the developer’s skill.

• RTP: 95.99%
• Volatility: High
• Bonus Features: Wilds, Sticky Wilds, Multipliers, Free Spins

Popiplay is not afraid to push the envelope, and despite being founded as recently as 2022, it has already made waves in the industry with some impressive titles, including Dream Diner and Mythos. Hanafuda is one of the studio’s most attention-grabbing titles to date, and it achieves that with a relatively simple approach, just like the cards on which the slot is based.

Hanafuda Symbols and Slot Bonus Features

Hanafuda means “flower cards” in Japanese. It refers to a deck of small, slightly curved cards used to play a host of different games. In this slot, the cards serve as the game’s main symbols and trigger payouts for combinations of 3 or more across the slot’s 20 paylines. The red card depicting a boar is the highest payer here, and it’s followed by pink and yellow cards featuring a deer and bird, respectively. The lower-paying symbols include various types of flowers and birds.

There’s also a wild and a scatter. The former, represented by the face of a snarling demon—a stark contrast to the serenity depicted in the other symbols—substitutes for other main game symbols in the base game and adds multipliers of 1x, 2x, or 3x in the free spins. The wild multipliers are also sticky during this feature, so once they land, they will remain until its climax. These symbols only stick to the three middle reels.

As for the scatter symbol, it appears a maximum of 3 times—on the first, third, and fifth reels—and all of these are needed to activate a small instant win and launch the free spins. The feature begins with a mini-game where players must pick 3 of the 8 dolls on the screen, unlocking between 9 and 18 free spins when they do so.

In some jurisdictions (not including the UK), players can buy the bonus feature for 75x, but there is no guarantee that such an action will produce any kind of return.

Delve deeper into this slot and all its intricacies in our complete Hanafuda slot review.