Sleeping Dragon Ultra Dark Slot Review & Free Play

Sleeping Dragon Ultra Dark: Steal A Dragon's Gold Pile For 20,000x Wins

Sleeping Dragon Ultra Dark by Pragmatic Play takes the classic tale of a knight facing a fire-breathing dragon and gives it a much darker twist. Respins, giant symbols during free spins, Money Eggs, and a 20,000x max win await anyone brave enough to disturb the enormous pile of treasure the dragon is sleeping on. That's a whole lot of gold the dragon is guarding, but getting incinerated might not be worth the risk.

The game uses a 5x3 grid with 10 paylines, where symbols pay between 0.10x and 10x your bet. During my session, lower-paying symbols like 10s and Queens loved landing in stacks of two, making it fairly easy to complete line wins worth around 0.60x to 0.80x. On average, I was landing a win every couple of spins thanks to wilds appearing regularly on the second and third reels, although most of those payouts stayed between 0.20x and 0.60x my stake.

Eventually, I landed six money symbols carrying values between 1x and 3x, triggering the Respin Bonus. Every money symbol locks in place while each new one resets the respin counter back to three, with all collected values paid once the feature ends.

At first, it looked like this was going to be a massive hold-and-win round, as the grid kept filling up nicely. Unfortunately, most of those positions ended up occupied by tiny 1x coins, and what started as a promising bonus finished with just 14x my bet.

Not long afterwards, three dragon head scatters awarded eight free spins. During the feature, the three middle reels merge into one giant reel filled with oversized symbols, while giant money symbols can also trigger the Respin Bonus. I went into the feature expecting another disappointing result after the respins had fooled me earlier.

Even when a 3x3 giant symbol managed to land alongside a wild, the payouts never really kicked into another gear. By the end of the bonus, I had collected just 18.90x my bet, which wasn't much better than the respins.

Sleeping Dragon Ultra Dark teased me with two bonuses that looked far more exciting than they actually turned out to be. The base game stayed active enough to avoid feeling boring, but both bonus rounds struggled to capitalize on their own mechanics. Maybe the dragon was simply better at guarding his treasure than I was at stealing it.