PG Soft’s new release Thunder Reckoning: fill the whole screen with lightning for 5,000x
A rundown of PG Soft’s new release Thunder Reckoning. Winning cells light up one by one on a 6×5 screen, and when all 30 are lit they merge into a giant prize symbol. Look at the 96.76% RTP and 5,000x max win through official materials.
Key takeaways
- On October 12, PG Soft released Thunder Reckoning, starring a warrior of thunder.
- On the 5×6 screen, winning symbols activate their own cells.
- When every cell is lit, they merge into one and pay up to 5,000x your bet.
- The RTP is 96.76%, certified by both BMM and GA.
A warrior with a hammer beneath the storm
Thunder Reckoning, which PG Soft unveiled on October 12, sets a clear mood from the very first screen. Under a sky covered in dark clouds, a red-bearded warrior raises his hammer while lightning splits above him. Once you enter the game, crackling electric effects and grand orchestral music follow you throughout. PG Soft introduced it as “an ancient battle of light and darkness.”
PG Soft has been moving across a wide range of themes in recent months. In September it released the fairy-tale-style Grimms’ Bounty: Princess & the Frog, and before that Lucky Mischief and Prosperity Lanterns. Thunder Reckoning stands on the weightiest, mythological action side of those.
Cells light up with every win
The structure is a 5×6 symbol-combination format. The core is cell activation. On any spin, winning symbols activate the cells they were on. The more cells that stay lit, the more the screen gradually fills with lightning.
Prize symbols of different sizes also drop onto the reels. The bigger the prize symbol, the bigger the prize. When a large symbol that occupies several cells is part of a win, that many cells light up at once, so the speed of filling the screen and the size of the prize move together.
In a typical slot, every spin stands alone. Once a win lands, it’s over, and the next spin starts from scratch. Thunder Reckoning adds a goal on top of that: filling the screen. Wins don’t just end on the spot; they’re used to light up cells, so even a small win becomes a stepping stone to the next stage. Watching the lights on screen grow one by one is the rhythm of this game.
The moment all 30 cells light up
The goal of this game is simple: activate all 30 cells on the screen. When every cell is lit, all 30 merge into one giant active cell, and that is where up to 5,000x your bet comes from. The “Reckoning” in the title refers to exactly this moment.
This scene is also one where the presentation got special care. The official announcement described lightning splitting the sky to open the path to rewards. Having all 30 cells light up is not common, but the whole screen is designed for that rare moment. Put the other way, it also means most spins end with just a few cells lit.
A max of 5,000x is mid-range in the PG Soft lineup. Considering that the same provider’s {L(“/game/pg-soft/super-wildrix”,”Super Wildrix”)} reaches 20,000x and the Grimms’ Bounty series reaches 10,000x, this game is less about the multiplier and more about enjoying the process of the screen filling up. The RTP is 96.76%, slightly above the industry average.
PG Soft’s recent release trend
PG Soft releases a new game roughly every two weeks. Looking only at the games from the past three months, the theme changes every time: farms, American football, a lantern festival, fairy tales and mythology. Most max multipliers cluster around two tiers, 5,000x and 10,000x.
Just counting the recent releases, there was Grimms’ Bounty: Princess & the Frog (10,000x), Lucky Mischief (5,000x), Prosperity Lanterns (10,000x), Touchdown Wins (5,000x), and Farmstead Fortune (10,000x), arriving two weeks apart.
Within this flow, the place of Thunder Reckoning is clear. Among a recent lineup full of cute characters and Asian-style luck themes, it is a weighty mythological action game that has come along after a long time. The multiplier is on the 5,000x side, but because the goal of filling the entire screen is so clear, the tension of each round can feel bigger than the numbers suggest.
PG Soft-style presentation tailored to a vertical screen
PG Soft games are built around a vertical mobile screen from the start. Thunder Reckoning is no exception, so when you open it on a smartphone, the warrior and reels fill the screen from top to bottom. It supports iOS, Android, Mac, Windows and web HTML5, so it also opens as is in a PC browser.
For every new release, the company emphasizes dual certification from two bodies, BMM and GA. This means the RNG algorithm and implementation, the game math, and the rules have been verified against international standards. The official announcement also includes the line “Reject fakes and choose genuine PG games,” which is also a sign of how many copycat games are circulating.
A 5,000x cap, a 96.76% RTP and a clear goal of filling the screen. Thunder Reckoning is a game that competes on the flow of a single round rather than flashy numbers. You can see how quickly the lightning fills the screen right away in the free demo.
Source: PG SOFT official news