Shuriken Shadows went live on Stake on 26 October 2026. It's our twelfth live game, and the first of ours whose modes don't all return the same RTP.
What it is
A 6×5 board on 15,625 ways: matching symbols on adjacent reels from the left pay, winning symbols tumble away, and new ones fall in. On top of that sit Shuriken, ninja stars that carry prize values.
The chain
A Shuriken on reel 1 starts a chain, and every Shuriken touching it side by side joins. Every value in the chain is added to the spin, on top of the ways wins. A chain that reaches reel 3, 4 or 5 also fires a bonus: two symbols turn Wild, or the Global Multiplier goes up by one. A chain that reaches reel 6 launches the Shuriken Siege or free spins.
The Siege and free spins
The Siege is a hold-and-win round. Shuriken lock in place, the rest of the board respins, and each new Shuriken refreshes the respins. Free spins come from Ninja Scrolls: three to six or more award 10 to 25 spins. The Global Multiplier holds for the whole round and has no cap, but it multiplies ways wins only, never chain prizes or the Siege total. The game's rules say so in as many words, and so do we.
The numbers
The base game returns 96.48%. The other four modes run from 96.46% to 96.59%, a spread of about a tenth of a percent, and Stake's reviewers asked us to print each one rather than round them all to 96.5%. The max win is 15,000× in every mode, and a round that reaches it ends there. It's a high-volatility game, so most sessions get nowhere near it.
Shuriken Shadows: every mode, its cost and its RTP →
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