Pragmatic Play Goes Darker With Draconic 20,000x Wins In Sleeping Dragon Ultra Dark

Some sequels barely smoulder. This one breathes fire. The Sleeping Dragon Ultra Dark slot has just been unleashed, and it’s a darker, meaner follow-up that wastes no time proving it is the bigger beast. 

Sleeping Dragon was a quiet, likeable hold and win that never quite roared, so the studio has gone back into the lair and cranked everything up, headlined by a brand new Money Egg feature and a max win of 20,000x that dwarfs anything the first game could muster. For anyone who liked the concept but wanted more bite, this is the version that finally shows some teeth.

While there are plenty of upgrades, the mood stays gloriously old-school. A hulking dragon lies draped across the top of the reels, while behind them broods a dim, ruined throne room of cracked stone columns, creeping ivy, and stained glass windows glowing faintly in the dark. There are no flashy modern fireworks here, and that is exactly the point. This is slow-burning medieval fantasy played with a straight face, the kind of setting built to make a mountain of gold feel genuinely worth guarding, and worth trying to steal.

Under the hood sits a lean and approachable setup of 5 reels and 10 paylines that welcomes every budget. It is a high volatility slot with a default RTP of 96.50%, though operators can also load 95.50% or 94.50% versions depending on where you play, so a quick glance at the game info before the first spin is always worth the effort. Everything the game does is aimed squarely at that towering max win of 20,000x the stake, a serious leap over the original that instantly reframes what a lucky session here can look like. The paytable keeps things familiar, mixing 10-A royals with swords, shields, crowns, and queens, where five matching royals pay 0.7x to 1.5x and five matching high symbols pay 4x to 10x. Watching over all of it is a knight-in-armour wild that appears on every reel, stands in for any paytable symbol, and pays the same as the queen.

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The main event is the respin bonus, a classic hold and win built around Money symbols that land carrying values from 1x to 80x, alongside a 20x Mini, a 100x Minor, and a 200x Major. Landing 6 or more of them triggers the round with 3 respins, and covering every position on the grid drops an extra 7,000x on top, while the dream scenario of catching 15 Money symbols in a single base-game spin scoops their combined values plus a Mega 7,000x. The headline newcomer is the Money Egg, tallied at the end of the respins on its own 3x3 grid, and filling all 8 positions there cracks open a further 400x, adding a genuine hit of suspense every time one shows up mid-round. Free spins round out the package, with 3, 4, or 5 scatters handing over 8, 12, or 50 spins respectively, the middle three reels spinning together to form giant symbols, a giant scatter tacking on +3 spins, and a giant Money symbol lighting the fuse on the respin bonus all over again.

For players who would rather not wait for the dragon to stir, there are four feature buys on offer:

All told, the Money Egg is the real prize in this Pragmatic Play hoard. Adding both a jolt of suspense and up to 400x to the respins whenever it appears, it is the clearest sign that this sequel set out to genuinely improve on what came before rather than simply reskin it. Line it up next to the respin bonus, the free spins, and a full spread of feature buys, and every one of those roads leads back to the same blazing destination: that towering 20,000x max win the original never came close to.

That combination is what makes Ultra Dark feel like a real step up instead of a cosmetic one. It does not tear up the hold and win formula, and it does not need to, because it takes a slot people already enjoyed and hands it sharper teeth, deeper features, and far bigger potential. Fans of the first game finally get the version they were waiting for, while newcomers get a high volatility dragon with plenty of fire in its belly.