Cloudforge

Cloudforge is Relax Gaming‘s steampunk airship slot where wilds climb the reel and multiply as they go (96.10%, 6×5, 20 lines, 10,000x). If you liked the expanding wild in Don’t Die but wanted multipliers that build on each other, start here. It came out October 8, 2026.

How a wild climbs

A wild lands with a multiplier attached. It expands upward toward the top of the reels, and every step adds 1x. The rules call the feature expanding wilds. A wild that lands low has more steps to climb than one that lands high.

If two wilds land on the same reel, the top one expands first and the bottom one follows. When they meet, the two multipliers multiply. That’s the coinciding wilds rule, and it’s the multiplying wilds idea in its plainest form.

Electric reels

In the base game and in Extermination Spins, random reels can turn electric. A wild that lands on one expands upward, then downward, until it fills the whole reel. Once the expansion ends, the multiplier on the wild doubles. The second intro slide shows a 6x wild turning into 12x, and the demo’s rules text agrees. It’s the part of the game you’ll want to see live.

The two bonus rounds

Three scatters award eight Extermination Spins, and three more during the round add three spins. Every wild that lands raises a global multiplier, and the multiplier applies to all your wins. Two scatters and one super scatter start the Eradication Spins instead, also with eight spins. One random reel is guaranteed to be electric, and the global multiplier works the same way.

Both rounds feed the same counter. The screenshots here show it at x11 during Extermination Spins, with one wild on screen carrying a 6x multiplier of its own.

Next to Don’t Die

Don’t Die has 40 lines on a 6×4 grid, and Cloudforge has 20 on a 6×5 grid. Both list a 10,000x top win, and the returns are 0.06 points apart, 96.16% against 96.10%. The wilds differ in how their multipliers combine. In Don’t Die the multipliers on one line add together. Here they multiply when two wilds meet. In Wincent Wolf the same pair adds up to x5, and in Cloudforge a coinciding pair makes their product.

The menu of upgrades

Enhanced Bet adds 250% to the bet, so you play at 2.5x, and it quadruples the chance of entering Extermination Spins. At a 2.00 bet that’s 5.00 a spin, and the rules print the same 96.10% return for it. Bonus Reels play at 10x the bet and remove every paying symbol, leaving only scatters to land. Two Wild Feature Spins levels guarantee extra wilds on every spin. The menu showed 6.00 and 30.00 against the 2.00 bet. The Supercharge menu also buys the rounds outright, Extermination Spins at 80x and Eradication Spins at 200x. The 80x option is the upsell.

The paytable and the cap

The paytable’s bet field read 2.00. Six of the top symbol pay 50x, and six of the lowest pay 4x. The 20 paylines pay from the left reel, and only the longest match per symbol is paid. The maximum win is 10,000x. If the sum of all values reaches that figure in a free spins round, the round ends and pays 10,000x.

Versions and volatility

The rules print a 96.10% return, and the same figure for Enhanced Bet and Bonus Reels. Both bought rounds list 96.50%. Relax’s page also lists game IDs ending in 94, 92 and 90, and a UK one ending in 86. Those suffixes suggest lower versions exist, so find out which one your casino loads. If it’s a low one, play somewhere else. Relax prints no volatility rating, and a listing site called it medium-high in October 2026.

What to compare in the rules

Look at three numbers before you play. The first is the step value, 1x per cell climbed. The second is the electric doubling, which only happens on reels the game picks at random. The third is the global multiplier in the bonus rounds, which is shared by every win and never resets inside a round. Those three explain most of the results you’ll see, so read them once.

Who it suits

If you want a wild you can watch grow, open it. If you’d rather have a fixed multiplier, you’ll find it dull, so skip it. The whole idea is a number that changes under your eyes, which makes the base game readable and the bonus rounds hard to call. You can see why a spin paid, and you can’t predict the next one. It earns a front-row tile from me, since a wild that climbs is a pitch the lobby can say in a breath. It’s a Pick from me, eight out of 10.

Another one to open

If you want a second wild that doesn’t stop, try Don’t Die (96.16%, 6×4, 10,000x), which has a wild that fills the reel and then crosses the grid.