Ivan and the Immortal King

Provider

Quickspin

Default RTP

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Volatility

High

Maximum win

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Core mechanic

Respins

What Ivan and the Immortal King is

Ivan and the Immortal King is a Quickspin slot drawn from Russian folklore — Koschei the Deathless and the Firebird — rated high volatility and built around a respin mechanic.

It is confirmed in the studio's official portfolio. Its return and ceiling we could not verify, and this page is straightforward about that rather than filling the gap.

Respins, and the four families

"Respin" covers several distinct mechanics that behave very differently. Establishing which one a game uses is the first thing to do in the paytable.

Type	How it works	Example on this site
Held wild respin	A wild locks; the rest of the grid respins once or twice	Sakura Fortune
Sticky win respin	Winning symbols stick and chain until nothing new lands	Jack Hammer
Hold-and-win	Collect symbols lock and reset a respin counter	Money Train
Cascade respin	Winning symbols are removed and replaced	Crystal Prince

Which respin type a game uses tells you its ceiling

This is the useful part, and it lets you predict a game's shape before staking anything.

Held wild and sticky win respins are bounded. A grid can only hold so many wilds or stuck symbols, and once it is full the paytable caps what it can pay. Games built on them carry modest ceilings — and correspondingly better returns, since the money stays in ordinary outcomes.

Hold-and-win is bounded but larger. A full grid of collect symbols with high values pays substantially, and jackpot tiers often sit on top. Ceilings in the tens of thousands are common.

Cascade respins with a rising multiplier are effectively unbounded. Nothing caps the chain length, so the tail extends far — and the return has to be thinned to fund it.

What is and isn't verified

Figure	Status
Studio	Quickspin — confirmed, listed in the official portfolio
Volatility	High
Core mechanic	Respins
Respin family	Not confirmed — read the paytable
Return to player	Not verified — read the game panel
Maximum win	Not verified — read the game panel

Judging the figure you find

Quickspin's verified returns run 96.0% to 97.34% across the titles we have documented, which is above where most catalogues sit.

If the panel reads	What that means
Above 97%	Top of the studio's range — a very good figure
96.5% to 97%	Normal for Quickspin, above the market average
96.0% to 96.5%	The studio's lower end, still market-standard
Below 96.0%	Outside the documented range — likely a reduced build

Unlike Red Tiger and Push Gaming, Quickspin is not widely documented as shipping heavily reduced configurations. That is a reason for cautious confidence, not a substitute for checking.

High volatility on a respin game

The high rating is worth interpreting alongside the mechanic, because respin games often feel steadier than their rating suggests.

Respins are typically a floor-raising feature: a locked wild or a chained win makes more spins pay. That produces frequent small activity, which reads as gentle.

Where the high volatility comes from is the bonus round, which on this kind of game usually holds a large share of the total return. So the pattern is: comfortable base game, long wait for the round that matters, and a session that depends on reaching it.

Budget for that shape — 250 to 300 spins — rather than assuming the frequent base-game activity means a small bankroll will do.

Russian folklore, and why themes recur

Slot themes cluster heavily — Egypt, Norse mythology, the Wild West, Ireland — because each supplies a ready-made feature vocabulary. Folklore themes like this one are less common precisely because they do not.

That is worth noting for a practical reason. A theme with no established convention means the mechanics were designed first and dressed afterwards, which usually produces a more coherent game than one built to fit a template.

It also means fewer near-identical competitors, so you cannot shop the theme the way you can with Egyptian Book slots — where a dozen games share a structure and the only real differentiator is the return figure.

Stake sizing in practice

• Read the return and maximum win in the game panel — we cannot supply them.
• Establish which respin family the game uses; it predicts the ceiling.
• Budget 250 to 300 spins given the high volatility rating.
• Do not let frequent base-game respins convince you the game is gentle.
• Take a large result off the table.

The paytable checklist

1. The return figure — judged against 96.0% to 97.34%.
2. What triggers a respin and how many are awarded.
3. Whether anything persists between respins or resets.
4. Whether multipliers are involved — the single biggest determinant of the ceiling.
5. What five-of-a-kind pays on the best regular symbol — tells you whether the base game is alive or a toll.

Five items, under two minutes, and they answer more about how the session will go than any review can.

Where this fits in a session

This is a game to open, check, and then decide on. The studio's track record is good and the theme is unusually well chosen, but we cannot tell you what it costs.

If you want Quickspin with documented figures, Big Bad Wolf at 97.34% is the value pick and Eastern Emeralds at 96.50% with a 16,000x ceiling is where the studio put a real top end.

Common misconceptions

The first is that all respins are the same mechanic. Four distinct families exist and they produce different ceilings.

The second is that frequent respins mean a generous game. Floor-raising features redistribute a fixed return.

The third is that an unverified figure means a poor game. It means the check is yours to make.

Who this suits

This suits a player comfortable reading a paytable and judging a figure against a range, who likes an unusual theme executed properly.

It suits poorly anyone who wants the numbers settled before opening the game.

FAQ

Why some pages here carry blanks

This is the fourth page in this catalogue where we publish "check in-game" rather than a figure, so the reasoning deserves stating properly.

Across the site we publish a return, a maximum win and a volatility rating for every game. Where a figure cannot be sourced confidently, the panel shows a blank instead of a plausible number.

The alternative is what most affiliate sites do: fill every field, because a blank looks unfinished and a number looks authoritative. That produces pages where verified and invented figures sit side by side, indistinguishable — and a reader who trusts a wrong RTP will skip the one check that actually protects them.

Reason a figure goes unpublished	Example
Sources disagree by a wide margin	Razor Shark — 2,500x to 85,475x published
Cross-attribution between similarly named titles	Fat Rabbit — three incompatible ceilings
Studio does not publish one	Several older Microgaming titles
No reliable source found	This page

The cost of this approach is that a page like this one cannot tell you whether the game is worth playing. The benefit is that when a figure does appear on this site, it means something.

Where Quickspin sits, having covered all ten

With the full catalogue documented, the studio's shape is clear and unusually consistent.

Game	Return	Volatility
Big Bad Wolf	97.34%	Medium
Sakura Fortune	96.58%	High
Eastern Emeralds	96.50%	High
Tiger's Glory	96.50%	High
Sticky Bandits	96.21%	High
Big Bad Wolf Megaways	96.00%	High

Three things stand out. The floor is 96.0%, which is higher than several studios' ceilings — Red Tiger's documented range starts at 94%. The catalogue is built overwhelmingly on floor-raising mechanics: sticky wilds, held wilds, expanding wilds, cascades with collection. And the ceilings stayed modest until 2018, which is precisely why the returns are what they are.

If you want returns and can live without a headline maximum, this is one of the better catalogues available. If you want a 50,000x number to chase, it is the wrong studio and always has been.

Reading the game panel

• The return figure, judged against Quickspin's documented 96.0% to 97.34% range.
• Which respin family the game uses — held wild, sticky win, hold-and-win or cascade.
• Whether multipliers are involved, the single biggest determinant of the ceiling.
• What triggers a respin and how many are awarded.
• The maximum win, which we do not publish for this title.