Pirots 5 Slot Review

What is Pirots 5?

Pirots 5 is the fifth chapter in ELK Studios’ bird-collecting series, and this time the flock swaps oceans and outer space for the sand-buried halls of a cursed Egyptian temple. The headline mechanic is still CollectR™: four birds roam the grid, each picking up gems in its own colour along with any feature symbols they pass. It is a deceptively simple loop wrapped around some genuinely punchy maths.

The numbers tell the story of who this game is for. You get a 96% RTP in the top configuration, a high 7/10 volatility, stakes from £0.20 to £100, and a board that swells from 6×6 to a full 8×8 mid-round. Add Captain Blackfeather, the Cursed Temple coin game, secret doors and a dedicated Super Bonus, and you have a slot built for players who like to charge things up patiently before the explosion arrives.

The story: Revenge against Captain Blackfeather

This time the adventure is driven by a grudge rather than a simple treasure hunt. Long before they set sail on their own, the birds served under Captain Blackfeather — until he forced them to walk the plank and sailed off with the loot. Cursed Temple is the reckoning, and the old traitor has no intention of going quietly.

Blackfeather can surface in any drop. When he does, he turns birds into ghosts and tears their gems straight off the grid, flipping the mood of a round in an instant. It is a neat way of tying the theme to the maths: the villain is not just set dressing, he is an active threat woven into the feature set.

How the base game works step by step

Every round opens on a 6×6 grid with all gems sitting at level 1. The four birds collect orthogonally adjacent symbols in their own colour and scoop up any feature symbols in their path. As long as a bird still has something to grab, it keeps moving before fresh symbols drop — so a single drop can contain several moves before the grid even refills.

Above the board sits a Symbol Collection Meter that charges as the birds gather gems and wilds. Fill it and a queued feature symbol is released, with up to three waiting in line at once. Gems can also be upgraded all the way to level 7, and that climb in level is exactly where the largest payouts come from.

Feature symbols that drive the whole game

A handful of special symbols do the heavy lifting in Pirots 5. Knowing what each one does makes it far easier to read why a quiet round can suddenly turn into a big one.

Gem payouts

Each bird collects gems in its own colour, and the value depends on the level the gem has reached (1 to 7). The table below shows the top three levels (5 to 7) as a multiplier of your stake. Every stake is made up of 100 coins.

Gem	Level 7	Level 6	Level 5
Red	25.00	6.25	2.00
Purple	15.00	5.00	1.60
Green	10.00	3.75	1.20
Blue	7.50	2.50	0.80

The lower levels (1 to 4) taper from roughly 0.75 down to 0.05x the stake, while Blackfeather gems can reach as high as 20.00x at the top level.

The coins and their values

Coins are among the most valuable symbols on the grid. A collected coin pays its face value times your stake, anywhere from 1x to 2,500x, and the MAX WIN coin simply pays the rest of the way up to the 10,000x ceiling.

100xstandard coin

500xcoin jar

1,000xcoin jar

MAX WINpays up to the cap

Captain Blackfeather

The turncoat captain can drop in on any spin. Land a bird beside him and he turns 1 to 4 birds into ghosts, converting their gems into valuable Blackfeather gems worth 0.15x up to 30x, which are then collected in one sweep. Inside the bonus he sticks around between drops and guarantees a win in every catacomb fight.

Catacombs, Labyrinth and Switcheroo

Each corner of the grid holds a catacomb corner with a random colour. Collect a symbol on top of a corner in your bird’s colour and it descends into the catacombs to face a mummy — win the fight and you bag a feature symbol. Line up three or more birds and Labyrinth triggers, clearing whole rows and columns, while two neighbouring birds can pull off a Switcheroo and swap places.

Traps: Arrows, Stone Block and Secret Door

Along the edges, traps keep things lively: archers that remove birds, a rolling stone block (2×2 to 4×4) that crushes everything beneath it, and a secret door that splits the grid into four quadrants and rotates them 180 degrees. Counter-intuitively, traps are good news — each one opens fresh chances for chains, and the secret door is the key that unlocks the Cursed Temple coin game.

Cursed Temple Coin Game (Hold & Win)

The Hold & Win-style coin game kicks off the moment the whole grid is cleared during the secret door feature. It plays out on an 8×8 board with a cursed 2×2 treasure at its centre. You begin with 3 drops, and every landing of coins, birds or symbols resets the counter to 3. Park a bird beside the treasure with nothing left to collect and coins rain across the grid.

Bonus Game and Super Bonus

Gather three bonus symbols in a round and the Bonus Game begins with 5 Free Drops, with each extra bonus symbol adding another drop. If a Super Bonus is in the mix, the Super Bonus starts instead, opening every drop with a cursed coin shower. Crucially, the grid size, the collection meter and your gems’ upgrade level all carry through the entire bonus.

9 Tokens, 3 Worlds and Boss Castle

Pirots 5 spans three worlds — Cursed Temple, The Kraken and City of Gold — across which you collect 9 tokens in total. Bag all of them and Boss Castle unlocks permanently. Progress is saved for good across every stake level and game mode, giving you a clear long-term goal alongside the regular bonus rounds.

X-iter™, RTP and game profile

Pirots 5 ships with X-iter™, ELK Studios’ feature-buy menu, offering five routes in: Super Bonus for 250x, Bonus for 100x, Cursed Temple for 50x, Mega Hunt for 10x (just over 20x more bonus chance) and Bonus Hunt for 3x (just over 5x more). Buy-ins run from £0.60 to £25,000, and the RTP holds at 96% across every X-iter mode.

Put it together — 96% top RTP, high 7/10 volatility and a 10,000x ceiling worth a full £1,000,000 at max stake — and the profile is unmistakable. This is not a slot for low-risk, steady-trickle sessions; it is built for players happy to ride bigger swings in pursuit of those rare, towering hits.

Is Pirots 5 worth playing?

If you already enjoy the series, this is an easy yes. Pirots 5 marries a strong theme with genuinely layered design, so it feels far bigger than a reskin. The catacombs, secret door and coin game all hang off the revenge storyline, while the hunt for nine tokens and Boss Castle gives you a reason to keep coming back well beyond a single session.

Just go in with the right expectations. The 7/10 volatility means patience and sensible bankroll management matter, and the RTP can dip as low as 87% depending on the operator, so it pays to play the 96% version where you can. Get those basics right and Pirots 5 is one of the more rewarding feature slots around.