The 5 Lions series went to Megaways twice. Reborn comes back to 243 ways on five reels and three rows, the shape the line started with, and it keeps the choice the series is known for. Before free spins begin, you pick one of seven lion heads, trading spins against the multiplier the wilds will carry. Pragmatic Play released this one in April 2025, and it plays like the game the Megaways versions grew out of rather than a follow-up to them.
Most games have one scatter. This one has three, and all of them count towards the same trigger. Three or more of any type start the free spins. The plain black and white yin-yang is the common one. The Golden Scatter can fire a round by itself whenever it lands in standard play, and the Super Scatter can do the same for Super Free Spins, which skips the menu and hands over 20 spins at a fixed 15x starting wild multiplier.
Land more than one trigger in a single turn, and the rounds play out one after another, Super Rounds first.
The trade is spins against the starting wild multiplier. 20 spins at 2x is one end of it, 6 spins at 15x the other, with 15 at 3x, 13 at 5x, 10 at 8x, and 8 at 10x in between. A seventh head is Mystery, which picks both numbers for you from the other six. In free play, it’s the one decision the game asks you to make, and the shorter picks are the ones that need a wild early.
The golden lion head stands in for every paying symbol and only appears on reels 2, 3, and 4. Inside the feature, any win it joins takes the current multiplier, and that multiplier then steps up once by the value you started with, so a 5x pick becomes 10x, then 15x. There’s no conventional retrigger. Extra spins come only when the step-up happens, and then only sometimes, at 1, 2, or 3 spins.
Set against 5 Lions Megaways and 5 Lions Megaways 2, both live here, Reborn is the fixed-shape slot in the line. The Megaways pair rebuilds its ways count every spin and leans on tumbling wins; Reborn keeps one fixed shape and puts its variance in the multiplier instead. 5 Lions Gold and 5 Lions Dance took the series in other directions again, though neither is on the site. The pick-a-round screen will be familiar if you’ve played the Megaways versions, and almost nothing else will.
With 243 ways, where a symbol lands within its reel doesn’t matter, only how many of each one arrives, and the lion wild is restricted to reels 2, 3, and 4. That leaves reel 1 and reel 5 to carry every five-symbol combination without help.
$0.30 is the floor and $240.00 the ceiling, stepped in ways-format increments rather than a fixed cost per line.
RTP is 96.50%, and both buy prices carry that same number, which is not the norm for this studio. Two lower builds exist at 95.50% and 94.50%, a spread of two points between the top version and the bottom one.
On a phone, the stake steps and spin control fall under your thumb, and the two buy panels are tap targets beside the reels rather than menu entries.
Both buy panels are on screen at all times. Free Spins is priced at 80x and puts three scatters on the board straight away. Super Free Spins is priced at 500x and guarantees a Super Scatter, meaning the fixed 20 spins at 15x with no menu to pick from. Both return the same figure as standard play, so the higher price buys a bigger swing rather than a better rate.
Nothing pays from two matching symbols, so every row here starts at three. The six royals are flat and crowded together, separating only at five, while the premiums open a gap the moment a fourth one lands. The dragon pays 26.67x for five, a third more than the phoenix and the toad, and the scatters pay on their own at 5x, 15x, and 50x.
| Symbol | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dragon | 1.33x | 2.67x | 26.67x |
| Phoenix | 1x | 2.67x | 20x |
| Toad | 0.83x | 2.67x | 20x |
| Koi | 0.5x | 1.33x | 9.33x |
| Turtle | 0.5x | 1.17x | 8.67x |
| A | 0.33x | 0.83x | 5.33x |
| K | 0.33x | 0.67x | 4x |
| Q | 0.27x | 0.5x | 2.67x |
| J | 0.27x | 0.5x | 2.67x |
| 10 | 0.17x | 0.33x | 1.33x |
| 9 | 0.17x | 0.33x | 1.33x |
| Scatter, any type | 5x | 15x | 50x |
5 Lions Reborn is the 5 Lions game for anyone who wants the series without Megaways reels. It keeps 243 ways, the seven-option menu, and the sharpest art the line has had, and it asks you to set the shape of your own round before that round starts. The missing retrigger is a real cost, and a short pick at 15x can be over before a wild lands. Take the longer options while you learn how the multiplier climbs, and the shorter ones once you trust it.
500x is what Super Free Spins cost here, and few Pragmatic Play demos we review ask more for one round. What it buys is fixed: 20 spins at a 15x starting wild multiplier, with no choice to make and no way back to something longer and slower.
That unchangeable round is the clearest sign of what Reborn is. The grid and the seven-head menu are the original game’s furniture, redrawn with sharper art and given a second and third scatter type. Pick 20 spins at 2x, and you get a grind. Pick 6 at 15x, and you get four or five turns to find a wild. The Megaways versions hand that variance to the reels. This one leaves it with you.
The Medium volatility label on the splash screen only tells half the story. It suits standard play, where 243 ways and a tight royals table keep small returns arriving and the stake drains slowly. It says nothing about the other half of this game, a round that shows up around once in 107 spins and can open at 15x with only six turns to use it. High describes that half far better, and it’s the rating this review uses.
Reborn is a strong version of a format this studio’s catalogue has built many times over, most of it with far less to decide. The menu is what keeps this one interesting after the art stops being new.
