Spearhead Studios

Key Facts

Inside Spearhead Studios

The Spearhead games here were released over three years, starting with Fruit Slot in March 2019 and ending with FashionTV Highlife in April 2022. In that time the studio built a small universe around Lara Jones. She is the Wild in Lara Jones is Cleopatra, returns in its sequel and leads the paytable in Book of Souls Remastered, where she hunts a Mayan book. Two more titles are branded, one carrying the FashionTV name and the other John Daly’s.

Some Spearhead games exist in more than one RTP build. Dark Joker, for example, is listed at 96.04% on the studio’s own page and also has a 92.05% version that some casinos run. The figures on our pages are the higher, headline builds.

Series and Sequels

• Lara Jones. Lara Jones is Cleopatra and Lara Jones is Cleopatra II are both 10-line slots.
• Royal Crown. The original plays 10 lines, while Royal Crown 2 Respins of Spearhead and Fruit Hot Bonanza play 5.
• Remastered. Book of Souls Remastered and Pirates of the Mediterranean Remastered are 10-line updates of older games.
• Ways. John Daly Spin It & Win It pays 243 ways, PopStar and Giant Panda 1,024, and FashionTV Highlife 1,280 on a 4-4-5-4-4 grid.
• Growing grids. Wild Empire – Rome runs from 240 to 20,160 ways, and Wilds of Wall Street starts on 15 lines and unlocks up to 65.
• Oddities. Midnight Madness is 15 separate three-reel machines with one line each, and Fruit Slot lights one position on a ring board per spin.

How the Games Play

Spearhead’s book games follow the familiar pattern with small changes. Book of Muertitos awards 10 free spins for three Scatter Wilds and caps the multiplier its books can add at 27x. Lara Jones is Cleopatra II asks you to choose a free spins mode before the round begins. The fruit games are built around the crown. In Royal Crown the Wild is limited to the three middle reels and expands, Fruit Hot Bonanza reuses that rule, and Royal Crown 2 adds a round called Respins of Spearhead, started by five or more Scatters and worth a 1,500x bonus for filling every position.

The experiments are the reason to explore further. Midnight Madness stacks 15 small machines in one column, each with its own line and bet. Fruit Slot replaces the reels with a ring of tiles inside a cabinet. Wilds of Wall Street starts its free spins after six wins in a row, and the round has no fixed length, running until three Bells have landed. Wild Empire – Rome plays between 240 and 20,160 ways and changes its Wild reels on a set timetable during free spins.

Volatility and RTP

Most Spearhead demos return close to 96%. Fruit Slot is the highest at 96.85%, with Giant Panda and PopStar close behind, and the two branded games are the lowest, John Daly Spin It & Win It at 94.78% and FashionTV Highlife at 94.54%.

Volatility covers the whole scale. Fruit Slot is rated Low and Royal Crown Medium, while FashionTV Highlife, Wild Empire – Rome and Lara Jones is Cleopatra II are Very High. A top prize is stated for only a few of the games. Where it is, it runs from 1,000x on Dark Joker to 4,120x on Giant Panda and 20,000x on FashionTV Highlife.

Best Spearhead Studios Slots to Play First

• Lara Jones is Cleopatra is the game that introduced the character, with a Cleopatra Spin that can turn every Queen, Jack and 10 into Cleopatra.
• Royal Crown is a clean 10-line fruit machine and the simplest way into the range.
• Midnight Madness is the strangest idea here and takes a minute to get used to.
• Black Forest lets two Scatters set off a feature of their own, the Call of the Hunter, and has a 2,200x cap.
• Giant Panda pays 1,024 ways and awards 8, 15 or 20 free spins for three, four or five Scatters.
• Wilds of Wall Street is the pick for long bonus rounds, since its free spins only end on the third Bell.

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