Cloudforge Review (2026) – Relax Gaming | 10,000x, The Global Multiplier & Electric Reels

Exterminate the swarm, forge the win. Cloudforge by Relax Gaming is a 6-reel, 5-row, 20-line slot built around Expanding Wilds that climb upward one step at a time, gaining a x1 multiplier per step. Electric Reels can turn any reel — random in the base game, guaranteed once per round in the richer bonus tier — into a full double-direction expansion that doubles the multiplier outright once complete. Coinciding Wilds landing on the same reel multiply their values together when they meet in the middle. The max win is 10,000x, RTP is 96.10% standard, hit frequency is 34.93%, and volatility is 7/10. Having just reviewed Stormfire, another expanding-wild slot, one thing stood out immediately: even though Cloudforge's ceiling is significantly lower than Stormfire's — 10,000x against 25,000x — this one felt like it carried more potential in actual play.

Visuals & Theme: A Cyberpunk World With One Genuinely Memorable Moment

Graphics Score: 7.90/10

The cyberpunk-swarm setting is graphically nice, giving the whole grid a confident, well-produced sci-fi identity. There's one specific detail worth a real shoutout: a small robotic firefly swooshes onto the screen at the end of Free Spins, and it's a genuinely very nice ASMR moment, the kind of small, satisfying sensory detail that elevates a presentation beyond just competent theming. The 7.90/10 reflects that combination of solid overall visual work plus one specific, memorable flourish that stands out on its own.

Technical Deep Dive: A Fair Ceiling, Two Well-Priced Buy Tiers

RTP: 96.10% (standard) | 94.00% / 92.00% (UK) / 90.00% / 86.00% (German) | Volatility: 7/10 (Medium-High) | Max Win: 10,000x | Hit Frequency: 34.93% | Grid: 6x5 | Paylines: 20 | Bet Range: €0.10–€100

The standard 96.10% RTP clears the competitive threshold comfortably, and the 34.93% hit frequency is a genuinely healthy pace at this level of volatility. Wins came easier while testing this than in Stormfire specifically — a real, felt difference in how often the base game actually connects.

Confirmed Supercharge menu:

• Extermination Spins — 80x bet, direct entry, 96.50% RTP

• Eradication Spins — 200x bet, direct entry (with 1 guaranteed electric reel), 96.50% RTP

• Enhanced Bet — 2.5x bet (adds 250% to base bet), quadruples natural Extermination Spins entry chance, base game only, 96.10% RTP

• Bonus Reels — 10x bet, removes all paying symbols so only Scatters can land, boosting entry chance into either bonus tier, base game only, 96.10% RTP

• Wild Feature Spins — 3x bet for 1 Guaranteed Wild, or 15x bet for 2 Guaranteed Wilds, base game only, 96.10% RTP

Running the ratios: 10,000x against the 80x Extermination Spins buy gives an excellent 125x return, and the richer 200x Eradication Spins buy still holds a comfortable 50x. Both the 80x and 200x buy-ins are genuinely ok, and there's a real, reassuring detail worth naming directly: if you have no means to buy or trigger the richer Eradication tier, you won't feel scammed sticking with the regular Extermination bonus — the multiplier rises just as well in either mode.

Mechanics: Familiar Expanding Wilds, A Multiplier System That Genuinely Hooks

Innovation Score: 6.70/10

Mechanic-wise, nothing here is something you haven't seen before, but it's executed very well — the 6.70/10 reflects competent, satisfying assembly of familiar Wild-multiplier components rather than any genuine structural reinvention.

Expanding Wilds

Wilds land carrying an attributed multiplier and expand upward toward the top of the reel set, with each step of that expansion adding +1x to the multiplier.

Electric Reels

Random reels can become electric during both the base game and Extermination Spins. Any Wild landing on an electrified reel expands both upward and downward simultaneously, filling the entire reel, and once that full expansion completes, the multiplier doubles outright rather than climbing incrementally.

Coinciding Wilds

If two Wilds land on the same reel, the topmost one expands first, followed by the bottom one. When the two expansions meet in the middle, their individual multiplier values multiply together rather than adding — a genuinely satisfying escalation moment when it happens.

Extermination Spins

Landing 3 Scatters awards 8 spins. Any Wild landing during the feature contributes to a global multiplier, and every win throughout the round is multiplied by whatever that current global total sits at. Landing 3 more Scatters mid-feature adds 3 additional spins.

Eradication Spins

Landing 2 Scatters plus 1 Super Scatter awards the richer 8-spin tier, running the identical global multiplier system as Extermination Spins, but with 1 random reel guaranteed electric for the duration. Landing 3 Scatters mid-feature adds 3 more spins here too.

Expert Insight: Having just reviewed Stormfire — a game where two individual Wilds each carrying a flat multiplier need to physically converge to feel exciting — the contrast here is genuinely instructive. Just watching a single high global multiplier climb steadily gives the brain considerably more anticipation than tracking two separate Wilds with their own smaller values. There's something about a shared, visible, ever-rising number that hooks attention more directly than distributed multiplier sources ever quite manage. The anticipation is here, the adrenaline is here, the cohesion is here — you look at that multiplier rising and hope for the next connection, and it works.

Potential & Entertainment: Felt Stronger Than the Numbers Alone Suggest

Potential Score: 7.80/10 | Entertainment Score: 8.00/10

Potential lands at a strong 7.80 — genuinely surprising given the direct comparison to Stormfire's considerably larger ceiling. The global multiplier's visible, rising nature simply produces more felt potential during actual play than the raw max win number alone would suggest, and both buy tiers back that feeling up with reasonable, well-priced ratios.

Entertainment sits at 8.00, the standout score of this review, driven by that same rising-multiplier hook combined with easier organic wins than its direct comparison point and one genuinely memorable presentation detail in the Free Spins outro sequence. Easy to get into, difficult to step away from — every spin genuinely adds to the feeling that the next win could be the one.

Final Verdict: Lower Ceiling, Higher Felt Potential

Cloudforge doesn't reach for anything the expanding-Wild format hasn't already delivered elsewhere, and it doesn't need to — the execution here is genuinely strong. Watching a shared global multiplier climb steadily produces more real anticipation than distributed per-Wild multipliers ever quite manage, and that specific design choice is doing real, measurable work for this game's Entertainment score. Wins came easier in testing, both buy tiers are fairly priced, and neither bonus tier feels like a downgrade from the other in terms of how satisfying the core multiplier system actually plays.

Mechanically familiar. Genuinely well executed. And proof that a smaller number, presented the right way, can feel bigger than it looks on paper.