Wishbringer

Right, so Wishbringer is a genie-themed slot from Hacksaw Gaming, dropped in April 2025. Honestly, if you know Hacksaw, you know they usually go dark and weird with their themes. This one? It's proper straight-down-the-middle Arabian Nights stuff -- floating blue genie, lamp-lit streets, sitar music. Looks nice enough, plays smooth on my phone, but it felt a bit unlike them. It's basically a reskin of Beam Boys, and once you clock that, you can't un-see it. Six reels, four rows, 4,096 ways to win, medium volatility. Stakes from 10p up to 100 quid.

Low pays are your usual card ranks -- 10 through A with a bit of Arabian styling. A full six-of-a-kind line on any of those only gives you 0.5x your bet, so nothing to write home about. Premiums are a necklace, some gold bits, crossed daggers, a bloke who looks like Aladdin, and a lass who's clearly meant to be Jasmine. She's the best regular payer at 2x for six. The Genie himself acts as the wild and if you line up six of him that's 5x your stake -- decent for a wild payout.

There's also the lamp scatter with "FS" on it, which kicks off the bonus round. No multipliers attached to any symbols though, which I found a bit disappointing for a Hacksaw game.

The main trick here is the Wild Cloud Rows. The Genie can land on reels 2 through 6, and when he does, he blows clouds to the left across the whole row, turning everything into wilds. If scatters are in the way, they stay active, so you can still trigger the bonus off the same spin. It's simple but when you get a couple of Genies landing on reels 5 and 6, the grid fills up fast.

The Arabian Nights Bonus is your free spins round -- 3 scatters get you 5 spins, 4 get you 10, 5 give 20, and 6 scatters award 40. During the bonus the Genie lands more often, which is where the real action is. You can retrigger with 2 or 3 more scatters for an extra 2 or 4 spins, no limit. Outside the UK there are bonus buys too: 5x bet for boosted trigger odds, 50x for guaranteed Genies on reels 2-6, 200x for Genies on reels 4-6, and 110x to jump straight into free spins.

Top RTP is 96.33% which is fair, but watch out -- operators can set it as low as 88.21%, so always check the paytable at your casino. Medium volatility with a hit frequency around 35.75%, meaning roughly one win every three spins. Max win is 10,000x the bet according to most sources, though one review mentioned 7,500x so maybe double-check the game rules yourself. Either way, the ceiling is there if you fill the grid with wilds.

Look, Wishbringer is a perfectly fine slot. The Wild Cloud Rows kept things ticking over in the base game and the free spins round had enough Genie appearances to hold my attention. But if you've played Beam Boys, you've already played this -- just with laser cats instead of a genie. No multipliers, no sticky wilds, nothing extra in the bonus to set it apart. For Hacksaw Gaming it feels like a filler, which is a shame because I know they can do better. Still, if you fancy a straightforward session with some spreading wilds and don't need bells and whistles, it does the job.