Always Up! at a Glance
Always Up! is a 3x3 slot from BGaming with 5 fixed paylines, dropped on 30 September 2025. The theme is Chinese New Year, with reels framed inside a pagoda and the usual lotus flowers, firecrackers and golden coins. RTP sits at 95.07%, volatility is medium, max win is capped at 559x stake.
How the Game Plays
Spins on Always Up! are stripped right back, chat. You're matching three of a kind across five fixed lines on a tiny 3x3 grid, no Wild, no respins, no cascading nonsense. Stakes go from 0.10 up to 450, so high rollers get a proper range, but base hits land at just 8.14% frequency.
Honestly, the base game can drag between bonuses. The whole session is built around getting into the Fireworks Pick Bonus, and you'll feel that the moment you start spinning. If I'm streaming this, I'm dropping bonus buys to keep the pace up rather than grinding spins.
Symbols and Paytable
Low pays are the blue sign and the green, purple, red firecrackers. Land 3 of these and you're looking at 1x to 4x stake, which won't move the needle at standard bets. The premiums are the lotus, coins, gold bar and red gold bag, paying between 4x and 60x for three on a line.
The Bonus scatter is the only special symbol in the game. No wild substitutions, no stacked symbols, nothing fancy. Three scatters across the grid trigger the firework round, and one or two scatters can also randomly fire it off, which is a nice touch.
Symbol Payouts
| 3 | x60 |
| 3 | x40 |
| 3 | x8 |
| 3 | x4 |
| 3 | x4 |
| 3 | x4 |
| 3 | x4 |
| 3 | x1 |
Fireworks Pick and Bonus Buy
Three scatters land the Fireworks Pick Bonus. You're shown 5 unlit rockets, you pick one, and they all blast off climbing in multiplier value as they rise. Your chosen rocket explodes at a random height, and whatever multiplier it hit at that moment is your prize, up to 499x bet inside the round.
It's basically crash-game logic stuffed into a slot, except you don't get to cash out. The RNG decides when your rocket pops. Tense to watch on stream, but the lack of player agency means it's pure spectator anticipation.
Bonus Buy is priced at 80x the stake and pushes the RTP up to 95.98% inside the feature. With a max win of 559x and a buy cost of 80x, the ratio is just under 7x for the absolute best case. That's tight by Bonus Buy standards, viewers, so manage expectations.
Bonus Buy Options
RTP, Volatility and Max Win
RTP of 95.07% is the headline figure, and it's below the 96% benchmark most modern slots target. House edge of nearly 4.93% means longer sessions hit your bankroll harder than average. Volatility is medium, hit frequency is 8.14%, and max win caps at 559x.
On a 3-reel, 5-line build, that medium tag often plays closer to low in the base game. The real variance lives inside the firework feature itself. I'd not be expecting screenshot-worthy max wins here; even at the 450 max stake, 559x tops out around 251,550 in currency terms.
