Cat's Soup Slot Overview
Cat's Soup is a 3x3 video slot from BGaming with 5 paylines and a potion-brewing theme centred on a white wizard cat stirring a cauldron. Played at medium volatility with an unusually high RTP of 98.06%, the game pairs a compact grid with a stacking multiplier flask and a recipe-driven bonus round. Max win sits at 8,000x the bet.
What stands out here is the design choice to keep things deliberately small and cosy rather than chasing sprawling reel layouts. The cauldron doubles as the playing grid, ingredients serve as symbols, and the entire session revolves around 10-spin recipe cycles. Bets range from 0.20 to 30, and hit frequency is a generous 47.62%, so the reels rarely go quiet for long.
Symbols and Paytable
Lower-paying symbols are the green herb, blue berries, and purple chilli, each returning just 0.05x the bet for a three-of-a-kind line. Higher-paying symbols include the red fish, green toad, and pink lizard, with payouts from 0.15x up to 0.35x. These numbers are tiny on their own, but they are designed to work alongside the Alchemist Fire multiplier rather than carry sessions by themselves.
A Wild cat symbol substitutes for everything. More importantly, every Wild that lands without forming a win feeds the multiplier flask beside the grid. I found the base payouts underwhelming during extended play; you really depend on stacking that flask or hitting the bonus to see meaningful returns.
Symbol Payouts
| 12+ | x50 |
| 10+ | x25 |
| 8+ | x10 |
| 12+ | x25 |
| 10+ | x10 |
| 8+ | x2.5 |
| 12+ | x15 |
| 10+ | x5 |
| 8+ | x2 |
| 12+ | x12 |
| 10+ | x2 |
| 8+ | x1.5 |
| 12+ | x12 |
| 10+ | x2 |
| 8+ | x1.5 |
| 12+ | x12 |
| 10+ | x2 |
| 8+ | x1.5 |
| 6 | x10 |
| 5 | x5 |
| 4 | x3 |
Bonus Features and Alchemist Fire
Every 10 spins the cat selects a new recipe made of 3 specific ingredient symbols. If those ingredients appear on the central horizontal reel in the correct order within that window, the Recipe Bonus Game triggers. You are then shown 6 flasks in a Pick'em format and choose 3 to open. Each flask contains a symbol and an attached multiplier; the multipliers from your three picks are multiplied together and applied to your bet. Flasks holding symbols that match the current recipe carry higher multipliers, so luck and recipe alignment both matter.
Beside the bonus round, the Alchemist Fire flask is the centrepiece of base game strategy. It starts at 2x and doubles with each non-winning Wild landing, climbing to a maximum of 512x. Once a Wild does complete a winning line, the current flask value is applied and the counter resets to 2x. Only one step is added per spin regardless of how many Wilds appear, so the climb to 512x takes patience.
A Feature Buy option lets you skip the wait and jump straight into the Recipe Bonus Game for 80x your bet. Compared to the studio's previous work on compact grids, the combination of a timed recipe mechanic and a persistent multiplier flask feels more inventive than a standard pick-and-click bolt-on.
Bonus Buy Options
RTP, Volatility and Max Win
An RTP of 98.06% is well above the industry average and will appeal to players who track return rates closely. Medium volatility keeps variance in check, and 47.62% hit frequency means roughly every second spin produces some payout. Still, because individual symbol values top out at 0.35x, long stretches can feel flat unless the Alchemist Fire multiplier is building.
Max win potential is 8,000x the bet. Reaching that ceiling likely requires a fully stacked 512x flask multiplier combined with a strong bonus outcome. Not everyone will enjoy grinding small wins while waiting for the flask to climb, so this is a game that rewards patience over short bursts of action.
