Running Sushi Slot Review

Running Sushi Slot Overview

Running Sushi drops you into a calm Japanese style restaurant, with wooden reels framed like a pagoda and a conveyor belt of sushi gliding along under the grid. The slot runs on a 5 reel, 4 row layout with 1,024 ways, so wins land from left to right on adjacent reels rather than fixed lines. Stakes start at 0.20 per spin and can climb to serious high roller territory.

The mood in Running Sushi is relaxed but the maths model tells a different story once the features kick in. The base game sits in a tasteful restaurant, while free spins whisk you off to a neon uptown scene with livelier music. Pragmatic Play bolts on an Ante Bet that raises the stake by a quarter for extra scatter frequency, and a feature buy that jumps straight into the bonus round.

Symbols and Payouts in Running Sushi

Symbols and payouts in Running Sushi stay loyal to the food theme rather than the usual dragons and koi. There are ten basic symbols and five feature icons. Low pays are the diamond, club, heart and spade shapes, returning between 0.25x and 1.5x the bet for five of a kind. Wins form when three or more matching symbols hit on adjacent reels from the leftmost position across the 1,024 ways.

Premium symbols in Running Sushi are ingredients like avocado, rice, salmon, shrimp, sweet sauce and hot sauce, paying from 0.4x up to 7.5x the stake for full ways. On top sit the feature symbols; Money icons on the belt, the Take Sushi lady, Take All, scatters and a wild coin. That wild only shows during free spins on reels two to four, substituting for all regular symbols to help connect decent combos.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	5	x7.5
	4	x3.75
	3	x1.5
	5	x6
	4	x3
	3	x1.5
	5	x4
	4	x2
	3	x1
	5	x3
	4	x1.5
	3	x0.75
	5	x2
	4	x1
	3	x0.5
	5	x1.75
	4	x0.9
	3	x0.4
	5	x1.5
	4	x0.75
	3	x0.25
	5	x1.5
	4	x0.75
	3	x0.25
	5	x0.75
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.25
	5	x0.75
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.25
	Scatter
	Wild

Take Sushi Feature in Running Sushi

Take Sushi in Running Sushi is the mechanic that makes or breaks many sessions for me. Under the reels, on every spin, between one and ten Money symbols roll past on the conveyor, each holding a random value from 1x to 1,000x stake in the base game and up to 2,500x in free spins. Land Take Sushi on reels one, three and five together and it scoops every Money value currently on show.

Free Spins and Take All in Running Sushi

Free spins in Running Sushi trigger when three scatter symbols land on the central reels in a single spin, awarding ten spins. All Money symbols that appear during this bonus no longer pay straight away. Instead, their values are collected into a visible meter above the reels. A new Take All symbol joins the party on reels two, three and four, and that icon is the key to cracking open the stored balance.

When three Take All symbols drop in view at once, Running Sushi totals the entire meter and adds the values of any Money icons on that spin, then pays the lot and resets the counter to zero. Wild coins also appear only in this bonus, restricted to the middle three reels. They stand in for pay symbols, so a single wild in the right place can turn a teasing near miss into a proper hit.

From a player point of view, this free spins round in Running Sushi can feel both exciting and punishing. Building a meter well into three figures is not hard, yet seeing spin after spin pass without the full set of Take All symbols grates. Bonus rounds often end with that meter untouched, which leaves a sour taste. On the flipside, when the collection finally lands, the adrenaline spike more than makes up for the grind.

Running Sushi RTP, Volatility & Max Win

Running Sushi comes with a default return to player of 96 percent, though some versions run closer to 95.59 percent, which pushes the house edge up to 4.41 percent. Volatility is rated five out of five by Pragmatic Play, and the hit rate of about 13.5 percent means plenty of dead spins between wins. On paper, free spins drop on average every 298 spins, so patience and a sensible bankroll matter a lot here.

Max win in Running Sushi sits at 3,000 times the bet, which feels low compared with some modern high risk slots, especially when the maths can batter your balance in quiet patches. A single Money symbol can show 2,500x, but the cap keeps any wild outliers in check. For me that ceiling takes some shine off the game, since the risk profile suggests it could support meatier top prizes than it does.

The Final Thoughts on Running Sushi

As someone who likes food themed slots, Running Sushi hits the spot visually yet leaves me slightly hungry on the gameplay side. The conveyor belt idea and Take Sushi feature keep the base game ticking over nicely, and the atmosphere is calmer than many Asian themed titles. The issue lies in the free spins structure and that stubborn meter, plus the 3,000x cap, which together stop the game from fully satisfying long term.

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