Peaky Blinders

The Brothers' take on Peaky Blinders

Branded slots are usually wallpaper with a payline behind them. Peaky Blinders is better than that — Pragmatic actually built two distinct bonus rounds tied to the show's storylines, and they both pay differently.

The frame is conservative: 5×3 reels, 20 fixed paylines, 1920s Birmingham visuals straight off the show's set design, character symbols for the Shelby family. The base game is plain on purpose. The interesting maths sits in the two free-spins modes. By Order of the Peaky Blinders awards 10 free spins with extra scatters on reel 5; Shelby Betting Shop awards 8 free spins and adds Shelby Betting Shop scatters that lock symbols and trigger respins. You don't pick — the trigger pattern decides which one fires.

Default RTP is 96.50% (with 95.50% and 94.50% lower versions). Volatility is rated 4/5 — high but not maximum. Bet range runs from 20p to £100. The major mark against the maths: max win is 2,022× your bet, which is small for a high-volatility slot. Pragmatic put the cap there as a reference to the show's TV-show airing year, which is cute. It's also a real ceiling — you'll feel it in the bonus rounds, where the wins stop scaling much past a certain point.

Direct take: if you're a fan of the show, you'll find more to like here than in most branded slots — the Shelby Betting Shop bonus is genuinely different from anything else in Pragmatic's library, and the production values are above the studio's usual. If you're not a fan, the 2,022× cap is going to feel low compared to the volatility you're sitting through.

The Brothers' takeA branded slot that earned its license — short on cap, long on character.