Eight free spins. That is the whole base bonus in Kendoo’s new slot. Everything that makes the round interesting gets bolted onto those eight spins by up to four separate features, and the headline takeaway is this: the “four gates” are not four alternative bonus rounds you choose between, they are four modifiers that can run at the same time.
What 4 Gates of Pyramid actually is
4 Gates of Pyramid is a 5×3 slot from provider Kendoo, announced in mid-October 2026 as the newest title in its Master Pots series. It is built around Bonus symbols, several Collect mechanics, four distinct Free Spins features and a Grand Jackpot worth 1,000x. The free spins round starts at eight spins, with scope to extend it and to switch on more features while it is running.
That is the confirmed shape of the game from Kendoo’s launch announcement. Numbers that players usually want next, the RTP and the published volatility rating, were not included in it, which matters later in this piece.
Kendoo and the Master Pots series
Kendoo is a slot studio that describes itself as fast-growing and has been expanding into regulated European markets, including Belgium through a partnership with StarCasino. Master Pots is its own series of feature-led releases, and 4 Gates of Pyramid is the latest to join it. Beyond that, the studio’s back catalogue and company history are not something the launch material establishes, so treat any longer origin story you read elsewhere with suspicion.
How the four-way feature works
Free spins trigger from Bonus symbols and award eight spins, and players can enter the round carrying one or more of four features: Ultra, Extra, Rise and Boost. Those features can also combine during the round, so a bonus that began with one modifier can finish with several active at once.
What each of the four features changes
Kendoo has described all four. The table below sticks to what the announcement states.
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Extra | Adds special green Bonus symbols that award additional free spins when collected |
| Rise | Expands the grid from 5×3 to 5×5 |
| Boost | Increases the number of Collect opportunities in the round |
| Ultra | Can unlock one of the Extra, Rise or Boost features that was not initially awarded |
Read down that list and a pattern shows up. Extra buys length, Rise buys board size, Boost buys frequency of collects. Three different levers on the same round rather than three different rounds. Ultra is the one that does not add anything of its own: it hands you one of the other three you were not given at the start, which is why a round can end with more features running than it began with.
Why this is not a pick-a-gate bonus
Here is where the marketing language and the mechanic pull apart. “Four gates” and “four-way feature” both imply a fork in the road: four doors, you walk through one, you get that bonus. Plenty of Egyptian and Aztec slots do exactly that, offering a choice of free spins types with different spin counts and multipliers.
The wording in Kendoo’s own announcement points somewhere else. Players enter free spins with “one or more” of the four features, and the features “combine during Free Spins to create varied bonuses”. That is a stacking system, not a selection screen.
The competing reading is defensible, and I do not think people who hold it are being careless: without a published paytable, nobody outside the studio knows whether the four features are randomly assigned at trigger, bought separately, or genuinely offered as a choice. If entry is a player choice between combinations, the “gate” framing earns itself. My money is on random or trigger-dependent assignment with in-round upgrades, because that is what Ultra unlocking a feature you were not initially awarded describes. The paytable will settle it in a sentence.
Pyramids yes, Egypt not quite
The title says pyramid and the artwork leans on stone and gold, but Kendoo’s announcement describes an ancient Aztec backdrop, not an Egyptian one. Mesoamerican step pyramids and Egyptian pyramids are both pyramids, so the name is accurate and the setting is not what most players scanning a lobby will assume. If you are specifically hunting Egyptian themed slots with scarabs, pharaohs and hieroglyph reel symbols, this one may not scratch that itch, and any write-up that confidently calls it an Egyptian slot is filling in a blank.
What the presentation does support is the Collect-and-expand loop. A 5×3 grid that opens into 5×5 mid-round gives the bonus a visible step up, which is a sensible piece of design for a game whose selling point is features layering on top of each other.
Why a stacking bonus structure is worth noticing
Most new slot releases still run a single bonus path: trigger scatters, get a fixed number of free spins, apply one modifier such as a rising multiplier or sticky wilds. The variety comes from retriggers and luck, not from structure. A four-feature system changes the arithmetic of the round. With four modifiers that can appear alone or together, the number of distinct bonus shapes a player can land is in the dozens rather than one, and two triggers on the same session can feel like different games.
That is a pacing decision as much as a maths one. Studios chasing engagement want players to keep wondering what the next bonus will look like, and a combination system does that more cheaply than building four separate bonus rounds.
What multi-path bonuses do to variance
Gated and multi-path bonus structures spread outcomes wider without touching the long-run return. RTP is the average return across millions of rounds, and whether a game pays it out through one predictable bonus or through a rare monster combination of four features is a volatility question, not an RTP one. The more upside a design concentrates into unlikely combinations, the thinner the typical bonus has to be to fund it.
Practically, that means a game like this tends to produce a lot of modest eight-spin rounds and occasional ones where Rise, Extra and Boost all land together. A 1,000x Grand Jackpot sitting on top pulls in the same direction. None of that is a criticism, but it does mean bankroll swings are part of the design rather than bad luck.
Who this suits, and what to check before you spin
The 4 Gates of Pyramid slot is aimed at players who like bonus variety and do not mind waiting for it. If you prefer frequent small wins and a predictable feature, a lower volatility title will suit you better. If you enjoy the “what will this bonus turn into” element, the four-feature structure is genuinely more interesting than another fixed free spins round.
Before playing, open the game’s info panel at your operator and read the RTP and volatility rating there. Kendoo did not publish either at launch, and some providers ship games with multiple RTP configurations that operators can select, so the number in front of you is the only one that applies to you. Those two figures are the real gap in the public description, not the features themselves.
Whatever the paytable says, the house edge is built in and no feature combination changes that over time. Set a deposit or loss limit before you start, treat the stake as entertainment spend, and use the self-exclusion and cool-off tools if play stops feeling like a choice.
