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Two grids, one studio

How Terminal Games splits the catalogue between 19-line 5x5 games and cluster-pays titles, using the published RTP and max-win caps.

Split still of a cyan 5x5 payline grid beside a green-violet 7x7 cluster grid

Terminal Games does not run one grid and reskin it nine times. The catalogue speaks two math languages. Most of the line is a 5x5 with 19 paylines, cascades, and a bonus-buy stack. Two titles leave that layout: Wage Slave is a 6x5 cluster on a cracked CRT, and Mutiny is a 7x7 pirate cluster with mines and cell multipliers. Both languages are Stake Engine. Both are exclusive to Stake. The difference is how a win is assembled.

The 5x5 payline row

Geeked, Monkey Business, Motherclucker, Five Horsemen, Kill Switch, Made Men and Wasted all sit on a 5x5. Stake Game Information lists 19 paylines on the titles that publish a table. Cascades clear winning symbols and drop new ones. A host stands beside the reels: fanboy cat, king gorilla, goggled rooster, horsemen, pink-haired fighter, suited boss, mutant scavenger.

The ceilings split in two. Motherclucker and Five Horsemen stop at 25,000x. Geeked, Monkey Business, Kill Switch, Made Men and Wasted publish 50,000x. Documented theoretical RTP is 96.01 percent on every 5x5 that lists it. Wasted has no RTP row in the set used for this hub, so that figure stays off the Wasted card even though the splash still shows 50,000x and Extreme Volatility.

Bonus shape is where the 5x5 line diverges. Geeked expands VIP wilds and can cover a reel. Monkey Business grows monkey multipliers from 1x1 toward 3x3. Motherclucker jumps chicken wilds from 2x to 100x and lays multiplier eggs. Five Horsemen collect at 5x, 10x, 20x, 50x and 100x. Kill Switch turns enemies into wilds with rockets, observed in stills from 10x through a 1000x wolf. Made Men hits small enemies at 10x and 2x2 enemies at 100x. Wasted plants 2x2 mutant wilds and runs Ante on top of the base bet.

The cluster pair

Mutiny is the largest grid in the catalogue: 7x7 cluster pays, cascades, mines, and position multipliers that the long page documents up to 4096x. Stake Game Information lists RTP 96.01 percent, extreme volatility, and a 100,000x max win. The in-game splash still shows 50,000x. This site follows the Game Information cap on the Mutiny review and notes the splash as a second source.

Wage Slave is the other cluster: 6x5 office horror, 2x2 wilds, a four-scatter bonus, RTP 96.01 percent, high volatility, max win 50,000x. Free Spins arrive as a stacked Windows-error overlay in the stills. It is the only title in the line that is neither 5x5 nor 7x7.

What both grids share

High and extreme volatility. Bonus buys where Stake published an x cost. Provably fair seeds in the Stake client. A Play on Stake control that does not pretend the same slot is live somewhere else. The long pages under Games keep those facts next to the stills. This note is the map of the split, not a designer interview.

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