Fire Blaze Golden: Amazing Factory Slot – Free Demo

The assembly line is not the dangerous part

Fire Blaze Golden: Amazing Factory is a contradictory slot, thrilling and loaded with explosive promise, yet there's a genuine chance you'll doze off. Over 490 spins at a 10-credit stake, only 110 paid anything back. Leave it on idle for a moment. Wait for the clattering of the assembly line to work its magic, and it'll wrap your soul like a cosy blanket on a chilly winters day, carrying you back to your mother's womb. But then the savage reality of volatility whacks your ass back into life, just as you begin to settle in. The balance finished at 7,565 credits, its lowest point of the run. That pretty much wraps this slot up. I could leave it at that, but as I've got nothing better to do, let's see what lies concealed in the code.

A Victorian workshop wired to forty paylines

This provider has undoubtedly been on a journey of its own. Playtech constructed the Fire Blaze Golden series around a single notion - lock the coins, spin again. Fire Blaze Fire Fighter and Fire Blaze: Blue Wizard PowerPlay Jackpot run the same locking-respin engine. Then it passed the workshop over to studios like Rarestone Gaming, who assembled this one. Amazing Factory is constructed on the locking respin rather than around it.

Fire Blaze Golden: Amazing Factory is a 5-reel, 3-row slot with 40 paylines. Those lines are fixed, so the stake covers every one of them on every spin. That means you are restricted to particular paylines, and it's a timeless setup that's still pertinent to this day, despite the constant growth in win ways observed with other providers. The scatter is the exception, paying from anywhere on the reels rather than along a line. The game arrives loaded with some intriguing features as well, such as the Fire Blaze Golden Respin with various perks. It's not visually intricate by any means and doesn't contain any heavy animations or such.

Placed deep in a Victorian workshop, you spin the reels to the noises of the machine floor. It's a rather soothing soundtrack that could have been borrowed from any spa. My three free games rounds landed on spins 285, 347 and 379, all in the second half of the run. The reels are placed against the factory wall, bordered by brass pipework, a motionless backdrop that is brought to life by the gold cart trundling past.

The factory owner will not help the Bells

Symbols on the reels include the royals as the low values, as well as premium symbols depicted by workshop props - the Pocket Watch, the Top Hat, the Golden Key and the gold-filled cart. The latter is the most lucrative. Acting as the wild symbol is the factory owner. Stacks of it merge when they land two or three high. It lands stacked on reels 2 to 5 and substitutes all symbols bar the Bell and the scatter. No wild will help the Bells along, then, so the six needed for the respin have to arrive on their own.

Core to the game is the Fire Blaze Golden Respin, which comes into play in both the base game and the free games feature. It requires 6 or more Bells to begin. Those Bells count from anywhere on the reels, not along a payline. Now, the Bells become locked coins, each bearing a cash prize or a jackpot label. You get 3 respins on reels of coins and blanks only, each fresh coin locking and resetting the count to 3. Nine coins locked leaves six of the fifteen positions empty, and the round closes when the respins run out or the grid fills. Aside from the cash coins, there are also three jackpot labels that can surface:

• Mini - worth 12 times the bet.
• Minor - worth 20 times the bet.
• Major - worth 100 times the bet.

Fill all 15 spots and the Grand is added on top of every coin prize. It's worth 1,000 times the bet.

Minty’s Final Note: Playtech puts 96.5% on this one and my 490 spins gave back 50.3% of the 4,900 credits staked, which is what a volatility of 4 of 6 buys you over a short afternoon. The features paid 1,210 of the 2,465 credits won, so the base game on its own returns roughly a quarter of what goes in. Whether the Grand ever turns up is a question 490 spins cannot answer.

Three rounds of six free games

You will be granted 6 free games and a scatter pay of 2, 10 or 50 times the total bet respectively, when 3, 4 or 5 scatter symbols surface anywhere on the reels. That scatter pay arrives on top of the round rather than instead of it. In the Free Games, you will profit from the Bell counting as a wild, as well as the Fire Blaze Golden Respin still being able to trigger, and from additional scatters. They will retrigger the round. None of the three rounds I triggered retriggered.

In my 490 spins the symbols never stacked up into anything huge. The respin came on spin 64 and moved the balance from 9,542 to 9,772 credits. The three free games rounds I witnessed paid 19, 29 and 50 times the stake, and the one respin I struck locked 9 Bells for 23 times the stake with no jackpot.

Half of what I staked came back

The humdrum feel is deceptive: the volatility sits at 4 of 6 and can be savage to your bankroll. Of the spins that did pay, 67 of 110 came back with less than the stake. My own 490 spins repaid 50.3% of the 4,900 credits I put through at a 10-credit stake. The largest win with no feature attached was 110 credits on spin 194. The balance never once rose above the 10,000 credits I started with, and 33 spins passed by without a win at one point. That run ended on spin 102. The features did carry the session, paying 1,210 of the 2,465 credits I won.