Phoenix Forge Slot – Free Demo
Provider:
Pragmatic Play
One free spins round on spin 64 paid 68.4 times the stake, and with the Hot Spot Multipliers left on the reels between spins it earned more than a third of everything Pragmatic Play's gem cabinet returned over 340 spins. Without it, the balance had little to lean on.
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Twenty paylines of gems under a phoenix egg
Phoenix Forge is a phoenix-themed 5-reel, 20-payline slot. Line wins pay for 3 or more matching symbols on adjacent reels, starting from the leftmost reel. Its reels are 3 symbols tall, and it is made by developer Pragmatic Play and available from 0.20 to 100 per spin. The session behind this review ran 340 spins at a 240.00 stake, and only 64 of them paid anything, 25 of those for less than the stake. Phoenix Forge is a very volatile slot with strong emphasis on Hot Spot Multipliers. Eternal Phoenix Megaways from Blueprint Gaming is another phoenix-themed slot, while Wisdom of Athena is a Pragmatic Play game with tumbling reels.
Symbols on the reels comprise red, yellow and green gems along with lower-value gems. The yellow gem pays 20x the stake for 5 on a line, the green gem 12.5x and the lower-value gems between 3.75x and 5x. With 5 on a payline handing you 25 times your stake, the red gem is the most valuable, and core to the game is the golden phoenix egg wild symbol. It shows on reels 2, 3 and 4 only. It substitutes for every symbol except the phoenix, which is the scatter.
When paying symbols vanish and fresh ones drop into place, every spot they vacate receives a 1x multiplier. A winning combination is multiplied by the sum of the multipliers on the positions it covers. The multiplier rises by 1 with every additional win on it. In the base game the multipliers reset once the tumble sequence ends.
Spin 64 and the multipliers that stayed put
In Phoenix Forge, there is also a free spins feature to activate:
Free Spins - if you hit 3 scatter symbols, you'll activate the Free Spins feature, beginning with 10 free spins. Four scatters start the round with 15 free spins and five with 20, and 3 or more scatters landing during the round add 5 more. The Hot Spot Multipliers persist throughout, and again, every time a win arrives on a spot, the multiplier rises by one. The only trigger in the session came on spin 64, where 3 scatters paid 2x the stake and the 10 free spins that followed returned 16,416.00, or 68.4x the stake, with no retrigger.
Minty Slots Verdict: It delivers Hot Spot Multipliers in the base game as well as in the bonus feature, and with high volatility, you can hit wins of up to 5,000 times your stake. Over the 340 spins, 81,600.00 was wagered and 45,144.00 won, a 55.3% return that took the balance from 100,000.00 to 63,544.00.