Hammer of Vulcan Slot – Free Demo

What 430 spins at Vulcan's forge showed

You can't fault Quickspin for attempting to come up with ideas for fresh new themes, after you've had a glance at Hammer of Vulcan. The session behind this review ran 430 spins at a flat 1.00 stake. It is a video slot with a name that mirrors the forge-and-anvil mood of the narrative, if you will. Four Light the Forge! rounds landed across those 430 spins. Nevertheless, this is a high variance slot and no blacksmith's pastime. Only 69 of the 430 spins paid anything, and 34 of those returned less than the stake.

Visually, it's got a molten volcanic look going on with luminous colours and a hammer that descends on the reels, but basically it's readily recognisable as a Quickspin slot with the unmistakable control panel and an overall familiar Quickspin trait to it. The panel in the captured frame reads Ways 4096 with the total bet at 1.00.

Regarding configuration, there's nothing out of the ordinary here: the game is supplied with 6 reels, 4 rows and 4,096 ways to win. Symbols need only appear anywhere on adjacent reels rather than on a fixed line. The action is high variance. Over the logged 430 spins the balance moved from 5,000.00 to 4,770.70. The slot rates 5 out of 5 on the volatility scale. The longest dry run in that session was 30 spins, ending on spin 421. Thankfully, it's not a complex slot. There are two of them: the Hammer Wild in the base game and the Light the Forge! free spins. The features included are basic and clear-cut, as you will see. A Buy Feature is offered in some markets, priced at 80x the bet for entry into Light the Forge!.

In terms of RTP, most if not all, licensed casinos use the default setting of 95.81%. Off-shore casinos and particular markets may use other settings.

The Gold Golem tops the paytable

Wins are awarded leftmost to right across the 4,096 ways. That runs across all six reels, so a full-length way needs a matching symbol on every one of them. Only the largest win per way is paid. At the 1.00 stake used in the session, six wilds along a way pay 12 times the bet.

The wild arrives in the form of the Hammer. The Gold Golem is the top regular symbol, matching the wild at 12 times the stake for six. The Volcano stands for the scatter. The captured base-game frame shows a single Volcano on the reels, two short of a trigger.

Hammer Strike! turns a reel wild

The Hammer Wild can land in the base game; land one and Hammer Strike! is triggered. The wilds it creates then stand in for any regular symbol along the ways.

When it lands, the Hammer Wild transforms itself and all of the symbols underneath it into wilds. Since the grid is four rows deep, a Hammer in the top row turns that whole reel wild. This leaves a stack of wilds over the non-wild symbols beneath it. A fully wild reel keeps every way running through it. That helps produce winning combinations and the possibility for a wild way. In the session the base game alone produced 82.70 of the 200.70 won.

Light the Forge! four times, on spins 35, 40, 87 and 375

Landing three or more Volcano scatters activates the Light the Forge! feature. Four rounds came up in 430 spins, on spins 35, 40, 87 and 375. It includes a guaranteed win in the Strike Again! spins that occur after the free spins finish. None of the four rounds in that run re-triggered. The free spin feature starts with 10 free spins for 3 scatters, 12 for 4, 15 for 5 and 20 for 6, and each scatter that lands during the bonus grants extra free spins; one scatter grants 1, two grant 2, three grant 4 and four grant 6. The four paid 47.00, 19.00, 40.00 and 12.00 at a 1.00 stake.

During the free spins, every Hammer Wild that lands converts itself and everything under it into wilds. The gap between the third round and the fourth ran to 288 spins. It adds +1 to the win multiplier, so that each landing boosts any further wins in the round. The best round of the session was the first, on spin 35, worth 47 times the stake.

After the free spins finish, the game shifts to Strike Again!, and if the final free spin is a non-winning one, additional free spins are awarded until one of them wins. The second-best round, 40.00 on spin 87, carried the balance to its session peak of 5,032.60.

Minty Slots Verdict: The logged session returned 46.7%, with 200.70 won back from 430.00 wagered. The four bonus rounds brought in 118.00 of that 200.70, 59% of the whole return.

Hammer of Vulcan after 229.30 down

Hammer of Vulcan arrives with superb visuals, an enjoyable theme and high volatility. The session's low point, 4,770.70, was also where it finished. That goes along with a free spins feature that I'm certain will appeal to a lot of players. Two of the four rounds arrived within five spins of each other, on spins 35 and 40. With that said, it's not a groundbreaking slot in any way. The run ended 229.30 down on a starting balance of 5,000.00. It doesn't really break new grounds, although still an invigorating fiery new slot by Quickspin with a bit of a twist to it.