Fire Portals Slot Review And Free Demo

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Pros Tips

Fire Portals is a highly volatile game, and I have to say, it’s one of those games that can truly test your patience. The base game spins have symbols with good payouts and wild multipliers can help you get to the biggest prizes in the game. But these can be quite hit or miss and although the same applies during free spins, at least during these bonus rounds, the wild symbols get sticky, so you have a better chance of capitalising on their win multipliers.

Of course, getting to the free spins bonus is easier said than done. It took me well over 200 base game spins to get my first trigger, so your best bet is to set a low bet level that can give you more base game spins and increase the likelihood of activating free spins several times.

If available in your region, consider the ante bet and bonus buy options in your calculations. These can go a long way in helping you get better wins from the free spins bonus, although they can also put a dent in your bankroll.

Fire Portals Slot Bonus Features

The game kicks off with what seems like a not-so-fiery, inactive portal over which you’ll find a grid made up of seven reels and seven rows. Rather than following traditional paylines, the online slot works with cluster pays.

With this system, you must have a minimum of five identical symbols in a cluster to score a win. These symbols can be touching both vertically and horizontally and they can be on one or several reels. The more symbols you have in a cluster, the better the payout.

There are three low-paying symbols and these surprisingly aren’t royal card symbols. Instead, you get a goblet, hourglass and green potion which have payouts starting from 0.20x your stake and capping at 60x your bet for fifteen or more symbols.

The high paying tokens are distinguished by an octagonal frame, and these have more intricate designs sporting a Lovecraftian Cthulhu medallion, a purple gem ring, a flaming sword and a sorceress. Payouts for these symbols start at 0.35x your stake and cap at 150x your bet when landing 15 or more of the sorceress symbols.

There are a few helpful functions here too including an autoplay function with up to 1,000 consecutive spins, as well as turbo and quick spin modes that significantly speed up each round. The game also includes a battery-saver mode that cuts down on animations to help spare more of your device’s power.

Those are essentially the basics that come with Fire Portals, but the game is taken to a different level once the special features are introduced.

Tumble Feature

Whenever you score a cluster win, the winning symbols are removed from the reels. Their vacant spaces are filled with symbols that tumble down from above the reels, creating the possibility of having new winning clusters. The process carries on until there are no more wins on screen.

Wilds

Fire portal wilds don’t simply land on the reel like any other symbol in the game. Instead, these are formed whenever there is a winning combination. For every cluster win you score, a wild symbol is formed starting with a 1x wild multiplier.

These fire portal wilds move around the free spaces left behind by winning symbols after every tumble and if they form part of a win once more, then their multiplier is increased by a value of one. Should two or more of these symbols form part of a win, their values are multiplied by each other creating a far more rewarding multiplier.

Wild symbols do not have a payout value though, so they rely completely on forming a part of other symbol wins to deliver a payout. Their multipliers can continue to grow up to a maximum of 2,500x, but once there are no more tumble wins, that multiplier is lost and you’ll need to start all over again.

Scatter Symbol

The way to the free spins bonus is paved by scatter symbols and you’ll need to score a minimum of three to access the bonus rounds. Three, four, five, six or seven scatter symbols activate 10, 12, 14, 16 or 18 free spins, respectively.

Scatter symbols are also present in the free spins bonus, awarding the same amount of free spins as they did in the base game.

Free Spins

The free spins bonus sticks to the same gameplay loop as the base game, but the biggest difference here is that wild symbols remain sticky for the duration of the bonus rounds. This means that you can grow your wild multipliers to a much higher level.

The game also offers an ante bet bonus costing 1.25x your bet level on every spin, while also increasing the chance of landing more scatter symbols. Alternatively, you can opt for the bonus buy option, guaranteeing a minimum of three scatter symbols for 100x your stake.

Fire Portals Slot on Mobile

Fire Portals ran excellently on my Android phone with smooth gameplay and great performance. I managed to easily switch between both landscape and portrait modes and I must say that the portrait mode is the better of the two options. The game is also available on iOS platforms and runs on all modern mobile browsers like Chrome, Safari and Firefox.

Do I Recommend Fire Portals To UK Players?

Yes, I do, because Fire Portals is another solid entry from Pragmatic Play. I was impressed by the quality of the visuals and the general concept of using cluster pays. But the game’s wild feature felt quite underwhelming.

Both in the base game and free spins, the moving wild symbols felt immensely unpredictable, with several of them never connecting properly. Sure, these features and their win run on RNGs but the entire system seems quite flawed and lacks that rewarding punch.

Otherwise, the math model is very even here, with a high level of volatility, a range of RTP values and a maximum win cap of 10,000x your stake.

So, while Fire Portals proved to be a fun and potentially rewarding game, it’s main mechanic feels somewhat underdeveloped.