Fire Forge Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Fire Forge Review

Fire Forge comes across as a pet project Stormcraft Studios has worked on in the background, while fulfilling orders from Microgaming in the regular working hours. It certainly suits their brand more than titles like Jungle Jim or Agent Jane, and it’s a volatile beast through and through. The base game can be a soul-crushing grind, but if you manage to hang in there, the bonus round can reward you accordingly.

Having the top jackpot pay only 200x your stake seems strange, but only until you realize that the potentially massive bonus round multipliers also apply to jackpots. Unlimited retriggers with a +6 progressive multiplier increment can certainly get interesting, although the multiplier is capped at 200x. Visually, the game is a bit too plain and “ordinary” in our view, and the £5 max bet cap is a bit of a let-down for a game aimed at hardcore gamblers.

Fire Forge Slot Features

The wild symbol will land on reels 2 to 5 only, and it steps in for all regular pay symbols like wilds usually do. It can also land stacked on reels 3 to 5. The Rolling Reels feature removes winning symbols from the reels, and the gaps are then filled by new symbols dropping from above.

You need to land 1 of the molten Dwarf Head scatter on each of the 5 reels on the same spin to trigger the Bonus Round. You then get to choose between 3 free spins options. The volatility is revealed by the number of spins, and here’s what you get:

• 12 free spins – multiplier starts at 1x and increases by +1 per spin.
• 6 free spins – multiplier starts at 3x and increases by +3 per spin.
• 3 free spins – multiplier starts at 6x and increases by +6 per spin.

No matter what options you go for, you can retrigger the bonus round indefinitely. This means that the multiplier will also keep increasing per spin, up to 200x at the very most. If you land a jackpot during the bonus round, the multiplier will be applied to that too.

There are 3 fixed jackpots to be won in this game, but they aren’t all that impressive without said multiplier.

• Minor Jackpot equals 5x your stake.
• Major Jackpot equals 25x your stake.
• Ultra Jackpot equals 200x your stake.

You will pick treasure chests in a classic Pick’em Game, and this reveals which jackpot you win. Keep in mind however, that landing 5+ scatters will not always trigger the jackpot game.

The 200 Spins Fire Forge Slot Experience

We had some smaller cascading win sequences in the base game, but nothing too significant happened before we triggered the bonus round. This goes down around 1:05 into the 5-minute highlights video, and we went with the lowest volatility option that started us out with 12 spins. We managed to retrigger the feature however, and you can see how we fared by hitting the play button.

Review Summary

Stormcraft has created a game that suits their own company name with Fire Forge, and the big highlight is undoubtedly the bonus round. Stripped from multipliers, the rather low symbol values offer little comfort during the base game grind, and should you trigger the jackpot game, you’ll only stand to win 200x your stake anyway. Not overly exciting in other words, but all that is about to change when you finally hit 1 scatter on each reel.

It might be a bit hard to choose between the 3 options, but when in doubt, go for the golden middle way. Retriggering the bonus round is your golden ticket to big multipliers, and the 200x multiplier combined with the 200x jackpot equals 40,000x your stake. The 50,000x win cap is solid, but chasing it can be a costly affair due to the brutal volatility.

Pros

• Rolling Reels and stacked wilds
• 3 fixed jackpots up to 200x
• 3 bonus round options
• Win up to 50,000x

Cons

• Somewhat dated appearance
• Max bet is only £5

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