- A fiery design with a higher than usual win potential
- Mystery symbols can offer more ways to win
- Mystery symbols stick in the free spins bonus
Castle of Fire slot is an impressive-looking new game from Pragmatic Play with a real focus on mystery symbols, something you don’t see quite so often as many developers prefer to go with features around wild symbols and multipliers. In fact, there aren’t even any wild symbols in this game, or multipliers, but it offers a solid win potential and free spins so keep reading to find out more.
It plays out on a nice 6×3 grid with a stunning background set in a fiery kingdom. These reels offer 729 ways to win, but as we’ll soon see, this can increase further. All you need to do is spin the reels and try to get a winning combination with the following base symbols that are ranked in ascending order based on their value:
- 10, Jack or Queen
- King or Ace
- Potion or Ring
- Crown
- Wolf
- Tiger
- Queen
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Castle of Fire Slot Bonuses and Features
Mystery Symbols. On any reel you can land mystery symbols that, when they appear, all our into the same instance of a randomly chosen symbol, apart from the scatter. Whenever this occurs, they can all turn into 1, 2 or 3 instances of the same symbol, potentially giving you more ways to win.
Free Spins Bonus. If you land 3 or more scatter symbols in the base game, you’ll trigger the free spins bonus. It’s also worth mentioning that the scatter symbol itself pays out depending on how many you land, with 6 giving you the biggest prize but even3 offers a modest amount. Once the bonus starts, all mystery symbols that appear will become sticky on the screen, staying in place until the bonus is over. After each spin, all mystery symbols on the screen will turn into 1, 2 or 3 instances of the same randomly chosen symbol. The feature cannot be retriggered.
Bonus Buy. In some regions, you can buy the main bonus for 100x your stake, giving you 3, 4, 5 or 6 scatters at random.
Conclusion
Castle of Fire slot from Pragmatic Play is all about the mystery symbols, a key part to the slot even in the base game. Here, unlike most mystery symbols, they can turn into up to 3 instances of the same symbol, potentially increasing your ways to win, The free spins bonus enhances this by making all mystery symbols that appear sticky, so you can expect a lot more and hence more wins too. The maximum win potential of this game is also higher than many other Pragmatic Play slots at 8,000x instead of the more standard 5,000x. That said, I’m not sure how effective the mystery symbol feature is in general, and another base game feature would have been nice. There are also no wild symbols which is a little disappointing. Overall, it’s nice to see something a bit different being done with mystery symbols, but there’s definitely room for improvement.
Interesting Features Around Mystery Symbols
Pros
- 8,000x win potential.
- Interesting mystery symbol feature.
Cons
- Base game is lacking.