Flame Slot: Introduction

Flame is a 5-reel, 3-row video slot featuring 20 paylines and it runs smoothly on all devices with stakes from €0.15 up to  €75. It comes from NextGen, the studio responsible for well-known games like 300 Shields, Medusa and Cash Stampede. The paytable includes 3 premium symbols and 4 low value symbols, with the Lion as the highest payer, awarding 750 coins for landing 5 symbols across a payline. Flame is a medium variance title with a 95.51% RTP in the base game and 96.6% RTP during the bonus.

Flame Slot: Features

This slot is heavily driven by its feature set. There are 7 so called Mini-Features that trigger at random and can show up in both the main game and the bonus, with a higher hit rate in the bonus. Each Mini-Feature plays out over a single spin, except for the Wild Inferno feature, which can grant re-spins. The 7 features includes:

• Cross Flare
  For the current game, wins are paid left to right starting from the leftmost reel and right to left starting from the rightmost reel across all paylines.
• Flare Up
  All wins in the current game receive a random multiplier of 2, 3, 5, 7 or 10.
• Fire Whirl
  Randomly affects 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 reels. Any LION, WOLF or EAGLE symbol that lands on reels covered by FLAME will trigger a bonus prize.
• Live Embers
  All HEART, DIAMOND, CLUB and SPADE symbols on reel 2 and/or reel 3 and/or reel 4 turn into WILD for the current spin.
• Spontaneous Combustion
  All FIRE, LIGHTNING, WATER and LEAF symbols across all reels will randomly change into LION, WOLF or EAGLE.
• Wild Inferno
  When the WILD INFERNO feature triggers, any qualifying wins from the current reel spin are paid and 1 Re-Spin is awarded for each WILD symbol visible onscreen.
• Firestorm
  All WILD and BONUS symbols on reels 2, 3 and 4 combine into a single WILD-BONUS symbol for the current reel spin.

The Free Spins game starts when 3 bonus symbols land on the 3 middle reels OR when the Firestorm feature merges the wild and bonus symbols. There’s no heart stopper here, and the bonus symbols wild can arrive quickly and aggressively.

The bonus begins with 15 free spins and it can be re-triggered, bringing the total to 30 free spins in the bonus. During the bonus, the 7 features appear more often to boost win potential, which in theory means you could end up with a 10x multiplier on each free spin.

Flame Slot: Conclusion

Even though the Mini-Features are entertaining and add extra punch to the base game, it feels like some payout potential may have been shifted toward these features at the expense of the bonuses, which appear difficult to trigger. As noted, the gameplay is clearly built around the features, and it’s genuinely engaging when they hit—which they do fairly often. Beyond that, the presentation and overall feel are very much in line with a typical NextGen slot, so there are no big surprises on that front. It’s an average medium to high variance game with solid production values and a notably strong 6000x max win in the bonus, making it well worth a spin.