Heroic Spins: Slot Overview

Any fearless players keen to take on “a treacherous journey to save the town” should saddle up, because we’re looking at Pragmatic Play’s slot Heroic Spins. Save which town, exactly? That part isn’t especially clear, and the narrative overall is a bit hazy. The theme blends hints of Ancient Rome and/or Ancient Greece with dragons, fantasy beasts, and other odds and ends. Let’s keep an open mind until the end of the review and see whether it all clicks together like a fable with a neat moral.

Wherever this town is supposed to be, it’s shown in bright sunshine, with the sea close by and layers of stone buildings rising up. It feels Mediterranean—unless it’s entirely fictional, which the dragons strongly suggest. Perhaps someone at Pragmatic Play hurriedly wrote down a vivid dream and turned it into a slot concept. The studio is well known for releasing a huge number of games at speed, so inspiration has to come from somewhere.

Heroic Spins is a highly volatile slot played on a 5-reel, 3-row grid, using 20 paylines to calculate wins. Winning combinations must start from the leftmost reel and can be made up of 3 to 5 matching symbols. The default RTP is 96%, and players can set stakes from 20 c to $/€240 per base game spin.

Diamonds, clubs, hearts, spades, and a horned spade-style icon act as the low-pay symbols, returning 0.5 to 1 times the stake for a 5-of-a-kind line. Higher-value symbols include owls, one-eyed creatures, treasure chests, dragons, and lady characters, paying 1 to 5 times the stake for a 5 OAK win.

Heroic Spins: Slot Features

Spreading multiplier wilds, free spins, and buy features are the main “heroes” here. Here’s how they work.

Expanding Wild with Multiplier

Whenever one or more wild symbols land, they expand to cover the entire reel with wilds. If 2 wild symbols landed before expansion, every wild on that reel receives an x2 multiplier. If 3 wilds were present on the reel before expansion, all wilds on the reel receive an x3 multiplier. These wild multipliers affect any winning combination that runs through them, and if a win includes more than one wild multiplier, they multiply together to increase the payout. Wilds can appear on reels 2, 3, and 4 and substitute for any regular pay symbol.

Free Spins

Landing 3 or more scatters activates the free spins bonus. A two-part wheel spins to award 8 to 50 free spins along with a multiplier from x2 to x100. That multiplier applies to every win during the free spins. In the bonus, when wilds appear, they expand to cover the whole reel with wild symbols, just like in the base game. The difference is that the values change. If 1 wild lands before expansion, all wilds on the reel gain a multiplier of x2. If 2 wild symbols landed before expansion, all wilds on the reel get an x4 multiplier. If 3 wilds were on the reel before expansion, all wilds on the reel get an x6 multiplier.

Buy Free Spins

For 100 times the bet, players can purchase a spin that guarantees at least 3 scatter symbols. When the bonus is bought, the RTP is 96.07%.

Heroic Spins: Slot Verdict

In terms of storytelling, Heroic Spins feels like that junk drawer at home stuffed with a bit of everything. Need a place to dump loose items while you tidy? In they go. Spare change, takeaway menus from places you’ve never ordered from, old batteries you’re not sure still work, bills you hope are paid, random bits of blue-tack. The irony is that when you actually need the thing you were certain was in there, it somehow isn’t. That’s the vibe here: lots of elements pulled from different places, which kind of works, yet also comes across as a muddled collection of spare parts.

That said, it’s all wrapped in Pragmatic Play polish, and the mechanics hang together well. It’s difficult to fault expanding wilds that also add a multiplier to each wild on the reel. They multiply each other rather than stacking additively when more than one is involved in a win, which gives the payouts a nice lift. Wins can be boosted further by the overall free spins multiplier layered on top when the bonus round arrives—set in what looks like the Underworld, of all places.

A suitably heroic 10,000x the bet win cap finishes things off as the last piece of a slightly puzzling picture. Maybe Pragmatic Play was clearing out the leftovers when it put Heroic Spins together, but even with a plot that raises more questions than it answers, the end result still tells an entertaining little tale.