Mirage City: Slot Overview

Hacksaw Gaming is an extremely driven outfit with metaphorical hands in plenty of gambling-related projects, including collaborating with an ever-expanding roster of partners. One of the newest (at the time of writing) is Ace Roll, which arrived with an offbeat Itero remake before moving on to something more distinctive. That next step is Mirage City, a slot that kicks things off with mechanics like expanding wild symbols tied to individual reel multiplier values. There’s even a fireworks show, so if that sounds like your sort of celebration, it’s time to join in.

Mirage City’s party is set at a middle-of-nowhere desert rave with a Burning Man-style feel, as the sun drops behind a landscape filled with tents, tasselled bicycles, and other festival bits and pieces. It doesn’t quite capture Burning Man’s huge-scale art, community spirit, and radical self-expression, but it does manage to deliver a dose of festival atmosphere. The pulsing EDM soundtrack helps, as do the light effects and fireworks, though despite the effort, the visuals can look a touch dated. Not necessarily in a negative sense—more like a retro edge—but Mirage City does come across like a title that could have launched a few years back.

Mirage City’s festivities play out on a 5×5 matrix with 15 paylines, creating winning combinations from 3 to 5 OAK. Ticket prices run from $/€0.10 to $/€75 per spin, and on this setup the higher of the two RTPs is 96.31%. Even if the mood feels laid-back at points, Mirage City’s volatility is high, with the documentation even describing it as ‘Extreme’.

The paytable features neon-purple 10 through Ace card ranks, alongside four character symbols as the premiums. Five-of-a-kind wins pay 1x to 2.5x for the royals, or 5x to 10x the stake for the top symbols. Wilds return 20x when 5 land on a payline, and they also substitute for all standard paying symbols. When a wild contributes to a win, it expands to cover the entire reel as an Expanded Wild.

Mirage City: Slot Features

Firework symbols set off respins and increase reel multipliers, while wilds can expand to take advantage of those multiplier values. The bonus round is where reel multipliers stay in place, and the feature set is completed with two buy options.

Fireworks and Expanded Wilds

Hitting a Firework symbol in either the base game or bonus game activates Fireworks Respins, which continue until a respin lands without any Firework symbols. Single Fireworks may be additive +2 to +5 or multiplicative x2 to x5, and their values raise their reel multiplier by the matching amount. Multireel Fireworks boost all reel multipliers by the same value (additive +2 to +5 or multiplicative x2 to x5). Reel multipliers are applied to Expanded Wild symbols. In the base game, the wild symbol resets the reel multiplier to x1 after it has been used in a win. The Expanded Wild symbol cannot appear on the same reel as a scatter symbol.

Burning Sky

Landing 3 scatters in the base game starts the Burning Sky bonus round with 3 lives. The bonus round works like the base game, except the Expanded Wild symbol does not reset the reel multiplier while it is active. Each Firework symbol increases persistent reel multipliers up to x999 and resets the life count back to 3. Wild symbols show up more frequently, but scatters do not appear.

Feature Buys

Mirage City includes two feature buys. One is BonusHunt FeatureSpins, where scatters land 5 times more often for 3x the stake, or you can purchase a Burning Sky trigger for 100x the stake.

Mirage City: Slot Verdict

If nothing else, Mirage City feels more imaginative than the previous slot Ace Roll put out. The Burning Man-inspired setting is a bit of a mixed result: the EDM soundtrack and neon palette do a solid job of creating a festival tone, but the graphics appear slightly older than many current top-tier releases, missing some of the modern sheen often linked with its partner, Hacksaw Gaming. Still, every studio has to begin somewhere, and after moving away from its debut slot’s remake approach, Mirage City gives players a clearer look at what Ace Roll can bring to the table and where it might go next.

In Mirage City itself, the core experience revolves around the interaction between Fireworks, Reel multipliers, and Expanded Wilds. The main constraint in the base game is that multipliers reset from spin to spin, though this can be partially offset if respins keep chaining. The high volatility really shows once free spins arrive, since the round starts with only 3 lives, which can be restored and multipliers increased whenever Firework symbols land. It’s easy to see how this combination can swing hard, like a tighter, more intense take on something like Multifly. The maximum win is higher than Yggdrasil’s version, reaching 12,500x the stake, and it’s possible in all game modes.

So, for players who can look beyond visuals that may feel a little behind today’s standards, there’s still entertainment value to explore. Mirage City may not be the ultimate desert festival experience, but it’s a more encouraging step than the developer’s first release, showing Ace Roll is willing to test its own concepts as it works out its place within the Hacksaw Gaming ecosystem.