Fire Forge Slot Machine – Free Play & Review

Fire Forge borrows from the fantasy genre at least one thing, the dwarfs which are said to work in forges, underneath the mountains. Stormcraft Studios and Microgaming chose a dark design in this case, and they gave us a selection of symbols which support the theme. There is room for better though, as you don’t get much of a background image, and about half of the game’s symbols are just logos and similar gemstones. The high paying icons are the only ones which look really good.

Starting with the image of a Golden Dwarf (scatter), the list of symbols continues with a Fire Forge logo (wild), a Hammer, Anvil, Glove, Oil Lamp, Beer Tankard, and four gems of hexagonal shape, which were colored in dark shades of orange, green, blue and purple.

Developer

Available at Microgaming casinos, Fire Forge is a creation of Stormcraft Studios, an independent developer which has created several slot machines as exclusives for the Quickfire network. Quite a few of these have gotten our attention, including Fortunium Gold Mega Moolah, or Microgaming sequels like Agent Jane Blonde Returns and Break Away Lucky Wilds.

How To Play It

If you check out the betting system, you will find that Fire Forge works with 25 lines for its purposes (though you get 243 ways from the reels), allowing you to select up to 16 coins on each one, while the denomination goes from $0.01 to $0.05. This will let you spend anywhere from $0.25 to $20 per spin.

What you’re going to find inside, is a game area which has 15 symbols, arranged via 5×3 reels. 243 ways to win are available, giving you just as many potential combinations each spin. It covers all possibilities, to form combinations with 3+ matching symbols, from left to right.

Special Features

Forming combinations is only the start. Rolling Reels trigger each time, and will bring you new symbols instead of the winning positions, which could lead to more wins.

A Jackpot feature is one of the things that can trigger for you, but it’s not going to bring quite the big payouts that you’d expect, at least not in the base game. There, you get a jackpot worth 5x to 200x the stake, just by gaining access to this feature. First, you need 5+ Dwarf scatters showing up at the same time, just to get a chance at a random trigger of the bonus. Then, you get one of the three potential prizes. Luckily, the free spins multiplier can apply to this jackpot, which is how the slot is capable of delivering its huge top jackpots (50,000x the stake).

Getting into the free spins is possible via the same 5+ scatters, but the difference is that you need at least 1 of them on each of the 5 reels. A free spins feature comes through, where you get to choose which of the three versions you prefer. The free spins wins are are limited to 200x multipliers, which can even apply to jackpots, and may come as you retrigger the free spins enough times.

• 12 free spins, starting from 1x and going up by 1x after each round.
• 6 free spins, with a 3x starting multiplier, going up by 3x after each round.
• 3 free spins, with 6x for the first round’s multiplier, and an extra 6x added after each round.

Regardless of the moment, wilds can help out from reels 2-5, landing stacked on the last three (3, 4 and 5).

Maximum Payouts

50,000x the stake is an absolute monster of a jackpot, potentially worth $1,000,000, but few will get there, if any. Highly volatile, this slot has a 96.73% RTP.

Summary

There are plenty of reasons to love Fire Forge, a slot with huge jackpots, high RTP and next-level multipliers, but the design is not one of them.