Fire Portals

Theme and Design

Epic Visuals In This Magic-Themed Slot 

Pragmatic Play have invoked a world of magic and other dimensions in Fire Portals. There is no stated narrative to the scene, so you are free to imagine what it might all mean. One thing is for sure, the visuals are spectacular. The backdrop is what might be the landscape of some distant rocky planet where a giant portal, represented by a huge metal circular structure, has just opened up, emitting a strange turquoise light as it does. In the foreground you see the immense 7x7 grid that forms the game area. Whilst the backdrop says sci-fi, the paytable take us into a more traditional world of magic potions, wizards staring into crystal balls and fiery swords. Who knows what it all mean. Probably not even Pragmatic Play. But whatever … if you like your immersive, magic-themed slots this could be a good one for you.

RTP and Variance

Fire Portals has 3 available RTP settings – 96.06%, 95.04% and 94.08%. Whilst there isn’t much to choose between those we recommend that you find a casino that is running the game at the optimum setting of 96.06% for the maximum chance of coming away with a positive balance. If you want to check the RTP once you’ve loaded up the game, just hit the ‘I’ button under the reels and scroll through until you see Return to Player.

MrQ from Lindar Media consistently runs Pragmatic games at the optimum RTP and would make a good choice.

The developer themselves have classified Fire Portals as a ‘very high’ variance slot so don’t expect an easy ride with this one. It will be highly volatile so choose a sensible stake so you don’t burn out too quickly.

Maximum Win

The maximum payout from one spin on Fire Portals is 10,000x which is about average for a Pragmatic Play slot. You can find games from the same studio with higher max wins, but they are rare these days. Playing at the 20p minimum stake you could win £2,000.

Symbols and Paytable

This is a cluster pays slot and it plays on a 7x7 grid. You’ll need to land 5 or more identical symbols on adjacent positions that touch horizontally or vertically to form a win. The beauty of this type of slot of course is that you can build massive clusters with big pay outs.

There are 7 symbols in all – a goblet, hourglass, potion bottle, amulet, ring, sword and magician. These are valued at from 0.2x for 5 goblets up to a massive 150x for 15 or more of the magicians.

There is also a Wild symbol, represented by a fiery ring, or portal. This will substitute for any pay symbol to complete a cluster. However, it does not drop onto the reels like normal symbols but appears as the consequence of a winning cluster as explained below.

Features and Gameplay

There isn't a huge number of features in Fire Portals but the ones that are there are very good, with persistent wilds that merge and move around the grid with potentially spectacular results. Here is how it works

Tumble Wins

The classic Tumble Wins feature is in full effect here. After any winning spin, winning symbols are removed from the grid in mini explosions. Existing symbols drop down to fill any gaps left behind and new symbols drop down into the grid from above to fill remaining spaces. If more wins are created, then the process repeats. And so on, until no more wins are formed. Then a payout is made for all wins from the initial spin and subsequent tumbles.

Fire Portal Wilds and Multipliers

The Fire Portal Wilds are integral to the game. When a winning cluster is formed, after the symbols in the cluster explode, then ONE position is taken up by a Fire Portal. It is given a multiplier value of 1x and that value will increase by 1x every time the Fire Portal is used in a win.

The Fire Portal moves one place up, down, left or right with each win, always staying within the cluster area of the win it was just a part of, and its multiplier is applied to that win too.

You will also notice that if a cluster already contains a wild, then when the winning symbols are removed, a new Fire Portal is NOT added in that area.

Fire Portal Wilds get more powerful though when two or more appear in a winning cluster. Then, when the winning symbols are removed, the Fire Portals all MERGE and their multipliers combine like this: a 2x and a 5x become a 10x, or a 5x and a 4x become a 20x. And so on.

The Fire Portal Wilds remain on the grid as tumble after tumble plays out, merging, growing their multipliers and moving with each win, until the sequence ends.

Free Spins With Persistent Fire Portals

The Free Spins round is triggered by landing the spell book scatter. When 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 scatters land then 10, 12, 14, 16 or 18 spins are awarded.

The important part about the free spins round is that any Fire Portal Wilds that were on the grid when the round triggered are carried over AND between spins, Fire Portal Wilds do NOT disappear. So, you can keep adding more and more, and keep increasing their multipliers higher and higher. Powerful stuff!

Better still, this one also comes with re-triggers so you can claim another set of free spins by landing scatters in the same way that you triggered the round in the first place.