Firewins Factory

Theme and Design

A Charming Slot With Lots of Cool Explosive Animations

Firewins Factory is a fun, cartoon-style slot, set in a towering brick factory, peopled by grinning minion-type workers who are overseen by their big boss man, compete with top hat and moustache. What they are making here is unclear, but those minions are rebellious types, intent on causing explosions across the factory floors, which causes mayhem and firey animations throughout. The artwork is high quality, as we expect from Relax Gaming, and the theme is light-hearted. If you’ve enjoyed games like Wild Chapo then you’ll like the humour in Firewins Factory. And if you enjoy the slots with cute cartoon characters like Reactoonz, then this is for you too.

RTP and Variance

The game has an RTP of 96.19% which is good value. As a rule, Relax Gaming do not produce slots with more than one RTP setting so you always know you are getting a good average return. Sometimes they drop below 96%, but not in this case, so we’re happy with that number.

This is also a high variance slot so it will be volatile. Relax Gaming are known for their high volatility output – think of the Money Train series or the Trail games. So, this is a game for serious slots players who enjoy the high risk for high reward gameplay.

Maximum Win

The max payout on Firewins Factory comes in at 20,000x. Whilst not one of Relax Gaming’s highest max win slots, it is still a tidy sum to be playing for and suggests the game will be capable of kicking out wins in the 1,000x’s often enough.

Symbols and Paytable

If you are familiar with Relax’s Wild Yield game then you will understand the paylines configuration here. Firewins Factory uses a connected ways system on a 6x6 grid. As normal, win lines start on reel 1, but now identical symbols must appear on adjacent reels on the same row, or one row above or below the matching symbol in the preceding reel. So, lines can grow across the reels in any direction diagonally up or down, or horizontally across.

Relax say this gives you 950 ways to win on each spin.

The pay table does not offer much value at first glance and you might wonder how on earth you are going to score any big wins. But as we will find out, as well as using cascading wins the gameplay leans heavily on wilds to help build your connected ways, so in theory, there is a good chance of landing a win each spin.

There are four low payers – the diamonds, hearts, clubs and spades – which max out at just 0.4x for 6 on a connected way. There are five premium symbols, made up of four workers complete with safety hats, and a greasy, top-hatted factory owner. Even these only max out at 1x for 6 on a line.

The wilds perform their usual role of substituting for regular pay symbols to complete connected ways. And they are also valued at the same level as the highest value premiums – so a 1x for 6 on a connected way.

Features and Gameplay

Cascading Wins

This classic slot mechanism is central to the gameplay in Firewins Factory. After any win, winning symbols are removed from the grid and new ones drop in to replace them. If more wins are created, the process repeats. This gets you multiple wins from one spin and it looks fantastic as it plays out.

Explosive Wilds and Progressive Multipliers

There are SIX types of Wilds in this game. Five of them are Explosive, and one is just a standard wild that is represented by the letter W.

The Explosive Wild is a powerful symbol because in the blast it spreads wilds out across the grid, and in the case of the rare super explosion, it sends them further afield. The explosive wild also increases a progressive win multiplier by 1x each time it is part of a winning combination. The multiplier grows and is applied to wins for the duration of the current cascade sequence.

These are your Explosive Wilds:

• Cross Wild – spreads wilds in a cross pattern to the adjacent positions above, below, left and right
• Diagonal Cross Wild – spreads wilds to diagonally adjacent positions – above left and right and below left and right
• Vertical Wild – spreads wilds to the adjacent positions above and below
• Horizontal Wild – spreads wilds to the adjacent positions to the left and right
• Random Spread Wild – spreads between 3 and 8 wilds to ANYWHERE on the grid

For those who love their Wild symbols, this is a superb feature which adds lots of dramatic animations and improved odds of completing those connected ways.

Second Chance For Unused Wilds

Occasionally, where wilds have not been used by the end of your spin and cascades, then all the wilds left on the grid will explode, causing adjacent symbols to be removed, triggering another cascade and the chance to score more wins.

Free Spins With A Persistent Progressive Multiplier

The bonus round is triggered by landing at least 3 scatters. That will earn you 8 free spins, and another spin for each additional scatter that lands on the triggering spin.

As the round begins, the backdrop turns to night, all the better for showing those explosive reel events. But there isn’t a great deal of difference between the gameplay in the free spins feature and that in the base game. However, one important distinction is made. Now the progressive multiplier does NOT re-set between your spins.

A good run of exploding wilds and wins can therefore produce spectacular results in the bonus round!