Fawkes Demo (Wicked Games) Slot Demo & Review

Game Overview

Fawkes is a video slot from Wicked Games that’s themed around Guy Fawkes and his infamous plot to blow up the British Houses of Parliament! The game offers gunpowder barrels, execution-style reel modifiers, stacked wild transformations and multiple free spins modes, and with a maximum win potential of up to 20,000x, it’s Wicked Games’ most potential-ridden game yet. Is it worth a try? Find out in this detailed review.

Theme & Design

Fawkes does a pretty good job of leaning into a gritty, storybook-dark visual style inspired by old wooden puppet shows and Guy Fawkes-era folklore. The reels sit between wooden gallows, and it’s quite a sinister-looking game; even the wild symbol depicts Guy Fawkes being hanged!

Visually, it’s actually pretty well done, we feel, as is the case with most of the studio’s releases. Some of their other games, like Transformers and Eye of Gods, use similarly impressive-looking designs; what’s held the software provider back, so far, in our opinion, is the lack of bonuses and features in their games and the very low maximum win limits. Fawkes looks set to change this, however, so keep reading to learn more!

Fawkes Gameplay & Bonus Features

Fawkes is played on a 6-reel, 4-row setup with a dynamic ways system that starts at 4,096 ways and can expand into the millions thanks to its Wild modifiers. You can bet between €0.20 and €400 per spin, and the slot runs at a default RTP of 96.23%.

Now, the game’s core mechanic is the Gunpowder Cache. This is a seventh horizontal reel that spins beneath the main grid and can land gunpowder barrels. When Barrels land in the base game, they can award Execution Modifiers or trigger the free spins. During bonuses they can reveal wilds or extra free spins depending on which main-reel position they appear under. The wild symbols can only land on reels 2-6, and if a wild lands when one or more Barrels are visible, the Execution Modifiers activate. Here, wilds can expand to cover entire reels, split into two, replicate themselves onto neighbouring reels, or apply a multiplier of up to 3x.

The game’s free spins bonus is triggered by landing 4+ Gunpowder Barrels in the Cache. 4 awards 11 free spins and lets you choose between a Hanged or Drawn mode, 5 awards Quartered Free Spins, and 6 triggers High Treason Free Spins. The latter is the most lucrative, as here, all three modifiers apply on any spin that lands a wild! 

Now, during all of the free spins features, landing a barrel below reel 1 awards up to 5 extra spins, while barrels beneath reels 2-6 see them transforming into wilds, and this is how you increase the game’s number of ways to win.

Bonus Buy & Ante Bet

Fawkes offers quite a few Bonus Buy options. You can buy Hanged or Drawn Free Spins for 75x your stake, Quartered Free Spins for 150x, or High Treason Free Spins for 600x. There are also two gamble-style options: the Chance Bonus for 165x or the Big Boom Bonus for 240x, each offering different probabilities of triggering 4, 5, or 6 Barrels.

There are also two Ante Bet options. The standard Ante Bet doubles your stake and trebles your odds of triggering the free spins bonus. The Execution Bet costs 10x, and guarantees at least one Execution Modifier on every spin, while also trebling the chance of landing the free spins.