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Provider | Pragmatic Play |
Reels | 5 |
Rows | 5 |
Paylines | 25 |
Bonus Rounds | 1 |
Bet Range | 0.25 - 125 |
Volatility | High |
Max Win | 4,000x |
Bonus Buy | Yes |
RTP | 96.07% |
Our Rating | 7.4 |
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Game Overview
Several centuries ago, skilled archers such as Robin Hood and William Tell were highly regarded individuals, on par with today’s celebrities. Back then, feeding your family relied on having the ability to hunt, so being a ‘Fire Archer’ was probably just as likely to get you laid as driving a Lamborghini might be today! These days, there’s little point in learning how to shoot a bow and arrow; we can just play Pragmatic Play’s title Fire Archer online slot instead! This 25-pay line online slot offers a 96.07% RTP and a top win of 4,000x the bet placed – I’ll leave it up to you to decide if that will be enough to impress the ladies!
The first feature worth discussing is surely the ‘super wild’ symbol, which is represented by a target and can add up to eight regular wild symbols around its circumference every time it lands. At least one super wild is guaranteed to land on every spin during the bonus round, which also features a level-up feature. A bonus buy facility allows you to bypass the base game if you are feeling impatient, providing such features are not prohibited in your country of residence.
Think you have what it takes to compete with the elite archers of the 14th century? If so, rather you than me mate! But hey, you go take them on; I’m going to chill here and test out our free demo slot of Fire Archer!
Fire Archer Slot Theme, Stakes, Pays & Symbols
It’s nigh on impossible to talk about the subject of archery without the name Robin of Loxley entering the conversation! Better known as Robin Hood, the 13th-century archer’s skill with the bow has been the stuff of legend for close to a millennium now. I’m not sure if a license is required to use Robin’s name in an online slot; there are several existing games featuring him, such as Robin Hood’s Heroes and The Sheriff of Nottingham, so I’m a little surprised that Pragmatic Play chose not to include him in Fire Archer! Perhaps they prefer William Tell?! Whatever the case, it’s nice to see a new release with a more unusual theme at the moment – if I have to review one more fishing-based slot, I think I’m going to go insane!
Robin Hood may not be mentioned by name in this game, but the highest-paying symbol on the paytable sure as hell looks like him! He’ll pay you 20x your bet for a full payline of five of a kind, slightly ahead of the bag of gold, which has a return of 12x for all five of those symbols. A full payline of green hats will get you 10x your current stake, whilst the jug of mead is the final high-paying symbol with a payout of 8x the bet for all five symbols. The royal symbols are decorated on coloured flags and have payouts ranging between 1.6x the bet for five tens up to 6x for five aces. The wild symbol has a slight premium attached above the payout for the top regular symbol, awarding 30x the current stake for five of a kind.
The betting range offered in Fire Archer is similar to other Pragmatic Play machines, with minimum/maximum wagers of €0.25 and €125.00 per spin, respectively. As always with Pragmatic, there should be more than enough options between these two amounts to suit all styles of play and all sized budgets.
Base Game & Modifiers
The 5×5 reel set used in Fire Archer is quite large for a payline-based machine, especially one with just 25 paylines. This inevitably means that you will hit a lot of combinations which look as if they should award a payout yet do not, but the symbols do at least appear in stacks which makes it a little bit easier to score a win.
Super Wild Symbol
The super wild symbol appears as a target surrounded by eight directional arrows. Each time the symbol appears, it will randomly highlight one or more of these arrows before creating wild symbols in the highlighted directions all the way to the edge of the playfield.
Fire Archer Slot Bonus Features
The free spins feature is triggered by hitting three scatter symbols on reels one, three, and five. During free spins, scatter symbols appear on all five reels.
Free Spins
The main bonus round awards five free spins initially, but additional spins can be won by hitting two or more scatter symbols whilst the feature is active. In this mode, at least one super wild symbol is guaranteed to land on every free spin.
The super wild symbol is randomly assigned a level at the beginning of each bonus round, which will determine the number of directions highlighted on the next spin. Hitting two scatter symbols will increase the current level up to a maximum of eight.
Bonus Buy
If you prefer to skip the base game and go directly to the bonus round, you can do so at the cost of 100x the normal price per spin. Note that the game’s RTP increases slightly when using this option, so I think it’s safe to say that this is a fair price to pay!
Fire Archer Slot Review Final Thoughts
I really enjoyed testing out this machine – the super wild feature is unlike anything I have seen in other machines, and I hope that Pragmatic Play will experiment with these mechanics more in future releases.
Unfortunately, the low maximum win of just 4,000x the bet lets the game down. It’s still plenty of fun, but a high-volatility slot machine should not have a cap on winnings as low as this.
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