Merlin Journey of Flame

The Merlin Journey of Flame slot is the latest addition to Play’n GO’s Arthurian Legends series all about dragons. The game continues the journey of the wizard Merlin previously seen in his Grimoire and Ice Queen quests. This time, Merlin is on a journey to find dragon eggs, powerful symbols that serve as both scatters and wilds.

Some exciting extra features are also present in the game like expanding reels and expanding symbols. Players can activate free spins and retrigger them for extra ones. The game features quite a decent RTP value of 96.28%. In addition, you can win up to 7500x the bet in this game with the maximum wager being $100. Let us dive straight into this Merlin Journey of Flame slot review and see what this latest Arthurian myth is all about.

The first element to greet you in the Merlin Journey of Flame slot is the amazing cinematic of Merlin beginning his quest. Play’n GO have always been masters of the visual and the art in this game looks amazing as well.

As for the gameplay, the game is based on the standard 5-reel by 3-row system with a small twist we will go into later. There are 10 active paylines that you can score by arranging at least 3 identical symbols in one of them. Wins are paid left to right and only the highest win is paid per payline.

There are 9 regular symbols in total. The 5 low-win symbols appear as neatly-designed runestones. The 4 high-wins appear as a potion, Merlin’s grimoire, his staff and of course Merlin himself as the highest-paying symbol. There are also wilds and scatters in the form of the dragon egg but more on that later.

Players can wager anywhere between $0.10 to $100 on their quest for the dragon eggs. The maximum payout is 7500x the original bet. High volatility gameplay is in effect so expect high variance. As for return-to-player values, they are pretty decent at 96.28%.

You can highly customize your bet in this game by selecting which amounts you want for coin values, number of coins, and bet lines. The payouts in the paytable automatically adjust based on your selections. The highest-paying symbol is Merlin while the highest-paying low-win symbol is the yellow runestone.

Dragon Eggs act as both wilds and scatters and have their very own respective payouts for scatter and wild combinations.

Play’n GO’s Merlin Journey of Flame slot focuses their extra features on the free spins mode. As such, there are not many mechanics in the base game. That said, let us cover each bonus feature:

• Dragon Egg – This symbol acts both as a scatter-pay symbol, a wild and a way to activate free spins. It has its own payout whether for scatter wins or payline wins as a wild. As a wild, it substitutes for all regular symbols in a payline.
• Free Spins – Land 3 or more Dragon Eggs to activate 8 free spins. Landing additional Dragon Eggs, that is, three or more in free spins activates 8 additional spins.
• Expanding Reels – When you trigger free spins, the egg hatches into a dragon and he unleashes an extra 6^th reel that is available for play during the FS mode.
• Expanding Symbols – Additionally, when free spins activate one random symbol is designated as an expanding symbol. Each time this symbol lands on the reels it expands to cover the entire reel for more winning chances.

These features seem really fun to play around with, however, we would have liked to see a bit more in the base game.