It’s another great looker from Play’n GO!
The Merlin: Journey of Flame slot has ten fixed pay lines across five to six reels and three rows.
Play’n GO already has a few wizard slot titles under its belt like The Rise of Merlin. This 2023 adventure sees the wizard entering a swamp looking for valuable eggs, which are the key to the free spins feature. This is a highly volatile slot with a max win of 7,500x your bet. That’s more than the London Tube slot which we have just played.
Whether you prefer to play on a desktop or a mobile, this game works flawlessly on both. If you want to know how to play this slot game, read on!
Graphics
Merlin is the main character on the reels that we should all know from the Legend of Arthur.
The game is set inside a swampy and bewitching lake. With his spell book by his side, Merlin has to find and open the egg hatchlings to release his powers. When you fire up the slot, it draws you in with a movie-style design and vibe with tranquil violins playing in the background. As the action heats up on the reels, so does the pace of the music.
The giant egg is the game’s wild and also triggers the free spins feature. Six of these on the reels acting as wild pays out 7,500x your bet.
Gameplay
The Merlin: Journey of Flame bet range starts at 0.10 and goes up to 100.00 per spin. Click the coin value and coin button to adjust your wager amount. This is a highly volatile game like the Trojan Kingdom slot from JustfortheWin.
The pay lines are also adjustable, (just like the old days!) so you can play from one up to ten pay lines. The more pay lines you play, the less volatile the game.
You need a minimum of three matching symbols to form a winning spin.
The lower-value symbols on this slot are red, green, orange, blue, and yellow gemstones. Six of these pay out between 15x and 20x your bet. The higher-value symbols on the reels include Merlin, a staff, a book, and a bottle of green potion. Merlin pays out the most at 750x your bet.
Bonuses
The bonuses on Merlin: Journey of Flame centre around the dragon egg that acts as the wild and scatter. The cracked version is the wild and scatter that show in the free spins round.
Free Spins
You need three or more of the dragon egg scatter symbols to trigger the free spins. When you activate the bonus, an extra sixth reel creates six-of-a-kind wins. You get eight free spins, but before the feature begins, one random symbol is chosen as the special expanding symbol for the duration of the free spins.
When it lands anywhere across the reels, there is no need for them to be on a pay line. It will expand and can reward you with a decent payout. Three more scatters retrigger the feature.
The Gamble Spell
The Gamble feature is an option after a win (not in all jurisdictions), and it allows you to stake your winnings in a double or quadruple or nothing card bet.
Guess the correct colour or suit to double or quadruple your winnings, but be careful as a wrong guess means you lose it all. You can gamble up to 5 times in a row, up to 250x your stake. We’d recommend that you play this sparingly, better to bank your wins as you go.
Summary
The Merlin: Journey of Flame is a good addition to Play’n GO’s long line of wizard slots featuring Merlin. It takes on a Book of Dead type of free spins round where one symbol expands across any reels it lands on and will pay out in any position.
If you trigger the Merlin symbol and he extends across all six, your payout is 7,500x your bet. We like the addition of the sixth reel during free spins. It’s a fun adventure and will suit all types of players due to its wide betting range and winning potential.
If you want to test out Merlin: Journey of Flame before playing for real money, then you can in the demo mode version. Load it up for free, give it a spin and test all the mechanics and various betting ranges before switching to actual play.