Fire Blaze: Eternal Lady Slot by Playtech

Most Fire Blaze games make you grind your way into the bonus. Eternal Lady hands you a shortcut. The Mooncake feature is an entry trigger that always resolves into one of the two bonus rounds, so once it fires you're guaranteed either the Fire Blaze respin or the free games, never a wasted trip. Which of the two you land on is the only thing left to chance.

The glowing blue full moon is the Fire Blaze cash symbol, and it runs the respin round. Moons drop stamped with a cash value worth up to 50x the total bet, or with a jackpot star, and each one that lands locks in place and awards a set of respins. Every fresh moon that sticks resets the respin count, so a board that keeps feeding you moons keeps the round breathing. When it stops, you collect every locked moon at once. Those moons can also pay out one of four fixed jackpots, the Mini at 20x, the Minor at 100x, the Major at 500x and the Grand at 2,000x the total bet.

The free games pull the other way. You get up to 24 spins, and the real draw is the lady herself. She stops paying as a normal symbol and returns as extra wild stacks that fill whole columns, so full reels of lady wilds can stack up and blanket the grid. Those spins keep all four jackpots live too, so the top prizes aren't walled off behind the respin round.

The theme leans on the Chang'e moon-goddess myth, the lady who drifted to the moon at Mid-Autumn. She stands in a pale blue robe with red roses pinned in her hair, painted before a shining full moon in a purple-and-blue sky flecked with cloud and stars. A pink lotus, a red paper lantern and a blue-and-white porcelain vase round out the higher symbols, with gilded Chinese card royals below and gold scrollwork edging the reels. Strip away the moonlight and it's the familiar Fire Blaze hold-and-win build wearing a new skin, but the Mooncake guarantee is the one wrinkle that sets it apart from the rest of the range.