Fire Blaze: Pearls Pearls Pearls Slot by Playtech

This is the ocean-floor entry in Playtech's Fire Blaze range, a 5x3 slot on 30 lines. A red octopus tops the standard symbols ahead of a sea turtle, a tropical fish and a jellyfish, with royals underneath, and a green-haired mermaid plays the wild across reels two to five. It's the pearls that give the game its name and its best moments, though.

Land six or more glowing pearls and the Fire Blaze respin kicks in. Each pearl carries a cash value or a Star, the triggering ones lock in place, and you get three respins that reset back to three every time a fresh pearl lands. Fill all fifteen positions and the Grand pays out, worth 2,000x your total bet. The Stars are worth watching for too: each held Star awards one of the Major, Minor or Mini prizes, at 500x, 100x and 20x, and you can collect more than one in a single feature. These four are fixed prizes rather than network progressives, so unlike a lot of jackpot slots they actually pay out here in the demo.

The other way in is the treasure-chest scatter. Three or more open six free games, and this is where the mermaid earns her keep: any wild landing on the middle reel arrives with a x2, x4, x8 or x16 multiplier, so a single well-placed mermaid can turn a modest line into the spin of the session. Pearls in the free games carry bigger values too, up to 50x total bet. The round retriggers, and it's the main route to the 5,000x max win.

It's a well-built Playtech slot with two distinct features pulling in different directions, the respin for the fixed jackpots, the free games for the multiplier swings. Medium-high volatility, 96.50% RTP, and enough going on to reward a proper run of demo spins before you commit.