Primal Times Slot by Relax Gaming

Primal Times opens on a glacial plain with a smoking volcano on the horizon, and the grid itself is half-buried in ice - the top three rows of every base spin start frozen behind sheets of blue crystal, leaving only four rows actually in play. That's where the meteor mechanic earns its keep. Symbols carrying a meteor indicator thaw the next frozen position in their column, and each thaw permanently widens that reel for the spin (well, until the next one). Land three meteor symbols in the same reel during a spin or its cascades and the whole column locks in as a Wild Reel.

The Wild Reel then drops down onto the Multiplier Flow, a conveyor of 1x to 10x values plus Bonus markers that slides one cell to the left between spins. Whatever sits directly under the falling wild gets collected. Two wild reels with multipliers don't add - they multiply each other, so a x4 and a x6 collected on the same spin pay x24 across the board. This is where the math gets dangerous fast.

Bonus symbols only appear on reels 1, 3 and 5. Land three of them and you get 5 Meltdown Free Spins. Collect a Bonus from the Flow with a wild reel and you also get 5. Trigger both at once on the same spin and you bank the full 10. Inside Meltdown, the rule that matters is persistence: once a frozen row thaws, it stays thawed for the rest of the round. By the time you've defrosted everything the grid has grown to its full 7 rows and 117,649 ways, with the Multiplier Flow still feeding wild reels under the same multiply-each-other rule. Every Bonus during the round adds another spin.

The buy menu has three tiers and they aren't priced the way you'd expect. The standard 5-spin Meltdown entry sits at 100x. A single bonus spin with two guaranteed Wild Reels is cheaper at 70x because it's just one spin, but the three-Wild-Reel version jumps to 150x since multiple wilds can stack flow multipliers immediately. Max win is capped at 10,000x, and the way you get there is almost always through stacked Wild Reels in the same Meltdown round rather than any single big symbol hit.

Visually Relax Gaming leans hard into the meltdown theme - frozen sapphire blues during base play, then the entire frame washes over with volcanic orange when the bonus drops. Mammoths, sabertooth cats and frozen tribal totems fill the high-pay slots. It's an ice age that ends in lava, more or less.