Rise of Ymir Slot by Hacksaw Gaming

Ymir the Frost Giant Gets His Own Slot

Rise of Ymir takes the Norse primordial frost giant and builds an entire multiplier system around him. Hacksaw Gaming's 5x4 grid runs on 14 paylines with icy blue-grey visuals - mountains, snow, warriors at the edges, and a massive frozen Ymir looming behind the reels. It looks appropriately epic for a game chasing 15,000x.

The paytable is modest. Five high symbols and five low symbols, with the premium paying 10x bet for five of a kind. Standard stuff for a game that puts all its weight into the multiplier mechanics.

Ymir's Conquest and the MegaMultiplier

Ymir symbols are wilds that land with a multiplier attached: anywhere from 1x up to 100x. When they land, they stick in place and trigger a free respin. If another Ymir lands on the respin, it sticks too and triggers another respin. This continues until a spin brings no new Ymirs.

Four Ymirs on the same reel merge into a Giant Ymir - all four multipliers combine into one massive wild covering the reel. And when multiple Ymirs appear in the same winning combination, their multipliers add together before applying. Two 50x Ymirs on the same payline means a 100x multiplier on that win.

The MegaMultiplier takes it further. When a MegaMultiplier symbol lands while Ymirs sit on the grid, all Ymir multiplier values get pulled into a single global multiplier that applies to every win. It sticks through the respins too - new Ymirs that land add their values to the running total. In the base game, the MegaMultiplier resets each new round. In the Fury of Ymir bonus, it persists.

Three Bonuses, Three Different Intensities

Dawn of Gods (3 scatters): 10 free spins with enhanced Ymir frequency and higher multiplier values. Same base mechanics, better odds. Retriggers give +2 or +4 spins.

Fury of Ymir (4 scatters): 10 free spins with one critical difference - the MegaMultiplier stays active between spins for the entire bonus. Every new Ymir adds to a growing global multiplier that never resets. By spin 8 or 9 with an accumulated MegaMultiplier, individual wins start scaling aggressively.

Fall of Ymir (5 scatters): Completely different mechanic. Three refilling lives instead of free spins. The grid fills with dead symbols and Volcanic Ymirs (same multiplier values as regular Ymirs). A MegaMultiplier collects all Volcanic Ymir values into a global total. Green Asgardian Orbs spread that global multiplier to Volcanic Ymirs on the same reel. Golden Asgardian Orbs spread it to every Volcanic Ymir on the grid - then the global multiplier resets to zero. At the end, all Volcanic Ymir values add together and multiply by your bet for the final payout.

Fall of Ymir is the most complex of the three and the hardest to trigger. Five scatters on a 5x4 grid with 14 paylines doesn't happen often. But the Orb spreading mechanic makes it the most volatile bonus - one Golden Orb after a big MegaMultiplier accumulation rewrites every value on the grid.

BonusHunt and Might of Ymir

BonusHunt FeatureSpins make bonuses 5x more likely to trigger. Might of Ymir FeatureSpins guarantee 2+ Ymirs per spin with minimum 2x multipliers, but scatter symbols don't appear - no bonus access, just guaranteed multiplier action in the base game.

The base game between features is quiet. Fourteen paylines with low symbol values means long stretches of small returns. The Ymir Conquest respin mechanic breaks the monotony when it fires, but the game clearly concentrates its payout potential in the three bonus tiers. Getting to Fury or Fall is the goal, and the gaps between them feel long on a high-volatility 14-payline setup.