Fire My Laser Demo & review

Nothing on the Fire My Laser grid pays by lining up: a symbol only pays when a bomb or a laser blows it up. Hacksaw Gaming released this 7x6 game in December 2024, put its multipliers and free spins triggers behind shields that need breaking, and added four paid options on top. It suits bonus buyers and anyone who would rather watch a chain reaction than follow a payline.

How Fire My Laser works

Hacksaw calls the mechanic ReactWins. Bombs and lasers land among alien ships and asteroids, go off, and every paying symbol they remove pays by the paytable. Plain grey asteroids pay nothing when destroyed. Each removal starts a cascade: the rest of the grid drops down, new symbols fall in, and the spin's wins gather in the Total Win bar above the grid.

Landed bombs and lasers go off one at a time, bottom to top and right to left, with the grid settling in between, and a blast that hits another bomb or laser sets that one off too. Once the grid has settled, Orbital Bombardment can add 3 to 7 strikes, each hitting a 2x2 area.

The 7x6 grid before our first spin, with an X-Laser on the fourth row. FluxPlays demo test, 2 November 2026.

How the pieces connect:

1. Bombs and lasers destroy symbols, and only destroyed symbols pay.
2. Their blasts also knock shields off Multiplier and FS symbols.
3. A Multiplier with no shields left multiplies the spin's win.
4. An FS symbol with no shields left starts a bonus: Alien Mind for Alien Attack, Power Core for Extermination.

The two bonuses carry the game, and by its rules Extermination is the better of them. Orbital Bombardment is a side dish.

The game info page on asteroids, bombs and lasers. FluxPlays demo test, 2 November 2026.

How the shields and multipliers work

Multiplier and FS symbols arrive behind shields, and the badge on each one shows how many it carries. A 2-shield Multiplier is worth between 2x and 10x. A 3-shield one is worth from 15x up to 500x. Every Multiplier broken on a spin is added to the others, and their total multiplies the win that spin collected.

By the rules, a broken 3x and a broken 6x on the same spin add up. The spin's collected win is then multiplied by 9. The Super Laser is the symbol to hope for, because it strips every shield it touches in one go, while bombs and the X-Laser have to chip away at them.

How the bonuses trigger

Both rounds keep every base game mechanic, so bombs, lasers and shields work as before. What changes is where the broken Multipliers go.

Alien Attack

Breaking the shield on an Alien Mind FS symbol gives 8 free spins. Every Multiplier activated in the round is stored in a progressive multiplier, but that total is applied only at the end of a spin where at least one new Multiplier was added. Another Alien Mind FS adds two more. So a spin with no new Multiplier pays at face value, however high the stored total has climbed.

Our tenth BonusHunt FeatureSpin, just before Alien Attack began. FluxPlays demo test, 2 November 2026.

Extermination

Breaking the shield on a Power Core FS symbol gives 12 free spins with a progressive global multiplier. Activated Multipliers are stored the same way, but this total is always active and is applied to the Total Win bar at the end of every spin. Another Power Core FS adds two more. That one difference makes it the stronger round, since every spin after the multiplier has grown uses it.

The Extermination intro from our bought round. FluxPlays demo test, 2 November 2026.

Bonus buy and FeatureSpins: prices and what you get

Two of the four options are FeatureSpins modes that charge their price on every spin for as long as they stay on. The other two each buy one bonus round. Booming FeatureSpins cannot land FS symbols, so that mode never starts a bonus.

The Bonus Buy panel, with Extermination the only card marked Medium. FluxPlays demo test, 2 November 2026.

RTP, volatility and max win

The base game's RTP is 96.31%, worked out over ten billion simulated rounds, and the paid options sit within a few hundredths of it. The intro meter shows three of five marks, the middle of Hacksaw's scale, so Medium is the label here. The buy cards call every option High except Extermination, which they call Medium. No win in any mode, bought or not, can pass 15,000x the bet.

Our Fire My Laser demo test

Every win in our session came from an explosion, and the base game mostly paid small change. Our base spins paid 43 times, the best of them $10.80 on spin 61, and no FS shield broke along the way.

The bonus came on the tenth BonusHunt FeatureSpin instead. An Alien Mind shield broke, a second FS shield extended the round, and the progressive multiplier climbed to 13x. That $3 spin paid $248.80.

Alien Attack from a BonusHunt FeatureSpin: 248.80 after 10 free spins, multiplier at 13x. FluxPlays demo test, 2 November 2026.

In the bought Extermination, the global multiplier stood at 5x early on and ended the round at 8x. Booming FeatureSpins paid on all ten of its spins, which fits a mode that guarantees a Super Laser and a Multiplier every time.

Orbital Bombardment and any shield above 25x did not show up clearly, so those parts rest on the rules. This was one session with one try at each option, enough to see how the game moves and nowhere near enough to judge what it returns.

Is Fire My Laser worth playing?

The base game on its own, no, but the bonuses and the buys, yes. The shield system gives every blast a second purpose, and Extermination's always-on multiplier is the round that makes good use of it. Between bonuses, though, the base game hands back small amounts, and a bonus needs an FS shield broken first.

Pick Beam Boys if you want lasers that turn whole rows wild on a ways grid, with a switch between Normal and Extreme volatility. Choose Fire My Laser for a game where every win is something you watched get blown up.

Start the demo with a handful of Booming FeatureSpins. Each one guarantees a Super Laser and a Multiplier, so it is the quickest look at shields breaking, although no bonus can start there.