Fire Portals Demo & review

A win in Fire Portals leaves something behind: a Fire Portal WILD lands inside the block that just paid, and its multiplier climbs each time it joins another win. Pragmatic Play released this 7x7 cluster game in March 2024 with a high volatility label. In the base game those WILDs vanish when the tumbles stop, while in free spins they stay all round, so it suits players who play for the bonus.

The base game before our first spin, with the buy and the ante panel on the left. FluxPlays demo test, 1 November 2026.

How Fire Portals works

Blocks of at least five identical symbols, joined side to side or top to bottom, pay anywhere on the grid. Winning symbols explode, new ones fall in, and the tumbles carry on until no new block forms, with every win on the way added to the spin.

Each symbol pays at three sizes, and the jump from 10 to 15 is where the ladder climbs. A block of 15 or more covers everything up to a full grid of 49.

The open book is the scatter. It pays nothing itself, stays put while the other symbols tumble, and only counts toward free spins.

The Fire Portal WILD: what grows and what resets

Every winning block that has no WILD in it produces one, at a random spot inside the area it covered. The WILD substitutes for every paying symbol and starts at x1.

• Grows: each time it is part of a win, its multiplier rises by one step, and after the explosion it moves one position up, down, left or right within that block's area.
• Pays: its multiplier applies to every block it belongs to, up to a ceiling of x2500.
• Merges: when two or more WILDs end up in the same winning block, they become one and their multipliers multiply.
• Resets: in the base game all WILDs clear when the tumbles from that spin end.

So the base game needs one long chain to make anything of a WILD. A short chain leaves it at x2 or x3 on a cheap block, and the next spin starts clean. Merging is the fast route upward, because two grown WILDs multiply rather than add.

The WILD rules on page 2 of the game's help screens. FluxPlays demo test, 1 November 2026.

Free spins: how they trigger

Three or more scatters anywhere start the round, and every extra scatter adds two spins:

The same counts landing during the round award the same number again. One rule changes everything inside it: Fire Portal WILDs no longer clear between spins. Any WILD on the triggering spin carries into the round, and every WILD made later stays on the grid with its multiplier until the last free spin, still growing and still able to merge. The round plays on its own special reels.

That turns the bonus into a build. Early spins plant WILDs, and later spins pay through whatever those WILDs have become.

Free spin 3 of our bought round, with two WILDs already held for the rest of it. FluxPlays demo test, 1 November 2026.

Bonus buy and ante bet: prices and what you get

The buy and the ante cannot run together: switching the ante on disables the buy.

High is the only volatility label in the help screens, given once for the whole game.

RTP, volatility and max win

The standard game returns 96.06% in theory, and the buy and the ante each give up a few hundredths of a point. The ceiling is 10,000x the bet, and a round that reaches it ends there and pays it. By the paytable, a 15-plus sorceress block would need a WILD of about x67 to get there alone. Only free spins keep WILDs long enough to build that.

Our Fire Portals demo test

The base game showed how much a WILD depends on one chain. Most wins were a single small block, and 17 of the 28 winning spins paid under $1. Gaps stayed short, 11 losing spins at most, so the base game paid often but small. Spin 38 was the exception: eight tumble wins in a row, and the settled board showed a single WILD at 68x. Eight single steps cannot reach that, so WILDs must have merged on the way. The spin paid $20.80.

Base spin 38 settled after eight tumble wins, with a 68x WILD on the board. FluxPlays demo test, 1 November 2026.

The bought round held three scatters, the minimum, and the sticky rule did the rest. Six of the first nine free spins paid modest amounts while the WILDs grew, and the last spin's tumbles added $27.90, almost half the round. A natural trigger and a retrigger did not appear, so those come from the help screens. One session and one bought round are too few to judge returns, but they show where this game keeps its value.

The board after our last free spin, with the WILDs the round had built. FluxPlays demo test, 1 November 2026.

Our bought round ended at $58.45 over 10 free spins. FluxPlays demo test, 1 November 2026.

Is Fire Portals worth playing?

For its free spins, yes. For its base game, much less. Everything good about the WILD needs time, and only the bonus gives it time: the multipliers carry from spin to spin, and the round's last spins can pay through WILDs built ten spins earlier. In the base game the same WILD has to be made and fed within one chain, and for us that is a long wait between moments.

Pick Sugar Rush if you want the multipliers fixed to grid spots that every later win can land on. Choose Fire Portals when you would rather follow one moving WILD and like the chance of two merging into one large multiplier.

In the demo, buy one round first and watch where the early WILDs settle, since that decides how the later spins pay.