Dragons Fire Megaways Slot Review
A bronze-scaled dragon coils around the reels of Dragons Fire Megaways, horned head resting against a gold filigree frame, loose coins spilled across the floor of its crystal cave. It’s a hoard worth guarding: Red Tiger have built a slot where nothing pays properly until the multiplier has had time to grow, and the game is honest enough to give you the long, quiet stretches that growth requires. Few Megaways titles ask that much patience upfront, and fewer still make the payoff worth the wait.
The game runs at 95.72% RTP with high volatility and a maximum win of 10,470x the bet, on six reels holding up to seven symbols each for as many as 117,649 ways to win. It’s territory Red Tiger know well from Mystery Reels Megaways and Golden Leprechaun Megaways, though the dragon remains their most recognisable beast. First covered here in 2019, the maths hasn’t changed since. The hoard is still worth a closer look.
How Dragons Fire Megaways Pays
Each spin deals a different number of symbols onto the six reels, and the ways to win change with them. Land seven symbols on every reel and you get the full 117,649 Megaways; most spins sit well below that. Wins pay left to right from the first reel, with matching symbols of any size counting regardless of how tall they are.
Because every reel holds between two and seven symbols, the ways to win swing widely from one spin to the next, and there’s no way to know what a spin is worth in ways until the reels settle. The bet you place covers whatever the spin produces. Roughly a third of spins pay something, at a hit frequency of 37.13%. When they do, the values look like this, as multiples of the bet:
- Gold Dragon (crown/egg): 0.5 / 1 / 2 / 5 for three to six
- Red Dragon: 0.4 / 0.6 / 1.2 / 2.5 for three to six
- Green Dragon: 0.3 / 0.5 / 0.9 / 1.8 for three to six
- Blue/Purple Dragon: 0.3 / 0.5 / 0.8 / 1.6 for three to six
- Gold Gem (pinecone-shaped): 0.2 / 0.3 / 0.5 / 1 for three to six
- Red Gem (pinecone-shaped): 0.2 / 0.3 / 0.5 / 0.8 for three to six
- Green Gem (droplet): 0.1 / 0.2 / 0.3 / 0.5 for three to six
- Blue Gem (droplet): 0.1 / 0.2 / 0.3 / 0.5 for three to six
Four dragons sit at the top of the table, in gold, red, green and blue-purple, with four gems beneath them. The gap between the top dragon and the droplet gems is a factor of ten at six of a kind, which tells you where the money in this game actually sits. Six of a kind is where the values step up hardest: the Gold Dragon’s pay doubles from five to six while the gems barely move.
There’s no conventional wild on the reels, either. Wilds arrive only through the Fire Blast feature, and they substitute for any paying symbol, taking the place of whichever one completes the longest matching run from the left. Free Spins symbols pay nothing themselves; their only job is landing three at a time, anywhere on the grid.
Fire Blast
At random, the dragon breathes fire across the grid. Up to three reels ignite, and each one can reveal as many as four wild symbols, turning an ordinary spin into something considerably more dangerous for the house.
There’s a second outcome when only two reels catch fire. Instead of wilds, the blast can reveal two Free Spins symbols, giving the spin a chance to trigger the bonus round outright. It’s the only route to the feature that doesn’t rely on scatters landing naturally, and it’s the reason a spin with no visible win can still matter.
The wilds revealed by a full three-reel blast can stack across consecutive reels at once, and because they substitute for any paying symbol, a single blast can turn several near-miss rows into paid ways on the same spin.
Dragon’s Egg Multiplier and Dragon’s Eye Boost
Dragon’s Egg Multiplier
A win multiplier sits beside the reels in the form of the dragon’s deep-red egg, and it applies to every win on the spin that activates it. Each consecutive win pushes the value higher, up to a possible 50x. A single non-winning spin resets it back down, except during Free Spins, where it never resets.
The multiplier also crosses the boundary between game modes. If it’s already running when Free Spins begins, the value carries in and keeps building there, whatever happens on the non-winning spins in between. The same traffic runs the other way at the end of the round.
Dragon’s Eye Boost
On a winning spin, the dragon’s eye may trigger at random and boost the current multiplier by as much as 10x in one jump. It can’t be predicted or worked towards, and it doesn’t need to be. When it lands mid-cascade with the egg already climbing, the arithmetic gets interesting quickly.
Free Spins
Three Free Spins symbols anywhere on the reels trigger the bonus. The number of spins isn’t fixed: you pick a dragon symbol, and your choice reveals the count. It’s a small piece of theatre before the round proper begins.
Inside the round, the rules change in the multiplier’s favour. Step by step:
- Winning symbols burn away after paying out, and new symbols fall into the gaps
- Each winning respin increases the Dragon’s Egg Multiplier
- A non-winning spin does not reset the multiplier, so it only ever moves upward
- An active multiplier carried in from the base game keeps building from where it left off
- At the end of the round, the active multiplier carries back into the base game and continues climbing on consecutive wins until the next losing spin
The falling symbols mean a single spin can chain several payouts, each one raising the multiplier before the next falls. Because nothing in the round resets the egg, the later cascades in a long bonus are the ones doing the heavy lifting. That last list point is the whole design of the game in miniature: the feature modes feed each other rather than sitting apart, and a cascade chain that survives the trip out of the bonus can still be worth something afterwards.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.5/10
Playing this is mostly waiting in a dragon’s cave, listening to coins settle, then watching a cascade decide to keep going. That’s the one reason to choose it: no other mainstream Megaways game lets a hot streak escape the bonus round and keep paying in the base game afterwards. When a run catches, it feels earned rather than handed to you.
The strength is that persistence. The multiplier is the whole game, and every feature points at it. The weakness is the price of admission: 95.72% is a meagre return by modern standards, and on high volatility the quiet spells are long enough to notice it.
This suits players who like volatility with a memory, where one good chain can stretch across rounds. Anyone after steady base-game wins will spend most of their session watching the dragon sleep. It’s a patient game for patient players, and the hoard is real; the trick is being in the cave when the beast finally exhales.
Dragons Fire Megaways FAQs
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What is the RTP of Dragons Fire Megaways?
The RTP is 95.72%. -
How does the Dragon’s Egg Multiplier work?
The multiplier activates after a win and increases with each consecutive win, up to a possible 50x. A non-winning spin resets it in the base game, but during Free Spins it never resets and only climbs higher. -
What does the Fire Blast feature do?
The dragon randomly breathes fire onto the reels, igniting up to three of them. Ignited reels can reveal up to four wild symbols each, or if only two reels ignite, two Free Spins symbols for a chance to trigger the bonus round. -
How do you trigger Free Spins in Dragons Fire Megaways?
Land three Free Spins symbols anywhere on the grid and a random number of free spins is awarded. You pick a dragon symbol to reveal the count. -
What is the maximum win on Dragons Fire Megaways?
The maximum win is 10,470x your bet. -
What happens to the Dragon’s Egg Multiplier when Free Spins ends?
The active multiplier carries back into the base game, where it continues to build with consecutive wins until the next non-winning spin. The same applies in reverse: an active base game multiplier carries into Free Spins and keeps building there regardless of non-winning spins. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on Dragons Fire Megaways?
Bets run from 0.10 to 50.00 per spin. -
Is Dragons Fire Megaways high volatility?
Yes, the game is high volatility, with a hit frequency of 37.13%. Wins can be generous but infrequent.
