Fenix Sortuda Slot Review
A winged treasure cauldron hovers over a gilt shrine frame, shedding golden sparks into a night sky while orange fissures glow faintly through the violet mist behind the reels. Fenix Sortuda’s whole bet is that generosity beats spectacle: a 97.50% RTP on low volatility, wrapped in a plain 5×3 grid with five paylines and a single bonus round.
Most studios would consider that underspecced. Pragmatic Play have priced the maths instead of the furniture, and that return figure is close to the best you’ll find anywhere this side of the catalogue. One feature carries the whole design, and its multiplier doesn’t stop climbing until the round does.
It sits in the same ornate, fortune-soaked corner of the studio’s catalogue as Dragon Tiger Fortunes, 5 Lions Megaways and Tigre Sortudo Dourado, though with far fewer moving parts than any of them.
Base Game & Features
The base game is a classic five-line affair. All symbols pay from left to right on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost reel, and only the highest combination on each payline counts. With five lines and a 5×3 grid, wins are simple to follow: three matching symbols across the first three reels is the shape that pays.
That simplicity is deliberate. On a single-line basis the game reads instantly – no ways-to-win counting, no cluster logic, no second grid to track. What it trades away is variety: with three-of-a-kind as the only winning shape and five lines in play, the base game’s rhythm is a steady sequence of small, quick resolutions rather than the layered cascades of the studio’s bigger engines.
The reels are framed by carved gilt scrollwork and a pair of lacquered red-and-gold pillars hung with tassel-like ornaments, while behind the cabinet a hazy plain of grey and violet mist stretches off to the horizon. The presentation is lush and heavily gilt, but it never gets in the way of play.
It’s glossy, restrained slot furniture for a game whose real ornament is the return figure. The wild does the feature work as well as the substituting: whenever a wild lands, the Free Spins round can be triggered at random. That single symbol is the entire bridge between the base game and the bonus, which puts more weight on every wild than a standard substitute usually carries.
Paytable
Three-of-a-kind pays, as multiples of stake:
- Gold Ingots – 10x
- Green Dragon Bracelet – 3x
- Fan – 2x
- A – 1.2x
- K – 0.8x
- Q – 0.6x
The gap between the top symbol and everything below it is steep, and the slope from the Fan down through the royals is a gentle one by comparison. Three premium symbols carry the character work – ingots, a dragon bracelet, a fan – while A, K and Q fill out the lower rungs.
On a five-line grid where three-of-a-kind is the only winning shape, the top symbol is the one worth watching. Three Gold Ingots pays 10x the stake, more than three times what any other symbol manages.
Fenix Sortuda Free Spins
Free Spins is the game’s one feature, and its trigger is unusual enough to notice: there’s no scatter count to track. Any wild that hits can start the round at random, which means every wild carries two jobs on the same spin. In outline:
- Trigger – any wild symbol that hits can start the feature at random
- Award – 10 free spins, played on special reels
- Multiplier – starts at x1 on the first free spin, increases by x1 on each spin after
- Retrigger – any wild that hits during the round can award 10 additional free spins
- Multiplier on retrigger – keeps climbing, no reset
Every win in the feature is multiplied by a single shared figure. Spin one carries x1, spin two carries x2, and it steps up in neat single increments from there: x5 by spin five, x10 by spin ten, provided the round hasn’t grown. That progression is the whole shape of the bonus.
And it can grow. Whenever a wild hits during the round, it can retrigger the feature and award 10 additional free spins on top of whatever remains. Because the multiplier doesn’t reset on a retrigger, a lucky round pushes the climbing figure further than the original ten spins ever allowed.
The maths of that growth compounds in an interesting way. A round that retriggers twice runs to thirty spins, and the final third of those spins carries multipliers in the twenties – figures the base ten-spin award can never reach. The retrigger is where the round’s real potential sits, not the multiplier ladder alone.
The structure rewards patience within the round itself: early spins carry small multipliers and late spins carry large ones, so a retrigger arriving on spin eight is worth considerably more than one arriving on spin two. Special reels are in play throughout, so the symbol set in the feature isn’t the one the base game uses.
Stakes run from 0.05 to 250.00 per spin, and there’s no bonus buy here – the wild trigger is the only way in. That’s worth being clear about: because the trigger is random rather than a scatter count, there’s no visible progress towards the feature and no way to know how close it is. A wild either sets it off or it doesn’t, and the same is true of every retrigger once the round is running.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.2/10
Playing Fenix Sortuda is a calm business. Wins arrive in small, steady parcels, the reels resolve quickly, and the one thing pulling you forward is the wilds – because any of them could swing the cauldron open and start the multiplier climbing. That’s the reason to pick it: a bonus round where spin twenty matters twice as much as spin two.
Its strength is the return figure. 97.50% on low volatility is elite company, and it means the long grind this format is built on is the gentlest version of it you’ll find. Its weakness is everything else: five lines, one feature and no published ceiling, so the base game between bonuses has very little to say for itself.
This one suits people who like their money to last and their one bonus round to count – low-stakes sessions, patient spins, no drama. It isn’t for anyone who wants layers of features or a number to chase. But for what it sets out to do, the luck in that cauldron is real.
Fenix Sortuda FAQs
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What is the RTP of Fenix Sortuda?
The RTP is 97.50%. That’s well above the industry average and unusually high for a low-volatility game, making it one of the more generous slots on the market right now. -
Is Fenix Sortuda high volatility?
No, it’s a low-volatility game. Wins are designed to land steadily in smaller sizes rather than in rare large bursts, which suits longer sessions on a modest bankroll. -
How many paylines does Fenix Sortuda have?
Five. Wins form left to right across adjacent reels, and only the highest combination on each line is paid. -
What is the grid size of Fenix Sortuda?
It runs on a 5×3 grid: five reels and three rows. Combined with five paylines, three-of-a-kind from the leftmost reel is the winning shape throughout the game. -
How do you trigger free spins in Fenix Sortuda?
There’s no scatter count to track. Whenever a wild symbol hits, the Free Spins feature can be triggered at random, awarding 10 free spins on special reels. -
How does the free spins multiplier work in Fenix Sortuda?
One multiplier covers all wins in the round, starting at x1 on the first free spin and rising by x1 on each subsequent spin. If a wild retriggers the feature, you get 10 more free spins and the multiplier keeps climbing rather than resetting. -
Can free spins retrigger in Fenix Sortuda?
Yes. Whenever a wild symbol hits during the round, it can randomly retrigger the feature and award 10 additional free spins, with the multiplier continuing to climb from wherever it left off. -
Does Fenix Sortuda have a bonus buy?
No. There’s no bonus buy option – the random wild trigger is the only way into the Free Spins round, so you can’t pay to skip the base game. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on Fenix Sortuda?
Stakes run from 0.05 to 250.00 per spin, which covers casual players and high-stakes sessions alike. -
Who makes Fenix Sortuda?
Pragmatic Play. It sits alongside their ornate fortune-themed titles like Dragon Tiger Fortunes and Tigre Sortudo Dourado.
