Fire Strike 2 Slot Review
Fire Strike 2 bolts its cabinet into the side of a volcano, cracked black stone and glowing lava seams behind a glossy magenta frame. The setting is doing more than decorating, though: this is a game where the paylines barely matter. Line wins top out at 200x the total bet, and everything worth chasing lives in a symbol-counting ladder that pays for six or more Firestrikes anywhere on screen.
It’s maximalist arcade heat around a traditional proposition: a 5×3 grid, 10 paylines, and three coloured 7s doing the heavy lifting. Pragmatic Play run it at high volatility, a 96.53% RTP and a 25,000x jackpot for a screen full of Firestrike Wilds. The sevens-and-flames look, familiar from 777 Rush and Hot to Burn Multiplier, is here turned up to full melt.
Base Game & Features
It’s a five-reel, three-row setup with 10 fixed paylines. All symbols pay left to right on adjacent reels from the leftmost one. Only the highest win counts per line, and multiple line wins add together. Stakes run from 0.10 to 250.00 per spin.
Line wins are multiplied by the bet per line, while bonus wins are multiplied by the total bet. That split matters more here than in most games, because the biggest prizes in Fire Strike 2 are bonus wins and are quoted against the total stake. Space and Enter on the keyboard start and stop a spin, for anyone who prefers not to click.
The Fire Strike 2 Wild substitutes for every symbol except the scatter and appears on all five reels. It’s also a payer in its own right, and the richest one in the game: three, four or five of them on a line return 25x, 50x and 200x the total bet respectively.
The diamond scatter pays on any position rather than on a payline, but it only shows up on reels one, three and five. That placement is deliberate: all three need to land together to trigger the free spins round. Everything else on the reels is a straight left-to-right payer:
- Fire Strike 2 Wild: the game’s top line payer 7s in blue, red and flame blue BAR BAR BAR, BAR BAR and BAR Bell Flame cash and purple chips Playing cards, dice and ANY 777
Paytable
Symbol pays are multiples of the total bet, for three, four and five of a kind:
- Fire Strike 2 Wild: 25x / 50x / 200x 7 (blue): 15x / 30x / 100x 7 (red): 10x / 20x / 50x 7 (flame blue): 7.5x / 15x / 30x BAR BAR BAR: 3x / 10x / 25x BAR BAR: 2.5x / 8x / 20x BAR: 2x / 6x / 15x Bell: 1.5x / 5x / 12.5x Money and Chips: 1x / 4x / 10x Playing cards, Dice and ANY 777: 0.5x / 2x / 5x
The three 7s carry the paytable. Five blue 7s at 100x the total bet is the biggest non-wild line win in the game, and even that sits well below the smallest of the Firestrike ladder’s upper steps.
Firestrike Bonus
The Firestrike symbol appears on all reels and never pays on a line. It counts. Six or more of them, mixed freely with Firestrike Wilds, anywhere on screen, and an instant money bonus pays out. The prize rises with the count:
- ANY 6: 1x the total bet ANY 7: 2x ANY 8: 8x ANY 9: 25x ANY 10: 50x ANY 11: 150x ANY 12: 500x ANY 13: 1,000x ANY 14: 2,500x ANY 15: 5,000x
The shape of that ladder is where the tension lives. The bottom steps are token payments, but from the twelfth symbol onwards the money gets serious, and a full screen is worth 5,000x the total bet before the jackpot is even considered.
Firestrike Wild Jackpot
A separate prize sits above the ladder. Fill all 15 positions with Firestrike Wilds and nothing else, and the game pays the full 25,000x jackpot. In the base game that’s the only route to it.
That figure is also the game’s overall win cap, applying to both the base game and free spins. If a free spins round ever reaches 25,000x, it ends immediately, the win is awarded, and any remaining spins are forfeited.
Fire Strike 2 Free Spins
Three scatters, one each on reels one, three and five, trigger the round and pay 2x the total bet on the way in. It starts with 12 free spins and runs on special reels, which changes what can land. The round works through a sequence:
- Three scatters land and pay 2x the total bet 12 free spins begin on special reels Each Firestrike symbol has a random chance of sticking in place for the rest of the round Sticky symbols accumulate towards the instant bonus ladder and the jackpot Three more scatters award another 12 spins
The mechanic that carries the round is stickiness. Each Firestrike symbol that lands has a random chance of staying glued to the screen for the rest of the round. A lucky start keeps building towards the bigger ladder steps, spin after spin.
Firestrike Wilds count towards the totals too, and the instant ladder inside the feature starts one symbol lower and climbs one step higher than the base game’s. Five symbols are enough to open it, and 14 pays the top step:
- ANY 5: 1x the total bet ANY 14: 5,000x
Above the ladder, the jackpot is easier to reach here than outside it. Any 15 Firestrike or Firestrike Wild symbols during the round pays the full 25,000x, and they don’t all have to be wilds. A screen that fills with ordinary Firestrikes still collects.
Three more scatters during the round retrigger it for another 12 spins, which is where a sticky-heavy screen starts to matter. With symbols locked in place, every retrigger is 12 more chances to complete a ladder the game has half-built.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.7/10
Playing Fire Strike 2 is mostly watching a counter, and that’s precisely its charm. You spin a lava-walled sevens machine, but the real game is the pile of Firestrike symbols gathering on screen, and the moment a twelfth or thirteenth one lands is the only reason anyone picks this over a plainer retro slot.
Its strength is the free spins round, where sticky symbols and retriggers make the climb visible and genuinely tense. Its weakness is everything underneath: the line pays are thin, the base-game jackpot needs every position wild, and there’s one idea here rather than several.
It suits players who like classic layouts but want a proper high-volatility chase attached. Anyone after varied features will find the fire burns one way only, but that way is well built, and on a good screen it blazes.
Fire Strike 2 FAQs
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What is the RTP of Fire Strike 2?
Fire Strike 2 runs at 96.53% RTP. -
Is Fire Strike 2 high volatility?
Yes, Fire Strike 2 is a high volatility game, so payouts come less often on average but the potential for big wins in a short session is higher. -
How do you trigger the Firestrike Bonus in Fire Strike 2?
Hit six or more Firestrike or Firestrike Wild symbols anywhere on the screen to win an instant money bonus. The more symbols you land, the higher the ladder step, from 1x the total bet for six symbols up to 5,000x for 15. -
How do you win the jackpot in Fire Strike 2?
Fill all 15 reel positions with Firestrike Wild symbols in the base game to win the jackpot, which pays 25,000x your bet. Inside the free spins round, any 15 Firestrike or Firestrike Wild symbols wins it, so they don’t all need to be wilds. -
How do you trigger free spins in Fire Strike 2?
Land three scatter symbols, one on each of reels 1, 3 and 5. The trigger pays 2x your total bet and the round starts with 12 free spins. -
Can you retrigger free spins in Fire Strike 2?
Yes. Three more scatters during the round award 12 additional free spins. Firestrike symbols that have already stuck to the screen stay in place for the extra spins. -
What does the wild do in Fire Strike 2?
The wild stands in for every symbol except the scatter and can land on any of the five reels. It’s also the game’s top payer, worth 25x, 50x and 200x the total bet for three, four and five on a line. -
What is the maximum win on Fire Strike 2?
The maximum win is 25,000x your bet, capped in both the base game and free spins. If a free spins round reaches that amount, the round ends immediately and the win is awarded.
