Heroic Spins Slot Review
A princess stands sword drawn beside a dragon coiled round its hoard, the treasure chest glowing between them. It’s a familiar fantasy scene, but the maths underneath it isn’t: Pragmatic Play have built a low-volatility game that somehow carries a 10,000x win cap, and that pairing is rarer than it looks.
The rest of the sheet is conventional. It runs on a 5×3 grid with 20 paylines, an RTP of 96.00%, and stakes from 0.20 to 240 per spin, sitting in the studio’s catalogue alongside wild-led favourites like Wild West Gold and The Dog House.
Whether the expanding wilds can carry a promise that size is what the middle reels have to answer. The dragon, for its part, mostly watches.
How the Base Game Pays
All symbols pay left to right on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost. Only the highest combination counts on each line, and wins across several paylines add together into the total.
One quirk before the list: every value below is a multiple of the total bet, not the line bet. With 20 lines in play, a paytable written against the line bet would show figures ten times smaller for the same real return.
- Princess – 5x, 2.5x, 1.5x for five, four, three of a kind
- Dragon – 2.5x, 2x, 0.75x
- Treasure Chest – 2x, 1.25x, 0.75x
- Red Monster – 1.5x, 1x, 0.5x
- Owl – 1x, 0.75x, 0.5x
- Spade – 1x, 0.75x, 0.5x
- Heart – 0.75x, 0.6x, 0.4x
- Club – 0.6x, 0.5x, 0.25x
- Diamond – 0.5x, 0.4x, 0.25x
The shape of that table tells you how the game plays. The values are flat from top to bottom, so no single line win moves the needle on its own. The money is in the modifiers stacked on top, not the symbol values underneath them.
The wild lands only on reels two, three and four, substitutes for every symbol except the scatter, and brings the game’s central trick with it. The scatter can appear on all five reels and is the only route into the bonus round.
Only the princess pays like a character. The dragon and chest sit just behind her, but the owl and red monster match a spade and a heart exactly, so most of the cast is decoration over royal values. The princess alone is worth chasing.
Expanding Wilds With Multipliers
Whenever one or more wilds hit, they expand to fill their entire reel vertically. On its own that’s a decent boost. The multipliers are where it gets interesting.
If two wilds land on the same reel before expansion, every wild on that reel carries a x2 multiplier. Three wilds on one reel make it x3. The multiplier applies to all winning combinations passing through the wild, and when several wilds form part of the same win, their multipliers multiply each other.
That stacking is the base game’s whole engine. Because wilds only occupy the three middle reels, any payline win already needs a symbol on reels one and possibly five to connect, and a doubled or tripled middle reel is what turns a modest line into something worth watching.
Two expanded, multiplied reels in the same win is the ceiling of what the base game pays out. A win can carry at most three multiplied reels, since wilds never leave the middle of the grid, and two multiplied reels in a single spin is uncommon enough that most stacking you’ll see is one reel at a time. The base game can’t reach the win cap on symbol values alone; the multipliers do the lifting, and only when they combine.
Free Spins and the Wheel of Fortune
Three or more scatters trigger the free spins round. Before a single spin plays out, a wheel of fortune with two slices appears and spins, awarding a combination of free spins and a multiplier that then applies to the whole round. The wheel decides everything.
The two slices work against each other, and the round you get is wherever the wheel stops:
- Possible free spins: 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 25, 30 or 50
- Possible multipliers: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 20, 50 or 100
The multiplier applies to the total win of every free spin, not just the triggering one or a final tally. Fifty spins at 100x is the dream ticket; eight spins at 2x is the other end of the wheel, and both are real outcomes.
Wilds behave differently in the round. They still expand, but the multipliers are richer: one wild on a reel before expansion makes it x2, two make it x4, and three make it x6. So a lone wild in free spins already beats a doubled wild in the base game, before the wheel’s own multiplier touches anything.
Special reels are in play during the feature, so the symbol mix isn’t the base game’s. Free spins and bonus wins are added to the payline win, and the round’s total is paid once it completes. Reaching the win ceiling mid-round ends it at once, with the win paid and the remaining spins forfeited.
Buy Free Spins
The free spins round can be triggered instantly from the base game for 100x the current total bet. On the triggering spin, three, four or five scatters can hit at random, so the buy doesn’t guarantee a maximum scatter count.
The buy runs at its own RTP of 96.07%, a shade above the standard game’s 96.00%. At minimum stakes that’s a 20 stake outlay for the round; at the top end it’s 24,000. The wheel still decides what you actually get for it, and nothing about the purchase tilts the slices – the full spread of outcomes, eight spins at 2x included, stays in play.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 8.4/10
This is a slot you play for the long haul, not the moment. The wins arrive in drabs, the reels keep moving, and the one thing pulling you back is that wheel: a single spin before the bonus decides whether you’re playing eight rounds or fifty, and that lottery inside the lottery is the whole reason to pick it over plainer fantasy fare.
The wild multipliers are its best idea. When two expanded reels land in one win and their multipliers stack, a nothing line pays like a real one, and the free spins ladder is richer than the base game’s for no extra effort. The weakness is the flat paytable underneath it all – strip away the modifiers and you’re collecting coins the dragon wouldn’t get out of bed for, and the low volatility means most sessions never get near the 10,000x ceiling.
For steady, patient players who like a gentle ride with one big fork in the road, it’s a comfortable home. Anyone hunting raw adrenaline or a realistic shot at a five-figure multiple will find it polite company. The princess keeps her sword up; the swings mostly stay down.
Heroic Spins FAQs
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What is the RTP of Heroic Spins?
96.00% in the standard game. If you use the Buy Free Spins option, the RTP rises slightly to 96.07%. -
Is Heroic Spins high volatility?
No, it’s a low-volatility slot. That means payouts tend to come more often but in smaller amounts, with the bigger wins concentrated in the free spins round. -
How do you trigger free spins in Heroic Spins?
Land three or more scatter symbols anywhere on the reels. A wheel of fortune then spins and awards a combination of free spins (between 8 and 50) and a multiplier (between 2x and 100x) for the round. You can also buy the round outright for 100x your total bet. -
What does the expanding wild do in Heroic Spins?
Wilds appear on reels two, three and four and expand to fill the whole reel. If two or three wilds land on the same reel before expanding, all wilds on that reel get a multiplier (x2 or x3 in the base game, up to x6 in free spins), and multipliers multiply each other when several wilds form one win. -
What is the maximum win on Heroic Spins?
10,000x your bet, in both the base game and free spins. If a free spins round reaches the cap, the round ends immediately, the win is awarded and any remaining spins are forfeited. -
How many paylines does Heroic Spins have?
20 fixed paylines. The grid is 5×3, and every line pays on matching symbols from left to right. -
What are the bet limits on Heroic Spins?
Stakes run from 0.20 to 240 per spin, which covers both careful bankrolls and bigger spenders. The bonus buy costs 100x your total bet at whatever stake you’re playing. -
Do the wild multipliers differ between the base game and free spins in Heroic Spins?
Yes. In the base game, two wilds on one reel give x2 and three give x3. In free spins the ladder is higher: one wild gives x2, two give x4 and three give x6. In both modes, multipliers multiply each other when several wilds form part of the same winning combination. -
Who makes Heroic Spins?
Pragmatic Play. It’s a fantasy-themed video slot from one of the industry’s most prolific studios.
