Ignis Rex

Ignis Rex Slot Review

A dark throne room, gold scrollwork curling round the reel cabinet like molten metal, and tiny orange embers drifting through the oxblood gloom either side of it, with a red-and-gold crown capping the fiery title lettering. That’s how Evoplay have dressed Ignis Rex: the most familiar fruit symbols in the business, gilded until they look like royal heirlooms. The strange part is that the paylines barely matter – the real business of this 5×3, 10-payline, mid-volatility game happens on the horizontal rows, where coins stack towards the King’s Coins round.

It runs at 96.07% RTP with a 2,532x cap on total wins, and fiery fruit runs in the family: 3 Flaming Clovers and Hot Triple Sevens cover similar ground, and The Castle of Slotenstein shares the same taste for lavish dressing.

How the Base Game Pays

Wins form the traditional way: identical symbols running left to right across a payline, and the more identical symbols land in succession, the bigger the combination pays. The win for a combination is the paytable coefficient multiplied by the bet, and where two combinations land on the same line, only the highest one is paid. There are 10 lines, all fixed, so every spin covers the full grid.

The symbol set splits into six regulars and four specials, and the specials matter far more here than the fruit ever will. The regulars are a classic ladder, and a steep one: the top symbol pays twenty times what the bottom rung does for a five-of-a-kind.

• 7 – x100 for five, x20 for four, x5 for three
• Grape – x20 for a full line, x10 for four, x5 for three
• Plum and Orange share a tier: x10 at five, x5 at four, x2 at three
• Lemon and Cherry bring up the rear: five pays x5, four pays x2, three pays x1

Both special payers outrank everything above them. The King Wild is the richest symbol on the board, substituting for everything except Scatters and Coins, and it’s sticky for one to three spins – a counter on each Wild shows how long it plans to stay.

The Crown Scatter lands only on reels one, three and five, and pays wherever it sits, paylines be damned. Two of them are already worth x10.

• King Wild – x200 for five, x40 for four, x10 for three
• Crown Scatter – x100 for three, x10 for two, paid in any position

For pace, holding the Spin button activates Turbo spins in the main game, and Autospin handles longer runs if you’d rather sit back. Neither changes anything about how the game pays – they just change how quickly you find out.

Coins and the King’s Coins Bonus

Locked and Unlocked Coins

Coins appear on all reels in two forms, and every one carries a multiplier between x1 and x20 the total bet, printed on the Coin itself. In the base game, an Unlocked Coin pays its value instantly. Locked Coins hold their positions instead, waiting, and the values they carry range right across the spectrum – a x1 Coin is worth a twentieth of a x20 one landing beside it.

Three or more Coin symbols landing on the same row is the trigger. That’s the whole condition – no scatter count, no wheel, just a row of coins filling up. Because Coins land on all five reels, any single row is eligible, which keeps the base game watching the horizontal lines as closely as the paylines.

The King’s Coins Bonus

When the bonus starts, the regular symbols fade away and only Coins remain. The normal reels are replaced with special reels holding nothing but Coin symbols and empty spaces, and every Coin locks in place until the round ends. The triggering Coins carry over into the new grid, so you begin with a head start already on the board.

You start with three spins, and each new Coin that lands resets the count back to three. All Coins are unlocked during the bonus, and the values on existing Coins double every time a new one lands. The round runs until the spins run out or the screen fills completely, at which point every Coin’s value is added to the total win. The bet stays the same as the triggering spin.

That doubling rule is what gives the round its shape. A mid-round surge of Coins doesn’t just add values, it multiplies everything already collected, which is how a screen of modest x1 and x5 Coins can turn into something far larger by the end. Filling the grid entirely is the dream outcome, since a full screen means every position is doubling repeatedly in the closing spins.

There’s a downside to the reset mechanic worth understanding before you play: three spins without a single new Coin ends the round outright, even if the board is busy. The reset rewards momentum, not volume.

• Trigger: three or more Coin symbols on the same row
• Starting spins: three, reset to three on every new Coin
• Coin values: x1 to x20 the total bet, doubling each time a new Coin lands
• End condition: spins exhausted, or the entire screen filled with Coins
• Bet: the same as the triggering spin

One cap sits over everything: the total win of all game states and included features is limited to 2,532x the total bet, and a round that reaches it ends immediately with the win awarded.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.7/10

You spend most of your time in Ignis Rex waiting for a row to fill up, and the odd thing is that the waiting works. The gilded cabinet and drifting embers give the fruit a grandeur it hasn’t earned, and every spin carries a small charge of anticipation about which row is close to triggering. The one reason to sit down is the King’s Coins round, and it’s a good one.

The doubling rule is the best thing here. Most coin-collect rounds only stack what lands; this one multiplies everything already on the board each time a new Coin arrives, so late surges pay far more than the face values suggest. The weakness is the fruit itself: with five-of-a-kind wins peaking at x100, the regular paylines rarely produce anything worth remembering, so the base game leans entirely on the bonus.

Mid volatility keeps the waits honest rather than punishing. This one’s for players who enjoy the build of a coin round more than the chase of a huge ceiling – anyone after four-figure potential will find the cap modest. For the rest, there’s enough gold in the throne room to make the visit worthwhile.

Ignis Rex FAQs

• How do you trigger the King’s Coins Bonus in Ignis Rex?

  You need three or more Coin symbols to land on the same row. The regular symbols then clear off the reels and the coin round begins.
• What does the Wild do in Ignis Rex?

  The King Wild substitutes for all symbols except Scatters and Coins, and it’s sticky for one to three spins. It’s also the top-paying symbol at x200 for five of a kind.
• What is the difference between Locked and Unlocked Coins in Ignis Rex?

  In the base game, Unlocked Coins pay their value instantly, while Locked Coins hold their positions. During the King’s Coins Bonus, all Coins are unlocked and stay locked in place until the round ends.
• Do the coin values double during the King’s Coins Bonus?

  Yes. Every time a new Coin lands, the values of all Coins already on the reels double, and the spin counter resets to three.
• Can the King’s Coins Bonus retrigger?

  In a sense, yes. The round starts with three spins, and every new Coin that lands resets the spin counter back to three, so a round keeps extending for as long as Coins keep arriving. It only ends when three spins pass without a new Coin or the screen fills completely.
• Is Ignis Rex high volatility?

  No. Ignis Rex is a mid volatility slot, running at 96.07% RTP, so wins tend to be spread between the base game and the bonus round rather than packed into rare spikes.
• When is Ignis Rex released?

  Ignis Rex’s release date is 28 August 2025.
• Who makes Ignis Rex?

  Ignis Rex is made by Evoplay.