Fire Archer: Slot Review and Free Play Demo

Fire Archer Review

The Robin Hood theme sits deep in our collective psyche, and it’s no wonder it keeps cropping up on a regular basis in the world of online slots. Pragmatic Play has delivered a visually pleasing installment in that regard, and Fire Archer comes with a Robin Hood lookalike on the right-hand side. He’s not just there to pose either, as he will shoot fire arrows on the Super Wilds that land on a regular basis in the base game.

The Super Wilds will then spread in up to 8 directions, transforming regular symbols to wilds all the way to the edge of the grid. The Bonus Round comes with a persistent Super Wild that moves to new random positions per spin, and it can start with up to 8 active pointers. It can thus spread wilds in 8 directions, or be leveled up to do so as you win extra spins. You can win up to 4,000x your stake, and Fire Archer is well worth checking out for fans of the genre.

Fire Archer Slot - Reels Screen

Fire Archer Slot Features

The premium symbols pay between 8 and 20 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and the Robin Hood lookalike is the top-tier symbol. The target Super Wild steps in for pay symbols to help complete wins, and it can appear on any of the 5 reels. The target Super Wild also comes with a feature we’ll describe below.

The target Super Wild lands with pointers that point in 8 different directions, and the Robin Hood lookalike on the right-hand side of the screen shoots a fire arrow that lights up at least one direction per target wild. All symbols in the direction of the lit pointer transform into wilds, and wilds pay 30x your stake for 5 of a kind.

You need the quiver scatter on reels 1, 3, and 5 to trigger the Bonus Round, and this gives you 5 free spins. A Super Wild is always present in the bonus round, and it moves to a new randomly chosen position per free spin. You cannot land more Super Wilds than the one that’s always there, and the present Super Wild comes with a level between 1 and 8 as the feature starts.

The level number determines how many different directions will be active to transform symbols into wilds. Landing 2 scatters increase the Super Wild level by +1, and you also get 1 to 3 extra spins added to your tally. When the Super Wild reaches level 8, which can happen from the get-go, it cannot be upgraded anymore. You can also not win any extra spins after that. Non-UK players can buy the bonus round for 100x, and this increases the RTP to 96.1 %.

The 200 Spins Fire Archer Slot Experience

You get to see the Super Wild in action a few times in the base game, before we purchase the bonus round at 0:51 into the 2-minute highlights video. The feature plays out for the remainder of the video, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

We have seen plenty of Robin Hood inspired slots in our time, but Fire Archer is one of the better installments we have tried in this genre. The Super Wild feature is simple enough, but it triggers differently each time. Sometimes you will not even get any wilds spreading from it, as the lit pointer is pointing at the edge of the grid. Other times you will land several wilds that spread in multiple directions.

This unpredictability is a key factor in what makes Fire Archer a highly entertaining game, as it keeps you guessing each time. The Super Wilds land on a regular basis to keep the base game interesting, and we wish landing more super wilds would be possible also in the bonus round. If you get a level 6 to 8 wild from the get-go you’ll probably not mind too much though, but that doesn’t happen very often. Anyway, the 4,000x potential is decent enough, but the win cap hit rate is 1 in 190,665,582 spins.