Fire Tale

Quickspin dated Fire Tale for an October 2025 release, setting the game in an Asian-influenced world built around a young man's fascination with fireworks — the plot is left deliberately open to interpretation, but the visual direction leans into ember glow, night skies and a sense of quiet mystery. A 5x4 grid delivers 1,024 ways to win, and the stake range is unusually wide, running from 0.04 to 100 each spin.

An optional Extra Bet raises the stake by 50% in exchange for wilds becoming available on the fifth reel and landing more often throughout — base RTP is 96.18%, climbing to 96.32% once that Extra Bet is active, alongside lower-paying 94%, 92% and 90% configurations. Volatility is rated medium-to-high, and the max win caps at 5,000x the stake.

Fire Tale's paytable splits into three bands: five flame icons make up the low end, worth 0.75x the stake for five in a row; a matchbox, a burner, a scroll and a pouch sit in the middle tier paying up to 3x; and a single character symbol tops the paytable at 15x for five of a kind.

Wilds land on the three middle reels under normal play and substitute for everything except the scatter. When a wild fully covers its reel, it locks in place and triggers Fire Respins — two to start, with any further fully-stacked wild during the respins adding more. Each nudge a partial wild makes toward covering its reel adds a +1 multiplier, and that multiplier applies to every win the wild takes part in, stacking further if more than one wild is involved.

Scatter symbols come in three tiers: three, four or five landing pays out 10, 12 or 15 free spins respectively, opening the Fusion Free Spins round. Here the reels only carry levelled symbols, from 1 through 4, and each one sticks in place once it lands. Two matching symbols sitting next to each other merge upward a level, and a Fusion Meter tracks every merge — filling it grants bonus spins and grows its own capacity for next time, up to a six-symbol threshold worth a further seven extra spins. When the round ends, every symbol still on the grid pays out according to its level, with the top tier capable of returning the game's full 5,000x jackpot. A feature buy offers a shortcut too, charging a premium for either the respin trigger or a guaranteed five-scatter entry straight into the Fusion round.