Merlin: Journey of Flame

Our recorded Merlin: Journey of Flame bonus

We have opened Merlin: Journey of Flame once on 30 Aug 2026 on stream and logged the result. The best of them paid 87.8× the bet. That is too few open to say anything about how the game behaves — it is a record of what happened on that occasion, nothing more.

Play'n GO sets Merlin: Journey of Flame inside a rocky, firelit cavern that reads as a dragon's den more than a wizard's tower, giving its take on the Arthurian legend a warmer, more dramatic palette than the studio's other medieval titles. The game plays on a 5-reel, 3-row layout across 10 fixed paylines for most of a session, but a sixth reel stays locked away until the free spins round opens it up.

Symbol values split cleanly in two. Five coloured runestones — yellow, orange, red, blue and green — cover the low end of the paytable, while a spellbook, potion bottle, ornate staff and Merlin himself make up the four premium symbols. A five-of-a-kind low pay returns 10-12.5x the stake, while five matching premiums pay 50-500x. Once the sixth reel is active during free spins, those payouts extend to six-symbol combinations, worth 15-20x for a low pay and climbing to 100-750x for a six-symbol premium hit.

The Dragon Egg functions as both wild and scatter, substituting into paytable wins and also opening the bonus round. Three, four or five Dragon Egg scatters landing in the base game each award 8 free spins, plus an immediate cash bonus scaled to the scatter count — 2x the stake for three, rising to 20x for four and 200x for five. The sixth reel unlocks the moment free spins begin, and each spin during the round randomly selects one symbol to act as an expanding wild for that spin — when it lands as part of a win it grows to fill every position on its reel and pays across all ten lines regardless of adjacency, essentially detached from the normal left-to-right rule. Picking up three or more Hatched Dragon Egg scatters during the round adds another 8 free spins on top, and nothing in the rules caps how many times that can repeat.

A Gamble Feature is available after wins for players who want to push a result further, offering the chance to double or quadruple it by correctly calling the colour or suit shown on a hidden card — guess wrong and the win is lost. It's capped at five attempts per win, with a maximum return of 250x the stake from the feature alone.

Volatility is rated 9 out of 10, among the higher end of Play'n GO's range, and the slot ships with several RTP configurations topping out at 96.28%. Stakes run from 10 cents up to 100 per spin, and the maximum win is capped at 7,500x the stake, a figure shaped by a bonus round built more around frequent expanding-symbol wins on the widened six-reel grid than around one single massive multiplier spike.