Fire Queen 2 Slot Review & Free Play

Fire Queen 2: Stoke the Flames for 5x Multipliers and Up to 4,000x Rewards

The sequel finds the Fire Queen exactly where we left her, this time throned in a hall of molten stone with the flames bowing to her hand. CQ9 Gaming takes the three-by-three grid size, but hands her free game a stack of multipliers, and somewhere past the smoke sits a 4,000x top win.

My hot-and-cold base game stayed true to its volatility, paying out in sharp bursts rather than a steady drip. The strongest run came when three blue horses lined the middle for 6x my bet, and a full lion row stretched that to 10x soon after. Best of all, the queen turned wild and dragged a scrappy J-and-10 line up to 30.4x returns. Between flashes like these, dead spins clawed back most of what the spikes gave me.

There's only one feature that triggers when you match nine symbols anywhere on the reels. That way, you open the free game for five spins, with no way to retrigger or stretch it further. Whatever symbol lets you in turns into a scatter. Frankly, I don’t really think those conditions are fair.

The round itself runs on locking multipliers. Any symbol that wins drops a multiplier sign onto its position and pins it there. Match that symbol on the same spot again, and the multiplier pays, ticking up a step each time it repeats, as high as 5x. It makes sense, but five spins barely give a multiplier time to grow, so most rounds sputter out before the cap ever comes into view.

Overall, Fire Queen 2 dresses well, and the base game throws some real spark, yet the lone feature is too brief to honor its own promise. The throne room is gorgeous, the queen a genuine centerpiece, but one five-spin round is questionable. However, I’ll probably be back to chase that one, just so I can prove my point.