flamebusters slot review

Roasty McFly The Flame Busters Slot Review

Love those pixelated arcade games of ‘times gone by’? Well, you are going to love Roasty McFly & The Flame Busters. Not only does this slot look fabulous, but it plays incredibly well too.

Flame Busters Slot Overview

How to Play The Flame Busters Slot

The Flame Busters was first released in May 2016. It offers 5 reels and 243 paylines. It is a medium volatility slot with a house edge of 3.9%. The minimum bet per spin is 10p. The maximum is £100. The most you can win is £528,000. Yes. You read that right.

The theme of the game is similar to retro games, so pixelated graphics. Almost like something you would find in your local arcade a few years back. Since we are very nostalgic for this age, we must say that we love the theming of the game.

We do wish to more slot machine vendors went down this route. We are tired of those ‘pretty’ graphics. Give us some old school pixelated graphics and we will be as happy as a peach. The whole theme works well with the features that you find in The Flame Busters slot machine too, but more on that in a short while!

As with most Thunderkick slots, this one is built for both newcomers and more experienced players. We feel that experienced players are probably going to get the most out of it. Not because the game is necessarily complicated, more down to the fact that it doesn’t really feel like a slot at all. If you are tired of spinning reel after reel, then check out The Flame Busters instead. It is a nice break from the norm.

Bonus Rounds & In-Game Features

On each spin, there will be a fire symbol. Sometimes there may be more than one fire symbol. When the spin ends, all the fire symbols will turn into a random symbol. They will all be the same.

This can lead to some nice wins, although why slots offer mystery symbols has always been a mystery to us. You get about 1 second of anticipation and that is it. We do love the animation of these symbols, though. A little fireman turns up, puts the fire out, and then he becomes the symbol!

The wild symbol is a W. It replaces all symbols in the game.

Your scatter symbols are the alarm bells. You will need to get:

During the free spins mode, you will go through a ‘level-based’ game. There are five levels. For each three scatter symbols you get (do not need to appear at the same time), you will go up a level.

You will get 2 or more free spins when that happens. If you manage to hit level 5, then all low paying symbols will be eradicated from the game. You will be enjoying win after win. However, we did not manage to get beyond level 3.

Throughout the game, a random feature may also be triggered. This is the ‘fire drill’. When this occurs, all low paying symbols in the game will instantly be transformed into fire symbols. It only happened a couple of times for us, but it was nice anyway.

The Flame Busters Mobile Slot

The game works even better when you shrink it down to mobile size. Since there is not a lot of detail in the images anyway, nothing is really lost. In fact, the game works better when it is a smaller size because the graphics are pixelated in the first place. Of course, the gameplay on the Flame Busters mobile slot is still going to be as exciting as the ‘full size’ version, so you do not really lose anything here either!

Summary – What Do We Think?

If you like your games to be well-themed, then do not look past The Flame Busters. As we mentioned, it doesn’t really feel like a slot machine. You get the money, but it feels like you are just playing a fun game. The wins come in often, and the graphics are superb. What is not to like about that?