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Close your eyes for a few moments and let the words Crown of Fire roll around your consciousness. Great, now what sort of image arose in association with the phrase? High fantasy scenes, grizzled dudes with fiery crowns on their heads harnessing dragons and riding them across Middle Earth-type landscapes to vanquish their foes? If so, you better clear all of that from your mind now. Crown of Fire, an online slot from Pragmatic Play, is none of these things. Instead, it's a dry game, lite on features, lite on thrills, lite on pretty much everything.
One of the odd things about Crown of Fire is that there really isn't much fire going on, either. Games like the Hot to Burn or Shining Hot range (both from Pragmatic Pay and associates) have plenty of flames licking the screen, yet Crown of Fire doesn't make as extensive use of fire. Instead, Pragmatic Play has built a plain brick wall for the background and accompanied it with a backing track which brought to mind Ross Gellar playing keyboard at Central Perk, 'Electrifying. Infinite time… time… time.' The symbols are stock slot icons, too, with finally, some flames tickling the bell and scatter. And that's it. Hardly thrilling stuff. Basic fruit slots are often no-frills affairs, and Crown of Fire has taken the concept to an extreme.
Should you wish to take on Crown of Fire, then it is playable on any device and accepts bets of 10 p/c to $/€100 per spin. It's highly volatile, rated 4.5 out of 5, and has a maximum default RTP of 96.36%, with alternative models dropping the figure to 95.34% or 94.21%. The action takes place on a 5-reel, 3-row game board, with 10 paylines for land three to five winning combinations across.
In ascending order of value, the pay symbols include plums, oranges, lemons, cherries, bells, watermelon slices, grapes, and sevens. Hitting a winning combination made up of five of these symbols awards 10 to 450 times the stake.
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There isn't much in the way of features in Crown of Fire which relies on three further symbols to supply some thrills. One is a dollar sign symbol, present on reels 1, 3, or 5. Landing a dollar sign on all three reels is worth a payout of 20 times the bet. Next is the scatter, appearing on all five reels. Scatters pay from any position, 3x, 25x, or 100x the bet when 3, 4, or 5 of them are in view. Lastly, there's the wild crown symbol, appearing on reels 2, 3, and 4. Wilds substitute for any normal pay symbol and expand to cover all positions on its reel when they hit.
So, what to make of Crown of Fire? It's so extremely mediocre one wonders whether Pragmatic Play simply put little effort into making Crown of Fire, or it was an experiment to see how emotionless AI could design a casino game, or if the studio just really needed a slot, any slot, to fulfil a production quota. Crown of Fire is so uninspiring; more enjoyment was had trying to deduce how and why Crown of Fire managed to be spawned into life than playing it. It's not like there was a Crown of Fire-shaped hole in the iGaming realm that needed to be filled since there's little to nothing here that can't be found elsewhere in numerous places already. Ah well, add it to the pile.
Crown of Fire's gameplay is as dry as its presentation. Wilds pop up, expanding to cover reels, lending a helping hand, plus the scatter and dollar sign are there to generate side wins. If that sounds intriguing, then Crown of Fire is here to fill your boots. If not, giving the game a test run is unlikely to change your mind. Like everything else, the max win is average as well, topping out at 1,000x the bet. Even the max win probability of 1 in 11,210,000 isn't overly special compared to other slots which Pragmatic Play has released recently, even those offering greater potential.
And so, players up for some old-school, bare-bones gaming, Crown of Fire might be alright for a while, though it's hard to see it holding much interest even in that scenario. Perhaps some will feel the need to give Crown of Fire a spin, for old times' sake? It feels like we are grasping at straws here, though, since the plain brick background, the Nokia 3310 ringtone-like soundtrack, snore-inducing 'action', and tired pace don't seem likely to hold much appeal.
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