Flame Busters

As soon as you open the game, you immediately get the feeling that you have landed in the middle of a classic video game, complete with pixel graphics, hysterical tunes and funny animations. That promises something!

The main character in the game is Roasty McFry, a tough firefighter in a cool yellow outfit. Together with his companions from the fire brigade, he goes out to put out fires. Armed with large fire hoses, the men risk life and limb to extinguish those ferocious flames – and rake in a lot of money for you.

Graphically and musically, Flame Busters is just fantastic. The atmosphere that is created could just look like a real video game and you can see that a lot of love and time has been put into this slot machine. As soon as an extinguishing job arrives, you see, for example, the firefighters become visibly enthusiastic. There are also burning flakes of fire whirling through the air and the final animation of the bonus round is really hilarious.

The background music is also exactly what you expect from this type of game: cheerful and slightly hysterical. It all clearly increases the fun.

Fire symbols act as mystery symbols.

243 ways to win

Flame Busters has no fixed paylines to work with the “Win all ways” mechanism. There are 243 ways to win and it doesn’t matter where symbols fall on the reels, as long as they appear consecutively on the screen from left to right.

You pay a fixed amount per spin, where the minimum bet is $0.10 per spin and you can bet a maximum of $100 per spin. Thunderkick always thinks of the smaller players: all their titles have low minimum bets by default.

Flame Busters has a medium-high variance and a payout percentage of 96.1%. We can live with both.

Symbols and payouts

Because this slot works with 243 ways to win, the symbols stacked are also wilds, the payouts for 5 of the same symbols are relatively low.

5 Roasty Mcfry symbols pay out 10x the bet. The remaining premium symbols are good for a payout between 5x and 3x by 5 the same. The coins are the low symbols and pay out between 2 x and 1.5 x the bet.

Wild symbol

The “W” symbol acts as a Wild Symbol and replaces all other symbols except the scatter symbol.

Fire symbol

A very important role is reserved for the Fire Symbol: when this symbol falls, it turns into a mystery symbol. This symbol can consist of any symbol except the Wild symbol and the Scatter symbol. Since this Fire Symbol occurs in stacks. it can help you a lot to grab those fat payouts.

The bonus features of Flame Busters

You can win two different bonus features with this cool slot machine: a free spins bonus and a mini feature.

The Fire Drill Bonus

This mini bonus can fall randomly for every spin. Then the alarm siren starts blaring and 2 things can happen. Sometimes it is a false alarm and the fire hoses can be stored again. It is better if the bonus is indeed activated. Then a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 5 of the lowest symbols are changed into a Fire Symbol. The more coins that turn into a Fire Symbol, the higher the chance of a nice payout.

The Free Spins Bonus: up to 20 free spins with extra Fire symbols

When 3 or more scattered Fire Alarm symbols appear on the screen, you have won the free spins bonus:

• 3 scatters = 10 free spins
• 4 scatters = 15 free spins
• 5 scatters = 20 free spins

But you don’t just get free spins. The nice thing about this bonus is that you will save Fire Alarm symbols during the free spins.

For every 3 scatters saved you get 2 extra free spins. In addition, 1 of the low symbols turns into a Fire symbol and that remains the case for the rest of the free spins. The more Fire symbols you unlock, the greater the chance of huge payouts.

This bonus round can be hugely lucrative (if you manage to save a lot of scatters), but also hugely frustrating. Sometimes you easily win 100 x or 150 x your bet and sometimes this bonus comes to no more than 5 x your bet. Or worse, at zero.

Flame Busters compared to 4 other Thunderkick slots

What do we think of Flame Busters?

Flame Busters is one of the most fun online slots ever made. That’s our opinion and you’ll have to make do with that.

We love the old generation of video games and then of course this slot machine fits right in our street.

But above all: apart from the fun theme and the perfect execution of it, Flame Busters is also an ingenious slot machine. Due to the savings function during the free spins and the Fire symbols, very nice payouts can arise and that therefore provides a lot of variety and excitement.

Thunderkick is a casino games maker who surprises us time and time again with original titles and unique game concepts and Flame Busters is among their best work.