Aztec Fire: Hold and Win — RTP, volatility and max win

Aztec Fire: Hold and Win by 3 Oaks heads into the jungle of the Aztecs and Maya, where tigers, toucans and frogs guard green and blue stone carvings from old temples. Bonus icons with cash values lock in place during the respin feature while the other spots spin again.

Aztec Fire: Hold and Win came out on July 22, 2022 as part of the Aztec Fire series from 3 Oaks. The theme mixes temple art from the ancient civilisations of Central America with jungle animals, and the fire in the title stands for the glowing bonus icons. A 5×4 reel set with 20 paylines, four rows tall, leaves plenty of room for bonus icons. Per spin you can stake €0.20 up to €30.

The base game pays on fixed lines: matching symbols need to chain from reel one across a line, using the 20 paylines, and the wild fills in missing ones. Bonus icons work differently. They carry cash values, and only when enough of them land together does the cash-collect respin round begin. Scatters, separately, open the free spins.

Hold and win: the triggering bonus icons stay put while every other spot spins again as respins. Each new bonus icon also locks and resets the respins, and all values are added up at the end.

Random bonus icons: extra bonus icons can drop onto the reels without a trigger, bringing the respin round closer.

Collector: a collector symbol charges up with energy from the symbols that land and boosts the round.

Free spins: a scatter landing opens a separate round on a different reel set. There is also a separate bonus game.

Because the high max win of Aztec Fire: Hold and Win comes almost entirely from the respin round with locked bonus icons, other inferno slots with hold and win are the closest comparison.

RTP 95.5%, lower than 64% of the 400 Inferno slots. Background: how RTP works on a slot. Volatility Medium, like 103 of the 399 Inferno slots. Background: what slot volatility means. Max win 10,000× (€300,000 at the highest stake). Background: what max win means on a slot.

An RTP of 95.5% is a little short of the typical figure for the Inferno slots.

Its 10,000× ceiling, on the other hand, sits in the upper quarter of the collection, with about 75% lower. At medium volatility that peak comes almost entirely from a locking respin round where the grid fills up with bonus icons.

Because the payout setting of Aztec Fire: Hold and Win varies from casino to casino, look it up in the RTP of inferno slots before you play.

Next to Aztec Fire: Hold and Win, try slot games with RTP values close by as well as medium volatility: