The Wild Wings of Phoenix — RTP, volatility and max win

The Wild Wings of Phoenix by Booming Games takes you into the Mayan and Aztec jungle, where a phoenix rises from the fire while a panther, snakes and a glowing egg fill the reels. In the free spins one symbol stretches over whole reels, and low-paying icons can vanish from the grid.

The theme fuses ancient civilisations with fire: the Mayan and Aztec jungle, a panther, snakes, an egg and the phoenix as the lead figure. The firebird flies over a 5×3 reel set, five reels of three rows, across 10 paylines. Bets go as low as €0.10 and as high as €500, an unusually wide range that reaches very high amounts. Booming Games released The Wild Wings of Phoenix on September 8, 2022.

Given that The Wild Wings of Phoenix pairs high volatility with a low max win, the overview of the volatility of inferno slots helps you find titles with a better balance.

The 5×3 grid carries 10 paylines. A line pays when identical symbols follow each other along it, beginning on the first reel. The wild fills gaps in a line, while scatters ignore the lines and open the free spins instead. With a modest number of lines, a symbol that grows over its whole reel is especially valuable: it covers all three rows and can serve several lines at once. The payout scales with the symbol and with your chosen bet, €0.10 at the low end and €500 at the upper end.

Three scatters open the free spins, and landing them again during the round adds extra free spins. Two mechanics work together in the bonus: one symbol expands to the full height of its reel and then counts on every line passing through it. The game also removes selected symbols from the grid, so the remaining higher-paying icons such as the panther and the phoenix come together more often. The wild fills missing positions on the lines in both the base game and the free spins.

Since The Wild Wings of Phoenix builds its free spins around expanding symbols, the other inferno slots with expanding symbols follow naturally.

RTP 95.4%, lower than 69% of the 400 Inferno slots. Background: how RTP works on a slot. Volatility High, like 2 of the 7 slots in the Phoenix theme. Background: what slot volatility means. Max win 500× (€250,000 at the highest stake). Background: what max win means on a slot. Hit frequency 15.32%: roughly one spin in 7 wins.

The Wild Wings of Phoenix returns 95.4%, which puts it in the lower middle of the field. A ceiling of 500× is one of the smallest in the range, yet volatility is high: long stretches without a hit are normal, and the wins come mostly from the free spins with their expanding symbols.

Benchmarked on The Wild Wings of Phoenix: slots with high volatility to match and near-identical RTP values.