Anvil & Ore - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Anvil & Ore Slot Review

You can’t turn lumps of rock into beautiful weapons, tools or jewellery without a smith and an anvil ready to work them. That between stage, often absent in mining-themed slots, is what’s evoked in Anvil & Ore from Alchemy Studios. An unusual 5x5 layout offers 3125 ways to win without even reaching the upsizer coins that can boost free spins and other bonus features.

Kingdom of the Dwarves

Fans of fantasy know that if you want to turn metal ores into exquisite pieces of craftsmanship, you need dwarves. There are so many novels and movies where you travel underground to see dwarven kingdoms buried among the rocks of their mines; now you can visit a similar place while you’re playing slots. 

Rather than just seeing tunnels in the dirt, the Anvil & Ore slot shows you the towering, elaborately carved shape of the forge looming behind the reels, with the heat of fire glowing inside it. Among the symbols is one of the bearded dwarves who made this underground world possible. Enter free spins, and you’ll plunge deeper into the rock and heat in dramatic style.

Forging Treasure

Once you have your ores, what do you want to make from them? The Anvil & Ore slot takes you through every stage just by using its symbols. You have the chest full of rough nuggets, you have the anvil itself, and you have a mighty hammer that couldn’t have been made without a forge but is also a craftsman’s tool, plus a shield that the smith may have shaped. Even the card symbols look like they’ve been forged out of metal.

Anvil & Ore RTP and Variance

The top RTP available for the Anvil & Ore slot is 96.26%, but we’ve been warned that some casinos may choose to set it lower, at 94.24%, 92.25% or 86.94%. The variance is high.

How to Play Anvil & Ore

Are your hammer and tongs ready?

1. As with other slots, we can’t fit everything in our Anvil & Ore slot review, so go to the menu and help page in the game to check out the paytable, rules and features.
2. Hopefully, you’ll have already set out your budget before entering the casino. You’ll need it in mind when you adjust your bet, which you’ll find in the bottom corner or under spin.
3. After you’ve hit spin, you can’t know if the reels will land on winning symbols. There’s no way to control results. That’s why you must stay on top of your budget, bet and limits.
4. Knowing when to stop is even more important than being ready to start. Be sensible. Take regular breaks, and when it’s time, walk away.
5. When the fun stops, stop.

How to Win at Anvil & Ore

You may have noticed that Anvil & Ore doesn’t have the traditional 5x3 layout shared by the majority of slots. Instead, it’s 5x5, and even more notably, it doesn’t have only a few fixed paylines. It has 3125 ways to win, meaning that as long as you have at least three adjacent matching symbols starting on the left, you can win. 

Top Wins

• It’s probably no surprise to learn that the five card symbols are at the bottom of the paytable.
• For the biggest payout potential among the regular symbols, you need the dwarf. Find him five times, and he’s worth 2.5x your bet.
• He still doesn’t have the value of the wild, which can pay up to 5x your bet on top of its special function. It’s not like the scatter symbol, which can’t pay on its own.
• An overall max win of x5000 is available.

Anvil & Ore Bonuses

Now we reach the Anvil & Ore bonus features, from the rolling reels that might be called cascades in other slots to the always welcome free spins bonus. Now, you can have a fun game without free spins, as we know from the Money Train Origins slot, but there’s a reason they’re one of the most popular bonuses available. 

Upsizer coins appear in the base game to modify those free spins in unexpected ways, setting them apart from similar features with different playing mechanisms.

Rolling Reels

Cascades, tumbles, avalanches... they have different names in different slots, but the principle remains the same. Winning symbols disappear, new ones roll into the gaps, and you have another chance at a combination.

Echo Roll

This can occur randomly after any win and offers the rarest thing in slots: a guaranteed prize.

Upsizer Coins

These appear in the base game for you to collect. You’re also awarded an upsizer coin when you find the scatter symbol 3 times. The more coins, the bigger your free spins modifier.

Free Spins

Depending on your upsizer coins, you could win 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12 free spins. During the feature, every consecutive rolling reel comes with an increasing win multiplier, starting at 1x. More upsizer coins can make the maximum multiplier rise from 10x to 20x or even 50x. Free spins can also guarantee you one or two echo rolls.

Max-win 500x

Volatility High

Top RTP 94.00%

Anvil & Ore Review - Summary 

This is the sort of game that fits well with other Alchemy Studios slots. It has similar (high) quality of graphics, and we think we’ve even seen related themes before, although there are details to make it stand out. Rolling reels and free spins are also features that are not confined to the Anvil & Ore slot, but the mechanics, particularly upsizer coins, make for interesting variations.

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