Hotline 2 Slot Review

Hotline 2 Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Hotline 2 slot is played with 5 reels, 3 rows and 243 ways to win. To land a win, you need matching symbols in any position on 3 or more successive reels, beginning from the leftmost reel to the rightmost reel.

Playable from 10p to £150 a spin, there’s a Turbo Mode for faster reel spins in most territories apart from the UK. The Autoplay function allows you to choose between 10 and 1,000 autospins. Clicking on the Advanced Settings button will allow you to choose some stop conditions.

Medium variance and offering balanced wins throughout, the Hotline 2 RTP is 96.05% when 3 lines are active. The bigger wins will come in the Free Spins feature where you can play with up to 1,944 ways to win.

The max win is 5,184 x your total stake per free spin.

Theme – burn up the streets of Miami

The Hotline 2 slot looks almost identical to the original Hotline slot. With a twilight Miami backdrop, it has an 80s feel with a retro-cool soundtrack. Inspired by Miami Vice clearly, the storyline is a jewellery store robbery in sunny Miami that is being investigated by detectives Quinn and Riviera. It looks superb and has more than a hint of nostalgia about it.

Symbols on the reels include 6 jewellery items including necklaces, rings and solitary stones. Other symbols include a guy wearing a headset and Detectives Quinn and Riviera. The most valuable symbol is Kitty Weiss who is complete with shades and a glass of champagne. She pays 2, 5 or 8 x stake for 3, 4 or 5 in combination.

There is a cars wild symbol that can appear on reels 2, 3 and 4 in the base game and free spins feature. Substituting for all symbols except the scatter, wilds can expand if resulting in a winning combination. In the free spins, wilds always expand.

Symbol	Payout
Green Ring	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.2 or 0.4 x stake
Blue Necklace	3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 0.4 or 0.6 x stake
Purple Necklace	3, 4 or 5 = 0.3, 0.6 or 1 x stake
Orange Brooch	3, 4 or 5 = 0.4, 0.8 or 1.2 x stake
Red Necklace	3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 1 or 1.5 x stake
Pink Diamond	3, 4 or 5 = 0.6, 1.2 or 2.5 x stake
Male Character with Headset	3, 4 or 5 = 0.7, 1.5 or 3 x stake
Quinn	3, 4 or 5 = 1, 2 or 4 x stake
Riviera	3, 4 or 5 = 1.5, 3 or 5 x stake
Kitty Weiss	3, 4 or 5 = 2, 5 or 8 x stake
Wild	Substitutes for all except scatter
Scatter	3 in view triggers Free Spins feature

Hotline 2 Mobile

Despite the retro 80s theme, Hotline 2 can be played on mobile and tablet devices as well as desktops. The graphics and soundtrack work well on smaller smartphone screens as you’d expect.

Hotline 2 Bonus Features

The Hotline 2 slot has 3 bonus features. There’s the Hotline feature which is effective when wilds land on them. Wilds expand to give you wild reels. It’s all about the Free Spins feature, though, where landing wilds on the Hotlines will lead to wild reels and more symbols on the Hotlines. Let’s dive into all of the available features.

Hotline feature

Central to the action is the Hotline feature. When you play the game normally, reel 3 is a Hotline. More reels can be turned into hotlines by using the Double Bet and Triple Bet:

• Double Bet activated: reels 3 and 4 are Hotlines with your stake doubled
• Triple Bet activated: reels 2, 3 and 4 are Hotlines with your stake trebled

Expanding Wild feature

The Hotline feature is particularly important when it comes to wild symbols. When a wild symbol appears on any of the 3 middle reels, it will substitute as usual. When a wild lands on a Hotline, it expands to give you a fully wild reel. Known as an Expanding Wild, you could end up with 3 wild reels per spin.

Free Spins feature

The Free Spins feature is triggered by landing 3 neon flamingo scatter symbols on the Hotlines in the base game. With 7 free spins awarded, wilds are more important here. A wild landing on a Hotline will increase the reel’s height by 1 symbol creating more ways to win. Furthermore, wilds also expand to give you fully wild reels.

The maximum Hotline height is 6 symbols, which means there are up to 1,944 ways to win in total. When a Hotline reaches its maximum height of 6 symbols, you’ll win 2 additional free spins. This means you can benefit from 6 extra free spins and take your potential tally to 13.

Buy feature

Not available in the UK but on offer in most territories, you can pay 60 x your stake to buy the Free Spins feature with 1, 2 or 3 Hotlines activated.

Hotline 2 Review Summary – superb sequel from NetEnt

The Hotline 2 slot is much better than the original game. The addition of more ways to win in the Free Spins feature coupled with the expanding wilds can lead to big wins of 5,184 x stake on every free spin.

Beautifully designed and with a superb soundtrack, it’s nicely balanced variance wise with the Expanding Wild feature triggering fairly frequently. Let’s just hope you get plenty of wilds during the free spins to benefit from the maximum 1,944 ways to win and extra free spins.

You should also check out the original Hotline slot which has an RTP of 97.04%. But if you want to try something different but keep with the retro theme, give the Knight Rider slot by NetEnt a try or go even further left field and play The Goonies Return slot, which comes with max wins of 50,000 x your bet.