Hot Chilli Fest Slot Review

Hot Chilli Fest RTP, Details & Wager Limits

Open the Hot Chilli Fest slot and you’ll find 5 reels and 25 fixed paylines. This traditional layout means that wins are created in a regular way too. Simply land 3 or more matching symbols along a payline, from left to right, starting at reel 1.

You can play the slot for 25p up to £125 per spin. To adjust your stake, just click the + and – buttons below the reels, or click the total bet amount to bring up a menu of bet sizes. Outside of the UK, you’ll also find an Autoplay button to the right of the main spin button. Use this to play up to an infinite amount of spins without clicking. You can also set win and loss limits, and activate Turbo Spin mode.

Hot Chilli Fest has an RTP rate of 96.01%, which is slightly higher than the online slot average of 96%. The game also is also highly volatile and offers max wins of 5,000 x your stake. Bigger wins will come via landing several wild symbols with multipliers.

Theme – join this spicy fiesta

As the name suggests, Hot Chilli Fest has a Mexican theme. The reels hang against a decorated pueblo, complete with bunting – ready for the fiesta! Naturally, a mariachi band soundtrack accompanies the slot.

On the reels, lower paying symbols include 10 to Ace royals. In the middle of the paytable, you’ll find cacti, maracas, guitars, sombreros and donkeys. Finally, the woman is the highest paying symbol, rewarding you with 30 x your bet for a 5 of a kind combination.

Hot Chilli Fest also features a bonus scatter symbol, which triggers the Free Spins feature, and a wild symbol. Wild symbols substitute for all regular symbols and can carry multipliers worth up to 5x.

Symbol	Payouts/Info
10	3, 4, or 5 = 0.08, 0.2, or 1 x stake
Jack	3, 4, or 5 = 0.08, 0.2, or 1 x stake
Queen	3, 4, or 5 = 0.08, 0.2, or 1 x stake
King	3, 4, or 5 = 0.2, 0.4, or 2 x stake
Ace	3, 4, or 5 = 0.2, 0.4, or 2 x stake
Cactus	3, 4, or 5 = 0.32, 0.8 or 4 x stake
Guitar	3, 4, or 5 = 0.48, 1 or 6 x stake
Maracas	3, 4, or 5 = 0.8, 1.6 or 8 x stake
Sombrero	3, 4, or 5 = 1, 2.4 or 12 x stake
Donkey	3, 4, or 5 = 1.4, 4 or 20 x stake
Woman	3, 4, or 5 = 2, 6 or 30 x stake
Wild	Substitues for symbols above + carries 1-5x mulitplier
Scatter	3 triggers Free Spins feature

Hot Chilli Fest mobile

As we expect from a Stakelogic slot, Hot Chilli Fest can be played on all devices. HTML5 technology and clean graphics make it perfect for mobile casino players, though you can enjoy it on laptop, PC, and tablet too.

Hot Chilli Fest Bonus Features

The Hot Chilli Fest slot boasts 3 main bonus features, plus a Bonus Buy option. This includes free spins, a gamble option, and roaming wilds.

Free Spins Feature

In the base game, bonus scatter symbols can land on reels 1, 3 and 5. Land 3 scatter symbols to trigger the free spins. You will then receive 8 free spins to begin with.

Land 3 scatters again, and you retrigger the free spins round with an additional 5 free spins. In addition, all wild multipliers receive an upgrade, increasing in value by 1, up to a maximum of 5x.

Roaming Wilds Feature

As mentioned earlier, in both the base game and the free spins round, wild symbols can carry multipliers worth up to 5x. However, during free spins, wild symbols are also sticky roaming wilds.

This means that, once they land, they remain on the screen for the duration of the free spin session. They may change position with each new spin too and, if more than one wild symbol lands on a payline, the multipliers of all wild symbols are added together.

Gamble Feature

Before you enter the free spins round, you can choose to gamble. This may not be available in all jurisdictions, however.

You’ll see a gamble wheel appear, and there are 4 levels to the feature:

Bonus Buy Feature

Finally, like many new slots, the Hot Chilli Fest slot also comes with a Bonus Buy feature. This is not available in the UK but, if you’re playing from elsewhere, you have two options:

Buy a 50% chance of triggering Free Spins for 50 x your current stake
Buy immediate entry to the Free Spins round (with 8 free spins) for 100 x your current stake

Hot Chilli Fest Slot Review Summary — spicy wilds are key to big wins

At first glance, the Hot Chilli Fest slot looks pretty average. The graphics are great, but the theme has been done before. It reminds us of Piñata Smash (Skyward), Taco Brothers (ELK Studios), and most notably, Chilli Heat Megaways (Pragmatic Play).

However, that said, there are plenty of features to enjoy. As you might have realised, wilds are the key to success. In the base game, the multipliers help to create decent wins, though they come into their own during free spins.

y combining sticky and roaming wilds, it’s fairly easy to land several wilds on the screen. With boosted multipliers, if you retrigger the bonus round, this gives you a good chance at hitting those 5,000 x bet max wins.

Overall, the Hot Chilli Fest offers a decent amount of fun and a party vibe. No, it’s not the most innovative slot, and we wish the max payouts were bigger, but it’s pacy and jolly all the same.

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