Hellapeños Slot Review

Hellapeños RTP, Details & Wager Limits

Launch the Hellapeños slot and you’ll find an unconventional layout with 5 reels, with 3-3-4-4-4 symbols per reel. To create a win you must land at least 3 matching symbols, on consecutive reels, starting from reel 1. Symbols must, however, be connected horizontally, vertically or diagonally. This gives you 100 connecting paylines.

You can play the slot for as little as 10p up to £100 per spin. To adjust your stake, simply click the total bet amount below the reels. This brings up a menu of preset bet sizes. Outside of the UK, you’ll also find an Autoplay option below the reels. You can use this to spin between 5 and 5,000 times without clicking. Win and loss limits can also be set to protect your bankroll.

Hellapeños has an RTP rate of 96.19%. This is above the 96% average for online slots but do make sure you’re playing the optimal RTP version. At top UK slot sites, you can do this by checking the paytable before spinning.

The volatility is high, and the slot offers you max wins of 5,000 x your stake. The key to bigger wins is via the Expanding Devil symbols, which can offer multipliers worth up to 64 x your bet. We’ll talk more about this later.

Theme – there’s hot sauce in hell

Set in a bar in hell, Hellapeños has a slightly Mexican theme, with added spice. It’s very occurred to us that hell might be full of hot sauce and spicy margaritas, but that’s what’s on offer here. It’s original and bold, with bright colours and a strangely upbeat soundtrack.

The reels hang against the inferno bar, with cocktails to the right and skulls to the left. On the reels, low paying symbols include 10 to Ace royals, whilst mid-paying symbols are represented by a variety of different coloured hot sauces. Bizarrely, the dog is the highest paying symbol, rewarding you with 5 x your stake for a 5-of-a-kind combination.

When it comes to special symbols, you can benefit from multiplier wild symbols, scatter symbols and Expanding Devil symbols. Read on to learn more about how these work, and how rewarding they can be.

Symbol	Payouts/Info
10	3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 0.4, or 0.6 x stake
Jack	3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 0.4, or 0.7 x stake
Queen	3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 0.4, or 0.8 x stake
King	3, 4 or 5 = 0.3, 0.5, or 0.9 x stake
Ace	3, 4 or 5 = 0.3, 0.5, or 1 x stake
Blue Sauce	3, 4 or 5 = 0.4, 0.8, or 1.5 x stake
Purple Sauce	3, 4 or 5 = 0.4, 1 or 2 x stake
Green Sauce	3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 1.2 or 2.5 x stake
Red Sauce	3, 4 or 5 = 0.6, 1.5 or 3 x stake
Dog	3, 4 or 5 = 1, 2.5 or 5 x stake
Wild	Substitutes for symbols above + 2x mulitplier
Scatter	3 triggers Free Spins feature

Hellapeños mobile

Like all Thunderkick slots, Hellapeños runs on HTML5 technology. As such, you can enjoy it on desktop, tablet, laptop, and iOS and Android devices.

Thanks to the bold colours, we expect Hellapeños to be a favourite at mobile slot sites. It looks great even on smaller screens.

Hellapeños Bonus Features

The Hellapeños slot comes with 4 main bonus features, plus a Bonus Buy option for players outside of the UK. This includes a random multiplier wilds, expanding wilds, and free spins.

Multiplier Wilds Feature

As mentioned earlier, the Hellapeños slot comes with multiplier wild symbols. These carry a 2x multiplier and substitute for all regular symbols to create a winning combination. Any wins that include more than 1 multiplier wild symbol are multiplied by their multipliers. So for instance, a win including 2 wilds would give you 4x your win (2×2).

Random Wilds Feature

The symbols in reels 1 and 2 always appear stacked, in groups of 2-5 symbols. If identical symbols land on both reels, 1-3 multiplier wilds are randomly placed on reels 3-5. This significantly increases your chances at creating a winning combination.

Expanding Devil Feature

On any spin, Expanding Devil symbols can appear on reels 3, 4 and 5. A maximum of 1 Devil can appear on each reel. Like wild symbols, they substitute for regular symbols and, if they can contribute to a winning combination, they expand to cover the entire reel. However, they will not act as a wild if not expanded.

If an Expanding Devil symbol expands through 1 or 2 Multiplier Wild symbols, a 2x multiplier value is applied to the whole reel. If a winning combination includes more than one Expanding Devil symbol with a multiplier, the multiplier values are multiplied together and then applied to the win. This gives you a maximum multiplier of 64x per single payline win.

Free Spins Feature

Land 3 scatter symbols anywhere on reels 3-5 and you receive 7 free spins. During free spins, if an Expanding Devil lands on reels 3-5, that reel becomes ‘active’ for the remainder of the round. This essentially means that a Devil symbol will land on that reel on every following spin. This gives you more chances to expand the symbol and benefit from extra multipliers.

If an Expanding Devil symbol lands during the round, you also receive an extra 3 free spins, up to a maximum of 9 extra free spins per round (3 spins per activated reel).

Bonus Buy feature

Like most new slots, Hellapeños also offers a bonus buy feature to players outside of the UK. This costs 70 x your current stake and gives you immediate entry to the free spins round, with 7 free spins. If you use this option, the RTP also rises to 96.31%.

Hellapeños Slot Review Summary – the devil is the detail for big wins

Firstly, we have to hand it to Thunderkick. Hellapeños has an original theme with detailed, amusing graphics. It’s clear the provider is aiming for a more tongue-in-cheek approach – we wonder if they’ve been taking some inspiration from Nolimit City slots.

The features aren’t completely original, as it’s all about getting multipliers to multiply by themselves for bigger wins. To do this, Expanding Devil symbols are vital. Luckily, the ‘activated’ reels in Free Spins make this all the more possible. Land 3 Devil symbols early in the feature, and your chances soar.

With max wins of 5,000 x your stake and multipliers worth up to 64x, the Hellapeños slot isn’t the most rewarding slot around, but it doesn’t try to be. Instead, gameplay features come together with imaginative visuals to create a slot that’s part spicy and part silly. It’s good fun – give it a spin to see for yourself.