Hot Zone Wild Slot – Free Demo

Reels 2 to 5 are the Hot Zone

Hot Zone Wild slot is a 6-reel, 3-row slot. A win takes 3, 4, 5 or 6 matching symbols, and there are no standard paylines. With 729 ways in the base game, it holds a 95.96% RTP and is available from 0.20 to 20.00 a spin. I played at 2.00 a spin from a balance of 1,000.00 credits.

Hot Zone Wild slot uses 4 low paying symbols and 5 premiums, and the low ones are the J, Q, K and A letters. Six of a kind of the A pays 1.5x the stake, and six of the J pays 0.75x. The premiums are depicted by Cherry, Lemon, Watermelon, Bell and Diamond. Ways multiply these small pays: four Cherries pay 0.8x, so four ways of them make 3.2x the stake. The Diamond is the highest symbol, granting a 25x win if you hit 6 of a kind, and the low value symbols are worth next to nothing on this slot. The Bell is next at 10x for six of a kind, ahead of the Watermelon at 7.5x.

The Wild symbol land on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 only. That is the Hot Zone, and the Bonus symbol lands on the same reels. The Wild substitutes for all paying symbols but not for the Bonus symbol, and in the base game it carries no multiplier.

What a Wild does to its reel in the Bonus Round

There is no bonus buy available here. So the only way in is to land the bonus naturally. In my 480 spins it arrived four times, on spins 111, 242, 290 and 443. 3 or 4 Bonus symbols in the Hot Zone triggers the Bonus Round, handing you 6 or 8 free spins respectively. Two of my four came with 4 Bonus symbols and two with 3.

Each Wild landing on the reels raises the Reel Multiplier of its reel during the Bonus Round, from x2 to x3, x5 and x10. A reel stops at x10, and the highest any of mine reached was x5.

The Reel Multipliers are multiplied together into the Global Multiplier. With all four Hot Zone reels at x10 it reaches its maximum of x10,000. It is applied to every winning spin during the free spins. In my first Bonus Round the reels stood at x2, x3 and x5. This means one can finish with a multiplier of 30, just to pick an example, and a Reel Multiplier on all four Hot Zone reels award 4 extra free spins. That happened once, on spin 242, where 8 free spins became 12 and the round paid 49x the stake.

Spin 111 paid 386x

The Hot Zone Wild slot is a high volatility beast from iSoftBet, and to be frank the base game is no great thrill. My longest run without a win was 38 spins, ending on spin 420. In my view, this makes the Hot Zone Wild slot seem a touch less well proportioned. Bonus Rounds paid 65% of everything I won across the session. Hot Zone Wild is, in other terms, all about the free spins. That of course raises the volatility. The balance dipped to a low of 909.00 credits and peaked at 1,959.40 on spin 111.

The bonus is not easy to land. The gaps between my four were 131, 48 and 153 spins. As it went, I ran 480 spins, and the first bonus landed on spin 111 and awarded 386x. The other three bonuses paid 49x, 33x and 33x the stake. It has scope for extra free spins and a large Global Multiplier, and the max win is capped at 20,000x the stake. My largest win outside the bonus was 184x the stake, on spin 61 in the base game.

The Minty Take: Did I like playing the Hot Zone Wild slot? Yes I did. I ended on 1,587.20 credits from the 1,000.00 I started with, a session return of 161.2%. Undeniably, the base game can drag a little.

Two reels at x2 against x2, x3 and x5

This is plainly just high-volatility-in-your-face-betting at it's plainest, and the multiplier collecting mechanic is nothing new in iGaming. In my last bonus two reels at x2 made x4, while x2, x3 and x5 in the first made x30. But it works really well here.

From iSoftBet, Hot Zone Wild is part of the Xtreme Pays range of slots. The Ruby Megaways and Shaolin Spin come from iSoftBet as well.