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Hot Hot Halloween review

Graphics, Sounds, and Animations

It doesn't need to be spooky season for you to try your luck on this creepily cool slot game by Habanero.

If you're expecting terrifying ghouls and ghosts, you might need to temper your expectations a little. The backdrop is a graveyard scene featuring some black cats and jack-o-lanterns, but that's where the traditional Halloween feeling ends. The theme actually combines cute with creepy, so you'll notice the colorful symbols like cartoon-style ghosts and a severed hand making the peace sign.

The soundtrack is an electrified tune that would seem more at home in a club than a graveyard – it might even get the corpses up and dancing.

Gameplay

Hot Hot Halloween is played on a grid of five rows and five reels. The game doesn't have paylines; you simply need to land at least three of the same symbols on a row to trigger a win. Wins pay differently for each row. For example Row 2 has a 2x Multiplier, and Row 3 has a 3x Multiplier.

The symbol that pays the most is the seven, followed by the purple coffin and the oozing pink eyeball. You'll get smaller wins by landing the colorful shapes, like the green triangle and the pink circle.

Wilds, Bonuses, and Free Spins

The pumpkin symbol is the Wild, and it can appear on reels 1, 2, 4, and 5. Pumpkins can substitute for all other regular symbols to help you trigger wins. If three Wilds appear from left to right or right to left, you'll bag six Free Spins. If you get three symbols from right to left and from left to right, it's increased to 12 Free Spins. Any symbols appearing in a winning combination will lock in place for the remainder of the Free Spins round.

The Hot Hot feature can be triggered randomly on any spin. The symbols will turn into double symbols and count as two symbols for payouts. The seven symbols will count as three symbols, giving you the chance to land even bigger wins.

Bet Sizes, RTP, and Variance

The minimum bet amount is $/€/£0.20 per spin and the maximum is $/€/£5,000. The payouts can be quite generous; for example, landing 15 of the highest-paying symbols on the grid awards you with 1,250x your bet amount.

The game's Return to Player (RTP) percentage is 96.66%, which is above the industry average of 96%, which we usually look for before we recommend a slot. The volatility is high, so wins tend to be bigger, even though they might not be quite as frequent as you'd like.

Conclusion

If you're a fan of spooky slots, but you want something light-hearted, then Hot Hot Halloween is a good option. With such a high maximum bet amount, the potential wins are bigger than with the average slot, and we liked the unique win mechanism, which awards Multipliers when you trigger wins on certain rows.