Hot Chilliby Pragmatic Play Ltd.

It’s time for some chilli. Hot, simmering, spicy, Asian-style chilli. If there ever was a food fitting enough to make a slot out of it, surely it’s this one.

After all, what’s hotter and more simmering than spinning the reels in the hope of a big hit?

Pragmatic Play has put some tasty food in a fancy dragon-shaped hotpot and got a chilli stew going. There are peppers of course, and these peppers are so hot they actually multiply wins. And get three of them at the same time, and you’re in serious trouble.

Theme

It’s true that a hotpot filled with chilli-peppers and foodstuffs is a strange setting for any kind of media, let alone a slot game.

To the developer’s credit, this is a really fancy hotpot. For one, it’s made out of gold. And there’s a super-cool golden dragon coiled around it like he’s guarding the chilli within. Those peppers must be pretty expensive.

The graphical quality of the title…

…is very high. The design is intricate and very detailed. Both on the hotpot which serves as both the background and the playing area and the golden dragon which looks convincingly fashioned out of metal.

The same care extends to the symbols, which are represented by foods such as tofu, shrimp, ham, and pork. They are rendered lovingly and float in the animated broth and when a winning combo is formed they’re grabbed by chopsticks.

It’s all a bit weird, but it works.

Betting Options and Functions

Hot Chilli is a 3x3 slot with nine fixed paylines. It has an RTP of 96.52% and medium high variance.

The betting options are pretty involved and allow punters to select the number of coins played per line (from 1 to 10) and the coin size (1 cent to 50 cents) making the range of possible bets pretty wide.

That all comes out to the minimum bet being 9 cents and the maximum bet being 45 euros. Not quite high-roller, but nothing to sneeze at.

Being mobile-friendly, like all games from this developer, there is a battery saver mode that will let punters play a little longer on their handheld devices.

Special Features

Being a simple 3x3 game, there aren’t any flashy or complicated features here. There are multipliers represented by a wild chilli pepper that work as you expect. If they’re part of a win they multiply it. The value goes between x2 and x5.

There is also a scatter symbol, the tasty tofu cube, which pays out anywhere and in any number.

However, at the max bet they payout 50 euros for a set of three. They are more of a consolation prize than a true special feature.

Typical for classic 3-reel slots, the low paying and the medium paying symbols also payout in “any 3” configuration.

Our Take

Developer Pragmatic Play is offering punters a steaming bowl of hot chilli, so are you brave enough to have a taste? Because once you do, you might find yourself captivated by the simple and elegant features and the cool graphics.