Red Hot Devil Pokie Machine
With abstract images of cherries, playing cards, snakes, 7’s and some pouting lips, all surrounded by fire, Red Hot Devil, from Microgaming is a striking online pokie set in a fiery underworld. While it may be visually appealing, the gameplay is also of a high quality, with bonuses like wild substitutions, a couple of free spins rounds with increasing multipliers or extra wilds as they play out and a Wheel of Fire side game which gives instant prize payouts.
This Poker machine comes with 5 reels and a fixed number of 25 paylines in action at all times, while players are able to set their wagers from as little as 0.25 per spin right up to a generous 250.00.
Descending to the Reels
To ensure that this is one hell of a good pokie, Microgaming have filled it with flames and colour. A deep blue background contrasts nicely with what’s going on across the reels, which are in turn framed by even more fire.
Below it all is the control panel, and above the reels is the game title, written out in a style that sticks to the theme. Players use the control buttons to set the value of a coin at anything from 0.01 to 0.25 and then play with a number of coins from 1 to 10.
There’s some simple animations when symbols become part of a winning combination and some flickering fire at the top of the reels, which all adds up to a good-looking pokie, but it’s how it all plays out that’s of real interest, so enough about how it looks and let’s see what players can win.
All of the symbols are designed especially for this game, so there are none of the high card icons that feature in so many other pokies. Wins occur when at least 3 of the same symbol stop on a line running left to right.
Lower value symbols start off at the bottom with the cherries that are worth 0.20x the line bet when 3 land, up to 5x for a full line of 5 across the reels. Others symbol like the flaming dice, scorpion, snake and trident pay progressively more, while the higher value standard icons are a bunch of red roses, a hand of cards and the red 7, which like everything else here, is on fire. At the top of the payscale we see the flaming lips and a sexy devil, who pays from 2x to 80x the line bet depending on how many fall across the reels.
Red Hot Devil
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Burning Bonuses
The Red Hot Devil logo symbol is wild, so it will act as any of the standard symbols to help complete winning lines, although it only appears on the middle 3 reels and has no value on its own.
A heart-shaped jewel acts as a scatter symbol and comes loaded with tons of special features. Initially it will pay multiples of the total bet per spin, with just 2 scatters being enough for a 1x award, while 5 of them landing at once pays out 200x. On top of this, any 3 or more will trigger the bonus rounds, with players having a choice of 3 different games.
The Red Hot Multiplier round consists of 10 free spins and depending on how many scatters triggered it, players will get bigger multipliers whenever the scatter appears again on reels 1 or 5 throughout them. A multiplier of up to 10x is possible, while landing the scatter on reels 1 and 5 at the same time will add another 10 free spins to the end of any left to play out.
In the Red Hot Wild round, players also get 10 free spins, but in each of them reels 2, 3 or 4 will turn fully wild, while landing the scatter on reels 1 or 5 will also turn them wild and if it lands on both at the same time those reels turn wild and then players get an extra 10 spins.
The Wheel of Fire bonus game sees our beautiful Beelzebub standing next to a wheel with 10 spots on it, with players getting to pick from them to uncover prizes. Finding a heart gives them a prize plus another pick, but finding the jester ends the round, while a multiplier will be in effect depending on how many scatters started the game.
The Verdict
Hot by design, with some red hot features, this game has lots to recommend and very little going against it. A payout for landing the wild symbol would perhaps have been nice, as would the inclusion of Microgamings’ popular gamble round, but when it’s all taken as a whole, this is a quality pokie.