Copium

Hold Your Hat follows its shipwrecked-chef debut with a trip into orbit for Copium, a symbol-eating slot that sends a crew of hungry little characters called dudes wandering through a spaceship in search of pay symbols. The game opens on a cluttered main deck that branches into themed rooms via connecting tunnels, with the visual tone shifting from calm to frantic as the grid activity escalates and the soundtrack builds with it.

Play begins on a 5x7 grid where dudes roam the board consuming adjacent pay symbols until none of them can move further. Collected symbols are swapped for coloured pebbles, and once every dude is stuck, the pebbles clear and a fresh drop of symbols refills the grid; drops continue avalanche-style for as long as a dude can still collect. Two dudes standing next to each other can trade places, freeing one of them to keep moving. Six pay symbols are split across five payout tiers, from 0.05x-0.25x the stake at the bottom to 1x-10x at the top, and each dude only gathers symbols matching its own colour.

Feature symbols scattered through the grid trigger a range of effects when a dude passes over or collects them: Zero Gravity turns every pebble into a wild that any dude can cross, Spawn adds another dude to the board, Rock Paper Scissors pits two dudes against each other, Multiplier boosts a dude's running total, Upgrade lifts the pay level of surrounding symbols, Teleport swaps dude positions once an avalanche ends, and Key Card unlocks every reachable door in the current room.

Key cards move the crew between nine rooms reached through the ship's tunnels, each with its own rule set. The Holodeck can expand the grid with extra rows and columns up to six times, The Club shares one dude's dance-floor winnings with the rest of the crew, and the Cargo Bay drags collected symbols onto a multiplier via a magnet. Elsewhere, the Casino and Money Rain rooms drop into short three-spin side games, the Laser Lounge fires a beam that clears symbols and dudes to force fresh drops, the Cockpit spins a fortune wheel, and the Crypto Trader's Office stages a rock-paper-scissors duel between the dude and a crypto trader.

Three scatters anywhere on the grid award five free spins in Copium's bonus game, carried over in whichever room and payout level was active at the trigger, and landing another three scatters during the round retriggers it. A menu of feature buys sits alongside the base game, ranging from a 2x-bet purchase that quadruples the chance of triggering free spins up to a straight 100x-bet buy for the bonus round itself, with pricier options for stacking extra dudes, upgraded symbols, or a guaranteed audience with the Crypto Trader.

Copium is rated 7 out of 10 for volatility with a hit frequency of 24.9%, so wins land close to one spin in four even before the bigger multipliers appear. Stakes run from 0.10 to 100 per spin, the game returns 96% at its default RTP setting, and the maximum win is capped at 10,000x the stake.