Hot Spin Deluxe

iSoftBet revisits its own catalogue with Hot Spin Deluxe, a retro Vegas fruit machine wrapped in gold trim, shimmering light strips and a disco-flavoured soundtrack that updates the original Hot Spin with two extra mechanics aimed at lifting its ceiling.

The layout carries over from the earlier game: five reels, three rows and 20 fixed paylines, with wins reading left to right and bets running from 0.20 up to 20 per spin. A rotating Hot Spin Wheel sits above the grid, waiting for the right combination to set it off.

Symbols climb from cherries, lemons, plums and watermelons through bells, stars and sevens, with a diamond as the top regular pay, worth 25x the bet for five of a kind. A gold W wild substitutes for every symbol on the reels except the bonus icon.

Three bonus symbols landing on reels one, three and five spin the Hot Spin Wheel, which hands out up to 15 free spins carrying one of six modifiers. Mystery symbols turn 6, 8 or 12 positions into a single matching icon once the reels stop; random wilds convert 5, 7 or 10 tiles into wilds; a mega reel fuses either the first three or middle three reels into one oversized symbol; synchronised reels force two or three reels to mirror each other, with a stronger version linking three or four; wild reels stack up to three reels solid with wilds, again with a bigger version covering three to five reels; and an ultra reel turns the entire grid into a single repeating symbol.

Two further mechanics separate this version from the original Hot Spin. Hot Spin Deluxe can trigger the wheel at random during any ordinary spin, without needing the bonus symbols to line up, and the Hot Spin Deluxe Multiplier then attaches a boost of up to 10x to whichever modifier the wheel produces. Between them, these two additions are what push the maximum win up to 5,000x the bet.

Volatility is rated high against a return to player of 96%. With paylines fixed and the base game moving at a steady pace, most of the swings in Hot Spin Deluxe come from how often that overhead wheel decides to spin and which of its six modifiers, boosted or not, it lands on.