Devil’s Hot Pots Slot Review
A squat, grinning devil stands guard over a cauldron of gold in a molten red cavern, banknotes spread under his hooves and jackpot plaques stacked above the reels. Devil’s Hot Pots hides its real game underneath all that fire: the payouts barely matter, and nearly everything you’re doing spin to spin is quietly filling bars that pay out later. Foxium has built a slot where the fun doesn’t wait for a bonus, it’s the waiting for a bonus.
It runs on a 5×3 grid with 10 paylines, 96.31% RTP, high volatility and stakes from 0.20 to 25.00, with wins advertised up to 10,000x. Foxium’s catalogue stretches from Cossacks: The Wild Hunt to The Great Albini 2, and this one sits firmly at the silly end of it, closer in spirit to Devil’s Boulevard Link&Win than to anything serious.
Base Game & Features
The base game is a 5×3 reel set with 10 fixed paylines. Wins pay left to right from the leftmost reel, and only the highest combination on a line counts. The hit rate sits at 22.97%, so rather more spins than not land nothing at all, which is standard behaviour for a high-volatility build.
Payouts work off the initial bet rather than the total stake: each spin costs the total bet, and line wins are calculated on the total bet divided by the payline cost of 10. Where multiple winning combinations land on a single payline, only the highest pays. The total payout for a spin is the sum of all payline wins together.
The Devil Collect symbol is the wild, substituting for everything except scatters, and it moves: on each spin it walks to the nearest reel left or right, and it vanishes if it walks off the left edge. When that happens, it’s restored to the nearest reel from its original position, so it tends to come back rather than disappear for good.
There’s one edge case worth knowing. If the devil is sitting on the leftmost reel when you change your bet, he may not survive the switch once restored. He also persists per bet level, so dropping down a stake and returning later finds him where you left him.
Collect Hellfin Symbols
Hellfins are flaming fish that land on all five reels carrying cash values. When a Devil Collect symbol appears alongside them, it collects the sum of every Hellfin’s prize on the screen. They can also form ordinary payline wins. Their value depends on size:
- Tiny Hellfin: 0.2x to 2x bet
- Mini Hellfin: 2.5x to 6x bet
- Major Hellfin: 7x to 10x bet
- Grand Hellfin: 12x to 25x bet
Every collected Hellfin is added straight to your win, so a devil parked in the middle of a screen full of Grand Hellfins is where the base game’s money is. The paytable on top of that is thin. Two symbols carry listed three-of-a-kind pays:
- Hellfin (small, blue): three of a kind pays 2x bet
- Hellfin (large, orange): three of a kind pays 10x bet
Trident Tokens
Trident tokens can land anywhere in the base game, and each one adds 0.5x bet to the value of the corresponding jackpot. It’s a small drip-feed, but on a game where the top prizes scale with your stake, every token nudges the ladder upward.
Devil’s Hot Pots Bonus Features & Free Spins
Free Spins
Landing three or more scatters in the base game triggers free spins, and the round moves to a 5×5 grid with 20 paylines. Scatters can appear on any reel and carry no payout of their own; their entire value is in getting you here and, in pairs, in feeding the boost bar further down. The scatter count sets the award:
- Three scatters: 10 free spins
- Four scatters: 15 free spins
- Five scatters: 20 free spins
Inside the round, every Devil Collect symbol gets stored in a progress bar. Piling them up is the whole point: each threshold of three brings five extra spins and a bigger multiplier, climbing as the devil accumulates.
- 3 stored: 2x multiplier and 5 extra spins
- 6 stored: 3x multiplier and 5 extra spins
- 9 stored: 5x multiplier and 5 extra spins
- 12 stored: 8x multiplier and 5 extra spins
The round is played at the bet that triggered it, and the wilds inside it follow the same walking rules as the base game. The multiplier applies to your wins as it climbs, so a round that stores a dozen devils finishes on an 8x multiplier with twenty extra spins banked along the way.
Free Spins Boost
Two scatters aren’t wasted in this game. They feed the Free Spins Boost bar, which persists per bet level and pays out extra features when the free spins round arrives. It’s a patient system: keep the same stake and the bar keeps climbing across sessions at that level.
- 6 scatters collected: Flame Upgrade, granting 1 Devil Collect symbol in free spins
- 12 scatters collected: Hellish Upgrade, granting 2 Devil Collect symbols
- 18 scatters collected: Devil’s Upgrade, granting 3 Devil Collect symbols, a 2x win multiplier and 5 extra spins, then resetting the bar
That final reset is worth understanding: the Devil’s Upgrade session empties the bar completely, so the climb begins again from zero. Change your stake at any point and you’ll find a different bar waiting, each bet level keeping its own progress independently.
Hot Pots Bonus
Pot tokens land anywhere on the reels, and gathering them up sets off the Hot Pots bonus. This one also plays out on a 5×5 grid, where the devil throws bombs at rows of gilded pots. Each pot can hold one of the four Devil’s Jackpots, and matching three identical symbols hands over that prize.
Devil’s Jackpots
The jackpot ladder is bet-scaled, so the figures move with your stake:
- Mini Jackpot: 10x to 25x bet
- Minor Jackpot: 30x to 50x bet
- Major Jackpot: 100x to 500x bet
- Grand Jackpot: 5,000x to 10,000x bet
That Grand range is where the advertised 10,000x potential lives, and it’s a jackpot prize rather than a line-win ceiling. Jackpot values scale with bet changes, and the trident tokens collected in the base game push them up further, one half-times-bet at a time.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.3/10
Most of a session here is quiet. You spin, the fires crackle, the boost bar inches up and the paytable gives you almost nothing to celebrate, so the one reason to sit down at this particular inferno is the promise that the patience is being banked, spin by spin, towards a round that actually pays for it.
And the banking is real. Progress that survives between sessions and climbs through three named upgrades is rarer than it should be, and it turns the free spins round into something you’ve been building rather than something you luckily hit. The weakness is just as real: with a two-symbol paytable, a base game that pays nothing without the devil walking in can feel like a waiting room with very good wallpaper.
It’s an easy one to call. This is a game for the long-haul builder, the sort who likes leaving a session further along than they started it, and there’s nothing here for anyone who wants regular action from the reels themselves. The devil keeps his word, though. Stay loyal to one stake and he rewards it.
Devil’s Hot Pots FAQs
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What is the RTP of Devil’s Hot Pots?
The RTP is 96.31%. -
Is Devil’s Hot Pots high volatility?
Yes, it’s a high volatility game, with a hit frequency of 22.97%, so wins land on fewer than a quarter of spins. -
How do you trigger free spins in Devil’s Hot Pots?
Land three or more scatter symbols in the base game. Three scatters award 10 free spins, four grant 15 and five gift 20. The round plays out on a 5×5 grid with 20 paylines. -
How does the Hot Pots bonus work?
Collect Pot tokens anywhere on the reels to trigger the Hot Pots bonus. It’s played on a 5×5 grid where the devil throws bombs at pots, each of which can contain a Mini, Minor, Major or Grand jackpot. Collecting three identical symbols grants that jackpot prize. -
What does the Devil Collect symbol do?
The Devil Collect is a wild that substitutes for all symbols except scatters. It walks one reel left or right on each spin, and when it appears it collects the sum of all Hellfin symbol prize values on screen. -
How many paylines does Devil’s Hot Pots have?
There are 10 fixed paylines in the base game, rising to 20 paylines during free spins. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on Devil’s Hot Pots?
Stakes run from 0.20 to 25.00 per spin. -
Who makes Devil’s Hot Pots?
Devil’s Hot Pots is made by Foxium.
