The Respinners Slot Review
A four-piece band plays on the roof of the cabinet while a silhouetted crowd reaches up from below the reels, drawn in soft chalky pastels rather than the neon most music slots go for. The unusual part is what the game does with its stars: most slots pay their hero symbols like headliners, but The Respinners pays its band barely more than pocket change and makes them carry the whole bonus structure anyway.
The Respinners is Hacksaw Gaming‘s take on a concert slot, running a 5×4 grid with 1,024 ways to win, a 96.4% RTP and a 5,150x max win. It sits in the studio’s catalogue alongside Chaos Crew, Dork Unit and Le Bandit, and it’s a friendlier, brighter piece of work than any of them.
It’s also a game that asks a lot before it pays. The paytable is flat, the free spins door is narrow, and the whole design banks on one climbing multiplier to deliver the money. Whether the band can carry the gig is what follows.
Base Game & Features
Wins pay left to right, with matching symbols on adjacent reels forming a winning way. Each additional matching symbol adds another way. Nothing about the arrangement is unusual here.
The paytable splits into two tiers, and the gap between them is wide. All values are multiples of the total bet:
- Band member (dark-haired woman) – 0.5x for three, 0.75x for four, 1x for five
- Band member (green shirt man) – 0.5x for three, 0.75x for four, 1x for five
- Note (blue) – 0.05x for three, 0.1x for four, 0.15x for five
- Note (green) – 0.05x for three, 0.1x for four, 0.15x for five
- Note (orange) – 0.05x for three, 0.1x for four, 0.15x for five
- Note (dark/maroon) – 0.05x for three, 0.1x for four, 0.15x for five
- Note (purple) – 0.05x for three, 0.1x for four, 0.15x for five
Five of a kind on a band member returns exactly your stake back. That’s a flat paytable by any measure, and it tells you where the game expects its money to come from.
The notes, five colours of them, all pay identically and barely register at 0.15x for a full house. The wild substitutes for all symbols, which is its entire job. There’s no scatter in the game; the free spins route runs entirely through the band member symbols, which is the unusual choice at the heart of the design.
Respins
A win that includes a band member symbol highlights that member and triggers a respin. It’s a rolling mechanic: land a band member win, the reels go again, and another band member win on the respin keeps the sequence alive.
The larger purpose is the free spins trigger. Win on all band members in the same round and the feature activates. With two band members in the paytable, that means both of them need to pay out in a single round to unlock the bonus.
That’s a stricter condition than it sounds. A round in which both the dark-haired woman and the green shirt man each form a winning way doesn’t come along often on a flat paytable.
The respin chain is what gives you second and third chances to complete the set within one round. Without it, the bonus would be close to unreachable.
Crowd Goes Wild
This one fires at random in the main game. When it does, wild symbols are added to the reels, up to a maximum of 12, and they can fill as many as three entire reels.
Twelve wilds across three full reels is a serious amount of coverage on a 5×4 grid, and it’s the one main-game event capable of producing a big win on its own. There’s no trigger to aim for and no pattern to it; it arrives or it doesn’t.
The Respinners Free Spins & Bonus Features
The free spin feature awards 12 free spins, triggered by winning on all band members in the same round in the main game. That’s the only route in, and given the flat band member pays, the respin mechanic is what makes the door reachable at all.
Inside the round, each band member symbol carries a multiplier. Every time you win on a band member, the multiplier currently displayed is applied to that win. Then, before the next spin, the multiplier grows by 4x.
That growth is the whole engine of the feature. A band member win early in the round pays modestly, but the same win five or six spins later pays at a multiplier that has been climbing steadily. With 12 spins there’s room for it to climb a long way.
The 5,150x ceiling is the limit of what the round can build to. Because each band member has its own multiplier, the two can climb at different rates depending on which of them is actually paying.
Base game winning combinations carry over into the feature unchanged, so every wager stays eligible for all winning combinations throughout. The wild also keeps substituting for all symbols inside the round, which matters more here than in the base game.
The round lives or dies on how often the band members pay while it runs.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
Most of a session on The Respinners is spent waiting for the crowd to go quiet again. The band members pay almost nothing, the notes pay less, and the respin chain gives you something to watch while you work towards the one round where both headliners pay at once. That’s the reason to be here: the free spins, where the multipliers climb 4x a spin and a late band member win starts to feel like an encore.
When the feature lands, it’s genuinely tense, and that climbing ladder is what the game is built to deliver. The problem is everything before it. Getting both band members to pay in the same round, on the flattest pays in the paytable, can take a long while, and the 12 spins on offer mean the wait buys you a single round.
It’s a good fit for players who like a slow build and a bonus that earns its big moment. It’s a poor one for anyone who wants the base game to pay its own way between features. The band is worth the ticket price if you’re happy to sit through the soundcheck.
The Respinners FAQs
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What is the RTP of The Respinners?
The RTP is 96.4%, calculated across ten billion simulated rounds. -
How many ways to win does The Respinners have?
The Respinners has 1,024 ways to win across its 5×4 grid. -
How do you trigger free spins in The Respinners?
You need to win on all band member symbols in the same round in the main game. That awards 12 free spins, and there’s no other way in. -
What does the respin feature do in The Respinners?
A win on a band member symbol highlights that member and triggers a respin. Chaining band member wins is how you work towards activating all of them and unlocking the free spins. -
What is the Crowd Goes Wild feature?
It’s a randomly activated main game feature that adds wild symbols to the reels, up to 12 in total, and can fill as many as three entire reels with wilds. -
How do the multipliers work in The Respinners free spins?
Each band member symbol carries a multiplier during the free spins. Every band member win is multiplied by the currently displayed multiplier, and before the next spin the multiplier grows by 4x. -
What is the maximum win on The Respinners?
The maximum win is 5,150x your bet. -
Can you retrigger the free spins in The Respinners?
The game awards 12 free spins when triggered; no retrigger rule is stated.
