Xtreme Summer Hot

Xtreme Summer Hot Overview

The established online slot designer GameArt invites you to a tropical island to play a simple yet satisfying fruit-themed game with great features and a top payout of 2,600x the stake. With all the nostalgic icons of the late 90s but in a modern digital gaming format, Xtreme Summer Hot offers players a classic feel with a contemporary twist that is simply intoxicating. Mechanically, this is a five-reel, three-row game with 20 pay lines and an RTP of 96.29%. Players will find they also have a decent betting range available to them of between 20p and £100.

The features for Xtreme Summer Hot start with an instant cash prize bonus delivered by landing special purple star symbols in concentrations of three or more. The other main feature present in this game is the expanding wild feature. The expanding wild in this game is the lucky 7. It can substitute for other icons, expand to fill the entire reel it lands on and trigger re-spins. When the re-spins occur, the wild reel is held in place while the rest of the reels spin again to find wins or more wilds to continue the re-spins dynamic. This game also offers bonus buy and gamble options.

Theme and Symbols

This game has a kind of tropical vibe theme, with an island setting and exotic fruit displayed across the reels. It’s a wonder that more studios don’t use this design when producing fruity games, as the tropical fruits are logically produced from hot and humid countries. Although we say this is a distinctly tropical theme, there isn’t much to go on apart from a vaguely exotic colour scheme, a few palm fronds and some glistening fruit symbols.

The background for this game is a peach-coloured vista looking out to sea from what we assume is the edge of a gorgeous beach on some beautiful island. However, quite a lot of this is speculation, as there aren’t too many details in the image to give you an exact read on where this image is supposed to be or what it is supposed to represent. Yet, with only the most minimal of aesthetic elements, GameArt has managed to imbue this game’s background with a fun tropical feeling that matches nicely with the colourful fruit symbols displayed across the reels.

The playing board for this game is a shiny rectangle with an interior that matches the background’s colour scheme.
The symbols are split into low-paying, high-paying and special symbols. The low-paying icons are the blueberries, strawberries, oranges and cherries. These all pay out at 10x the stake for the top combination of five in a row. On the other hand, the more valuable symbols comprise the watermelons, raspberries, limes and golden bells. The golden bells are the most valuable of these icons, paying out at 200x the stake for the top combination. The special icons in this game are the lucky 7 expandable wild, and the purple star instant cash scatter.

Game Play

Xtreme Summer Hot is played on a 5-reel, 3-row machine with 20 fixed pay lines. To win combinations, players must land three or more matching symbols on pay lines moving from left to right, starting from the leftmost reel.

The betting range for Xtreme Summer Hot is 20p to £100 per spin. To adjust their bet levels, players can toggle their stake up and down using the tool located at the bottom left-hand side of the screen.

Further information, including a short tutorial and a display of the paytable, can be found via the menu button in the right-hand corner of the screen. The spin and auto spin buttons are located in the centre of the screen.

The volatility for this slot is rated in the medium range. The return to player percentage for Xtreme Summer Hot is 96.29%, which is above average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 2,600x your stake.

Features

The first feature included in this game is the purple star instant cash win bonus. When they fall onto the board in concentrations of three or more, Purple stars will immediately pay out instant cash wins. The more stars that appear in unison, the bigger the resulting cash win. The biggest win you can get using this feature is 50x the stake with five purple stars.
The other main feature in this game is the expanding wild feature. As explained, the expanding wild icon in this game is the lucky 7. This icon can only land on reels 2-4; however, when it does, it will expand to fill the entire reel on which it lands and substitute for any other icon in the game apart from the purple star to help form more wins.

In addition, landing one of these icons also triggers the re-spins game. When this occurs, the wild reel will become sticky, and the rest of the reels will re-spin to look for more wins or more expanding wilds to continue the dynamic to keep finding wins.
Finally, this game also offers risk and bonus buy options. The risk option allows players to risk any win they achieve for a chance to grow it in a double-or-nothing mini-game. However, if you lose the mini-game, you will lose all of your staked winnings. The bonus buy option allows you to purchase access to the re-spins feature (however, this option is not available in the UK).

Conclusion

A simple yet fun game, Xtreme Summer Hot offers a decent gaming experience with a nice balance of features and favourable potential win statistics. If you like modern slots with a classic feel, you will certainly get on with this game. Plus, players should find a few decent wins here with medium volatility and a decent top win. You can also try Hot Spin Deluxe from our demo slot collection.