Hell’s Hogs

Hell’s Hogs Overview

Are you looking for a wild biker adventure with exciting piggy fun and plenty of features? Come and play this new game from the Reflex Gaming studio that imparts all the thrill of a road trip combined with the lucrative aspect of a slot machine. If you are a fan of the Hell's Angel's aesthetic, you'll probably love this game too. Mechanically, this is a five-reel three-row game with twenty pay lines and a low volatility rating. The RTP for Hell's Hogs is 95.63%, and the top win available is 10,136x the stake. This game is available to play across mobile, tablet, and desktop platforms.

The features for this game start with chop shop symbols. These icons fulfill the role of mystery symbols in this game. When they land, they all transform into the same paying symbol to help score more wins. The next feature is called piggy in the middle and is triggered when players land three or more of the piggy in the middle symbols and is a special bonus that can help land prizes or special modifiers. Next is the Biker Bash feature activated when three Biker Bash symbols land. This is effectively this game's free spin round. Finally, there is also a bonus called wild ride, a special free spins game with extended wilds. All features will be explained in greater detail later in the review.

Theme and Symbols

The theme for this game is an adapted Hell's Angels theme, but instead of the classic angels, there are pigs or hogs. This is mainly a reference to the specific type of bike that these rebellious leather wearing people usually ride, affectionately nicknamed 'hogs'. If you were looking for a calming slot, this is probably not the game for you. It is, in fact, a visual and audio barrage with everything about the life of a biker brought to the fore. The setting is all about the open road and what that represents for the hogs that make up this strange gang.
The background for Hell's Hogs is a depiction of route 76 in the US, one of the most famous old school backroads through the country. The game habituates you in a desert-like area with mountains in the background, cacti across the screen and dusty red desert as far as you can see. Everything about this setting has been dialled up to the maximum, including the colour saturation for the board.
The playing board for this game is modelled after an entrance to a Motel, with neon signs and columns forming the essential elements.
The symbols for this game are split into low-paying, high-paying and special symbols. The low-paying symbols are the clubs, spades, hearts and diamonds in playing card suits. The most valuable of these is the diamond, which pays out at 8x the stake for the top combination of five in a row. On the other hand, the more valuable symbols are the burning wheel, the jukebox and the game's logo. The logo is the most valuable of these, paying out at 25x the stake for the top combination. The specials for this game are the mystery symbol, the Biker Bash icon, the piggy in the middle icon, the wild ride special and the wild.

Game Play

Hell's Hogs 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 Hell's Hogs 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.
Volatility for this slot is rated in the low range. The return to player percentage of Hell's Hogs is 95.63%, which is below average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 10,136x your stake.

Features

The first feature in this game is called the Chop Shop bonus. It concerns the chop shop icons. These land randomly throughout the game and all transform into the same winning symbol to boost the number of wins you get.
The next feature is called the piggy in the middle bonus. It is triggered when players land three or more of the piggy in the middle specials. When you trigger it, three pigs on motorbikes descend onto the reels, each displaying a prize or a modifier. These then spin and will stop when you hit the stop button at the bottom of the screen. Whichever pig is highlighted at this point will determine your prize. This mechanic keeps going until a red x shows on the reels.

The penultimate feature in this game is the biker bash feature landed when three biker bash icons appear simultaneously. This will award players with ten free spins. The first spin of which begins with a 1x multiplier and will increase by 1x for every spin. You may also retrigger this feature with more symbols, in which case the multiplier will keep growing.
The final feature here is the wild ride feature. It is triggered when players land three wild ride icons. This will reward players with five free spins with super extended roaming wilds that helps to score more wins.

Conclusion

This game certainly makes you want to hit the highway and feel the wind in your hair; however, things aren't as great as they may seem. Although there is plenty of feature content, the actual statistics here are a little worrying. For example, the poor RTP and the low top win don't promise much in terms of return. Play this game for a laugh for sure, but don't be surprised when you have lost a few more quid than you might have liked to.