Red Chili Hunter 5 Lines Slots

For a red hot classic slot gaming experience, players could do a lot worse than trying Red Chili Hunter 5 Lines, a retro-inspired title from the team at Octopus Gaming that has all the functionality of a bricks and mortar slot machine with the added convenience of an online title.

Red Chili Hunter 5 Lines is definitely a “what you see is what you get” type of title in that the reels themselves, the rules and the payout table can all be condensed onto one screen. There are no fancy bonus rounds or free spins to be won, but red chili symbols do acts as substitute wilds.

As such it is a great game for both players chasing a taste of Las Vegas nostalgia or those looking for a slot that can be picked up and played instantly without the need for brushing up on any rules.

Prickly Payouts

Featuring 3 reels and 5 adjustable paylines, Red Chili Hunter 5 Lines can be played from as little as $0.01 per spin, but this amount can be increased to a maximum of $25 at the highest possible betting amount with all paylines active. This makes it a fairly versatile title that is suitable both for those on minute bankrolls and medium stakes players looking to slightly step up their slot wagering.

In terms of payouts, the maximum jackpot that can be hit on Red Chili Hunter 5 Lines is 6,000x your line bet for matching three wild symbols on the fifth payline – the diagonal running from bottom left to top right. This is an important factor to consider, as with just the middle payline active, the most you can win is 1,000x for this combo, meaning the more lines you enable, the greater your chances.

Thankfully, Red Chili Hunter 5 Lines does award a number of smaller payouts for finding a single or double cactus symbol anywhere on the game’s 3 reels, while the BAR symbol pays out for three-of-a-kind in any combination, meaning triple BARs can be matched with double BARs and so forth.

Tequila Sunrise

As you’d expect from a classic slot machine, graphically-speaking there’s not a great deal going on in Red Chili Hunter 5 Lines. Although the game is nicely laid out on a colourful machine with all active paylines and payouts clearly displayed, there’s nothing in the way of animations to bring it to life.

The symbols used in the game are mainly Mexican themed, with cacti, sombrero hats and red chillies featuring alongside the classic BAR symbols – which have been designed on a wooden background to give them a cantina-feel – while the game uses a palette of bold red, yellow and orange colours.

The audio, meanwhile, is also fairly minimal, with no in-game music and only a small selection of regular casino machine sound effects accompanying each spin of the reels and winning prize payout.

Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot

As mentioned previously, the only thing that even comes close to resembling a “feature” in Red Chili Hunter 5 Lines is the presence of the red chilli as a wild icon. This symbol can be substituted for any regular icon to complete winning paylines and also offers the game’s highest line payout.

Unfortunately, the word “Hunter” in the title is actually pretty appropriate, because you really will have to search high and low for these special symbols. The red chillies rarely ever feature on the reels, making opportunities to substitute a wild few and far between and the chances of hitting the jackpot even slimmer.

Players should also remember that the payout for three of these symbols is wholly dependent on the number of lines you have active, with a massive discrepancy between the minimum jackpot award of 1,000x and the maximum of 6,000x basically handcuffing players into keeping all lines enabled.

Adios Amigo

As classic slots go, Red Chili Hunter 5 Line is not a bad game. It does feature a range of smaller regular payouts to ensure players can keep their bankroll ticking over until a big win comes about, but the prize structure for the game’s jackpot proves that the lines really aren’t as adjustable as the slot makes out. Sure, you could play the game with only one payline active, but you’d be sacrificing such a lot in terms of payouts that it’s hardly worth your time touching the game’s +/- button.