Red Hot BBQ

Red Hot BBQ Review

Firing up the charcoal grill usually means having a good time with friends and family, but perhaps not if the food items are staring back at you wearing more or less mean grins on their veggie faces. It might make you wonder what kind of liquor uncle Joe used to spice up the punch. In addition, this Red Hot BBQ party is about to go from bad to worse, as the very ground under your feet looks like a volcano ready to erupt when the bonus round triggers.

It’s all for visual effects, of course, and we don’t see any actual humans in sight anyway. The gameplay is simple enough, with a Mystery Sauce mystery symbols feature taking center stage in the base game. The bonus round is all about upgrading and eliminating premium symbols until only the top-tier symbol remains (hopefully), but you can still win up to “only” 1,110x your stake. A mid-range offering this time, but good for getting your system ready for dinner, perhaps.

Red Hot BBQ Slot Features

The premium food item symbols, consisting of garlic, onion, serrano, jalapeno, habanero, and ghost pepper, pay between 4 and 15 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins. There are no wild symbols in this game, which is a bit surprising, but you get Mystery Sauce symbols and scatter free spins symbols we’ll take a closer look at below.

All instances of the Mystery Sauce symbols that appear on the same spin will turn into the same randomly chosen matching symbol. Keep in mind, however, that the mystery symbols will always reveal a higher value food item symbol, and never the low value royal symbols.

The Bonus Round triggers from 3, 4, or 5 scatters in view, and this gives you 9, 12, or 15 free spins, respectively. The Mystery Sauce symbols can now land with yellow pepper icons attached, and these pepper icons are collected in the Hot Bar.

The Hot Bar lines up all the premium food item symbols from lowest to highest value above the grid, and you need 3 collected peppers to fill 1 of the 5 steps on the trail. Each step upgrades the relevant symbol to the next in ascending order, which effectively eliminates the affected symbols from the grid for the duration of the bonus round.

You will still land low value royal symbols during the feature though, as these are not eliminated via the Hot Bar. If the Hot Bar is filled, only the top-tier Ghost Pepper symbol will land in addition to royal symbols. You win +2 extra spins from reaching step 1 and 2, +3 extra spins from reaching step 3 and 4, while filling the meter awards +5 extra spins. This means that 15 extra spins can be won in total.

On a final note, non-UK players, and anyone eligible, can take advantage of the Bonus Buy Feature. It comes with 2 options. You can pay 5x your stake to get at least 3 Mystery Sauce symbols on the spin that follows, or you can purchase the bonus round for 70x your stake. The latter guarantees at least 3 triggering scatters on the spin that follows.

The 200 Spins Red Hot BBQ Slot Experience

You get to see the Mystery Sauce feature early on, and then we got mostly dead spins for a while. We therefore decided to purchase the bonus round, and it triggers at 0:56 into the 2:27-minute highlights video. We got 3 triggering free spins scatters, and you can see for yourself how the barbeque played out by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

Barbeque slots keep cropping up on a regular basis, but they seldom linger too long at the top of any charts. Red Hot BBQ is hardly that memorable either, but it will probably work up your appetite for some charcoal sizzled delights. We have no idea why the ground underneath the grill starts to do its own barbecuing when the bonus round triggers, but it looks like Mother Earth herself is taking revenge on whomever is present at this BBQ party.

Being a vegetarian is apparently not enough to be spared these days, but we digress. The base game is standard stuff, spiced up somewhat by the Mystery Sauce symbols, and the symbol elimination bonus round is not exactly unheard of either. This game is a decent lightweight installment, but the 1,110x potential is hardly impressive even for a shelf-filler like this. We have seen far better from them lately, and we hope they get back on track with the more daring math models and experimental themes again.