Hot Tuna Demo (Pragmatic Play) Slot Demo & Review

Slot Overview

Hot Tuna is a high-volatility fishing-themed slot from Reel Kingdom and distributed by Pragmatic Play. Designed around a money symbol collection mechanic, the game boasts progressive retriggers, collectors, free spins, and increasing multipliers of up to 10x. It feels very familiar, and with a maximum win potential of just 2,500x, is it likely to attract any players? Let’s find out.

Theme & Design

Hot Tuna is designed around a colourful, cartoonish Asian fishing theme, and you’ll see a sea, with bright blue seas, waves, mountains, and an emperor, all rendered in a kind of cartoon-like design. Visually, it looks fine, but it’s nothing special, and it gives off an instant Big Bass Bonanza vibe.

Now, while Hot Tuna isn’t part of the Big Bass series of games, the same provider, Reel Kingdom, produces it, and thus the gameplay is pretty much identical to all the fishing games which have flooded the market in the last few years. 

Titles like Big Bass Halloween 2, for example, are being churned out year-round, and while Hot Tuna does deviate slightly by not using the same name, it’s easy to tell that it’s essentially just another clone.

Hot Tuna Gameplay & Bonus Features

Hot Tuna is played on a standard 5-reel, 3-row layout with 10 fixed paylines. Wins are formed by matching three or more symbols from left to right. You can bet between €0.05 and €480 per spin. The game has a default RTP of 96.53%.

Now, while line wins are possible, pretty much all the win potential in Hot Tuna revolves around Money symbols. When these symbols land, they display a random cash value of between 2x and 2,500x. Landing a Wild is what collects these Money symbols.

If you land 3, 4, or 5 of the scatter symbols anywhere in view, you’ll trigger the free spins bonus and receive 10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively. Plus, if two Scatters land without the third, a random “nudge down” feature can trigger and award the third Scatter.

Once inside the free spins, things change slightly. Every time a Wild lands, it collects all visible Money symbols and awards +1 free spin. If a Money symbol lands without a wild, it’s stored in a collection meter on the side of the screen, and collecting six Money symbols advances you to the next stage. This awards you +10 free spins and drops a random Hot Tuna symbol onto the reels.

The Hot Tuna symbol is a special collector that multiplies the total collected Money values by up to 10x. If more than one Hot Tuna symbol forms part of the same win, their multipliers are added together, too.

Bonus Buy & Ante Bet

Hot Tun contains one Bonus Buy and one Ante Bet option. You can buy the free spins bonus for a fixed cost of 100x, while the Ante Bet doubles your base game stake but makes it more likely that you’ll trigger the bonus.