Make a Deal with the Devil in Red Hot Catch

Over the years, slots have taken us to hell and hell-adjacent places many times. Most of the time, that results in gorgeous renditions of tall caverns and lakes of fire that make you sweat just by looking at them. Red Hot Catch goes in a different direction, choosing more cartoony visuals and littering the caverns with bundles of coins. If you’re good at scooping them up, you might walk out with a 3,000x max win in your pocket.

There’s plenty of excitement to be had in this Blueprint Gaming slot, but will its collection feature be the right flavour of fun for you? Find out in this in-depth review.

Red Hot Catch Visuals

The graphics are nice to look at, though you shouldn’t expect Red Hot Catch to rival NetEnt productions. Blueprint Gaming has chosen a more simplistic style, though one that’s still nice to look at. There may not be any over-the-top animations to gawk at, but the backdrop still has everything you’d expect from a pit of hell. A small devil follows your every move with a grin, waiting for an opportunity to meddle.

Symbol designs are a mix of playing card royals and other sin-adjacent imagery. Golden goblets full of wine, books of forbidden magic, flaming dice, and devilish sevens await you on the reels. The word Wild with a devil’s tail is the Wild, while the grinning devil serves as a Collect icon. Other bonus symbols include fish, the Devil’s Reel, and five golden chest Scatters, each tied to a different progressive feature.

Red Hot Catch Gameplay and Features

You play the Red Hot Catch slot on a 5×4 grid with 20 fixed paylines. Scoring wins requires landing three or more matching symbols next to each other, starting with the leftmost reel.

Collection Feature

The Collection bonus round is the cornerstone of this game. It triggers whenever a Collect symbol lands on the first or fifth reel. Any cash symbols present on the screen will have their attached rewards collected, after which they’re added to the player’s balance.

Devil’s Reel

Devil’s Reel symbols can appear anywhere on the playing area. If it lands alongside an active Collect icon, it will activate the feature and create a temporary reel. Spinning the reel can reveal one, two, or three devil faces, which increases the prize you win from the Devil’s Reel. However, if the reel stops on a pip, the feature ends and the rewards you’ve earned until then are granted.

If you reach the Devil’s Reel top prize, you’ll be given 10 Red Hot Spins with all 5 progressive banks active.

Hell Fire Modifiers

Whenever a coin lands on the grid, it has a chance to trigger one of four modifiers.

• Bonus Boost adds Scatters to the reels
• Lucky Devil adds Collect and cash symbols to the grid
• Wild Devil adds Wilds to the middle three reels
• Burn ‘Em Up turns a losing spin into a guaranteed win

Progressive Banks

Each time a Scatter lands on the reels, it gets collected into the corresponding progressive bank. Each bank and Scatter have a separate colour, making them easy to distinguish at a glance. Collecting at least one Scatter makes it possible for the matching bank to activate on any subsequent spin.

Available progressive banks and their effects are as follows:

• Devil Fish adds a new cash prize icon to the reels, which gathers all cash values in view before being collected.
• Cash Inferno replaces all line pay symbols with Scatters and Collect icons.
• Super Collect awards a collect multiplier on every spin, which can go up to 10x.
• Cash Boost increases the value of all cash symbols by 5x.
• Devil’s Re-spin spins the reels again to reveal new cash prizes, Collect icons, and Scatter symbols. New symbols lock in place, and the re-spins keep going until no new icons land on the reels.

Red Hot Spins

You can activate the Red Hot Spins feature with one or two Scatters, though it’s not guaranteed. However, landing three or more Scatters will always trigger the bonus round. You receive 10 free spins, which you can extend by triggering additional progressive banks. You’re guaranteed to start with one progressive bank.

Express Bet

Blueprint Gaming lets you increase your odds of triggering one of its bonuses by enabling the Express Bet. This increases your total bet by 0.2x per spin.

Red Hot Catch RTP and Payouts

The RTP for the Red Hot Catch slot is 94%. This is lower than average, though not by so much that we wouldn’t recommend this game. That said, the 3,000x top prize feels a bit low given the high variance.