Lobster Hotpot Slot Review

Lobster Hotpot Slot Overview

Lobster Hotpot is a new casino slot from Gaming Corps similar to Big Bass Bonanza, Fishin' Frenzy The Big Splash, and similar fishing adventures. The games have the same setup with just 10 paylines on a 5 reels and 3 rows grid. They also have similar Free Spins features, where a Fisherman reels in cash prizes from Fish Symbols in the Free Spins. Something unique in Lobster Hotpot is that any unclaimed cash prize will be collected by one of the lobsters below the reels, and the player can collect them on following spins by landing Lobster Hotpot Symbols. Let's take a look under the sea's surface.

Lobster Hotpot is a video slot from Gaming Corps with an old-school setup of 5 reels, 3 rows, and 10 paylines. The Min.bet is 0.1, and the Max.bet is 100. Lobster Hotpot's default RTP is 96.24%, but you can also find versions with 94.20% and 89.09%. The volatility is medium, and the max win is capped at 2,000X the bet. The probability of taking home the max win is 1 in 13,698,630, and the hit frequency of 14.05% means that about every seventh spin is a winner.

Let the lobster chef take the lead and introduce you to the features Wild Symbol, Fish Symbols, Lobster Spins, and Free Spins.

Lobster Hotpot Slot Information

Lobster Hotpot is set at sea in blue waters. The transparent reels are divided by water bubbles, and the bottom of a boat is visible at the top of the screen on the water's surface. The game is accompanied by a chill Caribbean-sounding tune, and to the left of the reels is the game's logo with a lobster wearing a chef's hat. Lobsters are usually prepared cruelly boiled alive. It has long been a question if lobsters can feel pain, and recent studies indicate that they can.

For that reason, the restaurant owner, Charlotte Gill, in the American state of Maine, started to sedate the restaurant's lobsters with marijuana before she cooked them. She was happy with the outcome and claims that the animal tastes sweeter after the treatment and that people eating it won't test positive on a drug test. However, she had to abandon the method when the state health department threatened to shut down the restaurant. The lobsters in this game are lucky since they're the chefs serving up the fish and don't have to worry about being boiled.

To make a win under the sea's surface, you need to land at least 3 symbols of the same type on one of the 10 paylines going left to right. All wins must start at the first reel to the left, and you can play the game on mobile phones, notepads, and desktops.

The lower-paying symbols in the waters are classics in the casino world. Landing a 5-of-a-kind win with 10, J, Q, K, and A awards 10X the bet. The medium-paying is a Fish Symbol worth 20X the bet for a 5-of-a-kind win. Each fish also has a cash value that can be collected in the Free Spins. The higher-paying symbols are lure box, fishing rod, lifebuoy, and bobber. These four fishing-related items will give you between 50X and 200X the bet for a 5-of-a-kind win. The Wild Symbol substitutes all mentioned ones in making wins on paylines, but not the Scatter Symbol or the Lobster Hotpot Symbols.

Lobster Hotpot Slot Features

What is the max win in the slot Lobster Hotpot?

You can win up to 2,000X the bet.

What features are available in the slot Lobster Hotpot?

The features are Wild Symbol, Fish Symbols, Lobster Spins, and Free Spins.

Wild Symbol

The Wild Symbol is a fisherman who gives a thumbs up. It can only land in the Free Spins, and it substitutes all other symbols in making wins on paylines. It also triggers the Wild Collect feature if it lands on the same spin as a Fish Symbol.

Fish Symbols

The Fish Symbols are fish in different sizes that are the medium-paying symbols in making regular wins. You can mix fish of different sizes on a payline. Each fish also has a cash value between 1X and 1,000X of the bet, which only becomes important during the Wild Collect feature in the Free Spins.

Lobster Spins

Activating the Lobster Spins raises your initial bet by 50%, doubling the chances of triggering the Free Spins. It doesn't affect the paytable.

Free Spins

Landing 3, 4, or 5 Scatter Symbols, depicted by a lobster with a chef's hat, triggers 10, 15, or 20 Free Spins. The Wild Symbol is added to the reels during the feature, and landing a Wild and at least one Fish Symbol on the same spin triggers the Wild Collect feature. It will make the Fisherman collect all cash prizes from the visible fish.

Below each reel is a lobster holding a sign with a starting prize of 1X the bet. If a Fish Symbol lands but no Fisherman appears, the lobster beneath the symbol's reel will collect the cash prize and accumulate it. If the red Lobster Hotpot Symbol lands, you collect the cash prize of the lobster on that specific reel. Landing a Lobster Golden Hotpot on any reel will collect the cash prizes of all five lobsters. A lobster cash prize will reset to 1X after it has been collected.

Landing a Scatter Symbol during the feature will give you an additional spin up to 40 Free Spins. The Free Spins end when you run out of spins or when the max win of 2,000X the bet is reached.

Lobster Hotpot Slot Conclusion

Fishing games are very popular in the slot world. Many of the games have fish symbols with cash values that can be collected in the Free Spins. That is also the case of Lobster Hotpot, and we can't help but think that Gaming Corps was inspired by Big Bass Bonanza and Fishin' Frenzy The Big Splash when making this game since the setup of 5 reels, 3 rows, and 10 paylines are the same. The symbols' values are also identical in this game and Big Bass Bonanza, and they vary very little from Fishin' Frenzy The Big Splash.

The previous games use a Free Spins ladder where the player advances with different bonuses by collecting Wild Symbols. Lobster Hotpot doesn't use this feature but awards extra spins for every Scatter Symbol that lands during the Free Spins. The bonus game also has five hungry lobsters beneath the reels, collecting every cash value that isn't taken by the Fisherman. On any spin, you can land a Lobster Hotpot Symbol that will collect the value of one lobster or the Lobster Golden Hotpot Symbol that will collect the values from all the lobsters.

Lobster Hotpot doesn't feel like the most innovative game of the year, but it will certainly attract some fish-crazy players. Notice that the max win of 2,000X the bet is lower than Big Bass Bonanza's 2,100X and Fishin' Frenzy The Big Splash's 5,000X. However, the medium volatility is also slightly lower than the other games' mid-high volatility.

Lobster Hotpot from Gaming Corps is a fishing game where a Wild Fisherman takes home cash prizes, and lobsters give the player a second chance to collect the cash prizes that the Fisherman misses.