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The wombat says: Call me old fashioned, but this current trend where everyone and his dog needs to get tatted up to their lugholes is beyond me.
It’s a miracle that this wombat made it through the 90s without ending up with at least one tribal or Celtic tattoo. Mind you, my fur grows so fast over them that it’s hardly worth it.
Look and Feel
Hot Ink is a slot all about tattoos, and your protagonists are the body modification enthusiasts Angie and Luci. It’s pretty dark (kind of like the Victorian Villain slot), but the drawings are fantastic. Their parlour is where they hang out together with their entourage of tattoo artists.
The music is loud, the needles are whizzing and single shoulder tattoos are highly frowned upon. The graphics are very nice, all hand-drawn and intricate! Perhaps we’ll reconsider that tattoo after all…
Game Play
Hot Ink has five reels, five rows and is a ‘1,024 ways to win’ slot from Microgaming- the people behind the Kings of Cash slot machine, Tomb Raider and Jungle Jim.
Your symbols seem to be a ‘who’s who’ of tattoo templates and include; the dice, a winged heart, an eight ball, and a horseshoe. Then of course there’s the koi carp. How many forearms would be completely naked without a few colourful fish? Anyway, the koi carp act as Scatters in the game, and landing three or more of them will trigger the bonus feature.
Finally, there’s also the Hot Ink logo, which acts as the Wild symbol.
Bonus Features
It’s a Free Spins feature for you Wombat Fans, once you’ve landed those Scatters. But first, you must click on the arm, back and leg albums to match three tattoo symbols on the body of our local tattoo enthusiast (to make the task at hand even easier she decided to strip down to her underwear, excellent).
If these tat styles match, you’ll win ten Free Spins with a 2x multiplier. Even though it doesn’t sound spectacular, if you’re on a good run you can end the bonus round with some chunky cash wins in your coffers.
Then there are the re-spins – you can re-spin any reel for a fee. So if you are missing one symbol to complete a four or five-of-a-kind combo, it’s a good opportunity to give this feature a whirl. But be careful not to go crazy, as the re-spins will eat away your bankroll.
Conclusion
Hot Ink is a good game. It’s been around for already a couple of years but doesn’t look dated like many of the games we come across (such as the Winning Wizards slot machine for example) and we like the mechanics of this slot.
Nowadays, a base game is just something you grind through until you trigger a bonus feature, but Hot Ink slot a release has a decent base game with sizeable wins. The re-spin feature also helps to shift this balance.
In terms of variance, the Hot Ink slot is somewhere in the middle. All in all, it’s a good ‘un.