Hot Sync Slot Quickspin

Someone brought forward some news about Quickspin's latest game, Hot Sync. Well, it was already probably about 1 or 2 months old by that time, but newly introduced at Casumo, my top favourite non-Playtech casino, so I was eager to try it out. And what do you know? It was like Casumo had read my mind and offered me 5 free Super Spins on Hot Sync, and that got me all excited, to say the least. One Super Spin was worth 2.50 EUR, so I had 12.50 EUR worth of hot spins to play Hot Sync. Hmm. What could be more hot than that, right? Hehehe.

Before even playing the game, I did what I usually do first, and that was to have a peek at the paytable first. All games are designed around the paytable, and whatever is shown in there would tell me how the game would play and pay. In Hot Sync, the word 'WILD' is the Wild symbol, paying a very low 50x the total bet for getting 5 of them, and substituting for other symbols except the 'Hot Sync' and the Bonus symbols. This Wild symbol is nonetheless a dumb symbol because it doesn't double any wins, nor becoming stacked or expanded on the reels. The 'Hot Sync' symbol is also a Wild symbol, but doesn't pay anything for itself. What it does, when 2 or more of these 'Hot Sync' symbols appear anywhere on the reels, is to expand, synchronise the reels, and make 1 free Respin. Any new 'Hot Sync' symbol appearing would trigger another respin, making it possible to get all 5 synchronised 'Hot Sync' reels in one respin. Sounds good right?

The 'Bonus Game' is the Bonus symbol, appearing only on reels 2, 3 and 4. It doesn't pay anything for itself, but getting all 3 symbols trigger 8 free spins with Sticky 'Hot Sync' Wild Reels and Respins. The Free Spins game cannot be retriggered, but this is compensated by the respins of each appearing 'Hot Sync' symbol during the free spins. Getting all 5 Hot Sync reels would pay the maximum possible wins. As for the other symbols in the game, the Diamond pays 25x, the '7' pays 15x, the Star pays 10x, the Bell pays 10x, and the various Fruits pay from 6.25x to 5x, all per total bet amount for getting 5 of each kind. Sadly to say, the paytable is a very low one for the 20 paylines.

Being a new game, I have always suspected that the game would play very well in its early stages, becoming more and more 'tight' with time, as I have already found out with numerous other newly released games. They all seem to work the same way. With Hot Sync, I had a marvellous first play on it. Those 5 free Super Spins from Casumo gave me an incredible 137.50 EUR win, by giving a Bonus game on the 4th spin. The wagering required to be done on this win was 6187.50 EUR, a humongous amount, but I was happy nonetheless, because it gave me an excellent opportunity to give Hot Sync a longer play and to get to know the game better.

Hot Sync is video slot with 20 paylines powered by Quickspin software provider. This is one of their newest game and I first tried it when I received some free spins on it. The winnings from free spins were small, I think I won only around 1€ from 15 free spins. Later I decided to make a small deposit to that casino where I got free spins and I frist opened this game.

The game has free spins feature and hot sync respin feature. Hot sync respin starts when you get 2 or more hot sync wild symbols in the same spin on the reels. During respin more additional wilds will be added on the reels. When I read this from paytable it sound interesting, but when I triggered hot sync feature it was boring. Quite a lot boring. The winnings were small, I never got bigger win of x10 bet from this feature.

Otherewise there are also free spins. When you get three bonus symbols on the reels 2,3 and 4 free spins are triggered. You will get 8 free spins, during those free spins any hot sync wild symbols landling will turn that reel hot, the reels will remain hot fort he duration of free spins. And yes.. hot reels have additional wilds. While I was playing it, I triggered free spins twice. But from both feature my winnings were below x20 bet which is really poor payouts. I don't think I will play this game again.

The main game is quite boring, with many dead, empty spins inside. And even when you get winning symbols on the reels, the payouts are small. Most of the time x1 bet, sometimes x2 and rarely x5 or something higher. So yeah this game is not good for me at all, I am sure I will not play it again. My ratio will be 5 stars.

I know there are many players who are always waiting for “Quickspin” to launch a new slot to try it out because you never know what new features this supplier will surprise you with, and you must admit that this company has always been concerned with constantly innovating in this specific aspect.

Precisely, during this month of February, Quickspin has released its new slot called “Hot Sync” which is certainly an innovative slot despite the fact that design team has chosen for this slot a classic theme with images of fruits, bells, sevens, stars, and diamonds.

The main innovation that Quickspin has made is to include, in addition to the ordinary wild symbol, a “Hot Sync Wild” symbol which, in addition to replacing the other standard symbols, can heat the reel on which it lands, and this happens whenever two or more Hot Sync Wilds participate in the formation of a line.

Two or more hot reels give a respin where all the symbols on those reels will appear horizontally synchronized, and in addition, there is a high probability that some of these symbols are wilds since in these hot reels there are additional wilds; personally, in one of my spins, I got a pair of hot reels with 2 wilds on each reel occupying a space of 2 x 2 squares.

During the free spins round, each wild that appears heats the reel and it remains this way until the end of the round, so there is a good chance of getting some big win during last turns.

My session today was quite satisfactory, I had to go through several non-winning streaks but finally I was able to get a big win equivalent to 115x my total bet during my last round of free spins, and precisely in my last spin during such round, from reel 1 to 4, I had a row of plums, one of wilds and another of diamonds in the bottom, and additionally a plum symbol in the middle of reel 5, which guaranteed me the formation of several lines of 4 and 5 of a kind, and only in that spin I got a Mega Win of 79x my total bet.

Although that was my best free round, it was not the only one; and as for the Hot Sync Wild feature, I had a lot of those during my session, sometimes with interesting winnings and some not, but in the end my best hits happened when I had already raised my bet level several times and that's why I was able to finish my session with profits.

Based on what I could experience playing “Hot Sync” slot today, I think this is a game with a good risk-benefit ratio that is worth trying.