Devil's Deal — RTP, volatility and max win

Devil's Deal by Hot Rise Games lets you strike a bargain with the devil: in a red and orange underworld, gems, hearts, apples, clovers, sweets, a sword and a stopwatch fill the reels. Wins are paid on ways rather than lines, and the heart of the game is the hold and win bonus triggered by bonus icons.

The theme of Devil's Deal plays on the idea of a pact: the devil offers lucky charms such as clovers and gems, while the stopwatch reminds you that time for the deal is running out. 46,656 ways spread over the 6×6 grid. A spin is played for €0.30 up to €30. The slot was released on October 4, 2023.

Devil's Deal pays on ways: the same symbol on adjacent reels, counted from the left, wins in any of the six rows. If a reel holds several matching symbols, the number of hits multiplies accordingly. Stacked symbols and mystery symbols, which all turn into the same symbol, can fill large parts of the grid at once. Bonus icons have no ways payout; their job is to unlock the respin bonus.

Hold and win: enough bonus icons start the respin round. Those icons stay in place, the other positions spin again, and multipliers can raise the values.

Mystery symbols and stacks: hidden symbols all reveal the same symbol, and stacked symbols cover whole sections of a reel.

Cheating the reels: in keeping with the devil's bargain, Devil's Deal has its own cheat mechanic that steps into the action.

Bonus game, scatters and bonus buy: scatters lead into a separate bonus game, and players who do not want to wait can buy the bonus directly.

On the grid of Devil's Deal, hits count in any of the six rows, and several matching symbols per reel multiply the wins; titles that also pay on ways rather than lines are listed under inferno slots with ways to win.

RTP 96.05%, higher than 59% of the 400 Inferno slots. Background: how RTP works on a slot. Volatility High, like 85 of the 180 slots in the Hell & devil theme. Background: what slot volatility means. Max win 20,000× (€600,000 at the highest stake). Background: what max win means on a slot. Hit frequency 26.47%: roughly one spin in 4 wins.

The RTP of Devil's Deal is 96.05%. Volatility is high, and with a max win of 20,000× the peak sits far beyond what the base game delivers: the potential lies in the hold and win bonus, when many bonus icons meet multipliers.

Devil's Deal circulates at more than one return level, and the operator decides which one runs; the titles that also come with an RTP range are shown in the RTP comparison of inferno slots.

With a max win in the upper tenth of the catalogue, Devil's Deal counts among the very high caps; the max win comparison of inferno slots rank the other titles.

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