Hot Nudge — RTP, volatility and max win

A steampunk workshop of steel, weapons and fire, painted in black, red and grey, is where Nolimit City places Hot Nudge. The game revolves around the nudge: xNudge wilds shuffle into view step by step and tie that movement to a multiplier.

The theme of Hot Nudge blends military and machine imagery: steel parts, weapons, steam and flames shape the symbols and the backdrop. Wins are paid on 40 paylines, and the stake starts at €0.20 per spin. Hot Nudge came out on July 26, 2018; the dark palette with red accents makes the nudging wilds stand out clearly on the reels.

Hot Nudge pays on lines rather than ways: matching symbols pay when they run reel by reel from the left, with 40 paylines to land them on. Wins on several lines in the same spin are added up. Wilds and the extra substitute symbols fill gaps in a line, and once an xNudge wild is part of it, its multiplier applies to that line win. Scatters do not pay along the lines; they start the free spins.

xNudge wilds: when a wild lands only partly on a reel, it is nudged until it is fully visible. Each nudge raises the wild's multiplier, which then applies to every line running through it.

Substitute symbols: besides the wilds, Hot Nudge has further substitute symbols that can complete lines.

Free spins: enough scatters trigger a free spins round. The nudging wilds return there with their multipliers, and this round is where the biggest wins of the game come from.

Almost every bigger win in Hot Nudge comes from a nudged wild with a multiplier; more titles whose wins grow through multipliers are gathered under inferno slots with multipliers.

RTP 96.29%. Background: how RTP works on a slot. Volatility High, like 85 of the 182 slots in the Fire & flame theme. Background: what slot volatility means. Max win 2,413×. Background: what max win means on a slot.

Hot Nudge returns 96.29%, a figure in the upper part of the field. Volatility is high, and the big hits almost always depend on an xNudge wild with a large multiplier. For a slot this volatile the 2,413× cap is fairly modest; around 27% of slots stop lower.

Hot Nudge is offered at more than one return level, and its highest figure sits well over the middle of the field; the titles that also come with an RTP range are listed under RTP of inferno slots.

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