Sizzling Hot Deluxe is a game that borrows from the classic genre, using images of symbols that you know from the past. This means that the Lucky 7 is the one paying the top jackpot, that the Star serves as the scatter, and that the rest of the symbols include Melons, Grapes, Plums, Oranges, Lemons and Cherries.

The design quality is very low, basically what you would expect to see from a 90s game. Sizzling Hot Deluxe was released in 2007, so it’s not that far away from those times.

Novomatic delivers with Sizzling Hot Deluxe a classic experience, in pretty much every way, but it’s not something that’s unusual for them. As a developer that started out in 1980, when internet gambling wasn’t a thing yet, they grew rapidly and covered a large part of the world with their land-based machines. Slots with average designs by today’s standards, but with exciting features and big top payouts, they got a lot of players as fans. Some of those players are playing those games that they know when they get online, which is how a lot of these are still quite popular, despite the below average RTP and older graphics.

Your bets in Sizzling Hot Deluxe can start from as little as $0.05, you will still get all lines active in exchange, as each one gets $0.01. The possibility to increase the bet significantly is there as well, so you if you want to spend as a high roller, you do have that option.

Obviously, based on how it looks as well, this isn’t a very complicated slot machine. You get only 5 active lines from its 5×3 reels, so getting a combination to form might prove difficult at times. The requirement is to have 3 to 5 symbols arranged from left to right, on the same active line.

I like where the game is going with its payouts, as even a single winning combination can pay a huge amount. It’s the Lucky 7 that will do that for you, delivering prizes of up to 1,000x the stake, just by appearing five times on the same line. Consider the 5 active lines of the game, and you will find that the slot has up to 5,000x payouts to give you.

It can be a risky game at times, it’s what we can figure out based on the top jackpot that’s promised, but also thanks to the medium to high volatility that we’ve seen for it in the 10+ years since its release. The slot’s RTP is not as bad as what we’ve seen in other games from Novomatic though, being announced at 95.66% for Sizzling Hot Deluxe.

Sizzling Hot Deluxe is not a game that modern players will likely enjoy, but those that love the classics might have fun with this high volatility release, which has the big top prizes to match the risk.