Slot Machine: Our Editorial Review

by BGaming

RTP: 97.00%
Volatility level: Very high
Max win: 2,124x
Reels: 3x3
Win combinations: 5 Lines
Release date: 07/12/2023

Publication date 29/09/2026

Five Lines and a Fruity Skin Over Sharper Arithmetic

A 97% return is common enough on paper. What is not common is charging nothing for the shortcut: BGaming prints the same 97% for the base game and for the bought Hold and Spin, so the 60x purchase changes when the variance arrives, not what the game keeps. On the shelf that reaches South Africa, where so much of the supply already runs at Very high volatility, that gives this little Classic cabinet an odd standing. Five Lines across a 3x3 grid under a Fruity theme looks like the mildest thing available; the arithmetic underneath it is not.

Slot Machine by BGaming: The Lever Is Theatre, the Arithmetic Is Not

A Single Object That Asks to Be Read

BGaming released Slot Machine in December 2023, and the whole game is a single object rather than a scene: one red coin-operated fruit machine standing against a cyan glow, with no characters and no story beyond the device itself. That staging amounts to a promise. A cabinet in Classic dress with a Fruity theme is meant to be legible, read rather than explored, and the documented behavior mostly honors the contract. The 3x3 grid runs on 5 Lines. The published RTP is one unvarying 97.00% figure, quoted identically for base play and the Buy Bonus path. Nearly every number the machine wears can be checked against what it actually does, and even the wooden lever fits the fiction without strain: it is decorative, pushed automatically with every spin, while the arithmetic behind the glass does the real work.

Wheel glows on x3 wedge; grid shows four star coins and 0 Respins left, balance 993.70 FUN.

Tested Against Its Own Paytable

The paytable prints each symbol's return in FUN at the active stake, and a captured base-game win shows what those figures mean in practice. At a 0.10 FUN total bet, a grid packed with Plums produced three winning Lines at once; each paid the full printed 0.40 FUN, returning 1.20 FUN in all and lifting the balance from 999.00 to 1,000.20 FUN. The rules text still recites an older bet-per-line formula, but the machine pays on the whole stake. The Hold and Spin feature behaves with the same literalness. Three or more gold coins open it, stuck coins persist, each fresh coin restores the respin counter to three, and the semicircular dial overhead carries the same seven multipliers the paytable lists, from x3 up to x2024. A purchased round that never improved on its three triggering coins closed at x3 and paid 0.30 FUN on that same 0.10 FUN stake, precisely what the ladder indicates. Even the entry price holds steady at x60 of the total bet, verified at both the 0.10 and 8.00 FUN rungs of a stake ladder that runs to 80.00 FUN.

What Is Printed, What Is Measured, What Is Taken on Trust

Quantity	Value	How the value is established
RTP	97.00%	Printed in Help; identical for base game and Buy Bonus
Feature price	x60 of the total bet	Measured at 0.10 FUN and 8.00 FUN stakes
Bonus ladder top	x2024 of the bet	Printed in the paytable and repeated on the wheel
Overall maximum win	x2124 of the bet	Printed twice; its composition is never stated
Volatility	Very high	Never printed on screen; provider figure only

Playing smart: bankroll and volatility

The rules print the same 97% RTP for base play and for the purchased feature, so what is left to the player here manages exposure and timing rather than return. Three choices carry that weight, and they commit at different moments: the stake ladder moves until a round or purchase begins, the x60 coin commits at confirmation, and an autoplay queue repeats the chosen stake until its count ends.

The x60 coin buys timing, not better terms

Both ways into Hold and Spin are printed at 97% RTP, so the coin is a purchase of timing, not of terms. One tier exists, charged up front at x60 the Total bet in play, with no cheaper or richer variant to weigh. Inside, nothing differs from a natural trigger — coins stuck, x3 lit as the floor — and that floor is x3 of the bet against a x60 charge; everything above it remains chance.

Seventeen fixed rungs, coarser as they climb

The stake field refuses arbitrary amounts: seventeen fixed values run 0.10 to 80.00 FUN, gentle steps low, leaps of 20 to 30 to 60 to 80 up top. Line pays, the Hold and Spin multiplier and the x60 price all compute from that figure, so a high-rung click can double every exposure at once. Once respins begin the bet controls leave the screen; the rung at the trigger is the one the round settles on.

Autoplay: queue length is the only confirmed dial

The 'A' icon queues a fixed count of rounds — 10 to 1,000, or infinity — each a paid spin at the Total bet in force, so one stake setting stretches across the whole sequence. The quick-spin checkbox shares the modal but was greyed out here; the rules tie it to licensing. An 'Advanced' chevron exists, but its contents were not captured, so stop conditions stay unconfirmed.

How to play

BGaming hides a modern math model — Very high volatility, 97% RTP, x2124 maximum — under a Classic cabinet skin with Fruity theme symbols. Each round ends one of two ways: paid at once across the 5 Lines, or folded into a Hold and Spin count-up where stuck coins set the multiplier.

1. CLICK TO START to enter: The entry modal shows off the bonus wheel and the MAX WIN 2124x figure but offers no other control. Pressing it swaps the artwork for the working cabinet, where Total bet sits at 0.10 FUN and the Balance holds 1,000.00 FUN.
2. Settle on a stake: Optional, and the only pre-spin decision. Clicking the Total bet field unfolds a fixed ladder running 0.10 to 80.00 FUN; the small arrows beside the field walk the same list one rung at a time.
3. Spin, then read the grid: The spin icon and the cabinet's lever start the same spin; the spacebar works too. Once the 3x3 grid stops, any line carrying three matching symbols pays its full printed value, and simultaneous wins across the 5 Lines add together.
4. BONUS coins open Hold and Spin: Three or more BONUS coins in one spin — or the BUY BONUS coin, priced at x60 the stake — launch the respin feature. Triggering coins stick, 3 respins start, and every new coin resets the counter; the final count sets a multiplier up to x2024 on the full bet.

What each symbol pays

Paytable lists Bonus coin multipliers 3-x3 up to 9-x2024 beside fruit symbol payouts from 10.00 to 0.10 FUN.

Reel symbol	Symbol function	X3
BONUS	Bonus
Red '7' (lucky seven)	High	100.00
Gold bell with blue bow	High	50.00
Watermelon	High	20.00
Grapes	Low	4.00
Lemon	Low	4.00
Orange	Low	4.00
Plum	Low	4.00
Cherries	Low	1.00

Exploring the game modes

Features text explains the Bonus Game rules above the colorful x10 to x500 wheel segments shown below.

Cherries, bells and sevens across nine cells: the Fruity theme is played straight, and so is the structure underneath. Five Lines settle every spin first. The Hold and Spin round sits downstream of those spins — it feeds on the BONUS coins that land there, pays by how many it gathers, and hands the grid back when it ends.

Base Game

Five Lines cross the 3x3 grid, each one paying left to right, and since no Line is longer than three cells, a winner on it always shows one symbol three times — paid against the total bet, from x1 for cherries up to x100 for the red 7. Several Lines can win on the same spin and are added together. BONUS coins stand outside this paytable: they award nothing themselves and only count toward the feature this state hands over to.
Bonus Game (Respin)

Control reaches this round only from the Base Game: three or more BONUS coins in a single spin open it, and a purchase at 60x the total bet opens it directly. The triggering coins stay locked, three respins follow, and each new coin sticks and sends the counter back to three, while an empty respin just ticks it down. At zero, the number of coins collected sets one multiplier — x3 for three, up to x2024 for nine — applied once to the total bet before play returns to the reels.

Game screenshots

Base grid pairs a gold BONUS coin with fruit and seven symbols; Buy Bonus sits at 6.00 FUN beside the lever.

Info panel's Lines section pairs the x3-to-x2024 bonus wheel with all five payline diagrams below it.

Preview screen pairs the x3-to-x2024 wheel with eight star coins and a Max Win 2124x figure on the cabinet.

Wheel stays lit on x3 as three star coins stick on the grid with 1 Respin left to collect more.

Starburst win screen reads Total Win 0.30 FUN beneath a 3x BET multiplier after the respin round ends.

Middle-row plum win highlights the grid; bottom bar reads Line 2 pays, Total win 1.20 FUN at 0.10 FUN bet.

Themes

ClassicFruity theme

Bonus offers

Buy-a-bonus: Yes

Buy BonusDefaultCost 60.00x

Bonus features

Hold and Spin

Developer profile

BGaming

BGaming began in 2012 as a small in-house slot team inside SOFTSWISS, then relaunched under its own name in 2018 with a debut at ICE in London. It remains part of the SOFTSWISS group while operating independently from Malta, with development offices in Poland and Georgia and an MGA B2B licence, and it also publishes titles from partner studios. Slots form the core of its output, but the catalogue represented here spans crash games, scratch cards and table titles too, with long-running series such as Elvis Frog and Fruit Million returning in seasonal editions.

Supported devices

Autoplay: Yes

Betting options

Starting bet	0.10
Highest wager	80.00

Final verdict

Pros	One 97% return covers the natural trigger and the x60 purchase alike, so buying the round only buys time.
Pros	Paytable values are full-bet multipliers, and overlapping line wins each pay the printed amount in full.
Pros	Stakes run from 0.10 to 80 per spin, enough room to pace a bankroll against very high volatility.
Drawbacks	Very high volatility and five symbols capped at x4 keep the five-line base game lean between bonus rounds.

Slot Machine spends its whole design budget on one hold-and-spin ladder and prices every route to it identically. On a South African shelf that already leans toward steep volatility, it suits the player who accepts quiet base spins in exchange for a feature whose cost and return are printed plainly before any money moves.

Got questions? We have answers

What exactly is BGaming's Slot Machine?

It is a single physical machine rendered as a slot: a glossy red one-armed-bandit cabinet with a wooden lever, a coin tray and a semicircular multiplier dial above the reels, all set against a glowing teal backdrop. BGaming released it in December 2023, tagged Classic with a Fruity theme, and the 3x3 window carries the expected fruit, bell and 7 artwork.

Which symbols pay best, and what are they worth?

The red 7 tops the paytable at x100 your total bet for three on a line, with the bell at x50 and the watermelon at x20 behind it. Grapes, lemon, orange and plum each pay x4, while cherries return x1, essentially your stake back. Every symbol carries a single prize tier, since a 3x3 grid can only ever land three of a kind. A full screen of 7s connects all five lines for x500.

How many paylines does it have, and what shapes do they follow?

Five fixed lines. One runs straight across the top row, one across the middle row, one dips through the centre in a valley shape, and the last two are the diagonals, so no line uses the bottom row on its own. Symbols pay left to right on consecutive reels, only the highest combination counts per line, and simultaneous wins on different lines are added together.

What does a spin cost in Slot Machine?

In the demo, stakes run from 0.10 to 80.00 per spin, selected from a fixed ladder of seventeen values rather than typed in freely. The steps climb through figures like 0.50, 1.00, 3.00, 8.00, 20.00 and 60.00, with 0.10 as the default. The arrow stepper beside the bet field and the dropdown list both walk the same ladder.

How volatile is Slot Machine?

BGaming classes it as Very high, and the structure backs that up: a five-line 3x3 whose ordinary paytable peaks at x100, with the serious money concentrated in the bonus ladder. The game itself prints no volatility figure in its help screens, so treat dry spells between features as the default state and size your stake with that in mind.

Is there a free spins round in Slot Machine?

No. Play splits between the base game and a single Hold and Spin bonus, and that respin feature is all there is, with no classic free spins mode anywhere in the rules. The BONUS coin is built to match: it has no payout of its own during ordinary spins and only gains value once the feature is under way.

Does Slot Machine have autoplay?

Yes. The autospin panel offers preset batches of 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 750 or 1,000 rounds, plus an unlimited option that keeps spinning until you stop it. A quick spin checkbox sits in the same panel but was greyed out in this build, and the rules note its availability depends on licence requirements.

Can you spin by pulling the cabinet's lever?

The wooden lever on the cabinet's right side is fully functional: click it and the reels spin, and it pulls itself down with every spin however you started one. On desktop the spacebar does the same job, with the usual spin icon in the bottom bar as the third way to play.

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