Hooks Heroes Slot Review

A free spin, re-spin, fiesta on the high seas

This NetEnt game brings to your online and mobile screens, in no particular order: some creepy looking kids, scary mermaids, 3 bonus features, and a swashbuckling fantasy adventure, all in the Hook’s Heroes slot.

Net Entertainment have done what they do best, created a game with beautiful graphics, animations, and background, with some great sounds to match.

However, their choice of characters in this Hook’s Heroes slot machine, is a little off-putting.

All set on the high seas, with palm trees, and islands in the background, you’re all set for an adventure! Everything here, from the lower paying A – 10 symbols to the overall theme, resembles cut outs and collages; like what you might find in a kid’s art project.

But those aren’t what’s off putting. It’s the higher paying pirate kid that make this video slot a little off, with a fairly normal girl, a kid with geeky braces and glasses, the buck toothed dumb ass, and chunk from the Goonies. It’s like they took all the different cliches of unpopular kids and put them front and centre for everyone to criticise.

If you can get over this little part of the theme, this Hooks Heroes video slot hides some great game-play and features.

Random free re-spins with different features

For a medium variance slot, the base game rewards you with wins quite frequently.

Mostly, that’s thanks to the scatters, as all you need is to find two, anywhere on the reels, and you are rewarded with a free re-spin of the five reels with one of the three special features below:

• Fairy Feature: A cuddly blue fairy with pink hair will randomly place 2 – 5 wilds on to the reels in the hope of producing you some bigger wins.
• Mermaid Feature: A scary looking mermaid (this is no Disney princess) will add a 4x multiplier on the wild symbol, and a x2 multiplier on any wins.
• Pirate Feature: Turns all symbols into scatters. So 3 or more of the same symbols, anywhere on screen, will give you a win, no paylines necessary.

These are features which keeps your balance ticking along, sometimes even providing you with some impressive 30x to 70x your bet win. Mostly, though, you’ll wait patiently for the free spins feature to be triggered.

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Win your choice of free spins and features

Find 3 scatter symbols, the kid in a croc suit, anywhere across the slots reels and you’ll get your choice at three different free spins rounds.

These are based on the ones that show up in the base game, but with a different amount of spins.

• Fairy Feature: 7 free spins, with random 2 to 5 extra wilds per spin.
• Mermaid Feature: 10 free spins with 4x wins on wilds and 2x wins on everything else.
• Pirate Feature: 15 free spins where wins are rewarded when 3 or more of the same symbols appear on screen, rather than on a payline.

We’ve had some success with the fairy and mermaid feature, but  our favourite for some decent wins is the Pirate bonus feature.

Just make sure you budget for a good 150 – 200 spins in the base game. As you get those free re-spin as standard, it can take a little while to trigger these bonus games.

Should I play Hooks Heroes slot online?

NetEnt, much like Play’n GO and NextGen, like make sure all their new slots releases are available for both online casino and mobile casino fans.

The Hooks Heroes mobile slot offers you the same creepy kids, theme, and game-play, with the same 96.82% return to player rate, no matter how you choose to play.

The mechanics of this slot game are great fun; rewarding you with lots of base game action, and the chance at some decent wins, throughout it’s 3 random features.

With a minimum bet of 0.20, and a maximum bet up to 200, it offers all a chance to spin. Those with big buget will no doubt have their eye on winning that 194,800 coins top prize.

If you like your fairytales a little more traditional, then the Jack and the Beanstalk slot is probably more your style.

But who wants traditional when you can have psychopathic children replaying one of Wonderlands most famous pirates? That’s what we thought too.