There’s a bright and brassy feel to the design in Chilli Heat - a dusty Mexican street, complete with cactus plants and chillies, forms the backdrop to the reels. There you’ll see A to J playing cards plus glasses of Tequila, bottles of Tabasco and a Chihuahua dog. The man in a sombrero, strumming his guitar is the best standard symbol, paying 8 times your total stake for a 5 in a row combination.
Helping to create those winning lines is the Chilli Heat logo which is wild. It doesn’t offer any rewards in its own right but does spin in stacked formation and replaces everything bar the money sacks and the sunshine scatter symbols. There are 2 bonus features in Chill Heat and both of them offer plenty of potential.
Money Respin feature - to land this, you’ll need to hit 6 or more money piñatas symbols on the same spin. You’ll then be awarded 3 respins on a new set of reels where the money piñatas from the triggering spin are locked in place. On the respins, you’ll see only blanks or money piñatas.
Land a money piñata and 3 extra respins are added to your total. Once you’ve run out of respins, all of the totals shown on the money piñata are added together and you’ll receive that amount. In the happy circumstance of filling all 15 positions with money piñatas, you’ll get the Grande Jackpot which is 1,000 times your stake as well as the combined value from the sacks.
Also, land the scatter symbol on reels 2, 3 and 4 on the same spin in the base game and you’ll trigger the Free Spins feature - you’ll be awarded 8 free spins. These are played on a new reel set where all of the lower value playing card symbols have been removed.
Landing 3 scatters adds another 8 free spins to your total – there’s no limit to how many times you can do this. You can also trigger the Money Respin feature from within the free spins for even more wins.
We really enjoyed Chilli Heat - the visuals are boldly done and the mariachi soundtrack has proper earworm potential. The features impress too, especially the Money Respins feature. The variance might not be quite as hot as you’d expect from a chilli-themed game but it can still serve up some fiery action. If you fancy some spicy Mexican adventure, you won’t go too far wrong here – you also have Luchadora from Thunderkick which is based on Mexican wrestling.