Tropical Heat Slot Review & Free Play

Tropical Heat: A Remote Island Vacation With 15 Free Spins and 3x Multipliers to Win

An island resort is the ideal vacation spot for most people and Merkur Gaming’s Tropical Heat takes it up a notch by adding in up to 100x symbol pays alongside a card and ladder gamble mini-game. Despite its old-school design and mechanics, let me tell you why I liked this game so much. 

Tropical Heat starts out just like so many other slot titles do with 5 reels, 3 rows, and 10 paylines. There’s nothing special about the base game with the exception of wilds that can appear occasionally to spice up your symbol combinations. On average, I found that most wins in the base game got me between 1x to 3x wins every 3 to 7 spins. 

There is the option to lower your bet amount which also halves your active paylines but I found that option to be even more unprofitable than the base game already was. The only steady solution to the lower wins I made in the base game were the two gamble mini-games available to me after each win. 

Starting with the card gamble option, this simple mini-game challenges you to guess the color of an upside-down card. Correct guesses double your current win. Using this feature, I managed to boost my wins up to 6x, and in a few fortunate instances, even achieved up to 8x returns. Conversely, the ladder gamble is more forgiving when you miss, but it typically resulted in lower returns during my session usually under 3x my bet. 

Finally, landing three or more scatter symbols triggers the free spins mini-game, awarding you 15 spins and a 3x win multiplier to rack up additional wins. In my playthrough, scatters proved to be quite elusive, and it took a long time to activate the free spins. However, when I did, it was worth the wait, as I secured a decent win of 17x my bet from the feature. 

All things considered, the Tropical Heat slot game by Merkur Gaming doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel in any shape or form. It is a decent entry with easy-to-understand mechanics and bonuses that can be a great timekiller. That being said, I’d only advise playing the free demo above and not putting real money on the line for this game.