Hit It Hard

It is time to Hit It Hard! on the slot from Elk Studios and relive the glorious 90s with its magical days of neon, the fluorescent lights that dominated our daily scenery throughout the decade. The design team is putting the distinct colours at the centre of attention on their sixth addition to Elk’s Classic Series. Land the dice to trigger the bonus game filled with multiplying wilds, stacked wilds, respins and two pachinko-style mini-games. As long as you keep winning, the bonus game goes on and can lead to wins of up to 2,500 times your bet if you manage to break the bank.

Slot Details

Hit It Hard is a video slot with three reels, three rows and five fixed pay lines. Wins are awarded for three matching symbols on a line from left to right only. Travel back to the glorious 90s on desktop or mobile from 0.20 to 100 credits per spin. The game has medium to high volatility (8/10) with an RTP of 96.30%. You can make use of Autoplay and Betting Strategies to personalize your gaming experience.

If you ever played Hit It Big! from Elk Studios, then you might have already a good impression as to what visuals you can expect from this creation. We return to the generic yet modern looking structured background with the game window divided into two parts. The design has a darker feel although it still comes with the high quality with know from this developer. The bottom is holding the reels filled with typical fruit machine symbols while the top is what you could call an action display. Triggering any type of bonus will light it up to see you progress on a trail of modifiers, multipliers and mini-games.

The paytable is rather short and simple since wins are awarded for three of a kind combinations only. In ascending order of value, you have cherries, lemons, melons, green single bars, blue double bars, red triple bars as well as green, blue and red lucky 7s. Hitting three on a line will pay 0.5x to 50x your stake. The game has a single scatter, a pink dice, appearing on reel three only. The same applies to the wild symbol which can land with multipliers of up to x5.

Hit It Hard Slot Features

Trust Elk Studios to take a simple fruit machine and deliver an exhilarating reel ride that started with a dip back to the 80s on Hit It Big and continues now with this creation which is taking us into the neon 90s. At the core of the action is the feature trail in the top display, filled to the brim with modifiers, extra spins as well as bonus and mini-games.

While waiting to light up the feature trail, you can trigger Wild Respins. The wild symbol can land on reel three only and will appear as simple wild or with an x2, x3, x4 or x5 multiplier attached. If you don’t score a win on the initial spin, it will stick for a free respin. Not that it will lead to a win on each occasion but it provides an extra chance. The feature is available in the bonus game too.

Speaking of the bonus game, landing a single dice on the middle position of reel three will activate the Feature Trail on top of the game window. The dice will turn into an x10 wild for the duration of the feature and will multiply any win when it lands on a free spin. You will now get to roll the dice which will define the movements on the bonus game board with each section awarding either a new roll of the dice, spins on the reels, a mini-game or break the bank. The reels will spin in between the dice rolls as long as you have remaining spins and a single win in the awarded feature is all it takes to keep the bonus game going, allowing you to roll the dice again.

• Multiplier and additional spins: These sections award different combinations of one to five additional spins and/or x1 to x20 win multipliers. Any multiplier wild symbol landing on reel three will be multiplied by the bonus game multiplier, leading potentially to an insane x200.
  
• Stacked Wilds: Awards three respins. On the first, the wild is stacked on reel two, then on reel three and finally one spin with stacked wilds on reel two and three, providing extra potential to score a win and keep the bonus game going.
• 10 Wild Spins: Awards 10 spins with guaranteed multiplier wilds on reel three
• Quantum Leap: Takes you forward on the feature trail by a random number of steps
• Power Run: Awards every feature on the trail that you pass with your next dice roll, up to a maximum of six steps.
• Mini Games: Lucky Ballz and Super Ballz are two pachinko-style mini-games. Lucky Ballz awards 4 shots while Super Ballz awards an infinite number of shots and continues until a basket is hit twice. Both these mini-games guarantee a win, which in turn will make sure that the bonus game continues.
• Break The Bank: One section on the trail is marked with a golden key. Land twice on it to collect two keys that are needed to unlock the bank safe in the bottom right corner. If your dice roll stops then on the safe, you will be rewarded with the maximum win of 2,500 times your bet after which the bonus game will end.

Final Verdict

Elk Studios is slowly turning into an expert of making simple-looking 5-liners into exhilarating slots with ample entertainment, features and win potential. We were anticipating a follow-up creation to Hit It Big and were anxious to see what they cooked up next in their slot kitchen. The result is a breathtaking, fast-paced game that is slightly less volatile, nonetheless still volatile enough to keep you on the edge at all times. With a hit frequency of just 15.90% and stacked pay symbols, expect to see at times longer periods with consecutive losing spins. However, lighting up the feature trail will be an extraordinary experience that combines dice rolls with a superb range of modifiers, mini-games and that coveted big prize of 2,500 times your bet should you Break The Bank.

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