Hustling Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Hustling Review

Visually, Red Tiger’s Hustling is obviously highly inspired by NoLimit City’s East Coast vs West Coast, with the palm trees LA sunset on the left and the graffiti-ridden New York apartment complex on the right. The scene is thus set for a classic duke out between two rivaling rappers from opposite sides of the country, and they land as fully stacked wilds that remain locked in place for one spin in the base game.

Landing both of them together is what you really want though, as this triggers the Rap Battle Bonus Round. The least impressive thing about this release is, somewhat ironically, the soundtrack. NoLimit City did a far better job in that department, and the limited rap battle voice-over vocabulary gets repetitive pretty soon. The 3,150x potential is also no match for the popular rival, but overall this is a ride well-worth taking if you’re hip to the hip-hop scene.

Hustling Slot - Reels Screen

Hustling Slot Features

The rapper Super Wilds cover entire reels when they land, and the West Wild appears on reel 1 only, while the East Wild lands on reel 5 only. Both wilds step in for all regular pay symbols to help complete winning combinations, and they remain sticky for 1 spin whenever they land. Premium symbols pay between 3 and 20 x your stake for 5 on a payline, and landing 2 Super Wilds on reels 1 and 5 at the same time triggers the bonus round.

You get 10 free spins when the West Wild and East Wild appear at the same time, and you get to pick your favorite rapper (West coast or East coast) up front.

The bonus round plays out like a rap battle, with both wilds sticky for the duration of the feature. When either of the wilds is part of a winning combo, the involved wild’s multiplier is increased by +1.

If your chosen rapper Wild has a higher multiplier than the other Wild as the bonus round ends, you retrigger the feature with +10 extra spins. If the multipliers are identical for both wilds, you get +1 extra spin until one of the rapper wilds “win” with the highest multiplier. The feature ends if your chosen rapper Wild has the lowest multiplier, and on a final note the wild multipliers multiply with each other if both wilds are part of the same win.

The 200 Spins Hustling Slot Experience

You get a small taste of the base game, before we trigger the rap battle bonus round at 0:30 into the 2-minute highlights video. We went with the somewhat chubby East Side rapper, and you can see for yourself who won the battle by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

We’ll start by saying that the conceptual idea for this game is pure genius, but the execution could have been even better.

Hustling would have benefitted from a wider repertoire of action commentary, as well as a real rap battle soundtrack in the bonus round. We get that the latter would require a significantly boosted budget, but the result would have been epic. With the above being said, Red Tiger has made a solid hip-hop slot contribution with Hustling.

The split screen visual layout (LA and NY) is lifted from NoLimit City’s East Coast vs West Coast, but the similarity stops there. The Super Wilds are somewhat useful in the base game, but they truly shine like “bling” when sticky in the bonus round. Increasing the wild multipliers per win they’re involved in is quite a thrill, and when they combine forces the result can be payouts up to a decent 3,151x your stake.

Pros

• Stacked rapper wilds on reels 1 and 5
• Rap battle FS w/ sticky multiplier-increasing wilds
• Retrigger FS if you pick the winning rapper
• Win up to 3,151x your stake

Cons

• Beware of adjustable RTP ranges

If you love Hustling Slot you should also try:

East Coast vs West Coast - is NoLimit City’s popular 90s-style hip-hop release, and it plays out on 5x3 reels with up to 84,375 ways to win. You can look forward to 5 unique Enhancers, and these come into play when the Drive-By Respins feature hits, or during the 3 bonus rounds. This was the first game with Infectious xWays, and you can win up to 30,000x your stake.

Top Dawgs - is a less serious hip-hop slot from Relax Gaming, and this is due to the fact that the rappers are actual dogs. The base game comes with a streak mystery respins feature, and the bonus round is all about sticky wilds with increasing multipliers.

The volatility is high, and you can win up to 25,000x your stake.

Nyjah Huston - Skate for Gold - is visually similar to the game at hand, and it’s based around the World Champion skateboarder, Nyjah Huston. The Combo Meter will trigger at random times to display a trick, and this awards Wildboard Respins with up to an x10 expanded wild multiplier. You get the Combo Meter trigger on all bonus round spins, and this can lead to 5,000x payouts.

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