Fred’s Food Truck

Fred's Food Truck: Slot Overview

Hold on to your chef's hats because Play'n GO's Fat Frankies has a business rival simmering on the horizon. Enter Fred's Food Truck, an online slot from software developer Hacksaw Gaming with a mobile food cookery service theme which might tantalise the taste buds. A food truck would be pretty handy in some ways if you owned one. You drive to where people congregate in an attempt to sell them food, and if the crowds aren't buying, you drive somewhere else. Easy, maybe, in theory. Maybe not. Something that is easy is learning how to play Fred's Food Truck. For this one, Hacksaw Gaming has turned down the ingenuity dial a few notches to create a game focused on hitting chilli peppers to build a win multiplier, which persists during the free spins bonus round.

For players who like slots where a character hangs out with them throughout the gaming, then Fred's Food Truck may appeal. In this one, Fred is the name of the chef, and he hangs on the right-hand side of the screen, spatula in hand, next to a food truck covered in a bunch of decals referencing other Hacksaw Gaming slots. Fans will have fun spotting the images they know, then maybe rue the fact that a lot of them represent superior slots.

Stuck to the side of the food truck is a 5x5 gaming grid with 15 paylines. Winning combinations start from the leftmost side of the grid and consist of 3 to 5 matching symbols. When a winning combo lands, the symbols in it are removed from the reels and replaced by other symbols dropped from above. When no new win appears during a cascade sequence, the total winning value is paid, and the next spin may take place. Bubbling away in the background like a deep fryer is Fred's Food Truck's medium (3 out of 5) volatile math model, churning out a default RTP of 96.33%. Bets can be set from 10 p/c to $/€100, while the game also offers three different bonus buy options.

Symbols now and 10-A card ranks make up the low pay section, while the high pays are a drumstick, hot dog, taco, slice of pizza, and a burger. Hitting a 5-of-a-kind winning line of low pays is worth 5 times the bet, whereas a 5 premium symbol win awards 10 to 20 times the bet. The French fries symbol is wild and appears on all reels. Wilds replace any regular pay symbol and award 40 times the bet for a 5 wild symbol winning line.

Fred's Food Truck: Slot Features

This part is quite straightforward for a Hacksaw Gaming slot. The features in Fred's Food Truck that haven't already been covered are the Global Multiplier, free spins, and bonus buys.

Global Multiplier

When Green Chilli symbols hit with a winning combination, they reveal a multiplier value. The One Chilli symbol reveals 1x, 2x, or 5x; the Two Chilli symbol reveals 10x, 15x, or 20x; and the Three Chilli symbol reveals 25x, 50x, or 100x. All Chilli symbol values in view are added together to create a Global Multiplier; then, they are removed as part of the tumble. Any win on that spin has the Global Multiplier applied to it. In the base game, the Global multiplier resets for the next spin.

Free Spins

Landing 3 FS symbols in the base game triggers the Small Menu feature with 10 free spins while landing 4 FS symbols awards the Big Menu feature with 15 free spins. During free spins, Green Chilli values are progressively added to the Global Multiplier, which does not reset between free spins.

Buy Bonus

Clicking the round yellow buy bonus button lets users pick from these 3 options:

• BonusHunt FeatureSpins – 3x the bet where each spin is 5 times more likely to trigger a bonus game. Highly volatile with a maximum RTP of 96.38%.
• Small Menu – 100x the bet for 10 free spins with an increased chance of landing multipliers. Highly volatile with a maximum RTP of 96.19%.
• Big Menu – 200x the bet for 10 free spins with an increased chance of landing multipliers. Medium volatile with a maximum RTP of 96.45%.

Fred's Food Truck: Slot Verdict

The theme of Fred's Food Truck is an apt one because, from a gameplay perspective, this is fast food by Hacksaw Gaming standards. While the studio is famous for cooking up some of the most intricately designed features in the biz, Fred's Food Truck was quick to learn, undemanding to play, and went down easy like a greasy hamburger or a dirty water dog. It sits alongside slots like Dork Unit or King Carrot, slots that aren't theoretically the most volatile releases in the Hacksaw Gaming line-up, and may appeal to players looking to get in on the studio's action but don't want to leap in the deep end and potentially end up scorched.

Not saying Fred's Food Truck can't scorch, and at 10,000x the bet, it's got a substantial-top prize, too. With its cheerful tunes and friendly accompanying character, Fred's Food Truck makes it easy to sit back to enjoy what it serves. What it served was a pleasant gaming experience without some of the steep highs and lows of Hacksaw Gaming's higher-powered slots. Being the masters of the multiplier that Hacksaw Gaming is means Fred's Food Truck's use of them comes across as a little shallow. Not bad shallow as such but basic compared to other feature trickery the studio has done before.

For examples of trickery, there's a lot. Wanted Dead or a Wild, Gladiator Legends, Hand of Anubis, Itero, Chaos Crew, the list goes on. While Fred's Food Truck was enjoyable, for foodies looking to glut their gambling desires on a bigger smorgasbord of a slot, then something like Gluttony from Nolimit City might be a better match. Still, for a slot with easygoing features, a charming vibe, and sizable winning potential on top, Fred's Food Truck brings it all together like a well-stacked burger.