Epic SixSixSix Slot Review - Hacksaw Gaming's Devilish Wheels Get a Bigger Ceiling

Hacksaw Gaming has quietly turned self-plagiarism into a product line. The studio's "Epic" treatments take a title that already works, leave the skeleton untouched, and rebuild the parts that actually decide how a session feels: volatility, the buy menu, and the number at the very top of the paytable. Epic Ze Zeus and Epic Bullets & Bounty went through the process first. Now it is the turn of SixSixSix, the 2024 release that made prize wheels do double duty as both a payout engine and the doorway into its bonus rounds.

Epic SixSixSix leaves that doorway exactly where it was. What changes is how many ways you can pay to walk through it, and how much sits waiting on the other side.

Quick Facts

Theme and Presentation

The setting has not moved. You are still parked in front of a scrawl-covered wall in a room that looks like a squat for the recently damned, with Balthazar and Beelzebub - the game's two winged imps - hovering at the edges of the screen with pitchforks in hand. When a bonus round lands, the devil himself shows up to lend proceedings a bit of seniority.

The only meaningful visual change is the palette. Epic SixSixSix leans harder on cyan and spreads more colour across the backdrop than the original ever did. It is a light touch rather than a redesign, and honestly that is the right call: the original looked good, the animation still has personality, and there was nothing here crying out to be fixed. Anyone hoping the Epic label meant a fresh art pass will be disappointed. Anyone who liked the first game will feel instantly at home.

Reels, Stakes and Paytable

The grid is bound to the back wall: five reels, four rows, 14 fixed paylines. Stakes run from $/€0.10 up to $/€45 per spin, with the feature buy menu opening up considerably higher exposure if you want it.

Most of the symbol set is rendered in black and white, with only the top-paying hand allowed any colour. The five low pays - crossed bones, an axe, a pack of cigarettes, a drink and a book - each return 3x the stake for a five-of-a-kind line. The high pays are a bottle, a skull, two character symbols and a horns-up hand sign, worth between 10x and 50x for five in a row.

Those are thin numbers by any standard, and they are meant to be. There are no wilds in this version either. The base paytable is not where the money is; it exists mainly to keep the reels ticking over between wheel hits. If that sounds like a criticism, it is more a warning about pacing. Judge this game by its line wins and you will conclude it does nothing at all.

Wicked Wheels

Everything revolves around the '6' symbol and the wheels it summons.

When a '6' lands on the leftmost, middle or rightmost reel, a Wicked Wheel appears in that same position and spins. Only one '6' can land per eligible reel, so three wheels per spin is the hard maximum. When several activate at once, their values are collected from left to right.

Wheels come in two colours, determined by the colour of the '6' that triggered them:

Blue Wicked Wheels - the only kind available in the base game. Their segments hold adding multipliers of 5x–100x, multiplying multipliers of x2–x10, the free spins-triggering '6' symbol, and, rarely, the max win itself.

Red Wicked Wheels - the upgraded version, reserved for bonus rounds and certain buys. Red drops the '6' segment and raises the stakes everywhere else: adding multipliers of 5x–500x, multiplying multipliers of x3–x20, and the max win.

That is the whole engine, and it is a clean one. Adding multipliers build a total; multiplying multipliers detonate it. A middling spin becomes a big one the moment a x10 lands to the right of a stack of adders - which is also why the left-to-right collection order matters far more than it first appears.

The Three Bonus Rounds

Free spins are not triggered by scatters but by hitting the '6' segment on a Blue Wicked Wheel in the base game. How many wheels deliver that '6' on the same spin decides which tier you get. Each tier starts with 10 free spins.

Speak Of The Devil - one '6' on a wheel. The entry-level round, with an improved chance of both Red and Blue wheels appearing. The '6' segment is removed from Blue wheels here, so no retriggering.

Let Hell Break Loose! - two '6' symbols. Blue wheels disappear entirely and Red wheels become considerably more frequent. The 5x adding prize also appears to be stripped from the Red wheel in this round, quietly raising the floor on every hit.

What The Hell - three '6' symbols. The top tier, and the only one that guarantees a Red Wicked Wheel on every single spin. Blue wheels are gone. Ten spins, ten wheels, no filler.

Organically hitting three '6' symbols on the same spin is, predictably, a rare event. That rarity is exactly what the buy menu exists to sell.

Deal With The Devil

This is the feature that gives the game its character. Trigger Speak Of The Devil or Let Hell Break Loose! and you are offered a gamble before the round begins. Accept, and a Deal Wheel spins containing 5, 8, 12, 16, 20 or a '6'.

Land a number and it is added to your free spin count. Land the '6' and your bonus is promoted a full tier: Speak Of The Devil becomes Let Hell Break Loose!, and Let Hell Break Loose! becomes What The Hell. Rounds can never be downgraded, which is the crucial detail - the deal is genuinely free in expectation, because the worst outcome is still five extra spins.

You may deal once per bonus level, so a Speak Of The Devil promotion earns you a second roll of the dice at the next tier up. No deal is offered if What The Hell triggers directly; there is nowhere left to climb.

Feature Buys

The buy menu is where the Epic treatment has done its real work, expanding to six options:

The headline here is not the price list but the permission. For a long stretch, Hacksaw's top-tier Hidden Epic Bonuses were organic-trigger-only, locked away from anyone waving a wallet. The studio has relaxed that policy across recent releases, and Epic SixSixSix follows suit: What The Hell is purchasable at 1,000x. Above it sits High Roller FeatureSpins at double that price, essentially a 2,000x lottery ticket with roughly a 9% chance of paying the ceiling.

That is an unusually transparent piece of design, and it deserves credit for being stated plainly rather than buried. It is also, obviously, an extremely fast way to lose 2,000x.

RTP, Volatility and Max Win

The math model is rated highly volatile, which the structure makes self-evident. RTP comes in at 96.27% - a slight improvement on the original, and above the industry average, though as always with Hacksaw titles the figure your operator has configured is worth checking before you commit.

Max win climbs from the original's thematically neat 16,666x to 20,666x. Nobody is turning down an extra 4,000x, but it is a modest bump next to what Epic Ze Zeus did to its predecessor's ceiling, where the top prize was multiplied several times over. The "Epic" branding sets an expectation of transformation; here it delivers an increment.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Wicked Wheels remain a genuinely satisfying mechanic, with adders and multipliers interacting in a way that keeps collection order tense
• Deal With The Devil is a smart, player-friendly gamble that can never leave you worse off
• Six buy options covering a wide price range, including the previously locked top bonus
• RTP nudged up to 96.27%

Cons

• Base paytable is threadbare, and with no wilds the dry spells are genuinely dry
• The max win increase is small enough to feel token
• Visually and mechanically close enough to the original that the upgrade is hard to feel without using the buy menu
• High Roller FeatureSpins at 2,000x is an eye-watering amount of exposure for a single feature

Verdict

Epic SixSixSix is a remake built with a specific customer in mind, and that customer buys features. Almost every meaningful change - the expanded menu, the purchasable top tier, the 2,000x High Roller option - speaks to players who want to skip the queue and are prepared to pay a serious premium to do it. If that is how you play, this is a clear upgrade with more routes to the good stuff than the original ever offered.

For everyone else, the honest answer is that the differences are marginal but they all point the right way. The gameplay is the gameplay you already know, the RTP is a touch better, and the ceiling is a little higher. There is no reason to pick the original over this one. Just go in understanding what you are signing up for: long stretches of nothing punctuated by wheel spins that occasionally rearrange your balance, with the most exhilarating parts of the game sitting behind a trigger that, played straight, you may wait a very long time to see.

An interesting makeover, then, rather than a transformative one - and one that is far more interesting if your pockets are deep, and your limits firm.

Play responsibly. Set deposit and loss limits before you start, and never wager money you cannot afford to lose.