Booty Bay Slot Review

Booty Bay Slot Overview

Booty Bay from Push Gaming throws me straight into an adventure among a lot of fortune seeking pirates, gathered around a hidden cove packed with treasure. The game runs on a 5 reel, 5 row layout with a special 3x3 Hotzone in the centre that drives most of the action. Instead of standard paylines, it uses winning clusters, where 6 or more matching symbols landing on adjacent positions will pay.

Stakes start at £0.10 and climb to £100 per spin, so the betting range suits both cautious play and more aggressive sessions. The headline numbers fit Push Gaming’s go hard or go home mentality: high volatility, a maximum win of 20,000 times the bet and a top RTP of 96.41%. With Wild Symbol, Hotzone, Treasure Map, Swirling Rapids, Locking Wilds and Triple Wild Lock features, the setup gives very high potential maximum wins.

Booty Bay Slot Information

The Booty Bay design sticks closely to its pirate theme, with the grid floating on clear water surrounded by small tropical islands. One small island marks the Hotzone in the middle, while treasure chests sit on the rocks, one of them opened and overflowing with gold coins. I have played it on mobile, notepad and desktop devices, and the layout works very well on all screens.

The lower paying symbols are coins coloured bronze, silver and gold. Landing 18 or more of the same coin in a cluster pays 2.5 times the bet. Medium paying symbols show classic pirate kit: a telescope, a compass and a jug. With 18 or more of a kind, they pay 5 times the stake. The premium set features a male pirate with a green bandana, a female pirate with an eye patch and a pirate captain in a golden frame, paying 10 to 50 times for 18 or more.

On top of the regular paytable, Booty Bay throws in several special icons. There is a Treasure Map symbol, because a pirate without a map would not feel right. The Swirling Rapids symbol shows a waterfall with a skull. Locking Wilds appear as a skull with a lock, while the main Booty Wild symbol is a golden treasure chest. With many different symbols feeding the cluster system, sessions often feel like a very exciting gaming adventure.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	18+	x50
	14-17	x25
	11-13	x10
	9-10	x6
	8	x5
	7	x4
	6	x3
	18+	x25
	14-17	x12.5
	11-13	x5
	9-10	x2.5
	8	x1.5
	7	x1
	6	x0.7
	18+	x10
	14-17	x5
	11-13	x2.5
	9-10	x1.5
	8	x1
	7	x0.7
	6	x0.5
	18+	x5
	14-17	x2.5
	11-13	x1
	9-10	x0.7
	8	x0.5
	7	x0.4
	6	x0.3
	18+	x5
	14-17	x2.5
	11-13	x0.6
	9-10	x0.5
	8	x0.4
	7	x0.3
	6	x0.2
	18+	x5
	14-17	x2.5
	11-13	x0.6
	9-10	x0.5
	8	x0.4
	7	x0.3
	6	x0.2
	18+	x2.5
	14-17	x1
	11-13	x0.5
	9-10	x0.4
	8	x0.3
	7	x0.2
	6	x0.1
	18+	x2.5
	14-17	x1
	11-13	x0.5
	9-10	x0.4
	8	x0.3
	7	x0.2
	6	x0.1
	18+	x2.5
	14-17	x1
	11-13	x0.5
	9-10	x0.4
	8	x0.3
	7	x0.2
	6	x0.1
	Special
	Wild

Booty Bay Slot Features

Push Gaming lists a clear feature set in Booty Bay: Wild Symbol, Hotzone, Locking Wilds, Swirling Rapids, Treasure Map and Triple Wild Lock. On paper it sounds like a festive mix of mechanics, and in practice that matches my experience. The game can be very quiet for stretches, but when the features start to chain together in the centre, the whole screen lights up and the potential of that 20,000 times max win suddenly feels close.

The Booty Wild is the workhorse symbol. It substitutes for other paying icons to complete winning clusters and always lands with a multiplier. That multiplier applies to any win the Wild is part of, which can quickly stack up when clusters get large. The Hotzone itself is a 3x3 area in the middle of the grid. Landing a Booty Wild inside this area triggers a respin, and as long as at least one Wild stays within the Hotzone, respins keep coming.

During Hotzone respins, each Booty Wild moves one step to an adjacent position. Whenever a Wild moves to a new position still inside the Hotzone, its multiplier increases by 1x, which is where the game really comes alive. Locking Wilds are triggered by landing the skull-and-lock symbol anywhere. That feature freezes all Booty Wilds inside the Hotzone for three respins and bumps their multipliers by 1x on every spin. New Booty Wilds can still land outside, but those stay mobile.

Swirling Rapids and Treasure Map add another layer. The Swirling Rapids symbol gives one respin and drags every Booty Wild from outside the Hotzone into the centre, locking them there for the next spin and increasing their multipliers. Treasure Map is a classic pick feature: six prizes appear, then shuffle, and I choose one. Possible rewards include a Booty Wild, a Swirling Rapids symbol, a Locking Wild symbol or an instant cash prize from 1x up to a huge 5,000x the bet. The Triple Wild Lock, triggered once per bet when three Booty Wilds land, can fill the Hotzone with locked Wilds, reset respins back to three whenever new locked Wilds appear and send the multipliers climbing in a way that feels very similar to wild Jammin’ Jars.

Booty Bay Slot Verdict

For me, Booty Bay sits firmly in the high-risk, high-reward corner. The 3x3 Hotzone mechanic gives the 5x5 grid a special character, and the roaming Wilds with growing multipliers can turn an empty screen into a full-blown gaming adventure within a handful of spins. On the flip side, the high volatility means long runs of dead spins are common, so I only bring a bankroll I am comfortable seeing swing around.

When Triple Wild Lock lands with a few Booty Wilds already in the Hotzone, Booty Bay becomes a joy to watch. Multipliers climb, Wilds bounce to adjacent positions and respins keep resetting if I can create new locked Wilds. The Treasure Map pick feature, with its chance of a 5,000x instant prize or extra feature symbols, adds extra drama. Taken together, the pirate theme, jumping Wilds and high potential maximum wins make this one of those Push Gaming slots I keep coming back to when I am in the mood for a serious pirate grind.

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