Hogzuma's Treasure Slot Review

Released by IGT in September 2026, Hogzuma's Treasure takes the familiar jungle temple theme and adds a genuinely interesting twist. Instead of just handing you a set number of free spins when you hit the bonus, the game asks you to make a strategic choice: do you want more spins, or a bigger board?

Two things decide how it plays and how it stacks up against the competition: that choice, and a strict rule for collecting coins.

The base game is decent, but the real draw is the free spins feature, triggered by landing three Drum scatters on the middle reels (which also gives you a quick 2x your stake).

Once you're in, you get to choose your volatility. You can take the baseline 15 spins on the standard 5x4 grid (50 paylines). Or, you can trade spins away to stretch the grid upward. The most extreme option gives you just 5 spins, but on a massive 8-row grid with 100 paylines. If you like leaving it to chance, there's a Mystery Pick option.

The trouble is, whatever height you choose is locked in for the whole round. The core mechanics stay the same during the bonus, which is a bit of a double-edged sword. You can still trigger the random Wheel Feature for jackpots or multipliers, and you can retrigger 5 more spins by landing three more drums.

Where Hogzuma's Treasure will divide players is its "Cash On Reels" collect system.

In a lot of modern slots, a collector symbol will vacuum up every cash coin anywhere on the screen. For example, Playtech's King of the Barrels uses a single symbol to sweep the whole board, and AvatarUX's Volcanic Loot, due in November, gathers every coin in view from its middle reel. Even other IGT games, like Magic Treasures Gold Rogue, let you collect cash values just by linking symbols from the left-most reel.

Hogzuma's Treasure is much stricter. It uses an "adjacency" rule, meaning a Bowl symbol has to land directly next to a Coin to collect its value. It definitely changes the vibe of the game. It can be incredibly frustrating to see a board full of high-value coins, only for the Bowl to land one space too far away. On the flip side, when everything lines up on that 8-row bonus grid, it should feel rewarding.

Compared to other expanding grid games, like Octoplay's Serpent Gold 2, which only grows to a 6x6 layout, stretching a board to eight rows gives Hogzuma a really impressive sense of scale.

It's a solid, well-designed slot. The strict adjacency rule for collecting coins might turn off players who prefer the easy gratification of screen-clearing collectors. But if you don't mind working a little harder for your payouts, the risk-reward choice in the free spins makes Hogzuma's Treasure a game worth trying out.