Rex's 5 Pot Steakhouse Slot Review

Play'n GO is kicking off 2027 with something a little quirky: Rex's 5 Pot Steakhouse. Wrapping a fun, cartoon-dinosaur-restaurant theme around a familiar modifier-stacking mechanic, this highly volatile slot has a lot going on under the hood.

The main draw of the game is the five labeled pots sitting above the reels. As you play, colored scatters land and fly into their matching pots.

First, a quick heads-up to save you some frustration: the visual "filling" of these pots is purely cosmetic. There is no set number of scatters you need to collect. A pot can trigger on any random spin from a single scatter, regardless of how full it looks. Some players might find that visual tease a bit annoying, but it does mean a bonus can drop when you least expect it.

When a pot finally pops, you are awarded 8 free spins featuring that pot's specific modifier. Here is what's on the menu:

• The Collect Pot: Drops instant cash coins (0.2x to 5x your bet). The nice touch here is that they pay out instantly: you don't need to land a separate "Collector" symbol to win them.
• The Bonus Pot: Adds jackpot-style prize symbols to the reels. Landing three of a kind pays out flat prizes of 20x, 100x, or 1,000x at the top. It also drops +1 SPIN symbols that add up to 6 extra spins, 14 in all.
• The Wild Pot: Gives you a roaming, full-reel Wild that shifts positions on every single spin.
• The Multi Pot: Introduces a progressive multiplier. It starts at 2x and climbs by +1 every time you hit a line win, with no cap.
• The Expand Pot: Stretches the game board from 3 rows to 5, doubling your paylines from 20 to 40 for the whole round.

The real magic of Rex's 5 Pot Steakhouse happens when you manage to trigger two or more pots on the same spin. When this happens, the game combines all those modifiers into one super-charged bonus round.

To help you get there, the game has a neat little visual cue: a spatula on the screen that changes from yellow to teal. This marks a shift in the game's internal math: once a first pot has fired, the odds tilt toward a double trigger, though the rules never say by how much.

It is worth noting that there is no Bonus Buy option here. You have to rely entirely on the base game to trigger the features. If you are a player who likes to pay to skip straight to the action, this game might test your patience.

The "colored collection" mechanic is incredibly popular right now, but Play'n GO has made some distinct choices to help Rex stand out.

Microgaming's Moonlight Romance - Twilight, due on 14 October, uses the same format, but it lets you buy your way into the features. Rex forces you to earn them. Within Play'n GO's own lineup, Rowdy Rabbits Collect & Win, due in December, also lets the triggering symbols set the bonus rules and can expand the grid. Both sit at 96.2% RTP, but Rabbits is rated medium volatility with a 20,000x max win, while Rex goes up to "very high" with 16,000x.

Finally, a lot of studios use these pot mechanics to trigger "Hold and Win" games (like Mithai Madness 10000x or 3 Dragon's Pots). I actually prefer what Play'n GO has done here by keeping the modifiers tied to traditional free spins.

Rex's 5 Pot Steakhouse isn't reinventing the wheel, but it executes a popular mechanic very well. The lack of a bonus buy and the "fake" collection meters might turn off some modern players. However, if you love high-volatility slots, classic free spins, and the thrill of hoping multiple modifiers trigger at the exact same time, this one is definitely worth a spin.