Clowns are what happens when you give a fever dream a face and tell it to entertain children. There’s nothing wholesome about a grown adult in smeared face paint, oversized shoes, and pants held up by pure chaos energy, skulking around birthday parties like a rejected Batman villain. They laugh too hard, they stare too long, and they always know where the exit is before the show starts. If joy had a restraining order, it would look exactly like a clown. I said what I said.

But when creators lean into the innate creepiness of clowns? Now you’ve got my interest. That’s exactly what GameArt has done with its new Helluva Slot slot. Yes, the word “slot” appears in the slot’s title, just in case you weren’t entirely sure what you were looking at.

Welcome to the fun house!

The Helluva Slot from GameArt features a traditional 5-payline setup across 3 reels. Betting starts at just $0.05, with a maximum limit of $60. If you’re betting at the upper limit, you could win up to $234,600, thanks to the 3,910x maximum multiplier. The slot has medium volatility, offering a balance between frequent wins and decent payouts. The RTP is 96.27%.

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On each spin of the Helluva Slot, the three reels will be spun in addition to a fourth, horizontally oriented multiplier reel. The multiplier value that lands in the middle of this three-symbol global multiplier reel will be applied to any winning amount struck on that spin.

During base game play, expanding wilds can land on reel three. When that happens, the wild will be locked in place, and a free respin will be awarded. This gives you another shot at winning. In addition to the expanding wild, the slot also offers a standard wild symbol that can help create or boost winning combinations.

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Once you’ve struck a win, you’ll have the chance to boost your winnings with the Satanotchi gamble feature. You’ll be given the option to select either black or red, or one of four playing card symbols. If your prediction is successful, your winnings will be boosted. If not, you’ll leave with nothing.

If you land nine of the same symbols, filling the full 3×3 reel area, you’ll unlock the slot’s Cheerwheeler Bonus. This second-screen bonus game will spin a wheel for the chance to win a random multiplier value between 5x and 30x your bet. This multiplier is then applied to the global multiplier you had just before triggering the feature.

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If you’re not keen on waiting around to fill up the reels for a shot at the jackpot wheel, you can choose to purchase a round of the bonus feature.

Is the Helluva Slot worth dealing with the clowns?

GameArt manages to pack a whole lot into a compact three-reel format with the Helluva Slot slot. The bonus features are plentiful, the gameplay is brisk and enjoyable, and the graphics are beautifully executed. GameArt continues to impress with a strong lineup of 2025 releases, and the Helluva Slot slot is no exception. I give it a solid nine out of ten.

If you’re looking for a few other great GameArt titles, I recommend trying out Broken Ballerina and Piggy Bjorn 2 – Winter is Coming.