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Play’n GO is no stranger to quirky themes, and Rex’s 5 Pot Steakhouse certainly fits the bill. Overseen by a green T-Rex in a chef’s hat, this 5-reel, 20-payline slot takes the popular “coin collection” mechanic and gives it a highly volatile, prehistoric BBQ twist.
With a 16,000x max win dangling like a prime cut of wagyu, I fired up the grill to see if this steakhouse serves up a Michelin-star experience or just an overpriced tough chew. Here is how my session played out.
The Base Game: A Slow Roast
The paytable is made up of steakhouse staples, aprons, sauce bottles, and cutlery, alongside standard A-10 royals. The top-paying Wild and Apron symbols only yield 15x your bet for a five-of-a-kind, while a full line of the lowest royals just gives you your stake back.
During my session of a few hundred spins, my best base-game hit was a modest 3.5x. You’ll see a lot of small, intersecting lines held together by Wilds, but these are really just there to keep your balance on life support while you hunt for the game’s main attraction: the colored scatters.
The 5 Pots: Beware the “Fake” Meters
Above the reels sit five cooking pots: Collect, Bonus, Wild, Multi, and Expand. Every time a colored scatter lands, it flies into its matching pot.
A quick word of warning to players: the glowing meters filling up above these pots are purely visual. There is no collection threshold. Every scatter is simply a fresh chance to trigger its pot. A pot can look like it’s about to burst and do nothing, or it can trigger on the very first scatter.
However, the game does have a cool “Probability Shift” mechanic. Keep an eye on the spatula beside the reels. You start in a mode favoring a single-pot trigger (Yellow spatula). Once a feature fires, the spatula turns Teal, shifting the math to favor a double-pot trigger. It’s a nice touch that gives you a sense of where the game’s “mood” is at.
Free Spins: It’s All About the Stack
Because there is no Bonus Buy option, you are at the mercy of the natural trigger. When a pot finally fires, you get 8 Free Spins with that specific modifier active:
- Collect: Adds instant cash coins up to 5x.
- Bonus: Drops fixed prizes (up to a 1,000x Grand Prize).
- Wild: Guarantees one roaming full-reel Wild on every spin.
- Multi: A progressive multiplier starting at 2x that climbs with every win.
- Expand: Stretches the board to 5×5 and 40 paylines.
Here is where the brutal volatility shows its teeth. In my session, I finally triggered the Expand pot on its own. Because it only adds extra paylines without boosting symbol values, I ended up hitting a bunch of tiny royal combinations. I walked away from the bonus with a disastrous 4x my bet and ended my session 13.4x down.
Chasing the Dream Combo
If the best single line pays 15x and the top jackpot is 1,000x, how on earth do you hit the 16,000x max win?
The answer is stacking. Playtech did something similar in Gold Trio: Tres Amigos (capped at 1,380x), but Rex’s 5 Pot Steakhouse aims much higher. If two or more pots trigger on the same spin, you still get 8 spins, but the modifiers combine.
The real money in this game lives in that golden moment where you manage to trigger a wandering Wild reel, a climbing multiplier, and an expanded 40-line board all at once.
Rex’s 5 Pot Steakhouse is a fair but demanding slot. It’s not for the faint of heart, and single-pot bonuses will often leave you hungry. But if you have the bankroll to weather the base game and manage to stack three or more pots in the bonus, this T-Rex can absolutely cook.
