Bounty Hunt Reloaded: Slot Overview

Bounty Hunt was among software provider ReelPlay’s earliest releases, from the period when the studio operated under the Chance Interactive name. The theme followed a futuristic bounty hunter bringing criminals to justice, with a Crosshair feature roaming the grid to convert symbols into wilds or set off free spins. Fast-forward around 8 years and a rebrand, and ReelPlay has launched Bounty Hunt Reloaded, a refreshed take that retains elements of the original while also adding a cash prize element tied to the action.

It also looks like the main bounty hunter has been redesigned. Previously she had a bit of an Alice-from-Resident-Evil vibe; now she’s styled more like the lead from Æon Flux. The backdrop is still a moody, high-rise city of the future, giving off a Stargate Atlantis meets Total Recall (the Colin Farrell one) atmosphere. It’s the sort of place where you can obtain any product or service—whether respectable or shady—so long as you know the right contacts or which back alleys to slip through.

Bounty Hunt Reloaded stretches the play area to 6 reels by 4 rows. If you were expecting a ways mechanic to match the layout, you may be let down. Rather than 4,096 ways to win, Bounty Hunt Reloaded sticks with 20 paylines, which feels a little light for this kind of grid. The default RTP is more appealing at 96.04% (though a lower version exists), and the volatility is medium-high. Players can choose stakes from 20 c to a maximum of $/€50 per spin.

There are eleven standard paying symbols: ten to ace card ranks, a pistol, a grenade, Hank Blade, Dr Fury, Big Boss, and the Bounty Hunter. A 6 OAK win pays 1-3x for the card ranks or 4 to 12.5 times the bet for the rest. You can also form wins using mixes of the three criminal symbols, paying up to 6x the bet. Wilds can land on any reel. They substitute for all regular pay symbols, and a line of 6 wilds pays 100 times the stake.

Bounty Hunt Reloaded: Slot Features

Bounty Hunt Reloaded brings back the Crosshair feature from the original and introduces cash prize values on its Criminal symbols. The Crosshair runs in both the base game and the free spins feature.

Crosshair

Every spin, a Crosshair appears and targets a random symbol on the reels. What happens next depends on which symbol gets selected, as follows.

• Bounty Hunter – randomly turns the Bounty Hunter and one other non-Wanted symbol on each other reel wild.
• Big Boss, Dr Fury, or Hank Blade symbol – turns it and all equivalent symbols wild.
• Grenade – turns it and all symbols except Wanteds on the reel wild.
• Pistol – turns it and one other random non-Wanted symbol wild.
• Card Royals – turns it wild.
• Wanted symbol – turns all Criminal symbols wild. Wanted symbols are never turned wild by the Crosshair, nor are they used to determine wild pistons for the Bounty Hunter or Grenade.
• Wild – turns all adjacent non-Wanted symbols wild.

Once the Crosshair sequence finishes, there is a chance of a Reload that makes the Crosshair lock onto another random symbol. Reloads may happen multiple times within the same spin.

Free Spins

Free spins start when 3 or more Wanted scatters symbols land, or when a Crosshair targeting a Wanted symbol sets them off. In this mode, players receive 2 free spins for each Wanted symbol in view, plus 2 more for each Crosshair target of a Wanted symbol. If the Wanted symbol was targeted by the Crosshair on the trigger, then the prize values on any Criminal symbol it turned wild are paid. Hank Blade has prize values of 0.5x to 100x, Dr Fury of 1x to 250x, and Big Boss of 1.5x to 2,000x.

In free spins, the prize value on any Criminal symbol is awarded whenever that Criminal is turned wild. Any Wanted symbol that lands during the feature adds an extra free spin. In addition, if the Crosshair targets a Wanted symbol, an extra free spin is also given.

Bounty Hunt Reloaded: Slot Verdict

Not speaking as a bounty hunter authority, but you’d assume the work includes plenty of waiting around—research, watching targets, gathering intel—before the moments of action arrive. Bounty Hunt Reloaded certainly captures the waiting part, but the action, at least in this session, was much harder to find. The playthrough felt like it slid into a pattern of low wins and dead spins that steadily battered the balance, and getting the Crosshair feature to deliver anything meaningfully rewarding proved a pretty steep ask.

As with any slot, results vary, and other players may well have a livelier experience with Bounty Hunt Reloaded. The relatively ‘low’ payline count may have contributed by making it tougher for all those wild conversions to properly connect. If paylines had been removed in favor of a ways system, or if there were simply more lines, the game might have come across as more energetic. The win potential is decent but could be punchier too, with 4,459.1x the bet as the top end on the 96.04% version.

Overall, Bounty Hunt Reloaded wasn’t unpleasant to play—future bounty hunting is a strong concept, and the world-building is solid. Still, it struggled to build momentum, to the point where it sometimes felt like it never would. On paper, the stats and features suggest it should deliver, but in practice it didn’t offer enough of a hook to keep pushing through the rough stretches to see it fully shine.