Evil Dozen: Slot Overview

Hacksaw Gaming partner Kitsune Studios has stepped into the kitchen to whip up a bakery-themed online slot with the suitably sinister title Evil Dozen. There’s a little extra drama too: the developers have dressed the cast in revolutionary vibes as a band of disgruntled Gingerbread Men rise up and demand… something. The details are fuzzy, but it seems they’ve had enough of certain witchy habits. Any gaps in the narrative are part of the odd charm of Evil Dozen, which pairs an unusual look with mechanics inspired by a particular Hacksaw Gaming slot featuring household pets.

The plot in Evil Dozen is undeniably strange. It talks about a Gingerbread Revolution led by Robin and his crew against Miss Muffin’s witchy ways. Miss Muffin is odd as well—assuming she’s the character on display—sporting a revolutionary Che Guevara-style hat along with a French maid outfit. Presumably, she’s the one baking gingerbread men and setting them free, or luring in Hansel-and-Gretel types with them, or… who knows. Either way, the gang has started a revolt, and it all plays out in a cute, if slightly baffling, slot.

Hot out of the oven and finished with icing, Evil Dozen runs on a 5×4 matrix with 16 paylines used to check matching-symbol combinations. Bets range from a minimum of $/€0.10 to a maximum of $/€100 per spin, with a preferred RTP of 96.33% and volatility is 3 out of 5 medium.

Symbol-wise, Ten through Ace gingerbread royals appear on the reels, returning 1x to 2x the stake for 5 OAK on a payline. Above them sit five premium gingerbread man symbols paying 4x to 10x, plus several types of wilds that replace all paying symbols. Wilds also award 10x when five land together as a winning combo.

Evil Dozen: Slot Features

The key components of this mix are Gingerbread House wild multipliers, She’s a Witch Spins, Revolution Spins, and feature buys.

Gingerbread Houses

Gingerbread Houses act as wild multipliers and appear in three types: low, medium, and high. Any winning combination that includes a Gingerbread House has its payout multiplied by the value shown. When multiple Gingerbread Houses contribute to the same win, their multipliers are added together before applying. Low multipliers range from x2 to x4, medium from x5 to x20, and high from x25 to x200.

She’s a Witch Spins

When 3 Gingerbread Houses land in the same base game spin, the game awards 5 She’s a Witch Spins. The type and position of the Gingerbread Houses that triggered the feature are carried over into the bonus. During this mode, Gingerbread Houses become sticky and reveal a new multiplier each spin according to their type. Every extra Gingerbread House that lands adds +1 spin.

Revolution Spins

Landing 3 or more scatters in the base game activates this feature. Each scatter reveals either 3 or 4, and the combined total determines how many free spins are awarded. Throughout the feature, no wins are awarded until the end. Instead, payouts from winning combinations and the multiplier values from any Gingerbread Houses involved in those wins are collected above the reels, forming a final total that is paid once the round finishes. During this mode, sticky Oven symbols may appear, which increase the multiplier or add to the win on every remaining spin. An Oven can reveal multipliers of x2 to x100 or win amounts of 0.1x to 100x. Ovens can land on the two rightmost reels, function as wilds, and extra FS symbols can award additional spins.

Feature Buys

Evil Dozen includes four feature buys. These are BonusHunt FeatureSpins, which make each spin 5 times more likely to trigger a bonus game for 3x the bet, or GingerBread Houses FeatureSpins at 2x to ensure at least 1 Gingerbread House appears. Both bonus rounds are also available to purchase: 100x for She’s a Witch Spins or 200x for Revolution Spins.

Evil Dozen: Slot Verdict

The last time we checked in with Kitsune Studios was with Miss Candy’s Sweet Escape, and there are plenty of connections between that title and Evil Dozen. Both are food-themed, bright, and include another French maid-styled character dishing out sugary treats. Between the glamorous characters and the candy-coated setting, a couple of the studio’s favourite ingredients are starting to show. While the earlier game was clearly a Sugar Rush-style experience, Evil Dozen is trickier to categorise. The name, theme, and overall presentation can feel a bit muddled. Still, it’s also fair not to be overly harsh on developers willing to break away from the usual formula and try something less standard.

That said, Evil Dozen is essentially a reskin of Hacksaw Gaming’s own Pug Life, so it isn’t especially unpredictable from a mechanics standpoint. On the upside, it offers a bizarre baking universe for players to explore while chasing some winnings. Gingerbread Houses deliver their wild multiplier function, and they’re not outrageously expensive to access via Gingerbread Houses FeatureSpins, comparatively speaking. The Revolution free spins mode is also a little unusual, thanks to the way it banks wins and a multiplier until the feature ends, then pays everything out at once. That approach can be genuinely engaging if the payouts and multiplier values keep climbing as the spins roll on. The Oven symbol is a reliably valuable addition, contributing to the total on every single spin. She’s a Witch Spins also help round out the feature set, even if they felt like the less satisfying of the two bonus rounds.

If everything bakes together properly, Evil Dozen can serve up rewards up to a 7,500x the bet win cap. That’s somewhat modest for a Hacksaw Gaming studio release these days, but still better than letting the whole batch burn to ash. So, even if the narrative is a little shaky, Evil Dozen does aim to stand apart, resulting in a quirky slot with eccentric characters and features that can prove worthwhile.