Suck: Slot Overview

Isn’t it ironic that the most tempting things on the menu are usually the worst for us? Everyone talks about moderation, yet for some it’s easier said than done. That’s certainly true for Tucker, the unfortunate lead in software provider Shady Lady’s online slot Suck. The word “suck” can mean plenty of things—poor ability, a put-down, or simply pulling something into your mouth. In Suck, it’s used in more than one sense too, ranging from the literal extraction of unwanted fat, to a life that, for some observers, simply sucks.

The game’s “sucking” is split into two stages set in two separate locations, with outdoor cut scenes linking them. First up is a diner-style joint where Tucker—if you can call him a hero—sits demolishing a table full of fast food between drags on his ciggie, punctuated by the odd burp and, if you’re fortunate, a fart. The juicy kind. Across the street, visible through the window, is the clinic used for the bonus round. That’s where Tucker goes to “get [his] life back on track” by sticking a tube into his belly and having the fat sucked out—though it doesn’t exactly stop him cramming burgers into his mouth afterward. It’s all a bit blech and more than a little gross, yet Suck does highlight the nasty loops of vice, regret, and redemption people can get trapped in, made louder by modern life’s craving for instant fixes and instant gratification.

Suck is a scatter pays slot where wins are created when 8 or more matching symbols land anywhere on the 6×5 grid. A cascade feature removes winning symbols and then refills the grid via a symbol drop. If the refill produces another win, the process continues. All the “sucking” is powered by a highly volatile math model offered in three RTP variants, with 96.1% as the highest. With plenty of buy options included, Suck’s base bet range runs from $/€0.10 minimum to $/€50 max.

The pay symbols are a lineup of fairly unwholesome treats: cigarettes, bottle tops, salt shakers, lighters, chips, drumsticks, hot dogs, and pizza slices. An 8-of-a-kind win pays 0.5x to 5x, rising to 10x to 100x for 20+ OAK. Wilds have been removed from the menu entirely, so none appear.

Suck: Slot Features

What’s served up here includes mystery symbols, multipliers, a bonus game, a super bonus game, plus generous helpings of feature buy options.

Life on a Plate

Giant Burger mystery symbols may show up at any moment in sizes from 2×2 to 5×5 in size. Once a Burger lands, it reveals a random pay symbol, and a random number of hot-sauce bottles can also appear.

Some Hot Sauce With That?

Hot-sauce bottles can land directly on the grid or be revealed by Burger symbols, but they only exist in the base game. After a cascade ends with no further wins, they may explode, spreading hot-sauce across the grid in a random straight-line pattern. Hot-sauce-covered positions can contain multipliers or be empty. Empty hot-sauce positions are cleared, triggering a cascade. Multipliers are collected at the end of the spin, and the summed total is applied to the overall win. If two hot-sauce multipliers land in the same spot, they multiply together to form a combined value. Hot-sauce bottles that fail to explode can potentially reactivate if cascades happen after the missed explosion.

Bonus Game

Landing 3 Scatters awards 6 free spins. During the feature, a LipoSuck Pro Pump sits outside the reels. After every winning spin, the gauge attached to the pump spins. If it stops in green, the pump activates. The Pump has four levels, each linked to a multiplier. When triggered, the pump sucks fat until a random level is reached, and that multiplier is then applied to the spin’s win. Tucker may kick the pump occasionally, which can either cause a level upgrade or combine the multiplier already collected with one from a higher level.

The pump’s starting levels and maximums are Level 1 x2-x10, Level 2 x3-x100, Level 3 x5-x500, and Level 4 x10-x2,000. Values may be upgraded when a Multiplier Upgrade symbol lands, by +x2-x5, up to the capped amount. Two other symbols can appear in free spins. The Extra Spin symbol adds +1 free spin, while the Gauge Upgrade symbol is collected to increase the activation area of the gauge, improving the odds of a pump activation.

Super Bonus Game

Landing 4 scatters starts 8 Super Bonus free spins. They work like the standard free spins, except the pump activation only resets on pump multiplier wins, allowing gauge upgrades to carry over between spins. On top of that, the cap for Level 1, 2, 3, and 4 is raised to x20, x200, x1,000, and x9,999.

Store

The store is the place to purchase boosters, bonus buys, Highlight Reels, and Loot Boxes. The Bonus Boost is priced at 1.5x, and the Big Bonus Boost costs 5x to improve the chance of entering the bonus round. Burger Boost costs 15x and guarantees a Burger symbol on every spin. For direct entry options, the Bonus Buy, Super Bonus Buy, Bronze Bonus, Silver Bonus, and Gold Bonus are priced at 79x, 292x, 129x, 348x, and 1,596x the stake, respectively. Highlight Reels (the top 3 of a set amount of spins) range from 80x to 860x, while Loot Boxes are tagged at 186x to 571x the stake.

Suck: Slot Verdict

Since Shady Lady arrived on the scene, it has repeatedly shown it isn’t a studio that shies away from strange themes—sometimes downright squeamish ones. From the severed digit of Devil’s Finger to the bizarre music made by shock-collared aliens in Orphan Organ, Shady Lady has proven it’s willing to grab the weird concepts other studios won’t touch. Suck continues that streak. This isn’t a feel-good title you load up to sprinkle a bit of sunshine on your day. If anything, it’s the reverse, as you watch Tucker sadly stuffing his face, then getting the fat sucked out, then being interrogated by his nasty missus over the phone. You can’t help but hope he gets it together, because a Suck sequel could get very dark indeed.

In both theme and mechanics, and while Suck is Shady Lady’s first scatter paying slot, it’s certainly not a Gates of Olympus clone. It does feature multipliers and the potential for big hits, especially if you manage to reach the super bonus round. Even the base game toys with multiplier action via hot-sauce symbols and Burgers. Still, free spins are where you’ll want to land to chase the full effect. The multiplier approach in the bonus is genuinely engaging: rather than relying on multiplier symbols, you get a chance to add them after each winning spin. Whether it happens or not depends on the pump’s mood. Any pump improvements are a big plus—either higher values or a better gauge—since multipliers up to x2,000 can seriously transform a session.

In a crowded world of slots trying to be your best mate or the centre of the party, Suck stands out in a big way. It’s played for laughs, yet it also feels oddly human in how it reflects vice, even hints of depression, and the damaging cycles people can end up stuck in. It’s still a slot, though, and it comes with a win cap of 20,000x the bet, so it won’t suit every palate. But if you want a scatter pays slot that rejects Gates of Olympus gloss in favour of bulging bellies, saturated fat, and everyday anti-heroes, this is the one.