About The Respinners
The Respinners plays across 5 reels and 4 rows with 1,024 ways to win: three matching symbols minimum, starting from the leftmost reel, on adjacent reels. Hacksaw Gaming released it on 20 August 2020. The paytable is short. Five musical notes make up the low symbols and pay 0.05x to 0.15x the stake for three to five of a kind, while four band members — guitarist, drummer, keyboard player, singer — run from 1x to 4x. A wild substitutes for the regular symbols.
The respins drive everything. Any winning combination built from band member symbols awards a respin and lights that member on stage. If the respin drops a new band member combination, another respin follows, and so on. The sequence ends in only two ways: no new band member combination appears, or all four members are lit. Only the second outcome actually pays.
The Crowd Goes Wild triggers at random during the base game and adds a random number of wilds to the grid, up to 12. Across the 20 positions of a 5x4 screen, twelve wilds cover 60% of the grid. It produces the best non-bonus spins in the game, and it is the only feature that does not depend on the band members.
Lighting all four members opens 12 free spins, and that is the only entrance. The feature cannot be extended: no retrigger exists. Before the round starts, a multiplier is displayed beneath each band member. When a winning combination includes that member, its multiplier is applied to the win and then increases by 4. Hacksaw announces no ceiling on that progression, but it does not publish the starting values either: they are visible on screen before the round, not in any technical sheet.
The stated RTP is 96.4%, which means £3.60 kept by the house per £100 wagered across a very large number of spins. That is high for this studio. Across the 161 Hacksaw games recorded in the BetsRank database, the median sits at 96.28% and the maximum at 96.42%. Only seven titles reach 96.4% or better, and this is one of them. The hit frequency recorded by BigWinBoard is 24.62%, roughly one paid spin in four.
The ceiling is 5,150x the stake: £1,030 at £0.20, £5,150 at £1, and £515,000 at the £100 maximum. Measured against the catalogue, that is modest. 86 of the 161 Hacksaw games in the database cap at exactly 10,000x, the median is 10,000x, and only three titles fall below 3,000x. One calculation puts the number in context: a screen filled entirely with the top-paying band member produces 4 to the power of 5 combinations, meaning 1,024 wins at 4x, or 4,096x on a single spin. The cap therefore sits only 26% above a full screen, which leaves the free spin multipliers very little headroom.
Stakes run from £0.20 to £100 per spin. On volatility, the sources disagree: Hacksaw shows a 3-out-of-5 meter in its official catalogue and BigWinBoard calls the game medium volatility, while SlotCatalog and CasinoRange both list it as high. We follow the studio's own figure. No bonus buy is offered, which keeps the title clear of the UK debate on feature purchases, but it also forces you to play the respin chain all the way through. Sabaton, the studio's other music title in our database, released in November 2019, works the same way with no buy; newer releases such as Feel the Beat, DJ Cat and Beam Boys all offer one.
