The Luxe

The Luxe Review

The good thing about luxury online casinos is that you don’t have to wear a tux to visit one and get your share of fun. The Luxe, a July-scheduled slot game by the trending provider Hacksaw Gaming, is our today’s special. It offers a world of “midnight opulence and golden allure” to all players with a wink at high rollers.

Hacksaw Gaming is known for its affection for non-standard payout systems based on 14 or 19 paylines, for example. The Luxe features a 5x4 grid packed with 14 lines, operating from the leftmost reel to the right. This mechanic might look insufficient compared to other studios’ releases throughout the years, but Hacksaw seems to love it, and we have seen it in too many hit titles, like Invictus and Rise of Ymir.

The Luxe is loaded with Golden Frames revealing intriguing features, like jackpots and multipliers. Players will also have the chance to taste free spins enhanced with various features and even a hidden bonus! All that garnished with the usual abundance of technical features (Autoplay, Turbo, Super Turbo, etc.), a bet booster, and Bonus Buys. In fact, one of the purchasing options puts The Lux under the spotlight and on the radar of high rollers!

The Luxe Slot - Game Screen

The Luxe is packed with symbols related to card games, casino experience, and wealth. That includes rolling dice, card suits, spinning cards, diamonds, and even a crown designed in a sleek, black-and-gold style. Symbols pay for 3 to 5 of a kind, and a wild symbol substitutes for all but scatters. It also pays 200x for 5 wilds on a line!

Yellow Diamond is the highest-valued regular offering payouts of 20x, 50x, and 200x. Golden Crown follows with 10x - 100x, Pair of Aces with 2x - 25x, and Casino Chips with 1x - 15x. Dice pay from 0.50x to 5x, while Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, and Clubs deliver minor rewards between 0.20x and 1x the bet. Needless to say that these are the most common!

The Luxe RTP ranges and at its highest, it is 96.33%, while the alternatives are 94.24%, 92.18%, and 88.45%. The slot features high volatility, but according to online sources, there might be available variants with milder levels. However, that is certainly difficult to examine! The Hit Frequency rate is quite decent - 28% and promises regular winnings.

The Luxe max win is not the highest in the Hacksaw Gaming portfolio, but it’s among the most generous - 20,000x the bet. It’s comparable to Chaos Crew 2 and Hounds of Hell, but ranks behind the provider’s top-rated scratchers. The betting range is no surprise - €0.10 to €100 per spin, and despite the numerous stake levels, it will hardly tempt the high-roller target group.

The Luxe Features

The Luxe comes with a lighter feature package compared to other popular slots by Hacksaw Gaming. It offers a base game bonus mechanic that becomes more profitable during the Free Spins minigame. As usual, the vendor provides 3 bonus levels, 2 of which are accessible via the Buy Bonus panel. Here are all the details:

Golden Frames - Multipliers & Jackpots

Golden Frames may appear in random positions during a base spin and will reveal either a multiplier or a jackpot. In case the symbol inside is part of a winning combination, the Golden Frame will be counted as part of it. Multiplier Frames have values of x2 to x10, x25, x50, and x100. If more than one multiplier is part of the winning combo, values will be added together before multiplying the win.

Jackpot Frames award one of the prizes below when they are part of a win. More than one jackpot can be part of the same combination and therefore, to be awarded. Once Multiplier Frames and Jackpot Frames pay their prizes, they will be removed from the grid for the next spin.

• MAXWIN - 20,000x the bet
• Mega Jackpot - 500x the bet
• Major Jackpot - 100x the bet
• Mini Jackpot - 25x the bet

Clover Crystals

Clover Crystal is a Collector Symbol that may appear on any grid position during all stages of play. It will collect and award the values of Multiplier Frames and Jackpot Frames, if any, even if they are not part of winning combinations. Only one Clover Crystal can land per spin and these symbols can't be in Golden Frames.

Bonus Game - Black and Gold

Black and Gold is a bonus minigame that starts with 10 free spins, and players need 3 scatter symbols at the same time to trigger it. The game starts with 1 guaranteed Golden Frame on the grid, and all Golden Frames are sticky during the bonus. They will be refilled with either new multipliers or jackpots between free spins. Scatters, 2 or 3, award +2 and +4 extra free spins, respectively.

Bonus Game - Golden Hits

Golden Hits is the second bonus level, and in order to activate it, you will need 4 scatters at the same time. You will get 10 free spins with the chance to win more. This bonus retains the Black and Gold mechanics and starts with 3 guaranteed Golden Frames. Multiplier values are sticky and will remain until they are part of a win.

Whenever that happens, the Multiplier value in the respective frames will be doubled. They can also double if they are collected by Clover Crystals. The Multipliers can double only once per free spin, and their starting values are from x1 to x10. If a Jackpot Frame becomes part of a win, it will be refilled with either a Multiplier or a new Jackpot.

Hidden Epic Bonus - Velvet Nights

Velvet Nights is Hacksaw Gaming’s hidden surprise for all players, and it is absolutely epic! You will need to land 5 scatters simultaneously to unlock this bonus level. Velvet Nights retains the Golden Hits mechanics, but every grid position is covered by a Golden Frame since the beginning. Scatters and Clover Crystals are excluded and will not appear.

Buy Bonus

Many gambling studios include Buy Bonus features in their online slots, but a few, including Hacksaw Gaming, have specialized in that. In The Luxe, the provider has challenged another vendor known for its affinity to these features - Nolimit City. And more precisely, it has challenged its unique God Mode that can pay the maximum in a single spin. Here are all the options, but consider them wisely:

BonusHunt FeatureSpins - 5x the bet - 10x the chance to trigger a Free Spins bonus (96.37%) Black and Gold - 80x the bet - start the bonus with 3 scatters (96.32%) Golden Hits - 250x the bet - starts the bonus with 4 scatters (96.33%) High-Roller FeatureSpins - 2,000x the bet - 1 in 10 chance of awarding the MAX WIN (96.38%)

Theme & Graphics

The Luxe is a game of style, elegance, and glamour; a game of “glittering gold and sleek black leather”, according to the provider’s own words. The Casino theme is not as common as you might think, although thousands of slots have card symbols in their paytables. Here, the focus is on the black-and-gold vibe for exclusivity.

Understandably, The Luxe features fine graphics and artwork, polished animations, and a nice soundtrack to keep you excited. The stylish background is delivered in black, grey, and gold nuances that are also used for the grid. But there is nothing too much and the design can even be categorized as minimalistic.

Pros And Cons Of The Luxe Slot

Our Verdict

We are all expecting surprises in every new game by Hacksaw, whether that would be a new mechanic or a new feature. Well, The Luxe is also different from all the other slots in the provider’s catalog, but in an unexpected way. It comes light, especially in the base game, as you’ll find that the Golden Frames are not too common, nor is the Clover Crystal symbol.

This element of the game links it to the “Le” series, although the other features and the mechanics in general differ. Le Bandit is packed with Golden Squares that can reveal Instant Prizes and other goodies. The feature is pretty much the same in Le Pharaoh, but modified in Le Viking, where Grid Multipliers land in Framed positions during the bonus.

Le King, the latest sequel to the series, released only a few hours ago, brings back the Golden Squares concept with few differences. In any case, The Luxe stands out from these mechanics and brings its own, despite the slim similarities. High rollers might be attracted by the super-expensive FeatureSpins and play all or nothing, but that’s a pure gamble right there!

The Luxe also charms with a record win cap for the provider, at least for its slot selection - 20,000x. This perfectly matches the materialistic vibe that has been implemented in the game’s matter. Some might say that the title lacks innovation and depth, and they will most likely be right, or not! It all depends on the POV since Hacksaw Gaming didn't fail to deliver their distinguished style once again!