About This Game

One penny slot. Twenty bucks. A whole table to fill.

Hot Machine is an incremental game played on a felt casino table. Buy slot machines, drop them on the felt and pull their levers. They hop, slide and knock into each other, spilling coins as they go. Click fast and a combo builds. Hire staff and they pull for you.

Every pull is a bet

Spins cost money, and a cold streak can drain you fast. Upgrade paytables, bolt on motors, buy a High Stakes License and turn the dial from ×1 to ×100. Bigger stakes grow you faster and ruin you faster.

Hire the Regulars

Six kinds of staff work your table. The Regular plays whatever is closest. Grandma only plays the cheap machines, and fast. The Whale only touches your best ones. The Card Counter stares a machine into luck, the Pickpocket sweeps up loose coins, and Hotty the mascot's dance makes nearby machines pay more. They take coffee breaks, scroll their phones and nap on the job. Click a slacker to send them back to work.

Rent is due

Every three minutes the rent comes around. Miss it and the Shark buys your tab, then skims a quarter of every win until you're square. Cold streaks, power outages, tax audits and thieves come for your bankroll. Happy Hours, Golden Hours and the odd High Roller can turn a bad night around.

Go bankrupt. On purpose.

When you hit rock bottom, declare bankruptcy for Ruin Chips and spend them in the Rock Bottom Tree: 69 permanent upgrades across four branches, with endless nodes at the tips. Every run starts faster and reaches further.

Skip town

Win big enough in a single run and you can skip town. The road runs through Atlantic City, Las Vegas, Macau and Monaco, all the way to the Moon. Every city has its own machines, its own felt and its own rule: a boardwalk wind that shoves your machines around, three skulls that pay out instead of busting, bets ×10 in Monaco, low gravity on the Moon. You start over in each one, with Passport Stamps to spend and a Suitcase to pack.

The long game

Twelve Lucky Charms, each with an upside and a catch. A Chip Shop for upgrades that survive the road. Mastery ranks for every machine, a Jackpot Book with a page per machine to fill, and an Autopilot that pays a hands-off table more the longer you leave the levers alone.

Numbers go stupid

Eighteen machines take you from a $1 Penny Slot to a Total Eclipse on the Moon. Paytables have no level cap, 276 achievements each add 1% to your winnings, bankruptcy or not, and the numbers keep climbing long after they run out of names.

Features

• A living table: machines hop, collide and spill coins; Regulars walk, work, slack off and gossip
  
• Click for combos, or hand the levers to staff and motors
  
• Real risk: rent, debt, the Shark, random events and a stakes dial up to ×100
  
• A 69-node prestige tree with endless upgrades
  
• Six cities from Reno to the Moon, each with its own twist and new machines
  
• 18 machines, 12 Lucky Charms, a Chip Shop, Machine Mastery and the Jackpot Book
  
• 276 achievements, each adding 1% to your winnings for the rest of the game
  
• Offline earnings: your staff and motors keep pulling while you're away

Hot Machine contains simulated gambling for entertainment only. There is no real-money wagering, no purchasable currency and no loot boxes.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

AI tools are used to assist in development, including code, writing, art, and sound effects