Frank’s Diner Slot Review

Frank’s Diner Overview

When I first sat down at Frank's Diner, the slot hit me with its odd mix of greasy spoon and ruined city. This Relax Gaming release uses a 6x4 grid with 4,096 ways to win, wrapped in chunky 8-bit pixels and a dystopian backdrop. The maths sits around medium to high volatility, the default RTP is 96.1%, and the game chases a capped maximum of 10,000x your bet.

Under the hood, Frank's Diner comes stacked with cascading wins, symbol splitting, two wild bottles, reel multipliers and a wild-driven respin feature. There is also a random win modifier that forces successful spins in different ways, plus a Last Stand free spins round with progressive multipliers. Bets from 10p a spin up to £5 in the UK (and higher elsewhere) make it easy for me to slot this into my usual session stakes.

Frank’s Diner Slot Details

Frank's Diner runs on 6 reels, 4 rows and 4,096 ways, so wins land when three to six matching symbols hit on successive reels from the far left. Minimum stake is 10p per spin, while UK players top out at £5 a spin or £2 if they are under 25; in some markets the ceiling climbs towards £100, which gives plenty of room for varied staking plans.

The stated RTP for Frank's Diner is 96.1%, though Relax Gaming also ships a 94% build, so I always check the paytable before putting much balance on the line. Volatility sits around medium to high; with a 23.42% hit rate you see a win roughly every four or five spins. A 10,000x max win, a 60x stake feature buy with higher RTP, and a 10x ante mode for scatter-heavy spins round out the maths.

Theme, Audio + Symbols in Frank’s Diner

Theme-wise, Frank's Diner throws you into a post-apocalyptic wasteland where a battered American diner clings on among the rubble. The action plays out in bold 8-bit style, with jagged characters lurking around the grid, from a punk with a weapon to an older gent in a makeshift hot-rod wheelchair and a hulking minder. The soundtrack leans hard into retro bleeps and loops, which I find suits the harsh but playful mood.

On the reels, the low-paying end of Frank's Diner is all about food: fried eggs, sausages, steaks, burgers and hefty cuts of meat. Line up six of a kind and you are looking at payouts between 0.5x and 1x your bet, so the real meat sits with the character symbols. Four survivors, including Frank himself, make up the premiums, paying from 1.5x up to 3x stake for full six-symbol ways.

Two BBQ bottle wilds appear on reels two to five in Frank's Diner, one regular and one gold, both able to stand in for pay symbols. A chicken scatter in a colander hat handles entry to the Last Stand free spins. I have played it on both desktop and mobile; the game is built in HTML5, and while portrait mode works fine, the pixel art really pops on a larger monitor.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	6	x3
	5	x2
	4	x1.5
	3	x1
	6	x2
	5	x1.5
	4	x1
	3	x0.7
	6	x1.5
	5	x1
	4	x0.7
	3	x0.5
	6	x1.5
	5	x1
	4	x0.7
	3	x0.5
	6	x1
	5	x0.7
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.3
	6	x1
	5	x0.7
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.3
	6	x0.5
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	6	x0.5
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	6	x0.5
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	Wild
	Wild

Bonus Features in Frank’s Diner

Frank's Diner uses an avalanche system, so every winning combination blasts its contributing symbols off the grid, then fresh ones drop in from above. Chains of hits are common when the reels behave. Even without an initial win, two or three matching symbols landing on the same reel will merge into a double or triple symbol, nudging up your ways and often kicking off extra cascades without costing another paid spin.

Wild symbols take things further in Frank's Diner. Any wild that hits on reels two, three, four or five lights a reel multiplier of x2, x3, x4 or x5, and if several reels carry wilds on the same evaluation, those multipliers add together. When a gold wild helps form a win, you get a respin with all winning symbols held, non-winners cleared and new symbols dropping in, repeating as long as the cluster keeps growing.

Finally, Frank's Diner packs a random win modifier and the Last Stand free spins round. During avalanches, the modifier may appear once, either dropping the same symbol into positions or flooding reels two to five with wilds while reels one and six show a matching symbol. Three scatters give ten free spins with reel multipliers that start at x2, x3, x4 and x5, climb by one for every gold wild respin and never reset; another three scatters add ten spins.

Bonus Buy Feature

Free Spins Buying ‘Free Spins’ will cost 60x the reference bet size and starts a round that guarantees the Free Spins trigger.
Feature Cost:	x60 Bet
RTP:	96.50%
Volatility:	-

Frank’s Diner Expert Verdict

As someone who lives on volatile slots, I rate Frank's Diner as a strong all-rounder rather than a pure high-risk monster. The pixel-art wasteland looks great, the theme has personality, and the mix of avalanches, symbol merges, reel multipliers and gold wild respins keeps the base game busy. Free spins can sometimes whiff if multipliers do not rise, yet the 10,000x cap and gritty charm still tempt me back for another serving.

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