Chaos Crew

Once again, the developers at Hacksaw Gaming have come up with an innovative game, this time by deciding to mix two different styles – Gothic and graffiti!

The Chaos Crew presents you with the universe of monsters revolving around a cat called Cranky and his sidekick Sketchy set across a 5x5 grid that comes with...

...Wild substitutions, Mystery Multiplier and a Bonus game with free spins that will help you get the maximum win of up to 10,000 times your bet!

And What About The Theme & Symbols?

This cartoonish title takes place in a gritty world, showing various graffiti paintings embellish the game's reels.

The background shows a spray-painted brick wall in front of which is a transparent dark reel set that is packed with colourful graffiti-style symbols that include...

...an eight ball, a skull, a smiley face, a cross, lightning strikes, a butterfly necklace, a brain, a half-eaten apple, an octopus polyp, as well as a group of colourless symbols that have the words No!, False, Dead, NO and Nope! drawn on them.

The Wild symbol is the Cranky Cat that acts as a substitute for all regular symbols, while an icon marked with ‘Free Spins’, appearing on reels one, three and five is the Scatter.

The whole action is accompanied by a perfectly fitting electro soundtrack.

How Much Can We Bet?

Though you may expect for the game to have Cluster pay mechanics due to its 5x5 reel set, that's not the case, as it only offers 15 pay lines.

But, before you enter the world of graffiti, you need to set your bets that start at 20 p/c and go up to £/€100, which is great for both low and high-risk punters.

As for the RTP rate, the game boasts an average percentage of 96.3% that complements its high volatility.

Though you may wait for a while until you hit big, the maximum win is worth the wait, as it stands at 10,000x the stake!

When it comes to symbols, the lowest-rewarding ones are an eight-ball, a skull, a smiley face, a cross and lightning strikes that pay 1x the bet for 5 of a kind, followed by…

...a butterfly necklace, a brain, a half-eaten apple and an octopus polyp that reward from 5x to 12x your total stake.

What Special Features Can We Expect?

As we have mentioned, the Wild symbol Cranky cat substitutes for all the regular symbols, but, besides that, it is also a Mystery multiplier that multiplies the line win.

So, whenever it lands in a winning combination, it will display a random multiplier of x2, x3, or x5, while more than one in a combo will be multiplied by each other.

Wait to land three Scatter symbols to trigger a round of Free Spins.

When that occurs, you will get an initial number of 3 extra spins, however, each time you form a winning combo, the number resets to 3. The bonus round ends if you get 3 non-winning spins in a row.

But, that's not all!

Above each reel, you will notice a different number that increases during the bonus round, and that number will be added at the end of the feature to calculate the total bet multiplier for the round.

Besides, the bonus round will only be played using blanks and four special symbols, and each of the four specials will award either additional bet multiplier or will multiply the existing one. 

• Sketchy Skull will show a number which is added to the reel's current multiplier, with the choices being +1, +2, +5, +10, or +20.
• Epic Sketchy Skull will add from +1 to +20 to all reel multipliers.
• Cranky Cat will multiply the current multiplier shown on top of the reels by either x2, x3, x5, x10, or x20.
• Epic Cranky Cat will apply the revealed multiplier - x2 to x20 – to all reels.

Finally, the devs decided to give punters a chance to Buy Bonus for 129x the stake, if they are not patient enough to wait for it to trigger on its own.

What Is Our Conclusion?

The team at Hacksaw Gaming did a pretty good job in creating this urban-themed slot machine, by packing it with nice graphics, interesting gameplay and features, as well as a high maximum win of 10,000x the stake!

Though at first, the combination of 5x5 reel set and only 15 bet ways may seem off, it turned out as no problem in practice. 

Both the bonus game that we have seen in some other previous releases, and the distinctive theme should surely be enough to enhance the player experience and make you try this title out.