Cutie Cat Crazy Chicken Shooter Slot – Free Demo

A barnyard I have visited before

Gamomat has just launched a fresh addition to the Cutie Cat/Crazy Chicken lineup of slots, and a review might appear almost superfluous at this point. If you have played one, you have sort of played them all. In my own run, 165 of 390 spins paid something, and 106 of those paid back less than the stake. No matter. It’s time to set out some new cat food and head on back to the barnyard one more time, but is it worth your while? I started that run on 5,000.00 and finished it on 5,405.00. Aspiring chicken wranglers can pick up their well-used shotgun and join me to find out.

The Persian cat does the heavy lifting

The visuals are better than most, as far as these Cutie Cat/Chicken slots go, and this 5 reel, 4 row video slot can be played on 10, 20 or 30 paylines. The line count is settled before the spin, and I ran all thirty of mine. Symbols are well-rendered. They have a pleasant contemporary sharpness due to a high resolution, and they will appear recognizable, as they are almost all the same as those used in Cutie Cat. The white Persian cat perches at the top of the game. The one frame I have to hand shows stacked Persian cat Wilds filling reels one and two for a win of 135.00 at a 6.00 stake. The Trophy is the symbol that opens everything up.

Low volatility on the tin, nine dry spins at worst

Volatility is set on low in the main game, unusually. The longest I went without a win of any size was nine spins, and that stretch ended on spin 14. It functions well with the character of the bonus game and the stacked wilds, and so far I’ve encountered this sort of thing before, a couple of times. Across my 390 spins the balance never sank below 4,620.20 and topped out at 5,429.60. The same thing that has kept slots like Book of Ra beloved is what rescues Cutie Cat Crazy Chicken Shooter from being utterly written off as a cynical copy - the side game that can transform a maddening gaming session in a moment.

Stacked Persian cats and five free games

Cutie Cat Crazy Chicken Shooter’s features include free games with stacked symbols - plus a wrinkle - and the most coveted symbol in the game is the white Persian cat. Stacked cats on the left of the grid were behind my best spin outside the bonus, 210.00 on spin 39, or 35 times the stake. It is the game’s wild symbol. It will stand in for any other symbol from the paytable except the Scatter, and it lands stacked. Gamomat’s catalogue also runs to Books & Bulls and Roman Legion.

It's during the free games that the bigger wins arrive, like other Cutie Cat slots. The two largest spins of my session, 438.00 and 331.20, both had a free games round inside them. Players need to land 3 Trophy scatters to trigger this feature and be granted 5 free games. The round is played with more stacked wilds than the base game. The first of my rounds came on spin 133 and paid 108.00, eighteen times the stake. The stacks can span the full four rows, and if scatters land during the bonus round, then the feature is retriggered. The gaps between my rounds ran 123 spins, then 42, then 65, and then a single spin. Across the session I played, five free games rounds arrived over 390 spins and none of them retriggered. Three of the five paid between 108.00 and 120.00; the other two landed back to back and paid 330.00 and 438.00. Between them they paid 1,110.00, which was 40% of everything won.

A shotgun bolted onto a low-volatility cat slot

One additional feature is the Crazy Chicken Shooter side game that gives the slot the second half of its name, and it bears its own RTP of 96.10% and its own very high volatility. It plays nothing like the low-volatility base game. A locked chicken coop materialises. The round begins when the chickens flee, with the player collecting rounds to lift the prize across several tiers of mystery symbols and bigger payouts, and there are also two gambles on any win - a card guess and a risk ladder - each with a collect choice.

The Minty Take: Five bonus rounds in 390 spins works out at about one every 78, and the two that landed back to back carried 768.00 of the 1,110.00 the feature paid. Take those two spins out and a stated 96.09% game does not close a run at 117.3%.

What 390 spins at 6.00 came back with

There were certainly mixed feelings about Cutie Cat Crazy Chicken Shooter, and the first reaction is that it feels like a lazy rehash of two earlier slots bolted together. Having said that, you can't help getting drawn in by the powerful brand awareness and familiarity here. If you have played earlier Cutie Cat or Crazy Chicken slots before you will have a solid idea of what you are getting into even before Cutie Cat Crazy Chicken Shooter loads. It doesn’t underwhelm, yet nor does it astonish either. I staked 2,340.00 over that run and got 2,745.00 back. My own 390 spins at 6.00 a spin returned at 117.3%, with the best spin paying 438.00, or 73 times the stake.

Is it worth abandoning everything just to play it? Cutie Cat Crazy Chicken Shooter is a fine one as a standalone game. In the overall development of slots, though, it is somewhat forgettable.