The world of online casinos has witnessed numerous games being inspired from various sources of entertainment, including popular video games and movies. One such game is "Crossy Road" casino slot, a mobile-friendly and visually appealing game that brings to life the iconic characters and gameplay mechanics from its parent title.
Theme and Design
At first glance, it becomes apparent that Crossy Road has taken inspiration from classic 8-bit arcade games of yesteryear. The game’s background displays colorful pixel art-inspired visuals reminiscent of retro consoles such Crossy Road for free as Game Boy and Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Players can expect a vibrant atmosphere filled with familiar characters like chickens, frogs, sheep, and bears, all set against the backdrop of an animated cityscape.
Upon closer inspection, the symbols in this slot machine also echo the style seen in Crossy Road mobile game. The standard paytable includes icons such as chickens crossing roads, sheep grazing on grasslands, and a bear wearing sunglasses strolling along a sidewalk – all meticulously designed to evoke nostalgia for classic arcade games. These adorable pixelated characters serve both as high-paying symbols and as free-spins-awarding symbols.
Symbols
The basic 6×4 reel configuration in this casino slot accommodates some unique symbol types besides the paytable’s mentioned icons:
- Wild: A stylized pixel art cat fills the role of a Wild, substituting any missing regular symbol during gameplay.
- Scatters: Four high-paying and three low-paying symbols, all contributing to various bonus feature awards.
Payouts
The standard paytable features combinations yielding payouts in increments from 0.05 to up to 100 times the total wager per active line when landing on matching patterns of five (5-of-a-kind) icons along any position within an uninterrupted payline.
To provide further insights, a summary table highlighting winning amounts associated with regular and special symbol combinations follows:
Symbol Combinations Regular Symbols Payouts 3 Chicken Crossings ×2 wager (5-15 times bet) Frog Crossing ×4 wager (10-30 times bet) Bear in Sunglasses ×8 wager (20-60 times bet)
When substituting as Wild, a single cat can create potential winning combinations of up to 100 times the total active line wagers.
Wilds and Scatters
Crossy Road slot has integrated a dynamic way to trigger free spins:
- Bonus Feature Activation: If landing at least five (5) chicken crossing symbols consecutively across horizontal, vertical, or diagonal lines will initiate a random number generator which decides between four separate bonus features (described later).
- Scatters and Wilds Interaction: To add more flexibility during gameplay, scatters can be used as a high-paying substitute for their associated symbol when they appear.
Bonus Features
Crossy Road slot is notable not only for its straightforward mechanics but also its implementation of an interesting set-up to randomize potential bonus rewards:
- Free Spins: Depending on how many chickens get involved, the player will randomly receive either five (5), ten (10) or twenty-five (25) free spins in which Wild and Scatters interact differently.
- Multipliers and Stacked Free Spins: With two unique types of Multiplier symbols appearing as special icons during a spin – increasing multipliers with each win resulting from consecutive combinations on an active line, all these wins contribute towards a bonus feature pool which may reward more free spins or add stacks to regular symbol positions.
- Sticky Wild and Stacked Scatters: Special versions of the Wild (the ‘sticky’ cat) are locked into place across reels for additional winning combinations with standard icons during Free Spin rounds; similarly, Stacked symbols have increased multipliers if three special scatter characters land in adjacent columns.
Each time a spin triggers five (5), ten (10), or twenty-five (25) extra spins randomly assigned from one of four predetermined bonus features mentioned earlier and described below.
The slot also offers a highly variable volatility that allows players to control the risk level with their betting choices – see Volatility, Betting Range & Max Win section for details:
- Low-Stakes Bonus : With only two random spin outcomes rewarding twenty-five (25) extra free spins.
- Moderate-Betting Bonus , Awarding fifteen (15) to fifty (50) more rounds every single time a specific combo or sequence lands within any row combination;
- The High Roller "Extra-Fast Five" bonus awards the least amount at twenty-five (25), most common with forty-nine (49).
