Chaos Crew 2 Demo: Free Play and Review

Wild cats on 19 lines, multiplied together

Every line is read from the leftmost reel for three to five of a kind and is paid only its highest win. Five of a low symbol pay 2x, five pyramids 10x and five Cranky Cats 20x.

In the base game the cat is the only wild, and no reel gets more than one. Each cat carries x2, x3, x4 or x5, or else x10 or x20. Two cats on the same line multiply each other before the product is applied.

A cat was on the grid in 222 of our 500 spins. It took part in 65 of the 169 line wins, and those paid €204.60 of the €254.80 the lines returned. Only x2, x3, x4 and x5 turned up on base-game cats. Spin 189, our top base-game spin, had a x3 and a x5 on three lines at once, which turned a €1.00 line into €15.00, and the whole spin paid €26.00.

A taste of the bonus in a single base spin

Epic Drop can switch on at the start of any base spin. For that one spin the grid turns into the bonus screen and at least five multiplier symbols drop in. The reel values are then added up and paid, and the next spin is ordinary again.

Ours came on spin 403 with 6 symbols, five that added and one x2 Cranky, and paid 21x the bet. Epic Drop FeatureSpins sells the same thing on every spin for 200x, with at least 15 symbols each time.

Cranky multiplies, Sketchy adds

Three BONUS! scatters start the Bonus. The grid fills with blank tags, and a reel multiplier starting at 1x sits over each of the five reels. Two characters change those numbers.

• Sketchy Skull adds its value, 1x to 100x, to the multiplier of its reel.
• Cranky Cat multiplies the multiplier of its reel by x2 to x20.
• Sticky versions stay and act again on every later spin; Epic versions act on all five reels.

A single sentence on Hacksaw's game page says both "Sketchy applies multipliers" and "Sketchy adds", the first a typo for Cranky; GAME INFO inside the game is clear. The round has 3 lives, each life is one spin, and any multiplier symbol puts them back to 3. When they run out, the five reel values are added and multiplied by the bet.

The order of the two matters. In a natural Bonus during our filmed session, the Cranky Cat above took reel 4 from 36x to 180x, and a few spins later another Cranky took reel 5 from 25x to 250x. A reel grows most when the Skulls add first and a cat multiplies afterwards. Reel 5 of spin 172 went that way in our log, built to 49x by Sketchy Skulls before a x3 Cranky made it 147x.

8 + 10 + 13 + 180 + 250 is 461x, and after 20 free spins TOTAL WIN read €922.00.

Four BONUS! scatters, or one that says Best of

The Super Bonus needs four BONUS! scatters at once and plays like the Bonus, except that its first spin brings at least 7 multiplier symbols. A BEST OF BONUS scatter landing with three BONUS! scatters gives Best of Bonus, and with four, Best of Super Bonus.

Both Best of versions play three complete rounds in a row and pay only the highest, with each result kept on a scoreboard beside the grid. BONUS! and BEST OF BONUS land only in the base game, so no bonus can be extended by scatters; the lives are what keep it going.

Two Bonus rounds 21 spins apart, then a long slide

We saved the server's answer to each of our 500 scripted €2.00 spins. That log holds 3 Bonus rounds, plus a single Epic Drop on spin 403.

The Bonus rounds paid 192x, 55.1x and 12x the bet. The first, on spin 172, ran 19 spins and lifted the balance from its low of €4,713.80; the second, on spin 193, set the high of €5,198.60. From there the balance slid to €4,814.80, with the Epic Drop and a 12x Bonus on the way. Of all spins, 26.2% paid, at a median of 0.3x, and the return for the session came to 81.5% of stakes.

Our filmed session, 80 spins at the same stake, found two more: 17 free spins for €138.00 and the 20-spin round above for €922.00. In all, our natural Bonus rounds ran from 12x to 461x, the kind of spread a volatility of 5 out of 5 stands for.

The price ladder, cheapest card first

The menu shows six cards in this order, with Super Bonus before Best of Bonus. The two FeatureSpins cards charge per spin until DISABLE; the four bonuses are paid once.

Best of Bonus costs 200x, exactly two Bonus buys, for three rounds; Best of Super Bonus costs 500x, two Super Bonus buys. The Super Bonus is 2.5 times the Bonus price for a stronger first spin. BonusHunt FeatureSpins makes a Bonus 10 times more likely for 5x a spin.

The card we paid for was the plain Bonus, at €200.00. It lasted 16 free spins. An Epic Sketchy Skull worth 2x raised every reel by 2 at once, reel 5 later doubled from 9x to 18x under a Cranky Cat, and reel 1 tripled from 3x to 9x.

9 + 22 + 4 + 3 + 18 came to 56x, so TOTAL WIN showed €112.00 against a €200.00 price. A Best of Bonus with this round as its best of three would have paid the same €112.00 for €400.00.

The version behind the demo credits is 96.27%, and the six cards return 96.22% to 96.35%. Lower settings exist too, 94.22%, 92.41% and 88.28% on Hacksaw's list, and any casino could be running one of them. Some markets take the menu away entirely.

Nineteen lines where Chaos Crew had fifteen

Chaos Crew dates from September 2020. It had 15 paylines on a 5x5 grid like this one, four lines fewer, and the same volatility rating of 5. Its cap is 10,000x and its menu sells one round, at 129x and 95.92%.

The sequel keeps the lives and the reel counters. On top of those it adds the Sticky versions, Epic Drop, the Super Bonus and the two Best of cards, and it takes base-game cats up to x20 and Sketchy values up to 100x. The symbols on the reels are a different set.

Most of what the lines pay comes with Cranky Cat in the win, and the bonus can swing from 12x to 461x on the same rules. For the rest of Hacksaw's catalogue on this site, start from the home page.