Chaos Crew

Who needs the fantasy or mythological themes seen in so many online casino pokies, when you can head into the back alleys of the inner city to slum it for a while. If you’d like a break from friendly, happy pokies, you might like to challenge yourself with Chaos Crew, a graffiti-splashed extravaganza brought to you by Hacksaw Gaming.

They’ve come a long way as a games developer that cut their teeth on online scratch cards, with their growing portfolio of online pokies providing an interesting take on what takes place on the reels in terms of gameplay and design. This offering takes you into the back streets, a gangland wilderness that is bleak at first glance, until you realise that there’s a fortune waiting to be uncovered if luck is on your side.

You’ll meet Cranky the cat and Sketchy the sidekick in this gritty game, flanked from all angles by an oddly eclectic mix of symbols across the 5x5 reel setup. This edgy slot is deadly serious, but that makes it all the more fun to play, especially since it comes with chances to score some big wins. Read on to see what Chaos Crew is all about with Wildz Casino.

Design

Welcome to industria, where the windows of buildings are boarded up and rusty roller gates are shuttered against the light. This is the backdrop to Chaos Crew, a foreboding nightscape in a deserted alley. The shadowed greys help to showcase the symbols that come in bright, neon colours. They’re seemingly unrelated to any kind of storyline, and include glowing brains, day-glo skulls, rotten apples, moths, eight balls and letters, framed by green paint in the manner of a poster. These symbols are entertaining to see on their own.

Weird tentacles offer the highest payouts in the base game - with 12x your wager for 5 of a kind across one of the 15 paylines being an attractive potential win. The soundtrack is also out of synch with the game, being a relaxed strain of music that adds to the quirkiness of this cityscape pokie.

Gameplay & Features

When you take a closer look at Chaos Crew, you realise that the outlandish symbols and reels have much the same gameplay as many other games. All you need to do is line up 3 or more matching symbols starting from the left-most reel to obtain a win. The Wild symbol in Chaos Crew is Cranky, able to stand in for all other symbols bar the Scatter symbol to contribute to winning combinations. There are also fantastic multipliers that can be attached to the Cranky Wild, to provide winning lines of up to 5x your wager. If more than one Cranky Wild is present in a combination, this multiplication factor increases in an exciting way that gets the city adrenaline flowing.

Free Spins

To see the main elements come together for a real show of strength, you’ll need to activate the Free Spins round, put into play if you can land 3 Free Spins symbols. This provides a minimum of 3 Free Spins within a different screen. Each time you land a symbol with a Free Spin, the number of spins available resets to 3. These symbols each carry a multiplier that either gets added onto the total at the top if its respective reel or it multiplies the total. The Free Spins round may continue for several more rounds, increasing the win multipliers on each reel. If three spins take place without a win, the round ends and the totals are added up, most often with amazing rewards.

The symbols landed in the Free Spins round produce the following results:

• Sketchy skull – adds a number to the reel’s multiplier, from +1 up to +20
• Epic Sketchy Skull – adds a number from +1 to +2 to the multipliers attached to all reels
• Cranky Cat – multipliers the reel by 2x, up to 20x
• Epic Cranky Cat – multiplies all reels by 2x up to a max 20x

Feature Buy

If you lack the patience for a Free Spins round to activate in the usual way, Chaos Crew also offers players an opt-in feature buy. You will need to dip into your bankroll for this at 129x your stake - a bit higher than average for most online slots offering the feature - but this gives you instantaneous entry into the bonus round with all its attendant opportunities to win.

Chaos Crew on Mobile

Chaos Crew can be enjoyed on a desktop PC or via a mobile device such as a smart phone or a tablet, since Hacksaw Gaming understands that payer preferences are important, they’ve optimised their online pokies for mobile play.

Volatility

There’s a high volatility rating attached to Chaos Crew, so this game does come with a bit of risk. Play may continue for several spins without producing a win, but then wins, if they do turn up, tend to be on the more lucrative side. You will need some patience and a decent bankroll to get the most out of this game, but the potential win of 10,000x your stake offers appeal to high rollers and casual players alike.

The Verdict

The theme in this slot is what sets it apart; it’s so unlike other games that players want to see what happens next. Hacksaw Gaming specialise in approaching their pokies with creativity to produce themes that are unlike any you may have encountered before, and Chaos Crew is no different. It’s unique. The gritty, inner-city feel is fun and energetic and the potential wins provide all the entertainment you may want as a player, especially when the Free Spins round gets underway and the multipliers start to snowball. Hacksaw Gaming isn’t done with their first love, you can also access their scratch card version of Chaos Crew at Wildz Casino, so you can see how much faith this developer has in the game.

Chaos Crew at Wildz

Chaos Crew and many other terrific online pokies can be played at Wildz Casino, with most of the games being available for free play in Demo Mode, should you prefer to know how a game works before playing for Real Money, if you decide to do so.

FAQs

When was Chaos Crew released?

The online slot hit the shelves in September 2020.

Does the game feature Free Spins?

Free Spins are obtained by landing 3 Free Spin symbols, and can also be purchased instantly in exchange for 129x your bet.

Can I play Chaos Crew for free?

Yes, the slot is offered in free play mode at Wildz.