Experienced online gamers are always on the lookout for the best online slots – The Great Chicken Escape, a delightful title from Pragmatic Play, falls squarely in this category and is not to be missed.
Playful design makes this medium-variance title easy to overlook, but make no mistake: the designers have paid attention to every detail here. There are so many bonus features available that it’s hard to keep track of! Best of them is the Big Money Bonus, with its instant cash payouts.
Theme
The Great Escape…
… is one of the most famous movies of all time. Starring Steve McQueen as an Allied prisoner staging a massive escape from a Nazi POW camp. It’s based on a true story!
But nowhere before have this story been told by fowl!
This game is built by Pragmatic Play, a brand with complicated history. Though officially established in 2015, strong connections exist between this designer and the scandal-prone TomGame, which was launched in 2008, including the same owner for both companies. With that said, Pragmatic has won some major awards in recent years, so there’s clearly some substance here worth exploring.
Military chickens festoon the reels. Four of them (in uniform!) act as gaming symbols, along with the playing card values ace through jack. An icon bearing the game’s title acts as the top-paying symbol.
A rakish rooster in a red beret acts as the wild symbol, appearing on all reels.
This title’s most important gaming symbol, though…
… is the scroll Bonus symbol. Three or four of these will open the way to a bonus feature, while five will open the Big Money Bonus directly!
Betting Options and Functions
There are 20 fixed paylines, all paying from left-to-right. Coins bet per line can be set from 1–10, with coin value adjustable from 0.01–0.50; this yields an overall betting range of 0.40–50.00 times the betting currency.
Player options, payline information, game rules, and more are available via a pop-up menu. Autoplay can be engaged for up to 100 spins in a row, with optional win/loss limits available. Quick spin is also available for those who prefer a faster gaming tempo.
The theoretical return to player (RTP) is excellent at 96.5%.
Features
- On any spin in base play, any of the following features may be triggered at random.
- Guard Dog Wilds, where 4–9 guard dog wild symbols are added to the reels in random positions.
- Chicken Run Wilds, where 2–4 reels can be transformed into fully-stacked wild symbols.
- Care Package, where stacked egg symbols are added to the reels. After the reels have stopped spinning, all of them transform into a random matching symbols.
- The appearance of 3 or 4 bonus symbols triggers a random Bonus Feature.
- The appearance of 5 bonus symbols triggers the Big Money Bonus.
- There are 5 possible bonus features, ranked in this order from lowest-to-hightest: Secret Tunnel Bonus, Poultry in Motion, Get Clucky Free Spins, To The Other Side, and Big Money Bonus.
- When one is awarded, players can choose to Gamble.
- A successful gamble awards the bonus feature one level higher than the one previously chosen.
- An unsuccessful gamble forfeits the feature, but awards a Mystery Prize as consolation.
Our Take
Pragmatic Play has built an instant classic here: with fabulous bonus features, high RTP, and a truly unique story – poultry fleeing Nazis? – this game is not to be missed!
Video Slot game data and features
- 5Reels
- 20Pay lines
- $2,500.00Max cash jackpot
- 96.5Payout Percent
- YesWild Symbol
- NoMultiplier
- $0.2 - $100Betting Range
- 0.01 - 0.5Coin bet range
- 10Coins per line
- NoProgressive
- 5000Max coins jackpot
- 200Max coins
- NoScatter Symbol
- YesFree spins available
- YesBonus Game
- NoBuy feature
- Animals , Country life Game theme
- Mid-high Volatility
