Chicken Rush Slot Review
A sunbaked frontier town sits between orange-red sandstone cliffs, a timber bank on the right and a rope lashed around the corner of the reel frame. Chicken Rush is a ways slot whose real game doesn’t start until the bonus round: the base game mostly exists to keep you amused while you wait for it, and it’s upfront about that.
BGaming run a 5×5 grid here with ways-based pays rather than fixed lines, at 97% RTP and mid to high volatility. They have form with poultry westerns, and this one sits alongside Chicken Shot and Johnny vs Chicken, with Chicken Fire not far behind. The question is whether the bonus round gives the theme teeth.
Reels, Wilds and the Paytable
Wins are paid as ways rather than lines. A winning way starts on the first reel and continues rightwards for at least three cells, so a symbol cluster in the middle of the 5×5 grid pays nothing unless it reaches back to reel one. No payline shapes to track, no line bet arithmetic.
The Wild appears only in the main game, substitutes for any symbol except the Bonus symbol, and carries a random multiplier of x2, x3, x5 or x10 on every appearance. That multiplier is what stops the base game from being a formality between bonuses. A wild landing early in a way can turn a three-cell royal win into something worth watching.
The paytable is stacked with cowboy chickens at the top and card royals below. Values are multiples of the total bet:
- Purple cowboy chicken: 1x, 2x, 3x for three, four or five
- Orange cowboy chicken: 0.75x, 1.25x, 1.5x
- Green cowboy chicken: 0.5x, 1x, 1.25x
- Revolver: 0.3x, 0.6x, 0.75x
- Turkey: 0.3x, 0.5x, 0.6x
- A, K: 0.15x, 0.25x, 0.3x
- Q, J: 0.15x, 0.2x, 0.25x
- 10, 9: 0.1x, 0.15x, 0.2x
Notice the shape of that ladder. The three chickens pay noticeably more than everything beneath them, and the drop from the green chicken to the revolver is steeper than the drop between any two royals. The premium birds are where the base game’s money is.
The royals do at least pay something for every way length. Five 9s or 10s return 0.2x the bet, which on a 5×5 grid isn’t the dead weight it would be on a three-row game. Higher bets raise the total win proportionally, so the bet size is purely a comfort decision.
Three Bonus symbols trigger the bonus game with five free spins, four award seven, and five award ten. The Bonus symbol doesn’t pay anything itself, wherever it lands, and it can appear on any reel.
Autospins are there for longer sessions, with a confirm popup showing the number of rounds multiplied by the total bet before anything starts. A quick spin toggle speeds the reels up, though licensing rules mean it isn’t available in every market. Both are comfort features rather than anything that changes the maths.
The Bonus Game
The bonus game is where Chicken Rush stops being a straightforward ways slot. Boxes sit on the spinning reels, and when the reels stop, some of those boxes open or explode at random. Each opened cell can reveal one of three things:
- A ‘+1 FS’ symbol, adding a free spin to the round
- A multiplier of x2, x3, x5 or x10
- A symbol chosen in advance, filling the cell
The round begins by choosing that symbol in advance, and every box that opens can stamp another copy of it onto the grid. A lucky sequence of boxes therefore builds clusters of a single symbol, and the ways system pays those clusters out in one movement. The extra spins from ‘+1 FS’ symbols pad the round without dragging it.
There’s a compounding quality to it. Boxes open, the chosen symbol spreads, and the round’s later spins start from a fuller board than its earlier ones did. A modest opening can turn into something much larger two or three boxes later.
Nothing about the round is reset between spins. Whatever the boxes put on the grid stays there, which is why the final spins of a ten-spin round carry the most weight. The round’s structure rewards patience by design rather than by accident.
Double Shot Multipliers
Every multiplier that lands during the bonus game flies to a special area at the edge of the field rather than paying immediately. Collect five of them and, at the end of the round, the multipliers fly back onto symbols on the grid at random, boosting whatever those symbols are part of.
The payout only happens at the end, and only at five. A round with four collected multipliers keeps nothing from them, which makes the fifth one the most valuable single symbol drop in the game. Landing it across a cluster of pre-chosen premium symbols is where the big results come from.
Buy Bonus
There’s a Buy Bonus button beside the reels, and it offers three versions of the bonus game. They differ in what the round contains, and each carries its own volatility label:
- Bronze (low volatility): the standard bonus game, identical to the one triggered by three or more Bonus symbols
- Silver (medium volatility): the same round, but the pre-chosen symbol is picked from the high symbols only
- Gold (very high volatility): as Silver, except that collecting five multipliers doubles the count to ten
Gold is the interesting one. Ten multipliers scattered across a grid full of premium symbols is where this game’s payout potential actually lives, and the labelling is honest about what that costs in variance. Bronze is the conservative route in, priced and behaved like the organic trigger.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.7/10
Chicken Rush plays like a long ride into town with one shootout at the end of it. The base game trots along on multiplied wilds and not much else, and the reason anybody saddles up at all is the bonus round, where the boxes stack symbols onto a grid that never clears.
The strength is that round. Because nothing resets between spins, it can grow into something the base game never hints at, and the fifth multiplier is a proper finisher. The weakness is everything outside it: a top symbol paying 3x the bet leaves the base game thin, so the waits between shootouts can be quiet ones.
It suits players who like a bonus round worth building towards and don’t need the base game to carry the session. Anyone after steady wins between features will find this town quieter than they’d like. The rest can enjoy the ride in; the shootout pays for it.
Chicken Rush FAQs
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What is the RTP of Chicken Rush?
The RTP is 97%, which is above the typical industry average. -
Is Chicken Rush high volatility?
The game is rated mid to high volatility. The Buy Bonus options add their own settings: Bronze is low volatility, Silver is medium and Gold is very high. -
How do you trigger free spins in Chicken Rush?
Three, four or five Bonus symbols landing anywhere on the reels trigger the bonus game with 5, 7 or 10 free spins respectively. The Bonus symbol doesn’t pay anything on its own. -
What does the Double Shot feature do?
Multipliers of x2, x3, x5 or x10 that land during the bonus game fly to a special area on the field. Collect five of them and, at the end of the round, they fly onto symbols at random to increase the win. -
What do the Buy Bonus options do in Chicken Rush?
Bronze buys the standard bonus game, Silver restricts the pre-chosen symbol to high symbols only, and Gold works like Silver but doubles five collected multipliers to ten. -
What multipliers can the Wild carry in Chicken Rush?
Every Wild in the main game carries a random multiplier of x2, x3, x5 or x10, and it substitutes for any symbol except the Bonus symbol. Wilds don’t appear in the bonus game. -
How many paylines does Chicken Rush have?
It doesn’t use paylines. Wins are paid as ways, and each way must start from the first reel and be at least three cells long. -
What is in the bonus game boxes in Chicken Rush?
When the reels stop in the bonus game, boxes on them can open or explode at random. An opened cell can reveal a ‘+1 FS’ symbol that adds a free spin, a multiplier of x2, x3, x5 or x10, or a copy of the symbol chosen in advance at the start of the round.
