Pushy Cats

Pushy Cats Slot Review

A cat circus inside a candy-striped big top, complete with a bulb-lit paw-print sign and a dark cat silhouette watching from the wings. Pushy Cats hides its best ideas in the bonus round and asks you to work for them: strip away the bumpers and you’re left with a plain 5×3, 20-payline game that would struggle to hold anyone’s attention on its own. The claim here is that the trade works, because no other slot builds its round quite like this one does.

Yggdrasil has routed everything through a single feature, and the base game exists to deliver you there. It runs on a 5×3 grid with 20 paylines, at 96.3% RTP and high volatility, with a maximum win of 12,709x the bet, which puts it alongside the studio’s bigger hitters like Vikings Go To Olympus and Hades Gigablox. That ceiling is bigger than it first looks, and the bumpers have to earn every multiple of it.

Base Game & Features

Wins pay left to right across all 20 paylines, with three or more matching symbols needed from the leftmost reel. Only the highest combination per line counts. It’s a conventional setup, and the game doesn’t dress it up as anything else.

Wilds substitute for all regular symbols and appear only on reels 2, 3 and 4. That restriction matters more here than it usually would, because every wild is also a trigger.

Sticky Wild Respins

Landing a new wild in the base game awards a respin with every wild on the reels locked in place. Land another wild during that respin and it triggers again. The chain continues until a respin arrives without a new wild.

It’s a simple loop, but it gives the base game something to do between bonus rounds. Three wilds on the reels at once, whether from a single spin or a respin chain, and the bonus game begins.

Paw Collection

The second route into the bonus is a collection meter. Paw symbols appear in the base game, and collecting ten of them triggers the bonus game. It’s the slower path, but it isn’t a dead end: each paw collected knocks 10% off the price of the buy bonus, so the meter pays even before it fills.

Golden Bet

For 50% extra per spin, the Golden Bet increases the chance of landing wilds in the base game. Since wilds are the trigger for everything here, that means more respins and more bonus entries. It doesn’t change anything about the bonus round itself, so it’s purely about getting there faster.

Symbols and Pays

Eight regular symbols, all paying as multiples of the total bet:

• Bell: 1.5x for three, 6x for four, 25x for five
• Ham: 1.2x, 5x, 20x
• Teal Fish with coin: 1x, 4x, 12x
• Blue Plate Fish: 1x, 3x, 10x
• A: 0.4x, 1.6x, 5x
• K: 0.4x, 1.2x, 4x
• Q: 0.2x, 0.8x, 2.5x
• J: 0.2x, 0.6x, 2x

Bets run from 0.20 to 100 per spin, so the top symbol’s five-of-a-kind is worth 25x whatever stake you’ve set. Where a winning line starts with three wilds, only the highest combination is paid.

Pushy Cats Bonus Game and Bumpers

The bonus game keeps the 5×3 grid but surrounds it with bumpers, and everything about the round flows from that one change. All wilds in the bonus are walking wilds: before each spin they move at least one position up, down, left or right if they can, never overlapping and never disappearing between spins. When a wild has nowhere to go, it stays put.

When a wild lands on a bumper, it bounces back to its original position and the bumper fires. Every bumper converts to a vortex once used, and a vortex removes any wild that steps onto it. The round ends when no wilds remain on the reels, so the bumpers are simultaneously the feature’s engine and its clock.

Bumper Types

• Cash Bumper: awards a cash prize of 1x, 3x, 5x or 50x, multiplied by the current multiplier
• Multiplier Bumper: adds between 1x and 5x to the total multiplier
• Extra Wild Bumper: adds one or two extra wilds to the reels
• U-Turn Bumper: bounces the wild back onto the reels
• Bonus Bumper: adds new winning bumpers around the grid
• Vortex: removes the wild from the reels

Multiplier and Walking Wilds

A global multiplier applies to every win in the bonus round and climbs by one for each winning spin. Because cash bumper prizes are multiplied by that running figure, a round that keeps feeding wilds into cash bumpers while the multiplier builds is where the 12,709x ceiling lives. There’s no stated spin count, so the length of a round is decided entirely by how long the wilds survive.

Bonus Levels and the Gamble

Before the round starts, a level is drawn at random from four: levels 1, 2, 3 and MAX. The level sets how many bumpers surround the reels and which types they are. Higher levels carry fewer vortexes and richer rewards, and MAX level has all winning bumpers with no vortexes at all.

After triggering the bonus, you can gamble for a higher level. It’s a real risk: losing the gamble voids the bonus trigger entirely, so a drawn level 3 is a genuinely awkward decision with MAX on the line.

Buy Bonus

Two buy options are on the counter. The first buys a level 1-3 bonus game, with any paw collection progress applied as a discount. The second buys the MAX level bonus game outright, guaranteeing the full bumper layout with no vortexes.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.9/10

Playing Pushy Cats is mostly a waiting game with a big top waiting at the end of it. The respins give the base game a pulse, but you’re really here for one thing: wilds pinballing around a gold frame while the multiplier climbs. That round is the reason to pick this over the studio’s other titles, because nothing else on the reels comes close to it.

The strength is that a good round builds itself. Every bumper feeds the next one, and a MAX level draw with early multiplier hits can run far longer than you’d expect. The weakness is the draw itself: a level 1 bonus can die to its vortexes before the multiplier gets moving, and there’s nothing you can do about it except gamble away the trigger you just earned.

It suits players who like wilds doing the heavy lifting and can accept that the same bonus can be a firework or a damp squib depending on a draw made before it starts. Anyone who wants a long free spins session with retriggers will find the round here too short-tempered. For wild-feature fans, though, this circus is worth the price of a ticket.

Pushy Cats FAQs

• How do you trigger the bonus game in Pushy Cats?

  There are three ways: landing three wild symbols in the base game (either in one spin or via a chain of sticky wild respins), collecting ten paw symbols in the base game, or buying the bonus outright.
• What does the Golden Bet do in Pushy Cats?

  The Golden Bet costs 50% extra per spin and increases the chance of landing wild symbols in the base game. Since wilds trigger the respins and the bonus, it speeds up the route in. It doesn’t change the bumpers in the bonus round.
• What are bumpers in Pushy Cats?

  Bumpers surround the reels during the bonus game. When a walking wild lands on one, it triggers: cash bumpers pay prizes, multiplier bumpers raise the global multiplier, extra wild bumpers add wilds, U-turn bumpers bounce wilds back, and bonus bumpers add new winning bumpers. Each bumper becomes a vortex after use, and a vortex removes a wild from the reels.
• What is the RTP of Pushy Cats?

  The RTP is 96.3%. The figure can vary by around 0.4% when playing with the Buy Bonus feature.
• Is Pushy Cats high volatility?

  Yes, Pushy Cats is a high volatility slot with a hit frequency of 20%, so roughly one spin in five lands a win.
• What is the maximum win on Pushy Cats?

  The maximum win is 12,709x your bet, achievable in the bonus game through the walking wilds and the climbing global multiplier.
• Can you buy the bonus on Pushy Cats?

  Yes. There are two options: a level 1-3 bonus game, with any paw collection progress applied as a discount, and a MAX level bonus game with all winning bumpers and no vortexes.
• Who makes Pushy Cats?

  Pushy Cats is made by Yggdrasil, running on a 5×3 grid with 20 paylines and bets from 0.20 to 100 per spin.