Cotton Gang Affair: Slot Overview
Grab your glad rags, pop a new disc on the gramophone, and prepare to be whisked back in time to a world where leisure and partying are the order of the day. It's the early 20th century, New York City, and if ever there was a time to make your mark on the world, this is it. At least this is one impression of the era, where the good times were wedged in between two world wars, punctuated with a great depression and a worldwide pandemic. It was a hectic era, so no wonder if people tried to have the time of their lives whenever they possibly could. Such is the world of Cotton Gang Affair, an online slot from Max Win Gaming in association with its more established partner Red Tiger.
From an ocular perspective, Cotton Gang Affair makes full use of swinging, loungey, gangster concepts, pulling them all together to treat your eyeballs. A classy, Art Deco fonted game grid takes centre stage, while decorated around it are club images heavily washed in sepia tones. If 'The Great Gatsby' era appeals or you like the idea of chilling in a swanky upmarket lounge bar, sucking back on overpriced cocktails, with a hint of danger in the air, feel free to grab a seat at the table and see what Cotton Gang Affair unfolds.
Cotton Gang Affair is playable on a tablet, mobile, or desktop device and lets players make wagers of 10 p/c to $/€50 per paid game round. Playing this way comes with an RTP value of 95.93%, or when buying free spins, which costs 100x the bet, it rises to 96.01%. However, be on the lookout for lower RTP settings and, apparently, also a jackpot version. Fortunately, return values can easily be verified by checking the paytable in-game. With sizable winning potential up for grabs, Cotton Gang Affair is a highly volatile online slot.
Moving the focus to the gaming side of things, Cotton Gang Affair is played on a 5-reel grid aligned in a 3-3-4-3-3 formation, with 324 ways to win. Winning combinations are created when at least 3 of the same matching symbol land on adjacent reels from the leftmost reel onwards. Card ranks 9 though Ace make up the low pays, awarding 0.6 to 1.2 times the bet for 5 OAK, while five drinks on barrels, gramophones, automobiles, or ladies pay 2 to 6 times the bet. Toni, you don't know Toni? Come meet Toni. Toni appears on the game's regular wild (and the Mega Wild), substituting pay symbols or awarding wins of up to 10 times the bet for a 5 wild winning way.
Cotton Gang Affair: Slot Features
As well as the regular wild, Cotton Gang Affair also dishes out a Mega Wild, free spins, and a bonus buy as its set list of features.
Mega Wild
The Mega Wild can randomly activate on any base game spin. When it is, then a full reel wild appears on the middle reel of the grid. The Mega Wilds substitutes for any regular pay symbol, plus it also adds 1 to 5 multipliers onto random symbols, with values of up to x999. If wins are created where more than one multiplier is included, the values are added together and applied to all winnings.
Free Spins
Landing 3 or more free spins symbols unlocks the free spins bonus round. Hitting precisely 3, 4, or 5 of them awards 10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively. If free spins symbols land on both reels 1 and 5 during the round, then +5 additional free spins are awarded. For the full duration of free spins, the Mega Wild is present on the third reel throughout.
Bonus Buy
Jumping the party right to the free spins phase of the event is possible by shelling out 100x the bet to trigger the round. Buying free spins does not contribute to any jackpot.
Cotton Gang Affair: Slot Verdict
'So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.' So said F. Scott Fitzgerald in one of the most famous lines from one of the most famous novels of the era. An era Max Win Gaming has neatly distilled, bottled, and let loose in Cotton Gang Affairs for players' enjoyment. The early 20th century in which Cotton Gang Affair is set had its fair share of disastrous moments, but it's easy to look back at the past through rose-tinted glasses and remember the good times. After all, one of the nice things about playing online slots is setting reality aside for a moment and indulging in a bit of fantasy from the comfort of the couch, or wherever.
And Cotton Gang Affair's fantasy isn't a bad one. The laid-back jazzy tunes set a mood; the cartoonish artwork softens the crime angle, so there's fun to be had here for the right punter. The base game can be a little uneventful, a situation possibly made sleepier by the tunes being a little too laid back at times, but every so often, Toni busts out his Tommy Gun and sprays some multiplier action across the reels. His bullets cranking up the multipliers had a similar ring to Boothill Freespins in Tombstone RIP. However, despite the crime theme Cotton Gang Affair never came across as dangerous as Nolimit City's Western, which could feel like it was teetering on a knife edge that a gust of hot ashy wind could blow either way.
As such, there's less of a 'Brutality – then you die' mentality to be found in Cotton Gang Affair, but for some players, that will probably be a relief. With its max win of 10,000 times the bet, Cotton Gang Affair doesn't slouch around in the potential payout department and presents an ok cartoon crime game for armchair bootleggers to have a whirl.
Cotton Gang Affair doesn't slouch around in the potential payout department and presents an ok cartoon crime game for armchair bootleggers to have a whirl.
