Crazy Crops

Crazy Crops: Slot Overview

Software provider Slotmill has turned its back on city life and headed out of town to try its luck growing edibles in the online slot Crazy Crops. Whether populated by happy smiling animals or equally happy smiling produce, farm slots make up one of the most upbeat sectors of the online gambling market. Crazy Crops certainly scores high on the thematic amiability meter as it sets about delivering Stacked symbols that trigger respins, where collecting a single symbol type may generate a prize. Put another way, this is a game that twists the commonplace into something a little less recognisable, and is all the better for it.

No points for guessing where Crazy Crops is set. Yup, players find themselves out in the countryside on a charming farm where the barns are red, the produce is bulging with goodness, and the sun shines down on a scene of agricultural abundance. There's no livestock on this farm, but the vegetables have faces, so sensitive players may still experience pangs of guilt over thoughts of slicing them up and eating them. Maybe not though, and Crazy Crops is a big, bright farm slot that uses amiable comestibles to ladle on the feel good factor.

A boarded-off 5x4 section of the garden is where Crazy Crops plays out. There are 20 paylines evaluating wins from the leftmost reel onwards, though when it comes to bigger wins, a greater emphasis is placed on collecting vegetable symbols during the Respin feature. Players may stake 20 c to $/€60 in this medium volatility slot, where the maximum RTP is 96.03%. In addition, Crazy Crops ships with Slotmill's uber-fast Burst Mode, and an Xtra-Bet which makes it 3 times more likely to get free spins by adding 50% to the stake.

Crazy Crops' low pays are a bunch of J-A card royals, while its high pays are some of the happiest onions, broccoli, tomatoes, pumpkins, and aubergines you're ever likely to lay eyes on. Five-of-a-kind royal wins pay 2x to 4x the bet, while 5 matching veggies in a winning line are worth 5x to 12x the bet. Helping complete winning combinations, wild symbols substitute for anything except scatters.

Crazy Crops: Slot Features

Crazy Crops harvest of extras has produced Stacked symbols which trigger a Respin feature, a free spins bonus round, and feature buys.

Stacked Symbols

Vegetable symbols can appear as Stacked symbols on the leftmost reel. In the base game, if a Stacked symbol lands partially in view, it may nudge to fill the entire reel after the initial payout. A fully visible Stacked symbol counts as four symbols and triggers the Respin feature.

Respin Feature

During the Respin feature, only matching vegetable symbols may land stacked, and each one locks in place when they hit - including the initial stacked symbol. Each respin consumes one life, and the life counter resets to 3 when a vegetable symbol lands. When no lives remain, the Respin feature ends. The Scatter Pay Meter next to the reels keeps track of the number of landed vegetable symbols. When the Respin feature ends, the total number of locked vegetable symbols determines the prize value awarded. The prize values increase with higher-paying symbols, as per the paytable.

Two different modifier symbols may land on a respin. They are the Upgrade symbol, which upgrades all locked symbols to the next higher symbol on the paytable, and the Add symbol, which adds a random number of vegetable symbols to the reels.

Free Spins

Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatters in the base game triggers 8, 12, or 16 free spins, respectively. During free spins, the stacked symbol will always nudge to fill the entire reel and trigger the Respin feature. The first Respin feature always uses the lowest-paying vegetable. After a completed Respin round, only the next higher paying vegetable may appear stacked on the leftmost reel, continuing this way up the paytable for the rest of the round. Players win an extra +5 free spins by landing 3 scatters.

Fast Track

The Fast Track provides direct access to the features from the base game. For 25x, players can trigger the Respin feature, while 100x buys 8+ free spins, and 200x buys 12+ free spins.

Crazy Crops: Slot Verdict

Crazy Crops is a prime example of a farm slot that oozes feel-good factor and friendly vibes. Like the mega-popular Roblox game Grow a Garden, Crazy Crops makes growing food for market seem not only easy but rather fun. Just throw seeds in the ground, chuck some water on top, let the sun work its magic, and boom, sell a box of melons, before repeating each day to live the good life. Yes, yes, real farming isn't so easy-peasy, but Crazy Crops has a warm, mildly Fat Rabbit-ish feel that makes it easy to sit back, hit spin and see what this charming farm may produce.

On the gaming side, Crazy Crops should suit players who enjoy a 9 Masks of Fire, collecting a certain number of symbols to win a prize, style of play. What's nice is that, like mutant GM food run amok, Slotmill has taken a collection of familiar features and grafted them together in a more unique way. So instead of trying to hit one specific scatter in order to win prizes, all of the high pay symbols can do the job. In a further twist, the higher the pay symbol value, the higher the possible Scatter Pay Meter prizes. On the lower side, collecting 20 onions is worth 1,000x, while at the higher end, 20 collected aubergines are worth 5,000x (the game's max win). Nice too, that the game can trigger the Respin feature at any time, adding thrills to the base game, while elongating the bonus round phase as it transitions from free spins to respins and back, multiple times if you're lucky.

Like Raging Riches, Crazy Crops has its sights set on the US market, so it probably won't be to all tastes. Even so, it's a fun game which successfully takes a handful of familiar features, twists and combines them in different ways, to create a slot that should have the right gambler grinning ear to ear like an online slot veggie.