Rooster Mobs

Rooster Mobs: Slot Overview

When it comes to crime slots, one way of cushioning the impact is by using animals as hoodlums rather than humans, thereby injecting a humorous angle right off the bat. Primates are popular since they're already very human-like; dogs and cats are popular, too. Roosters, not so much, but that might all be about to change if software provider Stakelogic has any say in the matter. The studio's gone and developed Rooster Mobs, a gangster slot where the crooks are, you guessed it, roosters. The roosters show up on nudging full reel wilds with modifiers and are accompanied by free spins with a win multiplier, respins, symbol splits, money symbol collections, plus feature buys.

Adding even more fun to the crime mix, Rooster Mobs has a percussive, high-energy soundtrack that wouldn't be out of place in an achingly hip heist film. Rooster Mobs' title harkens back to The Godfather, a sensation reinforced by the base game location, the sort of smoky shuttered office where the boss makes plans, discusses matters with his foot soldiers, and generally runs the show. Stogies smoulder, gold bars sit casually on the desk, and chests of coins sit nonchalantly about the place. If all that rich stuff is a guide, business is clearly good in this particular rooster crime syndicate.

To muscle in on the action means picking a wager where the selections vary from 20 c to $/€100 per spin. Rooster Mobs does not have a Super Stake ante bet for a change, but it does have two bonus buys helping players skip the line to the features part of the game. Whether buying features or not, the default RTP clocks in at 96% in combination with a highly volatile math model.

Rooster Mobs' gaming zone has 5 reels, displayed in a 3-4-4-4-3 formation, with 576 ways to win. All pay symbols award regular wins starting from the first reel on consecutive reels from left to right, and there are 10 types. They include 9-A card royals as the low pays, then knuckle dusters, sacks of money, cigars, wanted posters, and liquor bottles as the highs. Landing 5 matching low pays in a win gets you 0.9 to 1 times the bet, while a line of 5 matching high pays awards 1.75 to 3.5 times the bet. Wilds substitute for any regular pay symbol, appearing on reels 2, 3, and 4.

Rooster Mobs: Slot Features

Reel Modifier symbols also land on the middle three reels, 2, 3, and 4, each possessing a certain power. Joining them are free spins, with a pre-feature optional gamble, Money Stack symbols, and buy features.

Reel Modifiers

Reel Modifiers are always nudged to cover the whole reel. A free respin is also always awarded, and these symbols are also wild. Reel Modifiers may land as the result of a respin, and when this happens, another respin takes place. A maximum of 3 respins may be awarded as a result of a single game or respin. If no Reel Modifiers land during a respin, then the round is over.

• Reel Modifier 1 – when this modifier nudges fully into view, it doubles all winning ways. Winning ways are paid, and a respin is triggered.
• Reel Modifier 2 – when this modifier nudges fully into view, it collects all values displayed on any in view Mystery Stack symbols. At least one Mystery Stack symbol will land at the same time as this modifier.
• Reel Modifier 3 – when this modifier nudges fully into view, it splits a random number of winning symbols into two.

Free Spins

Scatter symbols are present on reels 2, 3, and 4. If 1 or 2 scatters land, they transform into wilds. Or, hitting 3 scatters awards 8 free spins. Before entering free spins, players can choose to gamble on a gamble wheel or collect. Successful gambles take free spins from 8 to 12 or 12 to 16. Losing a gamble results in 0 free spins. The free spins round comes with a win multiplier, which starts on x1. The win multiplier increases by +1 for each reel that displays a Reel Modifier symbol, increasing before any wins are paid. The multiplier also increases if a new Reel Modifier lands on a respin. Hitting 1, 2, or 3 scatter symbols in the round awards +1, +2 or +8 retriggered free spins, respectively.

Buy Feature

From the buy feature, users can get free spins for 100x the bet or a Rooster Mob spin (a spin with a modifier) for 50x the bet.

Rooster Mobs: Slot Verdict

Rooster Mobs goes to show that our winged friends are just as up to the task of filling the well-polished shoes of a gangster as any other animal. The reel setup, the nudging, and the respinning did awaken thoughts of slots like Deadwood and Sakura Fortune 2. So while they might not reach the same level of originality as the avian baddies theme, Rooster Mobs' features, on the whole, are a somewhat unique mix, especially when you consider Stakelogic's track record of copying large chunks of other studio's games. Kangaroo King, Money Track 2, and Mayan Rush are three interesting, if cringey, examples that came to mind in this regard.

Instead, players are treated to unique visuals of roosters dressed up and armed as mobsters, each one associated with its own modifier. Players' choice as to which modifier is their favourite, of course. Mystery Stack symbols didn't really land bearing major values, and since the paytable made no mention of potential values, there was no way of knowing how high they might go. Reel Modifier 3 and its splitting of winning symbols reinforced the NLC connotations, while the straight doubling of the win by Reel Modifier 1 gets right to the point. Plus, they all trigger a respin, which is a bonus. Winning potential is clear as day; Stakelogic has indicated a max figure of 10,000x the bet, and with all those ways plus modifiers, it's not overly taxing to imagine Rooster Mobs hitting sizable targets on a good day. Or getting close, at least.

Okay, Rooster Mobs isn't an entirely brand new experience that will have players doubting what they knew about online slots, but it's got enough creative elements to help forge/reforge Stakelogic's reputation as a maker of original casino games. Well, the rooster bit you don't see every day.