Slugger Time

Slugger Time: Slot Overview

Chickens, rabbits, nunchucks, broken bottles, and clowns don't make a whole lot of sense out of context. It's as if each employee at software provider Quickspin had to think of one random object, and no matter what it was, it got tossed in to make online slot Slugger Time. However, with an overarching theme of gang warfare in a subway station, the pieces start to come into focus. Slugger Time pairs a unique violent-ish subject matter with features such as sticky wild multipliers that worked to good effect in the previous 2021 slasher slot Cabin Crashers.

Let's not beat around the bush; Slugger Time is basically an out and out clone of Cabin Crashers, so you'll be hard-pressed to find any differences beneath the surface. While not a shining beacon of originality in the gameplay department, this is no terrible thing since Cabin Crashers had some simple yet sweet features. Slugger Time puts its theme to good use to set it apart from its zombie-filled predecessor but is no less peculiar. The game takes place underground in a subway station called Slugger St, where gangs get all bolshy with each other, wearing peculiar masks at the same time. It's a bit like the poster for Joaquin Phoenix' 'The Animal People', with knuckle dusters. Is Slugger Time humorous, is it violent? Well, it's sort of a mixture of both, without pushing too hard in the latter direction. Slugger Time plays at being tough, but there's not really anything here that would cause much offence, even for the squeamish.

Playable offering stakes of 20 p/c to $/€100, stats come rolling in pretty much exactly as they did in Cabin Crashers. That means an RTP value of 96.18% - 96.19% rising to 96.49%-96.52% when buying free spins. The math model runs in a highly volatile manner, while base and bonus game rules are kept to an easily manageable minimum. Basically, you want to hit as many multiplier wilds as possible in both game phases, where they pick up an extra ability in free spins.

Zagging across the game's 5-reel, 3-row panel are 20 fixed paylines to land winning combinations of 3-5 matching symbols on. Low pay symbols include graffiti-style 10-A card ranks worth 1.25 to 2.5x the bet for five, then nunchucks, broken bottles, knuckle dusters, clown masks, chicken masks, and bunny masks are the medium win symbols. Landing five of them creates payouts worth 5 to 40 times your stake. Take note - multiplier wilds are one of Slugger Time's cornerstones. They land on reels 2, 3, or 4 in the base or bonus game and substitute any pay symbol. Multiplier wilds are given random values of x2-x5 in the base game, and if more than one wild is used in a win, the values are added before being applied.

Slugger Time: Slot Features

Slugger Time reaches its climax during Chicken Siege Free Spins, triggered when 3 Fight scatter symbols land on reels 1, 3, and 5. This initiates the Fight Picker, where players pick the bonus round that suits them best. There are four options, and Fights with fewer free spins have a higher risk but a higher win potential. Here they are:

• Fight 1 – 12 free spins where multiplier wilds have values of x2 or x3.
• Fight 2 – 9 free spins where multiplier wilds have values of x3 or x4.
• Fight 3 – 6 free spins where multiplier wilds have values of x4 or x5.
• Fight 4 – randomly awards 6-20 free spins and random multipliers of x2-x5.

What makes Chicken Siege Free Spins better is the fact that multiplier wilds are sticky, so they remain in position for the remainder of the feature once they hit.

Buy Feature

If you reside in an appropriate market, you may be able to buy the feature instead of waiting for it to trigger naturally. The cost is 75x the bet, and once bought, players are presented with the same four choices as covered above.

Slugger Time: Slot Verdict

There was a lot to like about the previous slot, Cabin Crashers, so if that one tickled your fancy, Slugger Time is sure to as well. Among other things, the vibe has more or less remained the same, despite going from B-Grade horror to oddly masked hooligans terrorising a subway station and causing a general ruckus. The violence is only really hinted at though, more a veiled threat, making Slugger Time suitable for a general audience rather than homing in on users particularly intrigued by gang warfare.

A similar vibe gets exactly the same features, and, in some ways, it feels strange that Quickspin has left everything beneath the skin completely the same. Not knocking them for it or anything, just expressing the sensation of surprise which arose when first perusing the paytable. It might have been nice if something new had been added, yet no major worries since what's here works. As for the Chicken Siege Free Spins, it was a case of getting comfy on the first three reels. Having Multiplier Wilds on reels 2 and 3 was a fairly common occurrence but having at least one present on all three middle reels was rare. Obviously, the more wilds, the merrier, and if you can stack 'em up, Slugger Time produces wins of up to 22,144x the bet.

Despite all the masked gang posturing, the real star of the show remains the thrills produced by the straightforward features. Like Bruce Lee swinging a set of nunchucks, sticky wild multipliers are as entertaining as ever, should you manage to get a few of them working together. So, to experience a somewhat darkly humorous theme, in an unusual setting, presented in comic book style, then Slugger Time is well worth a spin or two to see what it can do.