Crossy Road is a popular online casino slot game that has been around since 2014. Developed by Yodo1 Games, it quickly gained attention for its unique concept of navigating through busy streets, avoiding obstacles while collecting rewards and unlocking new characters.
Theme and Design
The theme of the game is based on a modern city setting with various iconic locations like parks, roads, buildings, and shopping centers. The graphics are colorful, cartoon-like, and resemble the classic 8-bit style, often associated with retro games from the 80s and 90s. Players can choose between different environments to Crossy Road demo play in, each offering distinct themes such as a sunny day, nighttime cityscape or an underwater world.
Symbols
The game features numerous unique symbols related to its theme:
- Low-value characters: These are the basic characters that appear on all reels, often dressed as civilians walking through the streets. They come with different outfits and accessories.
- High-paying animals: Cats, Dogs, Birds, Fish, Frogs, and other creatures represent higher-paying wins for matching five of a kind in any order (horizontally or vertically).
- Character combinations: Some animal characters are stacked on top of each other horizontally to form special multipliers; these are only valid when they appear next to the 5x multiplier character.
- Wild Symbol – Rabbit The wild symbol substitutes all low-value symbols, effectively completing winning lines.
Payouts
Matching five high-paying animals will pay out according to the following amounts:
Cat: 15.0 coins Dog: 10.0 coins Bird: 8.5 coins Frog: 7.0 coins
Each of these high-scoring animal characters has its unique multiplier as mentioned previously.
Wilds and Scatters
Crossy Road has two main feature symbols:
- Wild symbol (Rabbit): Represents the highest value among regular paying animals, available to complete any winning line by substituting itself in place for all low-value characters.
- High-Pay Character Scatter Symbol: A randomly assigned character from the high-paying animal list that appears 3+ times will trigger a win with its respective multiplier when appearing in the right combinations on adjacent reels.
Bonus Features
There are several exciting features included within Crossy Road:
Power-Up
This is an animated element seen during gameplay. Its exact outcome depends entirely upon random factors but could award extra coins, bonus multipliers or boost your chances of landing a high-paying combination by temporarily replacing the normal grid with one including special higher-value characters.
Special Items & Characters Unlocking System
Players can collect points within game sessions while navigating their way through busy cityscapes. These rewards unlock unique characters that players may have missed earlier due to different levels or limited playtime at certain times of day in-game world time management system rules applying here too.
Collectable Characters
Another exciting feature lets you pick any unlocked character from collection menu and assign it directly onto reel without the need for an instant bonus trigger (it works only after initial five start-up credits reached through earning points).
Free Spins
Although this slot does not technically contain ‘free spin rounds’ per se because all extra spins come at a cost of real money as seen elsewhere among slots where "scatters" can offer what amounts basically still just more gameplay rather than the absence of bets required traditionally expected by traditional casino players accustomed prior expectations.
The only instance here that somewhat resembles this form (although technically these should count towards maximum win, not actual free spins themselves) happens when ‘free to play’ modes or demo games open up new possibilities – enabling user interaction under virtual constraints governed differently from "real" slot version which is clearly distinct entity despite being derived source inspiration.
In short though there isn’t an extra round providing full ‘zero-bet-gameplay’, instead each spin still contributes directly into combined win amounts earned per session.
RTP and Volatility
According to online resources, the theoretical RTP (Return To Player) of this game stands at approximately 96.27%, which might not seem impressive compared other titles out there.
However volatility level remains relatively mid-range indicating neither low-risk nor high variance scenarios involved; a player needs roughly average amount luck/amount of coins to land consistent win streaks as these aren’t too large/small but ‘just right’.