The setting here is a chicken prison camp. On the reels you’ll see lower value royal values plus better paying chicken characters in military garb. The top standard symbol is The Great Chicken Escape logo which awards 0.1, 2, 10 or 25 times your total stake if you land 2, 3, 4 or 5 on a line. Those same amounts are on offer from the wild which replaces everything apart from the bonus symbol.
Pragmatic Play has packed a good range of extras into The Great Chicken Escape, starting with a trio of modifiers that can strike at random on any base game spin.
- Guard Dog Wilds feature - between 4 and 9 wilds are placed randomly on the reels.
- Chicken Run Wilds feature - between 2 and 4 reels will be filled with stacked wilds.
- Care Package feature - stacks of golden egg symbols are added. These all transform into the same matching symbol and a new payout calculation is made.
Land 3 or more of the bonus symbol on the same spin and you’ll trigger the feature round. There are 5 potential bonus features available here. If you don’t like your award, you can try and gamble and upgrade to a better one:
- Secret Tunnel Bonus feature - pick 1 of the treasure chests to reveal a cash prize. You’ll then see 4 tunnel entrances. 3 of them will lead to another bonus feature, the fourth is game over.
- Poultry in Motion feature - this is a trail game. Pick from the golden eggs to work your way along and in the process win increasing cash prizes which can reach 50 times your stake. Make it to the end without finding a collect and you’ll progress to the Big Money Bonus feature.
- Get Clucky Free Spins feature - 10 free spins are awarded here complete with a new wild symbol. Each time one of these new wilds land, it increases a multiplier by 1x.
- To The Other Side Free Spins feature - land this and you’ll get 9 standard free spins plus 1 special one. Each wild that lands on the first 9 free spins are collected in a bank. These wilds all return to the reels for the 10th and final free spin.
- Big Money Bonus feature - choose from the barrels moving around the carousel to reveal a big cash prize. After each pick, select a golden egg. This will either give you another pick from the carousel or bring the round to an end. There are 12 potential prizes to be won here.
The theme in The Great Chicken Escape is very silly. The design is good though. The visuals are bright, colourful and detailed and the martial soundtrack bounces along. The gameplay matches the classy sound and imagery. There’s plenty of variety from the features too.
This Pragmatic Play slot game reminded us of many games found in the Blueprint Gaming catalogue. Yes, the theme is a bit bonkers but the top extras make The Great Chicken Escape worth a closer look. It could also land you wins of 5,000 times your stake from each free spin in the Get Clucky Free Spins feature. If you like chickens, Chicken Fox from Lightning Box Games may be more stripped back but can pay 13,500 times your stake on each free spin.