Chicken Night Fever

Chicken Night Fever: Slot Overview

Well, cluck my life, Games Global partner Pear Fiction Studios has gone and reskinned its woolly coated slot Blazing Mammoth XL and come up with the disco fowl-themed version Chicken Night Fever. This one is basically a straight reskin, recycling the same set of features and figures. On the gaming side of things, then, players get another chance to win instant cash prizes when enough SwiftHits scatter symbols hit, as well as experience a free spins round with a win multiplier tossed into the coop to get the feathers flying.

One thing uniting Pear Fiction Studios slots is that they tend to be brightly coloured games with a pleasingly chunky quality to the graphics. Certainly, the team's mammoth games blaze on screen, hence the name, perhaps. Chicken Night Fever does have rather bold symbols gracing its gaming grid, but the rest of the view is a little more subdued. Warm browns and goldens have been used to paint the interior of a peaceful barnyard, though it does shake vigorously when the right symbols hit. A disco ball is also rolled out to celebrate some of the results, and the count-up sequence displays a boisterous party full of chickens. It's quirky, in a good way.

As mentioned, Chicken Night Fever produces the same numbers as the slot it was copied over from, which means a handful of RTP configurations are available, maxing out at 96.09%. Volatility is medium, and on the default RTP model hits have a frequency of 35.28%. Regular wins occur when matching symbols land on consecutive reels from the leftmost side, meaning Chicken Night Fever has 243 ways to win on its 5-reel, 3-row game grid. However, one of the SwiftHits symbols expands reels, so at most, there can be up to 7,776 ways to win. With 5 feature buys available from the shop, players are able to pick base bets of 20 p/c to ￡/€50 per spin.

Wood backgrounded J to A card royals make up Chicken Night Fever's low pays, followed by 4 chickens with blue, green, red, and purple backgrounds as the highs. When hitting a winning way of 5 matching low pays, the reward is 0.6 to 0.8 times the bet, whereas when doing so with the chicken pays, the reward is 2 to 4 times the bet. Wild symbols help link wins together by substituting for anything except scatters or SwiftHits symbols.

Chicken Night Fever: Slot Features

Several special symbols come into play in Chicken Night Fever, unlocking a free spins bonus round and awarding instant cash prizes.

SwiftHits

The game has 3 different types of SwiftHits symbols – regular, respin, and split. Landing 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12 of them awards 1x, 2x, 5x, 15x, 50x, 75x, 100x, 500x, 1,000x, or 5,000x the bet, respectively. When a Respin SwiftHits symbol lands, it locks any SwiftHits symbols on the reel in place and the selected reel spins again, landing new symbols. It pays, then pays on the respin – if applicable. When the Split SwiftHits symbol hits, up to 3 extra symbols are added to the reel. One reel can be split to a maximum of 6 symbols.

Free Spins

The disco ball symbol is Chicken Night Fever's scatter, and it appears on reels 2, 3, and 4. Landing 3 scatters triggers a spin on the free spin wheel. Two wheels spin separately to award 8 to 15 free spins plus a multiplier of x2 to x8. The multiplier is applied to all wins in free spins except instant SwiftHits awards. The ways multiplier starts at the initial value awarded from the free spins multiplier wheel. When a win includes a wild multiplier, the ways multiplier is increased by the value shown on the wild. Free spins can be retriggered, awarding the amount of free spins that were initially won.

Buy Feature

From the feature buy menu, players have access to these 5 options:

• Random free spins and random multiplier – 53.75x the bet. RTP 96.1%.
• 8 free spins + an x2 multiplier – 41.25x the bet. RTP 96.07%.
• 10 free spins + x3 multiplier – 58.35x the bet. RTP 96.08%.
• 12 free spins + x5 multiplier – 84.65x the bet. RTP 96.08%.
• 15 free spins + x8 multiplier – 137.35x the bet. RTP 96.09%.

Chicken Night Fever: Slot Verdict

While it wasn't all that exciting to review yet another clone, you can see the appeal Chicken Night Fever might have for some gamblers. Anthropomorphic animals tend to go down well, especially when involving something unexpected, such as chickens, as opposed to apes, which we humans more readily resemble. More so when the animals in question are doing something wacky like disco dancing inside a barn. Taken from that perspective, Chicken Night Fever might do well at grabbing the attention of eyeballs scanning a lineup of slots, since as far as reskin material goes, the game has an amusing outer coating.

However, people have been advised in the past to remove the skin from chicken due to the saturated fat content. When taking the skin off Chicken Night Fever, you've got the exact same bones found in Blazing Mammoth XL. No bad thing for players looking for a scatter prize win game with a few interesting tricks up its sleeve. The tricks are good ones, too, such as the special SwiftHits symbols expanding the grid or triggering respins. Max win is the same at 5,000x the bet, and the game functions as well as the previous one, making it a decently performing entry in this particular category.

Now we said players looking for scatter prize win games, but you don't really have to look hard to find them. In fact, scatter prize games litter the gambling landscape like cigarette butts; you can hardly take two steps without bumping into another one. On the xylophone of scatter games, Chicken Night Fever stands up to the competition quite well. It's light-hearted, packs a few tricks, and is overall fun to play. Since it does make for a repeat performance, its shelf life is in question, not that that matters much anyway, even the upper echelon slots in this category struggle to avoid being washed out in the deluge.