RIP City Slot Review

RIP City Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The RIP City slot is played with 5 reels, 5 rows and 19 fixed paylines. Unsurprisingly, you need 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols appearing from left to right, beginning from the leftmost reel, across any of 19 paylines to create a winning combination.

The Bet range varies from 10p to £100 per spin. Standard for Hacksaw Gaming slots, use the up and down arrows located next to the Bet box (to the left of the main ‘Spin’ button) to change your stake accordingly. Players outside the UK have the option of Autoplay (10-1,000 autospins) as well as Turbo and Super Turbo Modes.

The RIP City RTP is 96.22% which is higher than the average 96% rate found in most UK slot games. Hacksaw Gaming has also created 94.27% and 92.32% RTP rate versions which may be used at various slots sites in the UK. Generally though, you’ll find the highest RTP rate.

Volatility wise, the RIP City slot is in the medium bracket (3/5). Expect a win every 5.48 spins as the hit frequency rate is 18.22%. Lastly, RIP City comes with 12,500 x bet max payouts per spin. This is higher than the usual 10,000 x bet found in many Hacksaw slots.

Theme – join the classic game of cat and mouse

With a cat and mouse theme, the RIP City slot is based on the classic cat and mouse game which has been popularised by cartoons such as Tom and Jerry. The premise is that Tom (the cat) attempts the capture Jerry (the mouse) with mayhem and destruction following. Tom never succeeds in catching Jerry though.

Sound down a dingy side-alley, grey dominates the colour scheme almost entirely. As a result, the characters and high value symbols stand out well. Hacksaw Gaming has used this design technique in plenty of their slots including Outlaws Inc, Hand of Anubis and Chaos Crew.

With a piano/jazz soundtrack that adds to the playfulness and intensity, Ro$$ (cat) and Maxx (mouse) appear to the side of the reels. If you’re old enough to remember, Ro$$ looks rather like Sylvester the Cat from Looney Tunes cartoons.

On the reels, you will see A, K, Q, J and 10 playing cards. Higher value symbols include bananas, skull candles, dice, smiley faces and 8-balls. The 8-ball symbol is the best paying with 2, 10 or 20 x bet awarded if you land 3, 4 or 5 across a payline.

The RIP City slot comes with 2 wild symbols. You have the green Wild and the Ro$$  Cat Wild which substitute for all paying symbols mentioned above. 5 of each wild will pay 25 x your total bet. With the Ro$$ Cat Wild expanding, it can lead to wild multipliers (more details below). The other symbol to look out for is the FS scatter which is used to trigger free spins.

Symbol	Payouts/Info
10	3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 1 or 5 x bet
J	3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 1 or 5 x bet
Q	3, 4 or 5 = 0.3, 1.5 or 7.5 x bet
K	3, 4 or 5 = 0.3, 1.5 or 7.5 x bet
A	3, 4 or 5 = 0.4, 2 or 10 x bet
Banana	3, 4 or 5 = 1, 5 or 15 x bet
Skull Candle	3, 4 or 5 = 1, 5 or 15 x bet
Dice	3, 4 or 5 = 1.5, 7.5 or 17.5 x bet
Smiley Face	3, 4 or 5 = 1.5, 7.5 or 17.5 x bet
8-ball	3, 4 or 5 = 2, 10 or 20 x bet
Wild	Substitutes for symbols above + pays 25 x bet (5)
Ro$$ Cat Wild	Substitutes + expands downwards
FS Scatter	3/4 triggers Ro$$/Maxx Bonus features

RIP City Mobile

With HTML5 technology used for all Hacksaw Gaming slots, RIP City is available to play on mobile, laptop, PC and/or tablet devices. It’s also been optimised for iOS, Android, MAC an Windows devices. Finally, it’s best experience with ratio 1366×768 or 16:9.

RIP City Bonus Features

The RIP City slot comes with 4 bonus features. Ro$$ Cat Wilds expand downwards and can give you wild multipliers if it passes through a regular wild. This occurs more frequently in the Ro$$ Bonus feature where you begin with 10 free spins. In the Maxx Bonus feature, you get more free spins but each activated reel guarantees 1 Ro$$ Cat Wild on each free spin.

Expanding Wild Cat feature

First up is the Expanding Wild Cat feature. The Ro$$ Wild Cat symbol expands if the expanded wild is part of at least 1 winning combination. With Ro$$ Wild Cats only expanding downwards, each reel can only have 1 Ro$$ Wild Cat at any time. A screen of expanded Ro$$  Wild Cats will lead to a 475 x bet payout.

If a Ross Wild Cat symbol expands through a regular Wild symbol, it transforms into a multiplier that applies to the expanded Ross Wild symbol. If a win passes through more than 1 expanded wilds with a multiplier, multiplier values are added together and then applied to the win.

Ro$$ Bonus feature

The Ro$$ Bonus feature is triggered by landing 3 FS scatter symbols simultaneously on a base game spin. With 10 free spins awarded, you have a higher chance of landing Ro$$ Wild Cat and regular Wild symbols than in the base game.

If you land 3 FS scatters during a free spin, 4 additional free spins are awarded (with no limits). Landing 4 scatters will take you to the Maxx Bonus feature once the current free spin is over. You will then receive 10 free spins.

Maxx Bonus feature

The Maxx Bonus feature is activated by landing 4 FS scatters at the same time in a base game spin. Again, your reward is 10 free spins. Here, every reel can be activated by landing a Ro$$ Wild Cat symbol on that reel. Once a reel is activated, a Ro$$ Wild Cat symbol is guaranteed to land on that reel for all remaining free spins. Lastly, landing 3 FS scatters will give you an extra 4 free spins. You can retrigger various times.

Buy Bonus feature

Non UK players have the option of the Buy Bonus feature. Enabled by clicking/pressing the yellow ‘Buy Bonus’ button in the bottom left-hand corner, you have 5 options with access to various bonus features. Note that the RTP rate also varies per option.

RIP City Review Summary – slapstick humour can pack quite the punch

When you fire up the RIP City slot, it feels like you’re entering a dark and sinister world where Tom and Jerry now reside. Graphically, it’s superb with the grey/dark tones making the characters and high value symbols pop out from the screen. The use of humour and upbeat music really adds to the excitement too.

In terms of the gameplay, RIP City is all about the Ro$$ Cat Wild symbol which expands downwards when part of a winning combination. If it crosses paths with a regular Wild, a random multiplier up to 200x is applied to give you a Multiplier Wild Reel. Multiple wild reels can then lead to multipliers combining to devasting effect.

With 2 free spins features, the Ro$$ Bonus feature sees more Ro$$ Cat and regular wilds appearing on the reels. However, the Maxx Bonus feature sees Ro$$ Cat Wilds activating reels which then guarantees they land on all subsequent free spins. If they land on the higher rows with standard wilds beneath them, prepare yourself for multipliers and huge wins.

Offering 12,500 x bet max wins, the RIP City slot is the highest paying Hacksaw Gaming game at time of writing (December 2022). The key are multiplier wilds though. Without them, you will struggle to win anything about 300 x your total bet.

In conclusion, RIP City is brilliantly designed and combines 2 wild symbols for huge win potential. Landing enough wilds during the Maxx Bonus feature is the key to bring in multiplier wild reels which can really get your payouts soaring. I also really like the old-school, slapstick humour which will surely appeal to players who are a little older.