RIP City Slot

Rip City is a 5x5 grid slot from the provider Hacksaw Gaming. The game has 19 paylines, and you need to connect identical symbols a minimum of 3 times to get a win. 10 cents is the minimum bet, and you can win a maximum amount of 12500x your bet. There are 5 premium symbols, and these pay from 20x to 15x your bet on connections of 5 of a kind. The payout for minor symbols A, K, Q, J, and 10 ranges from 10x to 5x your bet. There are two wild symbols in this game: a standard wild and the cat wild. The wild substitutes for every other symbol, whereas the Cat wild, when it lands, falls down to cover every row below it. If a wild symbol is under the Cat wild, then it will add a special multiplier ranging from 2x to 100x.
The game has two bonus features, which are Ro$$ and Maxx. The Ro$$ bonus can be triggered by landing 3 scatter symbols, and you are awarded 10 free spins. In this feature, you have a higher chance of landing both wild symbols. Landing 3 more scatter symbols will give you 4 more spins, but if you land 4 scatters, then your feature will be upgraded to the Maxx bonus. The Maxx bonus is triggered by landing 4 scatters, and just like the Ro$$ bonus, you get 10 free spins. In the Maxx bonus, if you land the cat wild on a reel, then that particular reel becomes ‘activated’. This means that on future spins, a cat wild is guaranteed to land on that reel. You can activate anywhere from 1 to 5 reels. The Ro$$ bonus can be bought for a price of 110x your bet, and the Maxx bonus can be bought for a price of 200x your bet.
It’s a nice game, and you get good base game hits when the Cat wild is in play. I have had a maximum of three Cat wilds, and my biggest base game hit is 350x. Sadly, my bonus sessions have been disappointing, and I have triggered both bonuses but never won anything worth mentioning.

As much as I love the base game, I need to warn you that it can be brutal too. You will see moments where you will get 60% to 70% dead spins in a session of 100 spins. Also, most of the wins are going to be even lower than your bet. The bonuses can pay even less than 5x your bet. When a slot adds a feature of a super bonus, as a player you expect it to be more rewarding than the standard bonus, but with Rip City that’s not the case. Maxx bonus is a disappointment most of the time because of the sub-20x payout it gives. These bonuses hurt, as it can take anywhere from 800 to 1200 spins to land that particular bonus.