Great Game Rockies Slot review

The Rocky Mountains sprawl across thousands of kilometres of glacial peaks and untamed forest and Hacksaw Gaming has bottled all that wilderness in Great Game Rockies. This is a slot that trades the studio's usual salty characters for a sweeping, National Geographic-style trek through the great outdoors.

Rather than a quiet sightseeing tour, you ride shotgun with a sharpshooting hunter who blasts targets perched above the reels as the seasons shift around him. No creatures actually take a hit here, which keeps the whole expedition wholesome despite the gun smoke drifting through the valley.

Up at the highest summit sits the real prize, because Great Game Rockies hands out a max win of 5,000x your bet. Reaching that peak means stacking the right Coins, Traps, and multipliers, yet the mountain-top payout is exactly what makes the climb worthwhile.

Betting Options And Bonus Features

Whether you like to keep things modest or swing for the fences, Great Game Rockies welcomes a broad betting range that runs from pocket-change spins up to a high roller-friendly ceiling. Everything plays out on a tidy 5x3 grid, with 17 paylines working behind the scenes.

The maths land at a top RTP of 96.33% paired with medium volatility, so the swings stay spirited rather than savage. Keep that 5,000x max win firmly in your sights, since the features below are your route toward it.

Hunting Season is the beating heart of this animal-themed slot, triggering the moment a Hunting Season symbol drops onto the reels. A target appears above each reel, then five shots fire from left to right, hitting or missing as they travel across.

Any Animal symbol sitting beneath a hit target transforms into a Coin or Trap symbol, with values tied to the Stars each animal carries. One, two, or three Stars guarantee at least Bronze, Silver, or Gold Coins, while four-Star Animals become Trap symbols worth a minimum of Gold.

Coin values climb steeply, as Bronze pays 0.2x to 1x, Silver 2x to 5x, Gold 10x to 50x, and Diamond a dazzling 100x to 500x. Trap symbols then sweep up the value of every Coin and Trap on the reels, piling the lot onto their own total while the collected symbols hang on to their worth.

Should a Wild land on a fired reel, it picks up a multiplier between 2x and 20x. Once the collecting wraps, each multiplier Wild boosts one to five Coin and Trap symbols, which is precisely where the big numbers start to snowball.

Scatters are in the spotlight as they trigger not one, not two, but three free spins modes:

• Country Strong Bonus Game - Three Scatters in the base game unlock this feature, awarding 10 free spins. Keeps the base mechanics intact while cranking up your chances of landing those all-important Hunting Season symbols.
• Free Bird Bonus Game - Four Scatters take you somewhere wilder, again gifting 10 free spins. Every Animal symbol that joins a regular win gains an extra Star and that progression sticks until the round ends or the animal levels up once more.
• Trophy Hunting Hidden Epic Bonus - Five Scatters reach the very top and trigger another 10-spin affair. Borrowing the Free Bird rules wholesale, this elite round also guarantees a Hunting Season symbol on every single spin.

Both Country Strong and Free Bird can stretch out longer, too, since landing 2 or 3 Scatters during them awards an extra +2 or +4 spins. 

Bonus Buy Options

Prefer to skip the climb altogether? A handful of feature buys drop you straight into the action.

Roshtein's Take

I reckon Great Game Rockies is one of Hacksaw's sharper reworks, taking that trusty engine somewhere fresh, scenic and genuinely fun to shoot through. The 5,000x ceiling won't blow the roof off, but the layered Stars system and that satisfying Hunting Season feature give me plenty to chase on the way up. 

If you're after Coin-reveal thrills with a breath of mountain air, this one's well worth saddling up for. Is it my cup of tea? Not exactly, but it can be a good break from time to time.