Deadline Max Chaos
John Burnout’s worst quarter, turned into a slot where multiplier Wilds stick, stack and settle a whole row at once. Raise Spins hit 3 times in 1,000 spins, and the 10-30x base game hits kept the session entertaining. I never reached Overtime and Max Chaos, where the most fun mechanics are hidden, but the game is still base game friendly. APPROVED!
Chaos Clinic · Stake 0.20 · 1,000 fixed spins · RTP 96.30%
Day 37 - Deadline Max Chaos - Slot Review
On day 37, the first game of November, I took on Deadline: Max Chaos by Chaos Clinic. It’s the studio’s first game, and it runs under Hacksaw’s OpenRGS.
It’s a 5x4 slot with 10 fixed paylines, 96.30% RTP and a max win of 15,000x, released recently this year.
The theme is a burned-out office worker having the worst quarter of his life. The symbols are a cracked coffee mug, a resignation letter, a stapler, a to-do list that ends in “die” and a clock that says “Overtime”. It’s dark and funny. You win with matching symbols on a payline, from left to right, starting on the leftmost reel. The Wild pays 4x for 5 on a line.
The Wilds are the heart of the game. They substitute for every paying symbol, and they land with multipliers from 1x to 50x. Premium Wilds carry x2 to x10 and multiply the other active Wild multipliers before your wins are counted. Land 3 or more Wilds in the base game and you get a respin. The Wilds hold their positions, every new Wild is sticky and gives you another respin, and it ends when no new Wild lands. If you get a Wild on all five reels in the same row, Wild Settlement kicks in. That row pays once as a five-of-a-kind Wild win, and every Wild multiplier on the row is added together to multiply it.
The FS Scatter (a pizza box) can land once per reel in the base game, and it opens one of three bonuses:
3 scatters open Raise Spins: 10 free spins, with every Wild that lands staying sticky for the rest of the feature. 4 scatters open Overtime Spins: you start with 5 lives, a winning spin costs you 1 life, and each scatter gives one back (up to 5). Wilds don’t stick here. Their multipliers are collected into the Global Clock Multiplier, which starts at 1x and applies to all your wins until the bonus ends. 5 scatters open Max Chaos: up to 9 dead spins with no sticky Wilds or scatters. Every dead spin moves the Global Clock up a step: 1x, 5x, 10x, 15x, 25x, 50x, 100x, 500x and then 15,000x. A winning spin ends the feature, and 9 dead spins in a row pays the max win.
Max Chaos is the opposite of every other bonus: here you wish for dead spins.
Plan for winning: hope for sticky Wilds stacked on the same row, and in the bonuses pray for Premium Wilds to multiply the others.
During my session I had 10-30x wins in the base game plenty of times, but nothing juicier than that. Chaining the Wild respins is the best recipe for a decent paying base game.
I triggered Raise Spins, the weakest of the three bonuses, 3 times. The first one paid a little over 50x, the second was a complete bust and the last one paid 50x again.
The most fun and the most unique mechanics are hidden behind Overtime and Max Chaos. I couldn’t trigger either of them, so I’m not sure about their hit rate.
So the question after the session is whether the game is base game friendly, and I must say it is. Raise Spins hit 3 times, which is an OK hit rate, and you still get to play a decent bonus round with sticky multiplier Wilds.
1000 Spins APPROVED!