A Brief Overview
Crossy Road is a 5-reel, 3-row video slot developed by Free Lives and published by Yodo1 Games. Released in 2014 for mobile devices, this game has gained immense popularity among players due to its unique theme, engaging gameplay, and generous payouts. The game’s design is simple yet colorful, with vibrant graphics that set it apart from other slots.
Theme and Design
Crossy Road is themed around the popular video game where a rabbit Crossy Road tries to cross roads while avoiding various obstacles such as cars, trucks, and bicycles. The background of the reels features a cityscape with tall buildings and busy streets, adding an immersive touch to the gameplay experience. Each reel has its own unique design, creating a visually appealing effect when spinning.
The game’s symbols are designed in the style of pixel art, reminiscent of 8-bit video games from the early days of gaming. The standard paying symbols include cartoon-style characters such as animals (rabbits, cats, dogs), and traffic signs (red octagon stop sign and yellow traffic cone). Higher-paying symbols depict unique characters from various environments around the world.
The game’s low-payout symbols include numbers 9-Ace. The high-payout symbols are divided into four categories: "City", "Forest", "Mountain", and "Wilds". Each category features distinct graphics, music, and sounds that transport players to different environments while they spin their reels. For example, the "City" theme plays a busy city street ambiance with horns honking in the background.
Symbols
Each of Crossy Road’s high-payout symbols has its own set of special characteristics:
- City: Comprises of 5 unique characters (city-dwellers), each paying between 15 and 50 coins per line
- Forest: Features three animals from different climates, offering payouts ranging from 20 to 100 coins per line
- Mountain: Boasts four creatures living at high altitudes, awarding between 30 and 150 coins per line
- Wilds: The Wild symbol substitutes for all other symbols on the reels except scatters
Payouts
The slot game has a maximum payout of 12.000 times your bet or 1 million credits if playing with the minimum coin value (0.02). If you manage to achieve consecutive wins, a bonus is awarded based on how many in sequence. Consecutive symbols provide multipliers for subsequent wins.
Crossy Road also features scatter symbols, which can trigger various free spin bonuses when three or more appear simultaneously anywhere on the reels. There are four types of scatters: Animal Scatters (awarding 8 to 1000 coins per line), Animal Bonuses (grants varying numbers of extra spins and additional game options), Treehouse Bonus (10 extra turns with improved bonus multipliers), and Flowerpot Bonus (offers a prize wheel where you can win instant cash, more free games, or an added multiplier).
Wilds
In Crossy Road, Wild symbols are unique in that they transform into the same animal when combined on any line. For example, if there is 1 Rabbit and 3 Dog cards appearing together, the wild would become a rabbit.
The game contains no regular wild substitute but the Scatter Bonus feature offers substitutes for all base-game icons except scatters to guarantee more rewards.
Scatters
There are four different types of scatter bonuses:
- Animal Scatters: Award up-to-1000 coins per line when three or more appear anywhere on the reels.
- Treehouse bonus: Offers extra 10 free spins with increased multiplier values and a high chance for consecutive wins during this round.
