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If you look at the top of the screen in Cheetah Chase, you’ll see four shiny jackpot plaques. But let’s be real, only three of them actually exist on the reels.
During the bonus round, you can land diamond badges for the Mini (25x), Minor (100x), and Major (500x). But that gold plaque on the right teasing a 5,000x Grand Jackpot? It’s a trap. There is no “Grand” symbol anywhere in this game. The only way to win that 5,000x is by completely filling all twenty spots on the grid during the Hold & Win feature.
To pull that off, you need a flawless run of respins that never zeroes out. The odds of that happening? About 1 in 31.3 million. That is an absolutely insane number to chase, especially considering a 5,000x max win is just a standard, mid-tier payout on plenty of other modern slots.
Cascading Reels (But Make It Boring)
In the base game, winning combinations explode, and new symbols drop down into the gaps. Usually, slots use this cascading mechanic to build up a sweet win multiplier, but Cheetah Chase completely leaves that out. Whether it’s your first drop or your fifth, you’re getting paid the exact same flat rate.
And those payouts aren’t great. The absolute highest paying symbol (the Jewelled Eggs) only gets you 10x, and a full five-of-a-kind line of royal symbols barely pays you your money back. Because of this, a long chain of cascades doesn’t feel like a thrilling build-up; it just feels like a slow drip of tiny, insignificant wins. It doesn’t help that the cheetah Wild only lands on reels 2 through 5, meaning it can extend a win, but it can’t start one.
The one cool visual trick the game does have actually ends up feeling a bit cruel. Because the prize diamonds don’t explode during cascades, they sink to the bottom of the screen as the board refills. It looks dramatic, but in the base game, they are just dead weight. You need six of them to trigger the bonus. If you land five, you get nothing. You just have to sit there staring at the cash values printed on their faces, knowing you can’t touch them.
The Bonus Buy Trap
If you manage to land those six diamonds, or if you just get impatient and pay the 50x bonus buy, the standard symbols vanish and you’re into a pretty basic Hold & Win round. You get three respins, and any new diamond that sticks resets the clock.
The standard diamonds are worth between 1x and 10x, and the three smaller jackpots can land once per round. But because you need a completely full screen to hit that 5,000x Grand, most rounds end in frustration. Both rounds I bought died the same way: a board most of the way full, the last respin gone, and a couple of gaps still showing a J or a crown where a diamond needed to be.
Speaking of the bonus buy: at 50x your bet, it doesn’t seem too expensive, but it comes with a hidden penalty. If you play the base game, the RTP (Return to Player) is a solid 96.41%. If you buy the bonus, it drops to 96.15%.
Basically, you’re trading away the game’s best mathematical feature to force your way into a bonus round where the lowest jackpot (25x) only pays back half your entry fee, and the top prize requires a perfect screen you are almost certainly never going to see.
