Chicken Road is a 5-reel, 20-payline online slot machine designed by GameArt, an Italian game development company specializing in creating interactive content for various platforms. Released sometime after its predecessor in their "Road" series, this game provides an engaging experience with familiar elements and exciting gameplay features.
Theme
As the title suggests, Chicken Road revolves around a fun theme where chickens roam freely on roads to escape the confines of farms or cages. The setting is depicted by rural landscapes featuring sunflowers, Chicken Road countryside roads, farmhouses, and most importantly – roaming chickens with big smiles on their beaks.
Players are immersed in an open-world environment where clucking, flapping sounds and colorful animations bring the game to life. In contrast to darker slot machine themes focusing on mythological or fantasy worlds, Chicken Road is a relatively lighthearted and entertaining choice that invites players to engage without much psychological investment.
Design
The user interface of Chicken Road blends in well with GameArt’s standard design approach seen across their portfolio. A combination of pastel colors gives the game an airy feel, while bold outlines around icons help them stand out from one another.
The graphics are cartoon-like and detailed enough to captivate attention without straining system resources. The symbols themselves add a unique spin on the classic fruit machine theme – depicting fruits in chicken-themed variations (cherries with beaks, strawberries dressed as roosters).
In-game elements are presented in clear fonts at the top of the game window for players to monitor their current balance and winnings, alongside an automated betting range that can adjust according to player choice.
Symbols
As mentioned above, symbols on Chicken Road have undergone a "fowl- twist" – pun intended. Players are presented with fruit-inspired icons adapted from classic slot machine sets but reimagined as chicken-based renditions:
• Cherries transform into cherubs dressed in chicken costumes. • Lemons turn into lemons-shaped egg-laying chickens. • Watermelons come across as watermelon-patterned chicken masks.
Classic combinations of matching symbols earn rewards, ranging from simple multipliers for pairs and triplets to quadruples. To spice up gameplay, three additional animal symbols join the fray: a cute raccoon (representing wild card behavior) and a golden piggy bank used for scatter triggering bonus rounds.
The standard deck’s numbered 10-9 Aces are replaced by custom designs with anthropomorphic chickens wearing different hats.
Payouts
Chicken Road offers payouts based on the traditional slot machine paytable logic – that is, players get rewarded when three to five consecutive symbols align in either horizontal (left-to-right) or vertical lines. Multiplier rates increase per line formation: pairs yield minimal rewards; triplets double; quadruples multiply by 4.
In this game, certain combinations of fruit-chicken hybrid icons come with specific multiplier payouts as follows:
• Cherub Cherry: x10 for four in a row and x5 for three. • Lemon Chicken: x8 for five-of-a-kind. • Watermelon Masked Hen: x7 for any four-of-a-kinds.
Reward multipliers also apply to wild raccoon, while piggy bank scatter rewards 20x balance on initial coin bet upon appearing two times anywhere within the reels.
Wilds
The raccoon – "Raccoon Bandit" in-game title – doubles as a Wild Card. Whenever part of winning combinations it replaces standard icons and contributes to forming sets required for multiplier wins.
To create more dynamic gameplay opportunities, the developers gave special behavior powers:
• Allows other raccoons to act as additional wilds. • Becomes an anchor symbol that fills gaps in line formations if present during multi-line payouts.
In this way Wild Raccoon helps build longer combinations which could pay out significantly higher rewards.
Scatters