Cat Clans Slot Review

Cat Clans Slot - Reels Screen

Cat Clans is a 5 reel slot from Snowborn Games under the Microgaming banner, and it leans heavily on its Scottish feline clan theme. The grid sits in a medieval style courtyard, while armoured cats stare each other down. On the stats side, Cat Clans comes with a 96% RTP setting in the full version, high volatility, and a maximum win of 20,000x stake if the features line up.

From the first few hundred test spins in Cat Clans I felt the base game had some bite thanks to the multiplier wilds. These wilds show up all over and keep the grid lively even when premiums miss. The cartoon style works well with the slightly chaotic action, and the Scottish audio touches give the whole thing a playful, almost slapstick, battle mood.

Cat Clans Slot Features

The cat premiums pay 10 to 12.5 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and you can land wilds anywhere to help complete winning combinations. Wild symbols pay up to 111x stake for a 5 of a kind line, and they also arrive with multipliers between x1 and x5 attached. Those multipliers multiply with each other when more than one multiplier wild takes part in the same win.

Golden Paw symbols can randomly sit on top of premium cats, and every time that happens the overlay is collected into the treasure chest to the left of the reels. This feeds into the Clan Battle feature, but even outside that mode the paytable in Cat Clans feels well tuned, with clear jumps between low and premium hits and obvious value when the wilds stack up.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	Wild
	5	x111
	4	x33
	3	x15
	Scatter
	3	x1.5
	5	x12.5
	4	x4.25
	3	x2
	5	x12.5
	4	x4.25
	3	x2
	5	x10
	4	x3.75
	3	x1.5
	5	x10
	4	x3.75
	3	x1.5
	5	x5
	4	x1.6
	3	x0.7
	5	x5
	4	x1.6
	3	x0.7
	5	x2.5
	4	x1
	3	x0.3
	5	x2
	4	x0.75
	3	x0.25
	5	x1.5
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.25
	5	x1.25
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.2

Cat Clans Slot Features

The Cat-a-pult Free Spins round in Cat Clans triggers when you land 3 scatters on reels 1, 3 and 5, and that also awards a small scatter win of 1.5x stake. You start with 3 free spins, and any new wild symbol that lands resets the counter back to 3. All wilds become sticky for the whole feature, so once they drop in they sit there for every remaining spin.

On every free spin the catapult fires at one sticky wild and upgrades its multiplier by plus one step. Each sticky wild can climb all the way up to x9, and several of those in view at once can turn quite modest lines into heavy hitters. This is where most of the 20,000x potential hides in Cat Clans, as the game loves stacking those multiplier values together.

Golden Paws also feed the Clan Battle Bonus Game in Cat Clans, which can trigger at random once you have collected enough of them. The four cat premiums then carry prizes between 10 and 10,000x stake, and you get 5 free spins to see which clan lands most often. A draw between symbols leads to extra spins until one clan wins, while the bonus buy only covers Cat-a-pult, and not in the UK.

The 200 Spins Cat Clans Slot Experience

We gave Cat Clans a proper 200 spin session to see how it behaves in practice, and it did feel like a grind at times in the base game. The multiplying wilds pulled their weight now and then, but we were really hunting for the Clan Battle feature and it just refused to show. That pushed us towards trying the Cat-a-pult bonus directly through the buy option.

Once inside the Cat-a-pult round in Cat Clans the slot came alive for us, as the sticky wilds and growing multipliers start to crowd the reels quite fast. It is still a very swingy feature, since a board full of low symbols can waste fine multipliers, yet the sense of climbing pressure works well. When those upgraded wilds finally connect with proper premiums, the win screen can land with a real thud.

Cat Clans Review Summary

For me Cat Clans shows Snowborn in playful form, and the quirky cartoon Scottish clan angle fits the feature set neatly. The game lives and dies by its multiplier wilds, sticky or not, and both main bonuses can throw out very strong payouts when the symbols co-operate. On the flip side, high volatility plus adjustable RTP ranges mean this cute war can feel punishing at the wrong setting or in a cold spell.

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