Keep ‘Em Slot Review

Keep 'Em Slot Overview

Keep 'Em is a Hacksaw Gaming slot that brings Canny the Can back to the forest, this time joined by Bob the Bird. The style will be familiar if you have played Stick 'Em or Stack 'Em, yet the mechanics go in a very different direction. Instead of wilds and traditional line wins, the whole experience hangs off Cash collection, respins and the dedicated Keep 'Em reels in the centre of the grid.

The game runs on a 6-reel, 5-row layout with 15,625 ways to win, paying for three to six matching symbols on adjacent reels from the left. Volatility sits in the medium bracket, though I found the swings sharp enough when the features did not co-operate. Bets start at 10p and climb to £100 per spin, while the headline max win is a chunky 10,000x your stake in any mode.

Slot Theme And Storyline In Keep 'Em

Visually, Keep 'Em leans into that rubber-hose cartoon look which many players link with Cuphead, all thick outlines and lively, looping animations. Canny bounces on one side of the grid, Bob the Bird perches on the other, while leaves drift past in a deep forest backdrop. The whole thing feels playful rather than intense, which works nicely given how often the game teases features without quite landing them.

The soundtrack goes for a brassy oom-pah vibe instead of the jazzy loops from earlier 'Em titles, which gives Keep 'Em its own identity. I like how clean the interface is for something running 15,625 ways; win counts, feature meters and the yellow Feature Buy button are easy to track on both desktop and mobile. Even in busy bonus rounds, I never felt lost about what was paying.

Symbols And Paytable In Keep 'Em

Keep 'Em keeps the symbol set simple, which I always appreciate in feature-heavy slots. J, Q, K and A blocks take the low spots, paying up to 0.50x for six of a kind. Premiums show a snake, a hand gripping a lightning bolt, a skull and finally Bob the Bird, where six across the reels pays between 0.80x and 2x your bet. There are no wilds at all.

Instead you work with special symbols. The green 'FS' Scatter triggers the bonus games when three or more land, while the Cash 'Em symbol shows a dollar sign with values from 1x up to 1,000x the bet. Get 'Em symbols collect every Cash 'Em in view, and Heart symbols appear only in the Keep 'Em feature, resetting the respin counter when they land.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	6	x2
	5	x1.5
	4	x1
	3	x0.5
	6	x1.2
	5	x0.9
	4	x0.6
	3	x0.3
	6	x0.8
	5	x0.6
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.2
	6	x0.8
	5	x0.6
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.2
	6	x0.5
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	6	x0.5
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	6	x0.5
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	6	x0.5
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	Scatter

Keep 'Em Bonuses & Special Features

Cash 'Em symbols are the backbone of Keep 'Em, carrying instant prizes from 1x to 1,000x stake. When a Get 'Em symbol lands with any Cash 'Em in view, it scoops every value once, and multiple Get 'Ems each take their own sweep. Reels three and four form the blue-framed Keep 'Em reels; landing a Get 'Em, Scatter or Cash 'Em there locks those symbols and awards three respins.

During those respins the Heart counter tracks how many are left, and any new Get 'Em, Scatter or Cash 'Em that lands in the frame also locks. Each respin re-pays every locked Cash 'Em as long as at least one Get 'Em is present, which can snowball nicely when values stack up. This Keep 'Em mechanic already gives the base game a lot more bite than a standard collect feature.

Free spins build on that structure. Three Scatters launch Keep 'Em Comin' with ten spins and higher odds for Cash 'Em, Get 'Em and Scatters. Four Scatters start Keep Your Friends Close, where Cash 'Em stay until collected and full rows or reels auto-collect. Land five Scatters and you reach Keep Your Canny Closer, which guarantees three Cash 'Em and one Get 'Em per spin. A Feature Buy menu sells various entry points.

Bonus Buy Feature

BonusHunt FeatureSpins
Feature Cost:	x3 Bet
RTP:	96.36%
Volatility:	High
Cantastic FeatureSpins
Feature Cost:	x40 Bet
RTP:	96.35%
Volatility:	High
Keep ‘Em Comin’ Bonus
Feature Cost:	x100 Bet
RTP:	96.35%
Volatility:	High
Keep Your Friends Clos
Feature Cost:	x200 Bet
RTP:	96.37%
Volatility:	High

Keep 'Em RTP, Volatility, And Max Win

Like many Hacksaw titles, Keep 'Em ships with several RTP settings. The top version sits at 96.27%, while lower models can drop to 94.25%, 92.27% or even 88.29%, so I always check the info screen before I start. Volatility is rated medium and the hit rate is around 18%, yet the presence of 1,000x Cash 'Em symbols and a 10,000x max win means the game still packs serious punch.

Review Summary For Keep 'Em

For me, Keep 'Em lands in a sweet spot between pure grind and all-or-nothing insanity. The way Cash 'Em values repeat through the Keep 'Em respins can turn a modest trigger into a proper sweat, especially if Hearts keep topping the counter up. When those blue-framed reels stack both Cash 'Em and Get 'Em, the screen feels ready to explode, and that is when the slot really shows off.

It is not a gentle game, even with the medium volatility label, and dead patches do show up when Cash 'Em refuse to land. I tend to use the demo version first, then move to real stakes once the flow makes sense. If you like cash collect slots with extra layers of trickery and a fair amount of personality, Keep 'Em is a very easy recommendation.

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