Keep ‘Em Cool Slot Review

Keep 'Em Cool Slot Overview

Keep 'Em Cool drops me on a tropical beach, with a 5x5 grid full of glossy fruit and a pig in snorkel gear watching from the sand. Hacksaw Gaming has gone for a cluster paying setup, so wins arrive when at least five matching symbols touch horizontally or vertically. The calm setting hides a more tactical core built around frozen symbols, cascades and three different scatters.

From my sessions, Keep 'Em Cool feels like a medium risk beach slot that rewards patience rather than constant fireworks. The absence of wilds or multipliers makes the grid look simple at first glance, yet frozen states, refreezes and symbol collection give each spin a bit of planning. I tended to treat it as a breezy cluster game where timing your stakes around bonus cycles makes a difference.

Keep 'Em Cool Slot Information

Keep 'Em Cool runs on a 5x5 layout with cluster pays and cascading wins. Stakes range from 0.10 up to 100 per spin, so I could flick between low testing bets and more committed shots quite easily. The slot ships with several RTP configs, the standard being 96.19% but with lower models down to 88.37% in some markets. Volatility sits in the medium bracket, and the stated hit rate is about 31%.

Symbols and Paytable in Keep 'Em Cool

The paytable in Keep 'Em Cool is entirely fruit based. At the lower end you get apples, bananas, oranges and cherries. A five symbol win on these clusters pays between 0.1x and 0.3x stake, while landing 21 or more of the same fruit jumps that to 400x to 800x. Premium symbols are plums, dragon fruit and strawberries, paying 0.5x to 1x for five of a kind and up to 1000x to 5000x for huge clusters.

There is no wild symbol in Keep 'Em Cool, which shifts the focus to its special scatters and frozen states. Cocktail Glass, Blender and Picnic Basket scatters do the heavy lifting instead of wilds. Regular fruit symbols can appear unfrozen, half frozen or fully frozen, often trapped inside ice cubes. Those frozen versions cling to the grid through cascades, so a single spin can recycle the same fruit into two or three separate payouts.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	21+	x5000
	19+	x1500
	17+	x750
	15+	x400
	13+	x200
	11+	x100
	9+	x40
	8	x15
	7	x5
	6	x1.5
	5	x1
	21+	x2000
	19+	x1000
	17+	x600
	15+	x300
	13+	x150
	11+	x75
	9+	x30
	8	x10
	7	x3
	6	x1
	5	x0.7
	21+	x1000
	19+	x750
	17+	x500
	15+	x250
	13+	x125
	11+	x60
	9+	x20
	8	x6
	7	x2
	6	x0.7
	5	x0.5
	21+	x800
	19+	x600
	17+	x400
	15+	x200
	13+	x100
	11+	x50
	9+	x15
	8	x5
	7	x1.5
	6	x0.5
	5	x0.3
	21+	x600
	19+	x450
	17+	x300
	15+	x150
	13+	x75
	11+	x20
	9+	x7.5
	8	x2.5
	7	x0.8
	6	x0.3
	5	x0.1
	21+	x500
	19+	x350
	17+	x250
	15+	x125
	13+	x60
	11+	x17.5
	9+	x6
	8	x2
	7	x0.6
	6	x0.2
	5	x0.1
	21+	x400
	19+	x300
	17+	x200
	15+	x100
	13+	x50
	11+	x15
	9+	x5
	8	x1.5
	7	x0.5
	6	x0.2
	5	x0.1
	Special
	Bonus

Bonus Features in Keep 'Em Cool

The core mechanic in Keep 'Em Cool combines cascades with frozen symbols. Any win removes unfrozen symbols in the cluster, then all remaining unfrozen fruit on the grid drops out as well. Half frozen and fully frozen symbols stay, sliding to the bottom while stepping down a freeze level. New fruit cascades in on top, and the process repeats for as long as fresh clusters appear, all attached to the stake from that single spin.

When Cocktail Glass scatters land alongside a win, they refreeze every symbol involved in that cluster, turning them fully frozen and ready to hang around. The glass shows up with a number of refreezes, up to five, and disappears only after that counter runs out. The Blender scatter is different, picking one fruit type and sucking every instance from the grid, counting them and then paying as though they formed one large cluster.

Picnic Basket scatters appear in the base game and feed a meter beside the grid. Across all cascades on a spin, landing three baskets triggers the Sunset Picnic free spins. Each basket reveals between three and five spins, so you start with nine to fifteen. During the feature, Cocktail Glasses and Blenders show up more often, and new baskets award two to five extra spins. There is also a Bonus Buy for both the hunt spins and direct entry.

Bonus Buy Feature

Bonushunt FeatureSpins Bonushunt FeatureSpins can be buy for 3x your bet and each spin will trigger the bonus game five times more often.
Feature Cost:	x3 Bet
RTP:	96.25%
Volatility:	High
Sunset Picnic Sunset Picnic can be buy instantly from the base game for 100x your bet.
Feature Cost:	x100 Bet
RTP:	96.22%
Volatility:	High

RTP, Volatility and Max Win in Keep 'Em Cool

In terms of maths, Keep 'Em Cool sits in that middle ground where swings exist yet do not feel feral. The top advertised win is 5000x stake, reachable through huge premium clusters helped by refreezes and Blenders in Sunset Picnic. With medium volatility and around one in three spins returning something, I found balance sessions workable, though long dry spells can still crop up when the special symbols decide to stay away.

Keep 'Em Cool Slot Verdict

After a fair run on Keep 'Em Cool, I came away viewing it as a laid back cluster slot with a few smart twists rather than a wild screen filler. The beach artwork does its job without shouting, and the snorkelling pig gives a small touch of character. What kept me playing was the way frozen symbols can recycle wins and how Cocktail Glasses line up chunky repeat hits when they appear in the right place.

On the flip side, the lack of any multiplier feature takes away that sense of explosive build up I get from other Hacksaw releases, so sessions can feel a touch hollow when features whiff. Sunset Picnic plays quite close to the base game, just with better odds of seeing Blenders and Cocktail Glasses. For me, Keep 'Em Cool sits best as a medium volatility grinder when I fancy beach vibes and controlled swings.

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