Years ago I lived with a roommate whose cat, Gerald, brought her a present every single night. Mice, mostly. One time a frog. And once, at 3am, a rat the size of a small loaf of bread that was very much alive and very much not happy about it.
The two of them ran laps around that kitchen for about forty minutes while we stood on chairs screaming. Nobody won. Gerald got bored and fell asleep in the fruit bowl.
So when the Cat ‘n Rat slot showed up, I knew exactly what I was in for. Same chase, different decade. Only this time both of them are dead, glowing, and dripping slime.
Welcome to the Haunted Highlighter Mansion
So where’s this fight happening? GameArt built these two a haunted Victorian manor with twisted trees, glowing fog, and a neon palette that looks like someone emptied a pack of highlighters over a graveyard. I mean that as a compliment.
The grid is tiny. Three reels, three rows, five paylines. Potion bottles cover the lower end, while a wedge of slimy cheese and a fish skeleton with its tongue hanging out sit up top. Gross. I love it.
Then there’s the Dead Cat. She’s the Wild, she subs for everything, and three of her on a line pays the most in the game. Oh, and you’ve got 96.47% RTP, low volatility, and a max win of $330,000, or 1,320x your bet.
Nine Lives, One More Spin
Now, the base game has a couple of tricks, and the first one sits right above the reels. Every spin, a multiplier counter whirls around and lands somewhere between 1x and 10x, then gets applied to your total win. Watching it slide past 10x and settle on 1x is personally offensive, but hey.
The Respin Feature is the one I didn’t expect to like. If two reels fill up with matching symbols or Wilds and there’s still no win, those reels lock and the third one spins again. Very generous for a game starring two corpses.
There’s also an optional Gamble Feature after wins – guess the card color for 2x or the suit for 4x – and you can switch it off in settings.
Pick a Card, Any Rotten Card
Right, the good stuff. Fill the whole screen with matching symbols, Wilds, or a mix, and you trigger the Card Reveal Bonus. Pick one of five creepy pumpkin-faced cards to find out how many Free Spins you’re getting – 5, 8, 10, 15, or 25.
A second reveal then hands you a multiplier for every win in the round: 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x, or 20x. Twenty. Imagine.
During those Free Spins, the Rancid Rat finally gets her moment. She only lands on reel three, but she stretches to cover the whole thing as an Expanding Wild and sticks around for one extra spin. She looks like she hasn’t showered since 2009, and I kind of respect it.
Can’t wait? The Bonus Buy drops you straight in for 55x your bet.
Call the Exterminator (Or Don’t)
Look, I’ve played a lot of Halloween slots this month, and most of them are pumpkins and bats doing absolutely nothing new. This one actually made me laugh. A dead cat, a rat covered in toxic goo, cheese that’s clearly gone off, and a fish that’s mostly bones – it’s a whole cast of characters you’d call pest control about.
The Cat ‘n Rat slot is live at BitStarz now, so go pick a card, watch that counter spin, and give the rat a few rounds on reel three.
