Cheetah Chase Slot Review

A cartoon cheetah in a burglar's mask is robbing a city art museum, and the diamonds he is actually after do not pay a penny until he gets into the vault. Crowns, jewelled eggs and a badly behaved Mona Lisa fill the reels in the meantime. They are the small change of this game.

Rival built it on a 5x4 grid with 20 fixed lines, wins reading left to right from the first reel, and avalanches clearing winners so new symbols drop into the gaps. RTP is 96.41 percent. The ceiling is 5,000x, and there is exactly one road to it.

Five jewelled eggs, the best regular combination in the game, pay 10x the total bet. That single number tells you where the money is kept.

The grid stands inside a neoclassical museum front, two grey stone columns bracketing it, arched windows glowing warm gold behind the symbols, a neon skyline and a full moon above the roofline. The logo is pure late-80s: gold block letters for CHEETAH, hot magenta chrome for CHASE. It sits oddly against the fairly straight museum artwork and somehow works anyway.

Art history takes a beating. The Mona Lisa is a wide-eyed goof in a gilt frame, the marble bust scowls like someone woke it up, and J, Q, K and A are carved as turquoise stone, a jade tablet, cracked granite and a gilded temple block. The wild is a smirking cat with an enormous pink nose, black eye mask and flat cap. Four jackpot plaques run across the top in blue, green, orange and gold, and the prize diamonds are big faceted blue stones in gold rings with their cash value stamped across the face.

Then the backdrop switches. Once the bonus starts, the museum hall is gone and the reels sit in the vault instead: red laser tripwires cutting across the frame, a spotlit diamond behind glass off to the right. It changes nothing mechanically and it changes the mood entirely.

The base game is quiet work. Avalanches keep something moving after most wins, but with nothing escalating as they chain, a four-step cascade of stone letters lands about where one small win would. Motion without momentum.

All the tension comes from counting diamonds. Three or four of them turning up is common enough to keep your eyes moving, and they sit there in their gold rings advertising 20.00, 40.00, 120.00 while doing absolutely nothing. Six is the number. Stopping at five is the meanest trick this game plays, and it plays it often.

Inside the round the rhythm changes hard. Three re-spins is not much rope, so each new lock reads as a reprieve rather than progress, and the board usually runs out of steam well short of full. Whether that short leash suits you probably depends on your patience for hold-and-win rounds in general, because this one has no side mechanic, no collector and no second stage to soften a bad draw. It is the diamonds you got, and that is the round.

This is a straightforward lock-and-respin game wearing a good joke. The heist framing has care in it, the vault sequence lands, and the game is upfront about which symbols pay and which are just waiting. Underneath that it is a plain machine: one feature and no second gear, with a base game whose real job is funding the wait.

The 5,000x headline is the part to hold at arm's length, since it needs all 20 positions filled and nothing else in the game gets remotely close. What the round realistically hands over is a cluster of small diamond values and, on a good day, a Mini or a Minor. Measured against that instead of the headline it holds up perfectly well. Measured on variety it runs thin quickly, once the novelty of the cheetah and the cop has worn off.