What Is Rip City?

Rip City sets up a tale as old as time, inviting players to join a playful game of cat and mouse in a dark inner-city alley, styled directly after old-school cartoon slapstick in the tradition of Tom and Jerry. Ro$$ the Cat and Maxx the Mouse are the game's playful companions, rendered in a black, grey and white palette with pink and blue accents that gives the whole presentation a genuinely nostalgic, retro-cartoon feel.

The grid runs on a 5-reel, 5-row layout with 19 fixed paylines, where 3 or more matching symbols landing left to right form a win. It's a genuinely more measured release than most of Hacksaw's catalog, medium volatility rather than the studio's usual extreme approach.

The Expanding Wild Cat Symbol

A cartoon cat needs an oversized mouth to gobble all those cartoon mice, and Rip City delivers exactly that through the Wild Cat symbol: when it lands, it can drop down and expand to cover the whole reel it occupies, dramatically boosting the odds of a substantial combination forming across the grid's 19 paylines.

Ro$$ Bonus and Maxx Bonus

Two named bonus rounds sit behind the game's scatter trigger, each carrying its own distinct feel within the Feature Spins menu. The Maxx Bonus in particular has been noted to award multipliers as high as 2000x the bet during a strong run, making it the more explosive of the two options when it connects well.

Five direct feature buy options are available, letting players choose their entry point into either bonus round or improve their natural trigger odds instead.

RTP, Volatility and the Realistic Odds

Default RTP is 96.22%, with 94.27%, 92.32% and 88.02% configurations also available depending on the operator. Volatility is rated medium (3 out of 5) on Hacksaw's own scale, though some third-party trackers classify it closer to high — either way, hit frequency of roughly 18.22% means a winning combination lands on close to every fifth spin, a genuinely regular rhythm compared to the studio's more extreme titles.

The 12,500x max win, mathematically higher than the 10,000x ceilings found in several older Hacksaw titles, is achieved through the Wild Cat expansion combining with a strong Ro$$ or Maxx Bonus run. Bets run $0.10 to $100 per spin.

Our Verdict

Rip City succeeds as a genuinely accessible, nostalgia-driven slot for players who want Hacksaw's mechanical polish without the studio's usual brutal swings — the 12,500x ceiling is mathematically ahead of several older Hacksaw releases, and the medium volatility rating makes reaching it feel like a realistic goal rather than a distant fantasy. It's admittedly not among the studio's most memorable or replayable titles, with some reviewers noting the novelty wears thin after a hundred spins or so, but as a competent, easy-going cartoon cat-and-mouse chase, it does exactly what it sets out to do.

Where to play it

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