Crabbin’ Crazy Slot Review

01/02/2022 | Categories: iSoftbet Slots | Published by: Joe | Last updated: 05/01/2024

Off the top of our heads, we cannot remember looking at a game from iSoftBet before. They are a London-based company that has been in business since 2010. Going by our research, they are responsible for over 264 slots, available for play in over two hundred online casinos to residents of more than forty countries. Thus, they are a super experienced provider whose history is somewhat cloudy. At writing, Crabbin’ Crazy is their most-played game, and their second one in the top 100 rankings, in front of Aztec Gold Megaways. It is a relatively new release that hit the internet on December 15th, 2021. It instantly debuted in the top one hundred and has not fallen out of this prestigious society since.

Theme & Design

The theme here is crabs. What can we say about these creatures to capture the feel of this game? Well, we will start by providing you with a brief explanation of what they are. Naturally, you for sure know what they look like. Yet, you are unlikely to know that they first appeared during the Jurassic period and that they get classified as decapod (ten legs) crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura. A bit of trivia about these creatures is that they can walk in all directions, and specific species can live up to a century.

For this product, iSoftBet has decided to opt for a cartoony, colorful feel. When we say cartoony, we are talking about a SpongeBob SquarePants vibe, reminiscent of many early-2000s cartoons. The reels here spin inside a wooden frame, boasting the game logo. It hovers in front of a sunny beach with a blue sky overhead. The cast of characters here is charming, and so are the light soundtrack and the audio bites used.

The spin buttons and the bet-adjuster are to the right of the reel grid, while the mute and info ones are in the bottom left corner. At the bottom of the screen is a semi-transparent bar displaying your account balance, win and bet information.

Specs & Gameplay

Crabbin’ Crazy is a five-reel, three-row spinner featuring twenty paylines. It is a medium to high variance game with an RTP of 96% and a hit frequency of 28.1. The wager sizes here range from $0.2 on the low end and $100 on the high one. The most that you can hope to win on this spinner is a reward worth x1,268 your wager, which is underwhelming.

The low-paying symbols of Crabbin’ Crazy are J-A royals, yielding rewards of x2 or x4 for five-of-a-kind. A worm, a fishing rod, a dinghy, and a pair of crab claws are the high-paying tokens of this slot, generating wins of x6 to x16 for five-of-a-kind. The bearded fisherman is the Wild here, and he can appear as a stacked symbol and substitute all others except for the Scatter and the Crabs. He also pays x50 for appearing five times on a single spin.

The fisherman’s boat is the Scatter here, only showing up on reels one, three, and five. The seven crab symbols are cash prize tokens, paying wins of up to x1,000, and they only appear during the Hold & Win mode.

Bonus Features

Landing three Scatters awards the eight complimentary reel rotations and activates the Free Spins bonus round. During this mode, up to five reels can sync up. They will then show identical symbols. Note that you cannot retrigger this mode, as no Scatters appear inside it.

Landing five or more crabs launches the re-spins feature. That is the Hold & Win element of this slot. It begins with three re-spins that reset when a new crab lands on the grid. Once the number of rotations depletes, the prize values of all the symbols get paid out. There is an info panel to the left of the reel grid here. It displays the value of each crab, from x1 to x10. If the fisherman appears on a re-spin, he will collect the values of all the crabs, removing them from sight, allowing new ones to fall in their place.

On any spin, the Pick a Crab feature randomly activates. When it does, three crabs show up and ask you to select one. When that happens, there are four possible outcomes. They are:

Win Spin – Mystery Boxes get added to the grid, and each one transforms into an identical pay symbol.
Stacked Wilds – Super stacked Wilds appear on the grid. Two or more such Wilds get guaranteed in this mode.
Bonus Add – Scatters get added to the grid, improving your chances to activate the Free Spins round.
Let’s Catch Crabs – The fisherman appears, and he pays out the rewards of three to four crab tokens.