Our rating:
Developer: Hacksaw Gaming
Release date: 28th Mar 2024
Rusty & Curly Slot - Screenshot
RTP: 96.29%
Max Payout: 10,000x stake
Volatility: Medium
Min Bet: 0.10
Max Bet: 100.00
Reels: 5
Paylines: 14
Jackpot: No

Rusty & Curly

Paul Clare
Reviewed by Paul Clare Last updated:

Hacksaw Gaming’s Rusty & Curly takes place in the Wildest of Wild Wests - 3 different Wilds are available! Also, there’s the Stick to Plan and the Who Shot the Sheriff? bonus rounds, so you should find plenty of chances to hit gold. Yeeha!

Full review continued below ↓

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Our Rating

“A Western frontier filled with gold.”

3.9 out of 5

Features
7.8/10
Design
7.9/10
Gameplay
7.8/10
Win potential
7.9/10

Rusty & Curly Screenshots

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Rusty & Curly Features

To win, you need to land matching symbols along the game’s 14 paylines, starting from the first reel. 5-of-a-kinds made up of the low-pay Jack to Ace symbols are all worth 1x the stake. A 5-of-a-kind made up of the more valuable prospecting-paraphernalia symbols can be worth up to 10x the bet!

As pay symbols, Wilds are worth as much as the most valuable pay symbol. They can also land with multipliers of up to 10x in value. Even more impressive are the game’s Almost Sticky Wilds, which land with between zero and 3 lives. Losing a life on each spin, they stick to the grid until all their lives run out. You also benefit from free respins while the Almost Stick Wilds still have lives left.

To win, you need to land matching symbols along the game’s 14 paylines, starting from the first reel. 5-of-a-kinds made up of the low-pay Jack to Ace symbols are all worth 1x the stake. A 5-of-a-kind made up of the more valuable prospecting-paraphernalia symbols can be worth up to 10x the bet!

As pay symbols, Wilds are worth as much as the most valuable pay symbol. They can also land with multipliers of up to 10x in value. Even more impressive are the game’s Almost Sticky Wilds, which land with between zero and 3 lives. Losing a life on each spin, they stick to the grid until all their lives run out. You also benefit from free respins while the Almost Stick Wilds still have lives left.

Bonus Rounds

The FS symbol is the game’s scatter. Accumulate 3 on a spin or subsequent respins and you’ll trigger Stick to the Plan Free Spins. The round starts with 6 spins, but as long as there’s a Wild with a life on the screen, new symbols and hopefully winning combos will keep on falling. The odds of landing Wilds also increase, and the maximum value of a Wild multiplier goes up to 100x! 

Alternatively, if you accumulate 4 scatters on a base-game spin or its respins, you unlock Who Shot the Sheriff? Free Spins. This round consists of 12 free spins divided into 3 Cycles. Cycles are divided into a Collect phase and a Payout phase.

In the Collect phase, one or both of the titular characters will turn a random reel into an expanded Wild. The character(s) will then shoot 6 times at the multipliers that appear on the grid. The total value of these shot multipliers is then added to the total value of the Wild reel in the Payout phase. The available multiplier values are 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, 100x and 200x!

The Payout phase consists of 3 spins with the normal pay symbols. The Rusty and or Curly Wild reels will still be in place with the accumulated multiplier from the Collect phase. The 2 animal characters, Crispy & Chewy, can also turn a reel into an expanded Wild, although these Wilds aren’t sticky.

After the 3 spins, play returns to the Collect phase. However, landing an additional 3 FS symbols will award an additional Cycle, and 4 FS symbols will award 2! 

Players outside the UK can buy instant access to the Stick to the Plan and Who Shot the Sheriff? bonus rounds for 100x and 300x the stake, respectively.

Rusty & Curly - Almost Sticky Wilds

Almost Sticky Wilds

Wilds can land with 1, 2 or 3 lives. They lose a life on each spin but stick to the board until their lives have run out. As long as there’s a live Wild on the board, you’ll keep getting respins. Wilds can also land with multipliers of up to 10x!

Rusty & Curly - Stick to the Plan Free Spins

Stick to the Plan Free Spins

Land 3 scatters and you’ll trigger the Stick to the Plan Bonus. Use your 6 free spins to land Wild multipliers of up to 100x in value! Again, live Wilds means more spins.

Rusty & Curly - Who Shot the Sheriff? Free Spins

Who Shot the Sheriff? Free Spins

Land 4 scatters and you’ll win 12 free spins divided into 3 Cycles. In the Collect phase of a cycle, you’ll see expanding Wilds and accumulating multipliers. Put your accumulated multiplier to use in the Payout phase.

Rusty & Curly Review

Wanted: great features and bags of win potential. Luckily, the desperados at Hacksaw Gaming have said they’ll oblige. At a glance, Rusty & Curly has the potential to be one of the fastest one-armed bandits in the West. Will it live up to its 10,000x reward, though?

Design

The game’s music in both the base game and the two bonus rounds would make Sergio Leon’s hair stand on end. The game’s setting is a mountainous Western frontier, ideal for prospectors with the bright blue sky complemented by fluffy clouds. To finish off the scene, beautiful dry-rock formations tower above everlasting plains of dry grass.

The two nicely rendered main characters flank the game area - two cartoon gunslingers, one male, one female. The symbols and reels are as well designed and animated as the characters. Upon landing a win, bullets ricocheting can be heard, which does add to the satisfaction.

Both free spins rounds take place at night, although in Who Shot the Sheriff?, the action takes place within a town as opposed to in the middle of the county.

The game looks all but the same on mobile, although the reel animations aren’t quite as smooth as on larger devices.

Gameplay

Given the sticky Wilds and Wild multiplier, there’s plenty to keep you engaged in the base game and both the bonus games are fantastic, too. The Stick to the Plan bonus is quite similar to the base game but Wilds fall more frequently and the maximum value of the multipliers shoots up. With the additional features including expanding Wilds, the Who Shot the Sheriff? round takes it up yet another notch! The only downside is that it can prove difficult to trigger.

Win Potential

The game’s volatility level is only medium, so normally you would expect to hit average-sized wins fairly regularly. However, the different types of Wilds are literally game changers - their varying functions helped me hit bigger wins. The 10,000x max win is great, as is the RTP of 96.29%.

My Verdict

With all its features and modifiers, you might hit big wins more regularly than you’d expect! Once those multipliers kick in, you just keep your fingers crossed for a top payout. Rusty & Curly is fun to play, easy on the eye, and there’s plenty of scope for you to find gold.

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