Bash Bros: Slot Overview
How do people get nicknames? The way they look, the way they act, a particular action they perform? In the case of Oskar and Fred, they’re bros, and they like to bash things. Why? Well, according to the backstory to Hacksaw Gaming‘s online slot Bash Bros, Oskar and Fred dropped out of the baseball minor leagues to put their talent for bashing and smashing into a living. That living might be of the illegal kind, but it might work out pretty well for players as the brothers are able to add cash symbols to reels and increase values, in this vibrant, scrappy online slot.
Bash Bros’s base game is played in the two petty crooks’ underground bunker, ‘where the arcade game in the corner dates back to 1981, and the milk in the fridge might be even older.’ These guys might not be prime dating material in other words, but with bats in hand, poised to strike, it doesn’t look like they really care about anything other than hitting stuff. Oskar, the bro on the left, has one of those pointy cartoon bumps you push down, and another bump rises up from the other side of their head, while Fred is the bigger of the two. The rest of Bash Bros flows from there, being a chaotic, punk, graffiti-style game where anything goes and anarchy reigns supreme.
Bash Bros takes bets of 10c to $/€100 per spin, and has four feature buy options. It is surprisingly low volatile, with a 2 out of 5 rating in that department, while churning out an RTP of 96.26% at best, with three lower configurations to be aware of. The gaming space is a 5×4 matrix, where there are 1,024 ways to connect winning combinations together.
Graffiti style 10-A card ranks are Bash Bros’ low pays, awarding 0.3x the bet for a 5 OAK winning combination. Then, the high pays are lighters, spray cans, traps, chainsaws, and parts of skateboards, awarding 1x to 2x the bet. In this game, wild symbols do not appear in any phase, but there is a cascade mechanic that will repeatedly remove winning symbols and cascade others down to replace them, provided new winning combinations appear.
Bash Bros: Slot Features
Smashing their way onto the reels are Cash Stacks, Bashing Bros, three bonus rounds – Bros Before Blows, Cash Me Outside, and Reactor Riot, plus feature buys.
Cash Stacks
When a Cash symbol lands, it expands to the top of the reel after wins and cascades have ended, forming a Cash Stack. Each position a Cash Stack covers reveals a multiplier of 1x to 10,000x. Once expanded, the Cash Stacks are added and awarded.
The Bashing Bros
When a Cash Stack lands, Oskar may bash the grid to remove 1–4 symbols from a reel and drop in a new Cash Stack, while Fred may smash to compress all Cash Stacks, adding multipliers for each covered position. If Oskar acts first, then Fred, the new Stacks get double multipliers. Each can trigger once per spin, but if every reel holds a Stack, only Fred activates.
Bros Before Blows & Cash Me Outside
10 Bros Before Blows free spins are activated by landing 3 FS scatters in the base game. This bonus has the mechanics of the base game with an increased chance of landing Cash Stacks. In the two non-hidden bonus games, landing 2 or 3 FS scatters awards +2 or +4 free spins, respectively. Hitting 4 FS scatters in the base game triggers 10 free Cash Me Outside spins. On top of the Bros Before Blows mechanics, each time a Cash Stack lands, it is guaranteed to get at least 1 bash from Oskar or 1 smash from Fred.
Reactor Riot – Hidden Epic Bonus
This feature is awarded by landing 5 FS scatters in the base game, and it comes with 10 free spins. It has the same mechanics as Bros Before Blows, plus it guarantees 1 bash from Oskar and 1 smash from Fred on each spin. The order of the bash and smash may vary. If there are already Cash Stacks on each reel, only Fred will bash.
Feature Buy
Players may activate BonusHunt FeatureSpins from the feature buy for 3x the bet to make each spin 5 times more likely to trigger a bonus game. Stacked FeatureSpins cost 50x, and they guarantee at least 1 Cash Stack symbol lands. It is also possible to buy Bros Before Blows for 50x or Cash Me Outside for 200x the bet.
Bash Bros: Slot Verdict
Bash Bros is a textbook Hacksaw Gaming piece from start to finish. It’s got that ‘I don’t give a damn watchu think’ attitude oozing from every pore, Fresh Prince of Bel Air graffiti, Chaos Crew look, with two larger than life characters who’d as soon bop you on the head as be your friend. Literally, Oskar and Fred are swinging their bats, ready to go. In that regard, Bash Bros brought to mind Hacksaw Gaming’s slot Miami Mayhem on account of the bats, and Beam Boyz due to the boys/bros connotation. The three slots also have an expansion/spreading effect, which is a prevalent Hacksaw Gaming technique, though the exact details and effects differ in all three games.
Instead of spreading wilds or expanding pay symbols, Bash Bros’ Cash symbol generates bet multiplier bearing Cash Stacks to the top of the reels. With instant prize features being as popular as they are, this could prove to be quite a lure for certain gamblers. There are no multipliers to boost cash values, which in some ways felt a little odd for a Hacksaw Gaming slot, but individual values can reach as high as 10,000x on their own, and there are other ways to improve Cash Stacks. That is, if Oskar and Fred are in the mood to either bash more Cash Stacks onto the grid or compress what’s already there. Or both.
It’s a fun, alternative system, and one that’s good for knocking out wins of up to 10,000x the bet in every game mode. The combination of lower volatility and money symbol instant prize wins feels like Bash Bros might be chasing different parts of the gambling audience than the more volatile Hacksaw Gaming machines. But what’s here bashes hard enough, and in such a way that it should be able to entertain both the established fanbase and those who might be, let’s say, intimidated by Hacksaw Gaming’s stronger stuff.
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