Chicken Dash Jackpot by TaDa Gaming is built around one simple, nerve-racking idea: walking a chicken across a busy motorway. There are no reels, no paylines and no spin button. A white hen stands at the kerb on the left of the screen, a series of lanes stretches away to the right, and each lane you send her across lifts a multiplier a step higher – while the traffic keeps coming. The presentation is deliberately plain and it works in the game’s favour.
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Get Kraken by Yggdrasil takes the player down to a shipwrecked seabed, and the presiding character is not the menacing sea monster the name suggests. The kraken here is a grinning purple octopus with oversized eyes, peering out from behind a battered treasure chest – comic rather than threatening, and drawn in the slightly cartoonish style the studio uses for its lighter releases. The setting around him is genuinely well built.
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