Deadly Chef

Deadly Chef is a dark, comic-book-style slot from Funky Games, built around a masked butcher with a cleaver and a kitchen full of meat. It uses a tall 5x4 grid with 1,024 ways to win, has an RTP of 95.96%, medium volatility and a top prize of 5,000x the stake. The game is made for portrait play, so on desktop it appears as a narrow column in the middle of the screen, with a street-food truck and palm trees glowing behind it.

A Butcher Shop With Neon Lights

The mood is a mix of slasher film and street-food stall. A sunglasses-wearing chef with a bloodied apron stands above the reels, and four jackpot labels sit next to him: Grand, Major, Minor and Mini. The symbols are fast-food flavoured: a skull burger, french fries, a tomato, a green drink, a mustard bottle, then the card values A, K, Q, J, 10 and 9. A Wild substitutes for all of them except the choppers, the free spin symbols and the meat.

Before the first spin the game shows a short intro in three slides. The Golden Chopper slide is the clearest one: the blade cleaves a meat symbol marked 999.99 and the text promises that it can split a prize two to ten times, doubling its value with every cut.

Ways To Win

Wins are paid left to right on adjacent reels, starting from reel one, and only one symbol per reel counts in a combination. A line of five burgers pays 2x the stake, while the lowest card values pay between 0.2x and 0.5x for three of a kind. These numbers move with your stake, so the win table always shows the current amounts.

Meat Symbols And The Roast Frame

The main attraction is the meat symbol. Each piece of meat carries a random prize between 0.5x and 500x the total stake, and some show one of the four jackpots instead of a number. They appear both in the base game and in the bonus.

When a meat symbol lands on reel one, the Roast Frame ignites. As long as meat keeps landing on neighbouring reels, the fire spreads to the right, up to reel five. A frame that reaches three or more reels unlocks Coins Collect, which pays the values of all the meat inside the frame. This turns a plain spin into a small cash-collect round without any trigger symbol at all.

Chopper And Meat Split

A Chopper symbol splits one random meat symbol once, and each split doubles the prize on it. Jackpot meat can be split as well, which means a Mini label can climb to a much bigger value if the cleaver is lucky. In our test spin a few small meat prizes of 0.50 and 1.00 landed next to ordinary card symbols, and the round paid 0.21 on a 1.00 stake.

Free Spins And Super Free Spins

Three FS symbols start 6 free spins. If the third one is a Super FS symbol, the game gives 6 Super Free Spins and expands the grid from 4x5 to 5x5, which adds another row of positions to every reel. The bonus is called the Roast Feast, and it raises the chance of the Roast Frame during the spins.

Two extra symbols appear only in the bonus. The Golden Chopper splits meat symbols 2 to 10 times, and the SPIN+1 symbol adds one more free spin when it lands inside a Roast Frame. The Golden Chopper is the key to the large prizes, because a few good splits can multiply a single piece of meat many times over.

Buy Bonus Menu

The Buy Bonus button opens a menu with four cards, priced relative to the stake:

• 3 FS, for 60x the stake: three FS symbols guaranteed, so regular free spins start;
• Super FS, for 250x: two FS symbols and one Super FS symbol, which opens the bigger grid;
• Open Flame Roasting, an active mode that costs 2x the stake per spin and guarantees a Roast Frame;
• Roast & Chopper, an active mode that costs 400x the stake per spin and guarantees both a Roast Frame and a Golden Chopper.

The two direct buys ask for a confirmation, and the price is taken from the balance at once. The active modes stay on until you switch them off.

Who It Suits

Deadly Chef will appeal to players who like a cash-collect idea that works in the base game as well as in the bonus, and who do not mind a gory, tongue-in-cheek look. The medium volatility and the 1,024 ways give it a lively base game, and the 5,000x ceiling with four jackpot values gives it a clear aim. It runs in a browser on any device, and the portrait layout feels natural on a phone.