Cabin Fever Pokie
People hoping to see a Poker machine based around the Cabin Fever movie may be a little let down when they see images of cute bears and squirrels landing on the reels, but most of us will be fine with this friendly-looking game from Microgaming.
Presented in the cartoon style that so many games from this developer come with, Cabin Fever is set in the frozen North and sees animals hiding away for the winter, generally enjoying themselves with beers, playing music, chatting on the phone and so on.
This pokie has 5 reels and 20 paylines, so it’s pretty conventional, while the bonus features are also nothing to get too excited about, consisting of a free spins round and gamble game. There’s nothing wrong with these, but it’s all a bit samey, with nothing we haven’t seen on numerous games before.
The Bear Necessities of Cabin Fever
With everything outside the cabin frozen, and everything inside nice and cozy, the bear family that lives in this cabin certainly look happy enough. The reels are set in the frame of the log cabin, with even the payline numbers and game title being covered in snow.
This is one of those games where players can make a wager of just 0.01 which activates a single payline, while the maximum bet amount is a substantial 200.00. Only playing a limited number of lines means that players will miss out on winning combinations, so it’s always best to have at least something on them all, that way they won’t be waiting for symbols to line up on active lines or watching big wins land on the ones they are not playing.
Apart from the bear family, symbols are mainly made up of the types of fruits that so many pokies feature, like cherries, plums, lemons, watermelons and oranges, although in this case they are all frozen. The paytable details how many times the bet per line will be won for each combination, and in common with most games, identical symbols must stop on a payline, starting from reel number 1 on the left.
Line up 3 of the lowest-paying cherry symbols for a prize equal to 5x the line bet, while a full row of 5 cherries will be worth 60x. Going up the paytable, the highest-paying fruit symbol is the orange which is worth between 8x and 150x the line bet.
Then we move on to the picture symbols which are what gives this game its’ own character and style. There’s a bear playing drums on pots and pans and he’s worth between 10x and 200x for getting between 3 and 5 examples, plus there’s his brother and sister arguing over the TV remote, mum’s on the phone and dad’s chilling in the hot tub with his beer and being head of the family with just 2 examples being enough for a 3x payout and 5 being a lovely 300x.
Cabin Fever
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Bonus Features
To make the game more engaging, there’s a few simple bonus features, with the wild symbol being the one players are most likely to encounter. It works in a perfectly conventional way by helping to complete winning lines, while also having the potential to pay out the biggest wins when it falls across a line on its own, as the game jackpot of 5000x the line bet is won should 5 wilds cover an active line.
If you see a squirrel holding his nuts don’t worry, as he’s the scatter symbol meaning that he can land anywhere on the reels for a prize that’s a multiple of the total amount staked per spin. Just 2 squirrels are enough for a 1x the bet prize, while 5 of the little critter equals a 200x win.
The sole bonus round starts when the Sun comes to rest on reels 1 and 5 at the same time. 20 free spins will commence with any wins being doubled throughout, and should the Sun appear on the same reels again, 20 more will be added to the end of any remaining ones.
Lots of Microgaming pokies have a gamble round which players can choose to enter after a winning spin. It’s a double or nothing game where the idea is to guess if a playing card will be revealed as red or black, with the option to double again and again until the gamble limit is reached.
Will Cabin Fever Drive You Nuts?
Taken at face value this is a perfectly decent game, with a good free spins round and generous bet range. The symbols are suitably cute and entertaining, and coming from Microgaming it’s going to be reliable and fair, so whether you want to play it really depends on how appealing you find the theme, rather than how much the bonus round attract you.