Kawaii Kitty

The Kawaii Kitty video slot by BetSoft is a good example of a game built up with great graphics and a fairly original theme. You'll see a super cute kitten on the left-hand side of the reels hanging out in his personal room with balls of yarn, tuna, mice, fish and other goodies on the reels and in the background. This game's fun theme is met with a relaxing play style with a low volatility type of gameplay all around. The graphics in this game cannot be denied, and the soundtrack helps to complete the overall cutesy picture.

Format and Layout

BetSoft has made this game pretty simple with just 10 paylines across five reels and three rows. This makes it really easy to keep up with where the actual physical lines are, something that many players (including the author of this review) have trouble with when there are 20 or more ways to win. Based on these 10 paylines, there are two different ways to customize your bet size. You can play with up to 10 coins on each payline, and these coin values range from $0.02 to $1 apiece. This puts the maximum bet at $100 per spin with a minimum of only $0.20, so no matter what stakes you are comfortable with, you'll have betting options that work for you.

It's also worth pointing out that the paylines pay both left-to-right and right-to-left, but you will only be paid for the single largest win on each available payline. The exception to this is five of a kind wins, which pay twice whenever you get them for each direction.

Expanding Wild Symbols

An important driver of the gameplay is the wild yarn symbol. Anyone who has seen a cat with yarn can tell you that it ends up all over the place, so it makes sense that these wilds are expanding. Whenever a yarn shows up on the reels, it will expand vertically to cover the entire reel. There are no scatter symbols in this game, so the wild yarn symbol will substitute for every other symbol in the game. This means lots of chances for big, multi-line wins that you wouldn't have received otherwise.

Respin Feature

Instead of awarding free spins like many video slots, this game has a respin feature instead. The way this respin feature works in this video slot is that it triggers whenever you get an expanding yarn wild symbol. From there, your wins are paid out normally, but you get another free respin with the wilds held in place. Getting another wild will give yet another respin with all of the wilds in place, and since they appear on the middle three reels, you could end up with three free respins in all. This is a cool way to lower the volatility of the game and increase the hit-rate.

Notable Payouts

You will find a total of seven symbols on the reels in this game, and all of them are super cute. The milk pays 250x for five (really 500x total since it pays both ways), and the brush pays 120x. You can get 60x for five of the mouse and 50x for five of the fish. Players earn 40x when they line up five of the bow. Finally, you'll pick up a 25x payout for five of either the can of tuna or the bowl of cat food.

In Summary

Kawaii Kitty has excellent graphics, as you would expect of any title in the Slots3 line by BetSoft. However, it really stands out for its visual style and for putting everything together about the game in a way that fits what might otherwise be thought of as a somewhat boring or plain theme for a game. This slot might be on the cutesy side, but the gameplay is no joke, and if you're looking for a particularly balanced game with an exciting bit of gameplay without the volatility getting out of hand, then you could do much worse. Some players who want a higher volatility gameplay with bigger swings should look elsewhere, but we expect most players will get something out of the experience of this particular title.