Chocolate Rocket: Slot Overview

For many slot studios, however much they talk about healthy living, it’s only a matter of time before they end up raiding the candy aisle. Here, it’s Hacksaw Gaming partner Backseat Gaming taking a sugar-dusted bite. The indulgent release is Chocolate Rocket, and alongside its crowd-pleasing theme, the developer has leaned on an expanding, multiplying wild mechanic—something this circle of casino game creators is well known for.

If you could eat with your eyes, Chocolate Rocket would be a fast track to piling on the pounds. The action unfolds in a confectionery dreamland awash with pinks and blues, while the reels are coated in candy, chocolate, and sprinkles. It’s the familiar look you’d expect from a sweet-themed slot, and Backseat Gaming’s version delivers a heavy dose of sugary charm. Still, as ever, a cute and innocent exterior doesn’t necessarily mean the contents are equally gentle.

Chocolate Rocket’s launch setup is a 5×5 gaming grid with 19 paylines checking wins from the leftmost reel. Stakes run from 10 c to $/€100, and it’s aimed at players comfortable with highly volatile math. Bonus modes can be started via the feature buy menu, and the top listed base RTP is 96.37%.

Triangle, square, diamond, star, and hexagon hard candies make up the lower-paying symbols, returning 2 times the bet for a 5 OAK hit. The premium sweets—sticky treats, wrapped candies, lollipops, and gummy bears—pay 10x to 25x the bet for 6-of-a-kind.

Chocolate Rocket: Slot Features

Chocolate Rocket gets airborne thanks to Wild Rocket symbols, 2 bonus rounds – Chocolate Blast and Wild Rocket Festival, plus bonus buys.

Wild Rocket

The Wild Rocket symbol appears showing a starting multiplier of x1 to x20. If it can create a win, it then expands up to the top of the grid, increasing its multiplier by multiplying it with the number of positions it expands across. Expanded Wild Rockets substitutes for all standard paying symbols, and when multiple Wild Rockets contribute to the same win, their multiplier values are added together. Wild Rockets award 25x the bet for a winning line made up of 5 wilds only.

Chocolate Blast

The Chocolate Blast bonus round starts when 3 scatter symbols land in the base game, granting 10 free spins. In Chocolate Blast, there is an increased chance of landing Wild Rocket symbols. Scatter symbols don’t appear during the bonus.

Wild Rocket Festival

Hitting 4 scatters in the base game triggers 10 free spins in the Wild Rocket Festival bonus. This mode also comes with an increased chance of landing Wild Rocket symbols, but here Wild Rocket symbols are sticky for the whole feature and reveal a fresh initial multiplier on every spin. If another Wild Rocket lands underneath one already in place, it replaces it. Scatter symbols also do not land in this feature.

Bonus Buy

In Chocolate Rocket’s bonus buy menu, players can turn on BonusHunt FeatureSpins for 2x the bet, making each spin 3 times more likely to trigger free spins. Sweet FeatureSpins cost 40x per spin and ensure 2+ Wild Rocket symbols. Alternatively, Chocolate Blast costs 100x to buy, while Wild Rocket Festival is 200x.

Chocolate Rocket: Slot Verdict

It’s probably fair to say Chocolate Rocket won’t be collecting awards for wild originality, and we’ve already seen comparable ideas in titles such as Rocket Reels (2021). Adding to the familiarity of the candy theme, Backseat Gaming presents it in a straightforward way—like a sugar fiend dozing off after a binge, then drifting into a pastel candy kingdom far from the bland, grey real world. The presentation is polished, if not particularly distinctive, so anyone who enjoys this kind of slot should find Chocolate Rocket comfortably familiar in its soft, sweet styling.

That said, with candy it’s the filling that matters, not the packaging, and Chocolate Rocket brings some tasty gameplay. As with the visuals, the mechanics aren’t especially groundbreaking: expanding wilds and wild multipliers are standard fare for Hacksaw Gaming and its associates, with plenty of earlier examples out there. Seeing a Wild Rocket land above x1 felt fairly uncommon in the base game, but when you do manage to connect with a strong expanded wild multiplier—or even better, several expanded wild multipliers—it’s easy to understand why this mechanic remains popular. The base game offers glimpses of the potential, Chocolate Blast should in theory push that further, and Wild Rocket Festival raises the pressure again by making the Rocket Wilds sticky.

Even so, the slot can play hard, and despite the stated increased wild frequency in free spins, it may be wise not to expect them to show up in huge numbers. They can arrive annoyingly rarely. Still, across all stages, Chocolate Rocket’s 12,500x maximum win is achievable, which is encouraging and underlines just how powerful wild multipliers can be when they line up for take-off.