Frank’s Farm: Slot Overview

With the UN forecasting the global population to reach 11.2 billion by 2100, we may need to rethink how we produce enough food for everyone. Ideas on the table include saving water, cutting down on waste, and even bringing robots into the process. One approach that, as far as we know, hasn’t been floated is letting sloths take charge of farming. Sounds odd, right—how would that even work? Realistically, it probably wouldn’t, since sloths aren’t exactly famous for speed or productivity. They’re more often depicted as relaxed creatures simply enjoying life. Still, in Hacksaw Gaming’s online slot Frank’s Farm, players get to explore the concept – what happens when a sloth runs the farm?

Meet Frank: he’s a sloth, and this is his farm. And it’s a wonderfully inviting little patch of countryside. Hacksaw Gaming once again shows it can deliver bright, upbeat titles just as convincingly as it can pull players into some of the darkest, most unsettling slot settings around. Put that aside for the moment and settle into a feel-good experience packed with cheerful animals, bouncy music, and friendly farm-to-table shenanigans—all produced right here on Frank’s Farm.

That said, it’s not purely light entertainment. Frank’s Farm is also a serious gambling product, built on a medium volatile math model and offering a selection of RTPs depending on the configuration and whether you access the game via its bonus buys. At the top setting, the theoretical return is 96.31% in standard play, alongside a hit rate of 36.1%. The game runs smoothly across devices, and you can stake anywhere from 10 p/c to $/€100 per spin.

Somewhat atypical for a Hacksaw Gaming slot, Frank’s Farm uses scatter pays, awarding wins when at least 8 matching symbols appear anywhere on the 6×6 game grid. The best scatter wins come from 15+ symbols, paying 15 to 25 times the bet for the 10-A card royals, or 37.5 to 75 times the bet for bees, fish, chickens, pigs, or cow symbols. At the lower end, 8-symbol scatter wins return 0.1 to 1 times the bet. When a win hits, the winning symbols are removed from the reels and new ones drop in from above. These tumble wins keep chaining until no further win lands. Finally, Frank hasn’t cultivated any wilds for the farm—perhaps that’s something for next season?

Frank’s Farm: Slot Features

The base game in Frank’s Farm gets an extra boost from Market Multiplier symbols, and there are two bonus rounds that can be activated. Additionally, where offered, players have three different approaches available via the bonus buy menu.

Market Multipliers

Market Multipliers are, true to their name, multipliers that increase all wins while they’re present on the reels. If multiple Market Multipliers land at once, their values are multiplied together before being applied to any win. Market Multiplier values can be x2, x3, x4, x5, x6, x7, x8, x9, or x10.

Order Rush Bous Game

Hitting 3 FS symbols in the base game activates 10 free spins in the Order Rush bonus game. Every FS symbol that lands during the feature grants one extra free spin. In Order Rush, players receive orders to complete. These orders are displayed next to the reels and include 1 to 3 symbol types. Each symbol type requirement ranges from 10 to 24 symbols, and whenever an order is completed, the difficulty of the next order increases and the minimum value of Market Multipliers increases by +1. When a needed symbol type appears on the reels, it is collected toward the order—it doesn’t need to be part of a winning combination.

Diner Dash Bonus Game

Landing 4 FS symbols in the base game triggers the Diner Dash bonus game with 10 free spins. Just like before, each FS symbol landing during the feature adds an extra free spin. In this mode, a special Diner symbol is introduced. When a Diner symbol lands, it remains sticky for the entire feature. The Diner symbol progressively collects the value of any wins that occur, and its total is awarded at the end of each spin.

Bonus Buy

Where bonus purchases are allowed, Frank’s Farm offers three choices, and all are medium volatile:

• Bonushunt Featurespins – 2x the bet where each spin is three times more likely to trigger the bonus feature. Maximum RTP is 96.28%.
• Order Rush – costs 100x the bet, max RTP is 96.39%.
• Diner Dash – costs 200x the bet, max RTP is 96.34%.

Frank’s Farm: Slot Verdict

Scatter pays sit at the heart of Frank’s Farm, and the studio makes strong use of the mechanic. Much like other developers have done before—most notably Pragmatic Play—Hacksaw Gaming combines it with a multiplier feature. And, similar to Pragmatic Play scatter-pay titles such as Gates of Olympus, the multipliers here can climb to impressive levels. In practice, you’ll generally need more than one Market Multiplier on screen so they can multiply each other, because individually they aren’t huge, topping out at x10. Even so, a single Market Multiplier can still make a real difference when it connects with a tasty cluster win.

Regarding the bonus rounds, Order Rush was the more entertaining of the two in our testing. Completing a few orders wasn’t overly difficult, and doing so steadily raised the minimum Market Multiplier value along the way. It’s also worth repeating that orders are completed when the required symbol simply appears; the feature doesn’t only count winning symbols. Our main gripe with the Diner Dash bonus game was that the Diner symbol felt frustratingly rare. It didn’t show up for us until around the fifth or sixth bonus round. Still, the mechanic where each Diner on screen re-awards its built-up value every spin was enjoyable, and it’s easy to imagine how lively it could get if Diners were spitting out big totals each round.

Frank’s Farm isn’t among Hacksaw Gaming’s largest-paying releases, with a top payout of 5,000x the bet. Paired with the medium volatility and the cute presentation, it’s likely to appeal to a different crowd than Wanted Dead or a Wild, Hand of Anubis, or Chaos Crew. In other words, it won’t suit everyone—but for the right players, Frank’s Farm’s charm should deliver exactly what’s been ordered.