Get the Cheese: Slot Overview

People often say peanut butter is the best bait if you’re trying to catch a mouse. Maybe cartoons are to blame for the long-running idea that cheese is the go-to trap snack? It does make you think how much “common knowledge” comes from animated shows, children’s stories, and childhood assumptions. Either way, cheese is the star in Hacksaw Gaming’s online slot Get the Cheese, where cartoon critters eye up treats and players pursue big win potential through super cascades, Jumping Wild Multipliers, three bonus rounds, and more.

Get the Cheese is another Hacksaw Gaming buddy slot, with two cute companions along for the ride as players try to score some cheese. On the right sits a stressed-out mouse; on the left is a blue bird that resembles Larry the Bird, Twitter’s former mascot. That bird arguably had more personality than the current big black X, though Elon Musk clearly likes the letter—he even named a son he had with Grimes in 2020, X Æ A-12 Musk. Back to the game: Get the Cheese is a cluster pays slot, set largely outdoors by a food shelf, with music that flips between French cafe vibes and Italian pizza place melodies.

In Get the Cheese, thirty symbols drop into a 6×5 gaming grid, and wins land when at least 5 identical pay symbols connect horizontally or vertically (up, down, left, or right) to form a cluster. In general, it’s a medium 3/5 volatile slot, although volatility can vary if you purchase bonus features. RTP can change too, and the top available figure on base game spins—when staking 10 c to $/€100—is 96.13%.

Get the Cheese creates winning clusters using 10 different pay symbols: buttons, pegs, bells, marbles, hearts, crackers, pretzels, apple slices, chopped salami, and cheese symbols. A 5-symbol cluster pays 0.2x to 1.2x, climbing to 20x to 500x for a 16+ cluster. Jumping Wild Multipliers enter the picture shortly; among other things, they can substitute for all standard pay symbols.

The Super Cascade feature has been showing up more frequently lately. It works like a typical cascade mechanic by removing and replacing winning pay symbols, but with an extra twist: it also clears all instances of the winning symbol type from the reels before new symbols fall in. Super cascades continue as long as fresh wins keep appearing.

Get the Cheese: Slot Features

To give players a better shot at grabbing some cheese, the game includes super cascades, cheese symbols, Jumping Wild Multipliers, 3 bonus rounds, and bonus buys.

Cheese Symbol

If a cheese symbol appears within a winning cluster, then every symbol apart from FS scatters and wild multipliers is removed from the reels, and new symbols drop down to refill the empty spaces.

Jumping Wild Multipliers

Jumping Wild Multipliers jump to a new position after a cascade, opening up another opportunity to win. There are two types of Jumping Wild Multipliers. The regular Jumping Wild Multiplier begins with a multiplier of x1, which increases by +1 every time it jumps. The Epic Jumping Wild Multiplier starts at a multiplier of x10, which increases by+ 10 with each jump. You can have up to 4 Jumping Wild Multipliers visible on the screen simultaneously.

Free Spins

• Fromage Frenzy Bonus – Landing 3 FS scatters in the base game triggers 8 free spins. The Fromage Frenzy Bonus begins with 2 persistent Jumping Wild Multipliers of either type. Multiplier values reset at the start of each spin. This bonus includes a Cheese Meter above the grid that collects cheese symbols as they’re removed from the reels. Once the meter fills, players advance to the Take It Cheesy feature and receive +5 free spins. During the bonus, landing 3+ scatter symbols awards 5 extra free spins.
• Take It Cheesy Bonus – Hitting 4 scatters in the base game awards 10 free spins. The rules match the Fromage Frenzy Bonus (including the ability to upgrade the bonus through cheese symbol collection), but it starts with 3 persistent Jumping Wild Multipliers.
• Life’s So Gouda – Landing 5 or 6 scatters in the base game awards 25x or 100x, respectively, as well as 12 free spins. This feature starts with 4 Jumping Wild Multipliers, and at least 1 is guaranteed to be the Epic Jumping Wild Multiplier. Wild multiplier values do not reset between free spins in this bonus. Landing 3+ scatter symbols awards +5 extra free spins.

Bonus Buys

Get the Cheese offers the following bonus buy options:

• BonusHunt FeatureSpins – each spin is 5 times more likely to trigger a bonus game. The cost is 3x the bet.
• Wild Mouse FeatureSpins – each spin guarantees a win and that at least 2 Jumping Wild Multiplier symbols land. The cost is 50x the bet.
• Fromage Frenzy Bonus – 50x the bet.
• Take It Cheesy -100x the bet.

Get the Cheese: Slot Verdict

One takeaway from Get the Cheese is that it feels like a distant cousin of Eye of the Panda and an even more distant relative of Xpander—two Hacksaw Gaming slots that also use jumping feature symbols. It’s also difficult to ignore the potential influence of Jammin’ Jars on how Get the Cheese came to be. In theory, the game becomes significantly more appealing the higher you climb through the bonus ladder. A nice touch is that bonus rounds can be upgraded mid-feature into a higher tier if the cheese symbol collection is progressing well. That said, for this review at least, landing winning cheese symbols consistently proved challenging. It wasn’t easy.

Still, it’s doable in principle, and the end goal is Life’s so Gouda, where persistent multiplier values could make all the difference. So much so, in fact, that the top bonus round can’t be bought—similar to what happened in Le Bandit—so you’ll be hoping for a big scatter drop in the base game or for the cheese symbol wins to come through. Even if you don’t manage to squeak into the top feature, it helps to know the 10,000x max win is achievable in any game mode, not only the Gouda one.

The unusual theme execution here—whether that’s a positive or not—kept Get the Cheese from ranking among the very best Hacksaw Gaming slots, but the underlying mechanics are at least worth checking out. There’s a satisfying mix of cluster pays and Jumping Wild Multipliers, topped off with an enticing upgradeable bonus structure that should have Hacksaw Gaming fans either drooling or despairing, depending on how it plays out. Get the Cheese can get the bodily fluids flowing either way.