Thunderkick has delivered some very encouraging titles lately, including Flame Busters and Pink Elephants. Pink Elephants even picked up a nomination for the 2017 Best Slots Award.

This game doesn’t quite reach the same ceiling as those last few releases, though it’s understandable they’d switch things up with a lower-variance approach. The max win in Not Enough Kittens is 3650x, which is respectable, but still not even half of what Pink Elephants can potentially pay.

Not Enough Kittens is a video slot featuring 5 reels and 35 fixed pay lines. It includes double symbols plus a bonus round with free spins and retriggers. The theoretical return to a player is 96.1%.

When we tested it for this review, it came across more like a medium volatile slot, with very small base-game hits. If anything, a 28x “Big Meow” celebration says it all.

Visually, it’s a stunning slot—possibly one of the best-looking we’ve seen in quite some time. The soundtrack is also excellent, especially as you enter the bonus! That said, it can be a little tricky to keep track of which cat matches which symbol, since several of them look pretty similar.

As shown in the image above, the cats can appear in pairs, which doubles the payout. Landing 10 black cats—the top-paying symbol—awards a 100x win.A single cat symbol will double in a pay line that includes a wild symbol. Wilds can also land as pairs, and it’s possible to hit 10 wilds for a 100x win.

The wild symbol replaces any other symbol except the scatter symbol. During the Bonus game, all wilds are stacked. Any wild that forms part of a pay line with a cat symbol is always treated as a double wild symbol.

Land 3 or more scatters to activate the Bonus game with free spins. How many free spins you receive depends on the number of scatters. There are two types of scatter symbols: a single scatter symbol and a double scatter symbol. You can land up to 6 scatter symbol (double scatters on reel 1, 3 and 5), which will reward you with 25 free spins.

Conclusion

It’s fairly easy to set off the bonus rounds, but the trade-off is that you don’t often hit anything truly worthwhile. Our largest win during testing was roughly 60x. The slot is definitely charming, but after such a rough session we eventually stopped finding it funny. We think most players will give it a spin out of curiosity, then move on once the low payouts start to feel repetitive.