3 Cursed Chests Slot

3 Cursed Chests runs on a 5x3 grid with 17 paylines and sits at medium volatility. That alone makes it unusual for Hacksaw. Most of their catalogue punches at high or very high, so seeing a medium-vol release with a 2,500x cap felt odd going in. I played around 350 spins at €0.50 and the base game moved fast. Wins came more often than I'm used to from this studio, but they were small. Lots of 3x to 8x returns scattered across short intervals.

Three colored pot symbols sit on the reels: green, red, and blue. Each one feeds into a matching chest parked outside the grid. Fill a chest and it cracks open into a bonus feature. Green triggers Cursed Wilds Respin, red launches Cursed Coins (a Hold and Win round), and blue starts Cursed FS Respins that can escalate into two different free spin modes. I didn't fill a single chest naturally during my 350 spins. Came close with the red chest twice but the third pot never showed up.

Three Chests, Three Completely Different Bonuses

Green chest is the simplest. You get respins where only regular symbols, wilds, and wild multipliers appear. Multipliers stack additively, which sounds good on paper. In practice the respin window is short and the multipliers I saw stayed around 2x or 3x. Nothing explosive.

Red chest runs a Hold and Win loop with three lives. Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Diamond coins land on the grid and stick. Every new coin resets your counter. I bought this one for 40x and it returned 62x. Fine. Not exciting. The Diamond coin never appeared.

Blue chest is where the game actually tries to do something interesting. It triggers FS Respins where only Dead and FS symbols appear. Collect enough FS symbols and you enter either Treasure Cove or the upgraded Ghostly Gallows. Treasure Cove keeps base game mechanics but guarantees a chest activation whenever you land a third matching pot. Ghostly Gallows goes further and makes every pot symbol instantly activate its chest. I bought the Ghostly Gallows entry at 200x my bet. It gave me 187x back. Close to break-even. The instant chest activations fired off, but the individual chest payouts weren't big enough to push the total into serious profit territory.

Bonus Buy Options

Four tiers. 3x gets you FeatureSpins with better odds for blue pot scatters. 40x guarantees pot symbols and at least one chest activation. 90x drops you straight into Treasure Cove. 200x buys Ghostly Gallows. I tried the 40x and the 200x. Both returned less than their cost. Maybe I ran cold. Maybe 2,500x max win just doesn't leave enough headroom for the premium buys to feel worthwhile.

96.30% RTP is standard. Bet range stretches from €0.05 to €400, which is a wide corridor. Pirate theme looks decent. Wooden ship interior, candle-lit chests, gold coins scattered around. Audio has the typical sea shanty undertones. Nothing that stood out, nothing that bothered me.

Who Is This For

Players who want a Hacksaw game without the Hacksaw punishment. Medium volatility and a 2,500x ceiling mean your balance doesn't vanish in 50 spins like it does on Wanted Dead or a Wild or Chaos Crew. You get more frequent small wins, more chest-filling opportunities over time, and a calmer session overall. But that calm comes at a cost. When the bonuses hit, they feel modest. I never got a payout that made me sit up straight. Everything landed in the 40x to 190x range and nothing hinted at 2,500x being reachable without an extremely specific chain of events inside Ghostly Gallows.

I'd play it again on a day when I don't want my bankroll destroyed. It works as a low-pressure grind. Just don't expect Hacksaw-level fireworks from the bonus rounds.