3 Cursed Chests Slot Review

What is 3 Cursed Chests?

3 Cursed Chests is Hacksaw Gaming’s 5-reel, 17-payline pirate slot structured around three bonus paths: a cursed chest scatter that awards either wild spins, coin prizes, or free spins, tracked by colour-coded indicators above the reels. It sits in the medium-volatility tier, sharing aesthetic DNA with Chaos Crew while operating well below the high-vol ceiling of Wanted Dead or a Wild. The comic-book aesthetic commits fully to the theme, with a scroll-shaped reel frame and a Caribbean bay setting that earns its place rather than just sitting behind the grid.

How does 3 Cursed Chests play?

3 Cursed Chests plays on 17 fixed paylines with medium volatility, a 96.3% RTP, and a 2,500x max-win ceiling. The core structure is a three-path bonus triggered by the cursed chest scatter, with each bonus type tracked by a separate above-reel indicator. The colour-coded chest system is readable enough to follow mid-spin, and the split between wild spins, coin prizes, and free spins gives the bonus surface real variety for a slot in this tier.

The math model concentrates return into the feature rather than the base game, which is standard for a mechanic of this type. The 2,500x ceiling is where the model runs into trouble. Medium volatility asks for patience between meaningful pays, and 2,500x is a top end that doesn’t absorb that patience particularly well. The base game symbol set is heavy on gem royals, several of which share enough visual silhouette that reading a payline at pace takes an extra beat.

What stood out?

The above-reel chest indicator system is 3 Cursed Chests’ clearest structural success, colour-coded across three bonus destinations and readable mid-spin. Three distinct outcomes give the base game a purpose that generic scatter counts rarely manage.

The trade-off is the ceiling. A 2,500x max win is notably compressed for a Hacksaw slot with a bonus-menu-led structure, and the medium volatility framing doesn’t stretch to cover the gap between what an active feature system implies and what the paytable can actually return. Even within Hacksaw’s mid-tier catalogue, 2,500x is a modest ask, and it sits at the lower end of the rolling UK slot release index we keep on the homepage. The gem-heavy lower symbol set does little to carry the visual identity between bonus triggers, leaving the mascot and the premium cannon symbol to do most of the atmospheric work.

Should you play?

Maybe, if a structured bonus menu and a clean mechanic loop matter more to you than headroom at the top. The three-path bonus system is intuitive and the comic-book pirate presentation is better than its genre tends to manage. The math reality is medium volatility with a 96.3% RTP above the category average, paired with a 2,500x ceiling that keeps the upside modest. For a Hacksaw entry, that’s a more cautious proposition than their best work.

Score: 6.7 / 10