Introduction to Peek & Pounce
Peek & Pounce is a casino slot from NowNow Gaming that puts you in the middle of a very serious hide-and-seek game between cats and mice. Here you will be joining the famous Señor Pounce, the respectable cat of the house, and his job is to hunt down Pip and his band of mischievous mice. Taking that theme and transforming it into gameplay, you get Peek & Pounce, where as you spin, mice will pop up above the reels, and if Señor Pounce, acting as a Wild Symbol, catches them, he will expand over the reel and create a winning combination with a random Multiplier that ranges from 2X to 500X. The game mostly boils down to this one feature, and it remains rather much the same in the Catch The Cheese Free Spins feature, however, this time with a Multiplier Meter. By reading those two sentences, it’s quite clear that this game is rather simple, being centered around Expanding Multiplier Wild Symbols, however, we think that NowNow Gaming has delivered on quite a nice balance between a casual and cozy theme, with a straightforward gameplay loop that’s quite fun to relax with when you’re chasing the max win of 10,000X the bet.
Join Señor Pounce on his quest to defend the cheese from the never-ending waves of mice and Expanding Multiplier Wild Symbols.
Theme, Gameplay & Payouts
Peek & Pounce is a video slot from NowNow Gaming with 5 Reels, 4 Rows, and 20 Paylines. You can choose between making a Min.bet of 0.1 and a Max.bet of 100. Peek & Pounce comes with a slightly higher-than-average RTP of 96.32% and medium volatility, where wins can feel rather steady with the occasional big hit, and you might even see the max win of 10,000X the bet.
Set inside a cozy dwelling, here you’ll meet Señor Pounce, who is a bit of a Puss-in-Boots lookalike, as he does his diligent duty of protecting the house. As you spin, the mice will pop up above the reels with some cute squeaks, and Señor Pounce is just waiting to catch them. You can play the game on most notepads, mobiles, and desktops.
The lower-paying symbols are J, Q, K, and A. Creating a win with 5 of the same symbols will pay out 1X to 1.5X the bet. The higher-paying symbols are a ball of string, bones of a fish, a bowl of milk, and some cheese. Landing a win with 5 of the same symbols pays out 5X to 15X the bet. The Special Symbols are the classic Scatter and Wild Symbols, with the latter having its own paytable of 50X when you land 5 of the same symbols.
Special Features & Mechanics
What is the max win in the slot Peek & Pounce?
You can win up to 10,000X the bet.
What features are available in the slot Peek & Pounce?
The features are Wild Symbols, Wild Chase, Catch The Cheese Bonus, and Feature Buy.
Wild Symbols
Wild Symbols help form winning combinations by being able to substitute for all symbols except Scatter Symbols.
Wild Chase
During each spin, between 2 and 5 mice will show up from the holes above the playing grid. If the Señor Pounce Wild Symbol lands on a reel where a mouse is visible above, the Wild Chase begins, and the Wild Symbol will expand upwards to the top of the reel and award a random Multiplier ranging from 2X to 500X. If there are multiple catches during the same spin, all awarded Multipliers are added together before being applied to the total win for that spin.
Catch The Cheese Bonus
By landing 3, 4, or 5 Scatter Symbols, you will be awarded with 10, 15, or 20 free spins. During the bonus game, the Wild Chase bonus can be triggered even on spins that aren’t wins, and whenever it does trigger, the awarded Multiplier is added to a Multiplier Meter, which is active throughout the entire bonus game. At the end of each spin, the Multiplier Meter will be applied to the total win for that spin.
Feature Buy
The Feature Buy helps you trigger various bonuses for a price based on the current bet.
2X = Activates the BonusHunt FeatureSpins, making each spin 3 times more likely to trigger the bonus game.
50X = Activates the Wild Chase FeatureSpins, guaranteeing at least one Wild Chase bonus to be triggered on the next spin.
100X = Triggers the Catch The Cheese Bonus Game with 10, 15, or 20 spins.
Final Thoughts on Peek & Pounce
NowNow Gaming is a relatively new studio that launched in 2024 and is partnered with none other than Hacksaw Gaming. The studio has dabbled in various themes and mechanics, bringing a breath of fresh air, even though their games aren’t anything mindblowing or top-of-the-shelf. This time around, NowNow Gaming went with a quite different graphics style, which complements the game well, helping it stand out more than some of the studio’s other releases, such as 3 Arcane Cauldrons and Farmhouse. Peek & Pounce is a simple game with a silly theme as a cat in clothes trying to catch mice, and the conversion of that theme into gameplay just works, even if some may deem it a bit too light on features. While we don’t necessarily disagree, we think it hits a nice spot thanks to how its mechanics work, but more on that in the gameplay section, which we can move over to right now.
Starting with the stats, we have a slightly higher-than-average RTP of 96.32% and a solid max win of 10,000X the bet. As the game is centered around winning combinations with Wilds, the paytable is pretty good, although it’s definitely not something you can rely on to hit the big payouts. Then we come to the features, and Expanding Multiplier Wild Symbols are definitely not something new, but the little minigame of catching mice in the Wild Chase bonus is a fun, theme-friendly way to do it. On top of this, we think it has been handled rather well, and we can’t dismiss the efficiency of having a chance to land a 500X Multiplier on any winning combination. The Catch The Cheese bonus game is your typical Free Spins bonus game that doesn’t bring much to the table outside of a Collective Multiplier Meter that only grows larger the more Wild Multipliers you hit. We enjoy the Wild Chase bonus and think that, while effective and can be fun, the Free Spins feature falls a bit flat, as it does not bring anything else to the table beyond Persistent Multipliers. There’s no denying that the game has charm, and we had a fun time playing it, but we also want to mention that there isn’t really that much else to the game outside of its two features, which isn’t necessarily bad, as there are players who prefer these types of games. If you feel like your interest has been piqued, or you’re just a big fan of cats, then be sure to give the Peek & Pounce demo a spin beforehand.
Peek & Pounce is a slot where catching mice awards Expanding Multiplier Wild Symbols with Multipliers up to 500X in a cozy and chill setting.
