Rooster Run 2 is Mascot Gaming’s candy remake of Rooster Run, a crash-game demo that sends a cartoon rooster across a river of melted chocolate, hopping biscuit to biscuit while a lollipop above each one shows the multiplier waiting there. One slip sends the rooster into the chocolate and takes your bet with it. This demo plays for free, takes seconds to understand, and works as a sweet new skin over a very simple nerve game.
Place a stake and the BET button splits into two choices: CASH OUT and NEXT STEP.
Cash out, and your stake is multiplied by the number the rooster has landed on, with the total added to your balance.
Press Next Step, and the rooster hops to the next biscuit, where the multiplier is higher, but so is the amount you now stand to lose.
Every hop puts that growing sum on the line, because the rooster can fall on landing, sink into the chocolate, and leave the round with nothing banked. Reach the glowing candy gate on the far side, and the level’s full multiplier is yours.
A Risk button under your stake amount sets the level, and this is where the run changes character.
The rooster and the chocolate stay put, but the level sets the whole tempo, a gentle stroll on Low or a short sprint at a fortune on High.
One feature the earlier game never had is a bonus you can buy, and it’s unusual. Instead of chancing each hop yourself, you pay 50x your stake up front for any tier, and the game plays a set of automatic rounds that stop one biscuit before the rooster would fall, so each locks in a guaranteed multiplier.
Three tiers match the levels,
The totals stack up and land at the finish. It takes the danger out completely, which is the whole appeal, though, as our session found, it does not promise the win will be big.
Autoplay returns from the first game and handles the tapping for you. Set the target multiplier you want the rooster to reach, choose how many rounds to play, and add stop rules that pause the action once your balance rises or falls by a set amount.
There are two autoplay styles: one moves biscuit by biscuit and pauses on each step, while the other jumps straight for the target and risks missing along the way. A Fast Mode toggle also speeds up the animations for players who want each run wrapped up quickly.
Two more carried-over extras sit around the edges. A rank ladder runs from Novice to Legend and fills as you play, and each rank up brings new avatars and looks. The customisation menu lets you re-dress the rooster, and the candy remake gives it far more character than the plain white bird of before, from a flower crown to a cookie outfit. None of it touches the odds or the payouts, and it only alters how you appear in the bets table and the rankings.
There are no reels or paylines to read, only one call made over and over, cash or push on. Set your stake with the plus and minus, or the halve and double buttons beside them, then press BET, which cannot be cancelled once you commit.
From there the two buttons do the work. CASH OUT returns your stake times the current multiplier. NEXT STEP moves the rooster forward for a higher one, with a larger sum on the line.
Land on the final biscuit and the gate hands over that level’s top prize in full. Autoplay can hold a chosen level and play a batch of rounds by itself if you would sooner watch than tap.
There is no symbol paytable in a game like this. What decides the shape of each run is the level you choose, since that fixes both the number of biscuits and the biggest multiplier you are heading for.
| Level | Biscuits to the gate | Top multiplier |
|---|---|---|
| Low | 30 | x21.49 |
| Medium | 25 | x2287.23 |
| High | 21 | x10000 |
Figures are multiples of the stake you set. The demo runs on free play credits, and the game is rated High for volatility.
Strip off the chocolate and this is the game it reskins, step for step. The same 3 levels, the identical biscuit counts, the ceilings up to x10000, all unchanged. The real difference is the look, a proper upgrade, and one bonus you can buy that guarantees a win but rarely a big one. The sweet-shop world is charming and the cash or hop call still has a pull. That is also all there is, and once the novelty of the chocolate fades a sitting wears fast. A lovely coat on a one-trick gamble.
We spent our demo runs moving between the levels. On Medium, the rooster banked a clean x4.51 before we pushed our luck. On a Low run we walked it to a x9.13 with the gate almost in reach, went for one more biscuit, and watched it drop into the chocolate. Then we put £50 on the Easy bonus to see the safe way round, and across its nine rounds, one of them all the way to the x21.49 top, it came back £51.71.
The strange part of the bought bonus is what it removes. Pay for it and the fall is ruled out, which sounds like the point, but the fall is what gives the manual game its edge. Hand the choice to the machine and you sit watching numbers stack up on their own, safe and a little flat. The base game, for all that there is only one of it, is the livelier way to spend a few minutes.
A few runs through it for this review and the appeal is clear enough. The candy is lovely, the rooster hard not to like, and the nerve of it still lands in short bursts. For a quick bit of arcade fun, it does that job well.
