Keep'em Demo & review

Every Cash prize in Keep'em waits on the grid for a GET'EM symbol, and each extra GET'EM on the same spin collects the whole lot again. Hacksaw Gaming's 6x5 ways game brings back Canny the Can and Bob the Bird, adds two locking reels in the middle and hides a third bonus behind five scatters. It suits players who like collect features and do not mind buying their way to them.

The base grid before our first spin, with the two KEEP'EM reels framed in the middle. FluxPlays demo test, 2 November 2026.

How Keep'em works

Wins pay as ways: 3 to 6 of a kind across six reels of five rows, 15,625 ways in all. Those wins are small by design. Six of the top symbol pay $2.00 a way at a $1 bet, so the money in this game sits in the Cash symbols instead.

How the features connect:

1. Cash symbols land showing a value from 1x up to 1000x the bet.
2. A GET'EM that lands with at least one Cash symbol collects every Cash on the grid. Each extra GET'EM collects them all again.
3. A GET'EM or Cash landing on reels 3 or 4, the KEEP'EM reels, starts 3 re-spins with those symbols locked in place.
4. FS scatters choose the bonus: three, four or five of them open three different rounds.

GET'EM carries the game. The KEEP'EM reels multiply how often it fires, and the bonuses are the same collect idea with better odds or sticky cash.

How GET'EM and the KEEP'EM reels work

A GET'EM needs company to do anything. With no Cash on the grid it collects nothing, but with Cash present it takes every value at once, and a second or third GET'EM on the same spin takes them again. The collected values build a running total that is multiplied by the bet when the round ends.

The KEEP'EM reels are where that compounds. When a GET'EM or Cash lands on reel 3 or 4, those reels activate and a Heart Counter gives 3 re-spins. The triggering symbol and any new GET'EM or Cash stay locked until the last re-spin, and the locked symbols activate on every re-spin. A Heart landing refills the counter. So a locked GET'EM keeps collecting whatever Cash arrives, spin after spin, which is the part we would play this game for.

KEEP'EM re-spins on a Cantastic FeatureSpin: GET'EM symbols locked on reels 3 and 4, with 131x on the counter mid-feature. FluxPlays demo test, 2 November 2026.

How the bonuses trigger

The scatter count decides the round, and the rounds climb in order.

Keep'em Comin' (3 FS scatters)

Ten free spins with GET'EM, FS and Cash symbols all landing more often. Three more scatters inside the round add 4 spins, and four add 6. Nothing sticks between spins here, so each spin needs its own GET'EM and Cash to meet.

Keep Your Friends Close (4 FS scatters)

Ten free spins where Cash prizes stay on the grid until a GET'EM collects them. A full row or a full reel of Cash collects on its own, without a GET'EM. This is the round that builds, because every Cash that lands is still there for the next GET'EM.

Keep Your Friends Close after GET'EM symbols cleared the grid: 264x on the counter, six free spins left. FluxPlays demo test, 2 November 2026.

Keep Your Canny Closer! (5 FS scatters)

The Hidden Epic Bonus plays like Keep Your Friends Close, with sticky Cash, but adds 3 Cash prizes and 1 GET'EM to every spin. It cannot be bought, so five scatters on one spin are the only way in.

Bonus buy and FeatureSpins: prices and what you get

The Bonus Buy panel holds four options. The two FeatureSpins modes charge their price on each spin while they stay active, and the two bonus buys start one round.

The Bonus Buy panel in our session, each card labelled High volatility. FluxPlays demo test, 2 November 2026.

RTP, volatility and max win

The base game returns 96.27% by the rules, calculated over ten billion simulated rounds, and the four paid options sit a fraction higher. Hacksaw's intro meter shows 3 out of 5, the middle of its scale, so Medium is the label here, even though every buy card says High. The cap, 10,000x the bet, holds in every mode. By the rules, the way there is collection repeated: large Cash values on the grid and several GET'EM symbols taking them more than once, most likely in a sticky-cash round.

The intro screen with the volatility meter at 3 of 5 and the Hidden Epic Bonus badge. FluxPlays demo test, 2 November 2026.

Our Keep'em demo test

Two natural Keep'em Comin' rounds made the base game. Only 13 of our base spins paid, and outside the bonuses nothing beat $5.00. The second bonus, on spin 77, shows how the KEEP'EM reels change a round. It sat near $83 until a late re-spin collect added $92.50, and a retrigger stretched it to 14 spins.

The natural Keep'em Comin' on spin 77 closed at $178.50 after 14 free spins. FluxPlays demo test, 2 November 2026.

The FeatureSpins behaved the way their cards describe. Cantastic paid on every one of its ten spins thanks to the guaranteed GET'EM and Cash, and its eighth spin locked three GET'EM symbols on the KEEP'EM reels for a $139.00 return on a $40 stake. BonusHunt did not start a bonus in its ten spins. Keep Your Canny Closer! needs five scatters at once, and it stayed out of reach in our session. A run this short says how the game moves, not what it returns over time.

Is Keep'em worth playing?

For collect fans, yes. For players who want regular ways wins, no. The appeal is that one GET'EM can collect the same cash more than once, and that the KEEP'EM reels and Keep Your Friends Close both keep money on the grid for the next collect. Between those moments the ways wins are worth very little.

Pick Le Bandit if you want cluster wins that leave Golden Squares for a Rainbow to cash, at Medium volatility with buys and FeatureSpins of its own. Choose Keep'em for the sight of a GET'EM sweeping the grid and locking in place on the middle reels.

In the demo, run a few Cantastic FeatureSpins first. Every spin guarantees a GET'EM and a Cash, so it is the quickest way to see the collect, and with luck the KEEP'EM re-spins, without waiting on scatters.