Built by the Lodge · Live on Stake
Paws & Claws
Cats versus dogs, settled in the ring. Clashing wilds, a tiered bonus wheel, and a global multiplier that climbs every time the dog wins.
- RTP
- 96.50%
- Max win
- 10,000×
- Volatility
- High
- Grid
- 5×4
- Paylines
- 20 fixed
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Outside the US, the same game is on Stake.com. Stake.com doesn't serve the US and isn't available in every country either, so check it's allowed where you live. That link carries no referral code.
Heads up: we built this one, so we're biased. We earn when you play it, and our Stake.us link carries our referral code. Play it for fun, set a budget first, and stop while it's still fun. Full disclosure.
See it play
The idea
Paws & Claws was the first game we shipped, and it's built to be read at a glance. A muscle bulldog and a crowned, monocled tomcat split the yard between them. Their wilds land on the reels and, when both show up, they fight about it.
It's a 5×4 slot on 20 fixed paylines paying left to right, with five high-pay and three low-pay symbols. Five of a kind tops out at 10× on a line — the real money is in the features.
The Battle feature
When a Cat Wild and a Dog Wild both land, they clash, and there are three outcomes:
- Cat wins — places a sticky, expanding Wild that stays put and grows.
- Dog wins — raises the Global Multiplier.
- Truce — grants +3 spins and a reel upgrade during the bonus.
There's also a Paw Meter under the reels — a cat-versus-dog tension bar that nudges toward whichever side just landed a wild and swings hard when a battle resolves. Worth being straight about what that is: it's a presentation layer. It reflects events that already happened and has no effect whatsoever on the maths, the RTP, or your outcomes. It's there because the rivalry deserved a scoreboard, not because it does anything.
The wheel, and the multiplier that grows
Three, four or five Scatters trigger a bonus wheel at Standard, Enhanced or Maximum tier — a bigger trigger means a better wheel. The wheel then awards both your spin count and a starting Global Multiplier.
That Global Multiplier applies to every free-spin win, and it climbs each time the Dog wins a Battle during the feature. So the run you want is a dog on a hot streak: each victory raises the multiplier applied to everything that follows.
Land 3+ Scatters during Free Spins and you retrigger for +5 spins.
Why we built it
Paws & Claws was our first game, and we wanted it to make sense at a glance. Cats versus dogs, clashing wilds, and a global multiplier that climbs every time the dog wins the fight, so the board tells you how the round is going without you ever opening a paytable.
Every way to play it
Pick your ride: play it from the base game, or jump straight to the good part. Every mode runs the same 96.50% RTP, so it's purely about how you like to play.
| Mode | Cost | RTP | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base | 1× | 96.50% | Standard play across 20 fixed lines |
| Enhanced Spins | 2× | 96.50% | Boosted base-game action: more Wild landings and battles |
| Super Enhanced | 5× | 96.50% | The highest base-game Wild and battle rates |
| Bonus | 100× | 96.50% | Straight into Free Spins at the Standard wheel tier |
| Super Bonus | 300× | 96.50% | Free Spins at the Enhanced wheel tier, with higher starting multipliers and more spins |
| Mega Bonus | 500× | 96.50% | Free Spins at the Maximum wheel tier |
Where to play it
Paws & Claws is live on Stake.us in the US and on Stake.com outside it, exclusive to Stake, and built on Stake Engine — Stake's platform for independent studios. On Stake.us it also earns Stake's 2× VIP points multiplier, a nice bonus if you're climbing a VIP tier.
New to Stake? Our signup guide takes two minutes and covers which states Stake.us is open in. Stake.com isn't available in every country, so check it's allowed where you live.
Questions people actually ask
What is the Paws & Claws RTP?
96.50% in every one of its six bet modes. The bonus tiers change the ride, not the RTP.
What is the max win on Paws & Claws?
10,000× your bet — the most common ceiling in our fleet, shared by five of our twelve live games. Pip's Piñata Plaza is lower at 5,000×; Nebula Raiders reaches 25,000×.
How does the Battle feature work?
When a Cat Wild and a Dog Wild land together they clash. A cat win places a sticky expanding Wild, a dog win raises the Global Multiplier, and a truce grants three extra spins plus a reel upgrade during the bonus.
What does the Paw Meter do?
Nothing to the maths. It's a presentation-only tension bar that reflects wild landings and battle outcomes after they happen. It cannot and does not affect RTP, odds or results.
How do you trigger free spins in Paws & Claws?
Land three, four or five Scatters to spin a bonus wheel at Standard, Enhanced or Maximum tier respectively. The wheel awards your spin count and a starting Global Multiplier, and three or more Scatters during the feature retriggers it for five more spins.