Chicken.gg Review

Introduction

As far as CS2 gambling websites go, Chicken.gg is a relatively new website. Obviously, that raises some questions. How does the website feel to play on? Can you trust its systems to work properly? How fun is it? Can you play on Chicken.gg as a free-to-play player? We try to answer all of these questions in our full Chicken.gg review.

Play Responsibly

Chicken.gg is an online casino where you gamble with skins or deposits that represent real money. Always treat these websites as a game or as a means of relaxation, never as an investment or as a way to make money. Only play with money that you are prepared to lose; never play with money that you cannot afford to lose.

These types of websites would not be operating if they did not turn a profit, which is where the saying ‘the house always wins’ comes from. You can always get lucky and win big, but in the long run the odds are stacked against you in casinos, whether those are online or in real life. There is no way to game the system or guarantee that you will always win. Do not believe anyone who says otherwise.

If you or someone you know has problems with gambling, visit gambleaware.org. Always follow your country’s laws regarding gambling, and never play if you’re underage.

Chicken.gg is a relatively new website but it has proven (in our testing) to be reliable and working as it should.

Pros

Easy to understand and use
Lots of cases and games to choose from
You get lots of free stuff as a paying player
Active community, with staff members in the chat most times
Has blackjack, which is more fun than most casino-style games

Cons

Leveling process takes a long time compared to other sites
Comparatively small community compared to more established websites
Not all games are clearly explained, so there can be a bit of a learning curve
There seems to be a focus on high rollers, which is great for people with lots to spend, but not so great for more casual players

Info

Available Games: Case Battles, Case Openings, Double, Dice, Limbo, Blackjack, Mines

Special Features: Free Cases (once leveled), five free cases for new players, special events, rain feature

Deposit Methods: Crypto, CS2 Skins, Visa/Mastercard, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Swapped, Kinguin, Pulse

Withdrawal Methods: Crypto, CS2 Skins

Games on Chicken.gg

Battles

As with many CS2 gambling websites, the case battles are one of Chicken.gg’s main draws. Here, players select a number of cases (or many cases) and select the case battle format. You can go for a free-for-all mode with up to 4 players, or you can do a 2v2 team battle. Additionally, you can also do ‘group unboxings’ with up to 4 players, where the rewards from all opened cases get split between the players that joined.

Like on other websites, there are also a bunch of options you can select to make the case battles even more exciting. For example, there’s Crazy Mode, where the player (or team) with the lowest unboxing value wins. You can also choose to make a private lobby in case you only want to play with friends.

Personally, we liked the group unboxings the best, but there’s something here for everyone if you’re into case battles.

Case Openings

If you just want to open cases, Chicken.gg also offers that option. There are tons of cases to choose from, ranging from a couple of cents all the way to thousands of tokens (i.e. thousands of dollars).

What we like is that the volatility of a case is clearly indicated. The more volatile a case is, the smaller your chance of winning big. However, if you win the main prize in a volatile case, you get a much more valuable prize. So, in a nutshell, volatility indicates the risk vs. reward proposition.

Double (Roulette)

Double is Chicken.gg’s name for their roulette wheel. The premise here is simple: players bet a certain amount of tokens, and then a wheel gets spun. This wheel has CT (blue), beige (T), and chicken (green) icons. The CT and T icons are the most common, so if you bet on those and the wheel lands there, it pays out 2x. Chicken is worth 14x.

On the wheel, some T and CT icons have been swapped with a CS logo. You can also bet on that, and if the wheel lands on a CS logo (regardless of the color), it pays out 7x.

Dice

In Dice, you quite simply choose a number (using a slider) between 5.00 and 99.99. You then decide if the ‘dice’ will be higher or lower than that number. You then ‘roll the dice’ (i.e. a random number in that range gets chosen). If your guess (over or under) was correct, you get a payout. How large this payout is depends on how high the odds of you being correct are. If you, for example, bet that the roll will be under 95.00, your payout will be a lot smaller than if you were to bet that the roll will be over 95.00.

Limbo

Limbo is another very simple game. You select the amount you want to bet, and then you choose a multiplier. Then, once the game gets started, the multiplier starts counting up, only to stop at a random point. If the multiplier that it stops on is higher than the multiplier you’ve bet on, you win. The higher the multiplier you choose, the higher your profit will be (if you win), since high multipliers have lower odds of happening. If the multiplier that it stops on is below what you’ve bet on, you lose your money.

Blackjack

Chicken.gg is one of the few CS2 gambling websites that offer blackjack, which is a cool feature if you ask us. Blackjack is a much more interactive game than most other games on these types of websites, so it’s cool to see it included here. Blackjack is a pretty complicated game with lots of extra rules, so we can’t explain everything here, but the game runs well and we had fun playing it.

Mines

In the mines, you bet a certain amount and then select how many bombs you want there to be in play. The more bombs there are, the more value each gem has. Then, you start clicking tiles. If there’s a bomb behind said tile, everything explodes and you lose your money. If there’s a gem behind the tile, you can keep on playing. You can cash out at any time, provided you haven’t triggered a bomb. The more gems you uncover, the higher your cashout will be, but you’ll also have a higher chance of triggering a bomb. It’s a tense game of weighing risk-versus-reward.

Features

Chicken.gg has a rather basic selection of games (though the case battles are very well fleshed-out and it’s one of the only websites of its kind to offer blackjack) but it does offer a bunch of extra features to keep players entertained. In this section, we’ll go over a couple of the more interesting features.

Player Levels

Like many websites, Chicken.gg has player levels. This basically corresponds to how much you’ve played on the website. Your level is clearly displayed on the website, and the amount of XP you need to progress to the next rank can be seen on your profile.

Levels give access to features like free cases (which start unlocking at level 10) and, at the higher levels, the boost feature. We should note that it takes quite a bit of wagering to get to the higher levels. We wagered a total of 2,150 tokens across various games and found ourselves at level 36, which isn’t all that high. We probably didn’t really optimize our leveling, but it’s still good to note. Features like the boost only unlock at level 60, for example, making it a feature that’s seemingly only reserved for high rollers.

Free Cases

On Chicken.gg, you get free cases quite regularly. At the time of reviewing, you get 5 free cases for depositing a certain amount, for example.

In addition to this, there are also free daily cases once you get to a certain level. And, with each level you unlock, you also get keys that you can use to open other free cases.

As such, you get a ton of free stuff if you’re a paying and active player or once you’ve reached a certain level. Obviously, the free cases won’t contain eye-watering types of rewards, but it’s much better than nothing.

Important caveat: you need to be in Chicken.gg’s Discord server to open these free cases. To us, that’s not a huge issue, but we did find it to be a bit of an annoying and arbitrary requirement.

Gem Store

With every bet you place, you receive a couple of gems (dependent on how much you’ve wagered). These gems can then be used to open specific gem cases, which have better potential rewards than most of the free cases. You do need to be an active player in order to keep using the gems though, as they are a finite resource. If you stop playing and you’re out of gems, there’s no way to earn new ones other than by playing games.

Boosts

As we mentioned, there’s also the Boost feature. It’s not very clearly explained what this is, and we also did not get to test it, as we were quite far off of the level required to use the feature. As far as we can tell, it’s a ‘powerup’ for your rewards, boosting your wins. Given how you need to be at least level 60 and maintain 2000 wagered tokens over 45 days (for reference: you can buy 50 tokens for 25 euros), this is very much a high-rolled-focused feature though, and most regular players won’t ever unlock this.

Special Events

Chicken.gg has a special event running pretty much all the time. This can be as simple as giving players 2x XP in certain game modes, for example. Usually, it’s a kind of jackpot with a potential winner pool that consists of players who have wagered a certain amount. Like with the Boost feature, you do need to wager quite a significant amount to be eligible for most of these jackpots, meaning that casual players probably won’t see much action when these kinds of events are on.

Rain

Players can voluntarily donate tokens to the Rain. This pays out users who are eligible (there are quite a few conditions to be met here, like linking your Discord, wagering a certain amount, not exceeding a claim limit) at certain intervals, so it’s basically a way of getting free tokens if you qualify.

Chicken.gg Free-To-Play Viability

Chicken.gg offers a lot of free rewards and extra goodies, but you have to be a paying and playing member to have access to most of those. As such, it’s not the best website for players who aren’t looking to spend a single dime. Once you get the ball rolling and have wagered a good amount of money, you can definitely rack up the rewards, but this will be a very long grind if you’re not willing to put in any money.

As such, Chicken.gg is not a very attractive website for free-to-play users.

Overall Website Experience

Layout and Performance

Chicken.gg is not a complicated website. There aren’t thousands of extra screens you need to sift through to get to the rewards, and you don’t need to manage various different currencies and tabs in order to play. The layout is quite simple and straightforward, and we like it that way.

In terms of performance, we had no complaints. We did see a Double (roulette) game where it took a minute or so to fetch the EOS block (meaning it didn’t start right away) but other than that the website ran completely fine.

Convenience

We had no issues navigating or understanding Chicken.gg. Helpful features like case volatility are user-friendly, and we felt comfortable navigating through the website. Other than gems (which only have one purpose which is clearly explained on the gem case section) there are no special tokens, limited or otherwise, that you have to keep track of.

We did find the explanation for some games to be somewhat lacking, but most of the games are very simple, so playing a couple of them with 0.01 tokens was our way of doing a ‘free’ tutorial.

Withdrawing

Withdrawing can be done through crypto or CS2 skins. For CS2 skins, Chicken.gg uses a third-party system, and given how we tested the website during the post-knife tradeup update (which caused skin prices to fluctuate wildly) we saw some reports of users reverting their trades. That’s not directly Chicken.gg’s fault, and they give you your balance back should something like that happen, but it can make the withdrawal process of skins a bit more bothersome than it could be.

Our withdrawals went fine and we had no trade reversals.

Community

On the right side, there’s a chat box. There, we can see that 100-150 players are online at any given time, and they are often quite active in the chat. This is not a very large community, but if you’re someone who likes to chat and you like the smaller community feeling, this could be a good website for you. During our testing, we saw lots of regulars who knew each other and would join each other’s case battles and so on.

Support

During our testing, we saw a member of the staff/mod team online in the chat quite often. There is also a support button visible at all times, leading you to a private chat. We did not encounter any significant issues during our testing, so we did not get to test the knowledge of the support too much, but we did see that they responded promptly and that they were present on the website itself quite frequently.

Conclusion

As far as we can evaluate, Chicken.gg is a legitimate CS2 gambling website. It has an established community presence through sponsorships and tournaments, and it has an active community and social media presence. During our testing, we did not notice any irregularities.

Chicken.gg offers a huge variety of cases to unbox, and it also introduces a community aspect to unboxing through its group unboxing mode, which we like. It’s also one of the only CS2 gambling websites that offers blackjack as a playable game. The site is easy to understand and navigate, and everything runs smoothly.

As such, it’s a good option to consider if you’re looking for a place to play CS2-related gambling games, but it should be noted that this appears to be a website that’s more aimed towards high rollers. There are plenty of (very) cheap cases you can unbox, and you can wager as little as 0.01 tokens (the equivalent of less than $0.01) which is nice, but most rewards and sweepstakes seem to be aimed at players who bet big and do that often. That’s not an objective downside, but it can be good to know if you’re looking for a place to wager your skins or money.