InOut Games

InOut Games is one of the newest studios listed on this site and one of the fastest-moving. It launched as a B2B supplier in 2024, went straight at crash and instant games rather than slots, and by mid-2026 had around seventy-five titles in the catalogue. That release rate is only possible because the games are small: no reels to balance, no bonus rounds to design, a few weeks of work per title rather than a year.

The studio is best known for Chicken Road, which took the crash idea and replaced the continuous multiplier with discrete steps — each lane crossed, each pan jumped, is a decision point rather than a moment of reaction. It is a small change with a large effect on how the game feels, and it has been copied about as widely as Aviator was.

Game Style

Everything here is built around one loop: choose a difficulty, advance step by step, stop before the step that ends the round. There are no free spins, no wilds, no paytable to study. What varies between titles is the dressing — a chicken on a road, a penalty shootout, a hamster, a plinko board — and the shape of the multiplier ladder underneath it.

The difficulty selector is what distinguishes this format from a plain crash game, and it is the part worth understanding before staking anything. Easy mode advances often and pays little per step. The hardest modes advertise multipliers running into the millions, and they get there by making each individual step much more likely to end the round. Same game, same studio, completely different distribution of outcomes.

Signature Mechanics

• Step multipliers — the multiplier moves in discrete jumps rather than climbing continuously, so every increment is a deliberate choice to continue rather than a race against a timer.
• Difficulty modes — typically four, from cautious to extreme. The mode sets both the step size and the chance the round ends, and it is the single largest factor in how a session plays out.
• Provably fair rounds — outcomes are cryptographically verifiable after the fact, the same trust model the crypto-native crash games established.
• HTML5 throughout — every title runs in the browser on any device with no separate mobile build, which is part of how the catalogue grew this quickly.

Licensing and Fair Play

InOut Games operates under a Curaçao licence. It does not hold licences from the Malta Gaming Authority or the UK Gambling Commission, which is a narrower regulatory position than established suppliers such as Spribe or Pragmatic Play, and worth stating plainly rather than leaving to be inferred. The games themselves are built as provably fair, so an individual round can be verified independently of who licenses the studio — these are two different guarantees and it is easy to confuse them.

Published returns across the catalogue run from about 90% to 98%, which is a wide spread by any standard. Chicken Road is at the top of it at 98%; Chicken Road 2.0 publishes 95.5%, a two-and-a-half point difference between a game and its own sequel. Penalty Unlimited sits at 96%. There is no house figure to rely on here, so the number has to be checked per title.

Games Worth Knowing

Chicken Road is the title that made the studio’s name and the one with the highest published return in the catalogue at 98%. Penalty Unlimited applies the same ladder to a penalty shootout: score, bank, or take another shot. Chicken Road 2.0 adds speeding traffic and adjustable difficulty at a lower published return than the original. Beyond those, the catalogue runs to Hamster Run, Forest Arrow, Plinko AZTEC, Stock Tycoon, Dragon Pots, Wheel Out, Frog Jump and a long tail of similar small games.

One practical warning: the Chicken Road name is now attached to a whole family of games, some of them by other studios entirely, with different mechanics and different returns. A crossing chicken on the screen is not identification. The supplier name in the info panel is.

Mobile Play and Demos

These are among the lightest games on the site. A round is a few taps on a single screen, they load almost instantly, and they were clearly designed for a phone held in one hand. Demo versions are widely available, and with this format the demo is genuinely useful: it shows you how far a given difficulty typically gets before the round ends, which is the only thing you actually need to know before choosing a stake.

What the Numbers Say

Chicken Road’s 98% is a high published return, higher than almost any slot. The catch is the same one that applies to every fast game: a round takes seconds, the next one is one tap away, and total stake — not return percentage — is what determines expected loss. A 98% game played at three times the volume costs more than a 96% game played slowly.

The advertised maximum multipliers deserve the same scepticism. Hard modes quote figures in the millions, and those figures are arithmetically real: they are what you get if every step in a long ladder goes your way. The probability of that sequence is what makes the maths work for the operator, and it is not printed next to the headline number.

InOut Games — FAQ

What is InOut Games known for?

Chicken Road, released in 2024, and the step-multiplier format it popularised: instead of a multiplier climbing continuously, it advances one deliberate step at a time. Penalty Unlimited and Chicken Road 2.0 apply the same structure to different subjects.

Is InOut Games a licensed provider?

It operates under a Curaçao licence. It does not hold Malta or UK licences, which is a narrower position than the larger suppliers on this site. Its games are built as provably fair, which is a separate guarantee about individual rounds rather than about the studio.

How is this different from Aviator?

Aviator is continuous: the multiplier climbs in real time and cashing out is partly a matter of reaction. Chicken Road is discrete: nothing moves until you choose to advance, so the pressure is on the decision rather than the timing. The underlying risk structure is the same.

What does the difficulty setting actually change?

Both the size of each step and the chance the round ends on it. Easy mode advances often for small increments; the hardest modes offer enormous multipliers precisely because most attempts end early. It changes the shape of your results far more than anything else available to you in the game.

Which title has the best return?

Chicken Road at 98% is the highest published figure in the catalogue. The spread across titles is wide — roughly 90% to 98% — and the sequel publishes less than the original, so the number is worth checking per game rather than assumed from the studio.

Are all «Chicken Road» games made by InOut Games?

No. The name has been reused by other studios and the catalogue itself contains several variants with different mechanics and returns. Check the supplier name on the game’s information screen before treating a review of one as a description of another.