Crash games have seen steady growth since they hit the market. The fun and simple gameplay allowed everyone to jump in and enjoy what these games have to offer. However, the need to bring something new to the table meant that even crash games were pressured to add new elements. The result is a new subset of crash games, based on an age-old question: why did the chicken cross the road?
In this article, we will go over a few of the most popular chicken crash games. We explore their gameplay, potential rewards, and visuals to help you decide if they are right for you.
Chicken Road by InOut
We hope you like the smell of roast chicken, because you’ll be seeing a lot of it in InOut’s Chicken Road. The title is as straightforward as you’d expect a crash game to be. The chicken starts on the left side of the screen and moves down the corridor. The corridor is split into segments that have attached cash prizes. The rewards keep climbing as you descend down the corridor, encouraging you to keep playing.
After every successful step, you can choose to move again or to cash out. The latter adds the money to your balance and starts the next round. Meanwhile, moving again has a chance to increase your potential prize. However, you might also lead your chicken friend straight into the fire, which means you lose the round.
Chicken Road lets you set one of four difficulties: easy, medium, hard, and hardcore. Greater difficulties mean bigger payouts but also higher odds of your chicken being fried. It’s a fantastic addition, and one that InOut would carry over in Chicken Road 2 and other titles in the series.

Chicken Pirate by 100HP Gaming
Chicken Pirate moves us away from dangerous pits of fire and onto something even more lethal: haunted pirate ships. Here, the chicken will need to fight its way through a crowd of zombie chickens to escape. Each successful brawl increases your winnings and leaves you with a decision to make. Do you cash out your winnings and escape, or do you keep fighting in hopes of winning big?
The game has four difficulty levels: low, medium, high, and extreme. Greater difficulties mean higher chances of losing each brawl. However, they also mean better rewards if you succeed. 100HP Gaming even tempts you by showing the max multiplier reward in the same window as the risk level.
There’s one more addition to Chicken Pirate that might make it a candidate for the most popular crash games list, and that’s the Bonus Hit. Starting from step two, every time you move forward, there’s a chance the Bonus Hit feature triggers. It will move you several steps forward and automatically claim all rewards from previous segments. It’s a fantastic addition that makes each step more exciting.
Chicky Run by PG Soft
Chicky Run by PG Soft is the most charming of the three games we tested here. The upbeat music and the massing of an ever-increasing crowd of chicken friends as you dodge traffic are entertaining. It’s further backed by a slightly different take than what we usually see from software providers. There are no difficulty levels to consider – just a simple decision. Do you run in the left or right traffic lane?
The base game boils down to a 50-50 choice, as there are only two lanes. However, you can shake things up a bit by enabling Extra Coins. This increases your bet by 1.5x and makes it so golden coins can appear on the reels. These coins come with attached cash prizes that pay even if you lose the round.
Another great feature of Chicky Run is a tracker that shows the results of previous rounds. It lets players notice and take advantage of trends when they appear. While not a spectacular addition by itself, it’s a great complement to everything else PG Soft has added to this game.
