The Great Pigsby Megaways: Slot Overview
Here's your invitation to one of the porkiest parties of the season in an online slot from Relax Gaming. If the name The Great Pigsby Megaways sounds familiar, it's because Relax Gaming released the original The Great Pigsby back in 2019 and followed it up in 2022 with The Great Pigsby Megapays – a Megaways version with four progressive jackpots tacked on for good measure. Not a colossal amount has changed between the Megapays version and this one, aside from the jackpot removal. What remains is a swanky slot boasting full reel wilds, Great Pigsby Re-spins, free spins, and Wild Re-spins.
Like Jay Gatsby's pad in The Great Gatsby novel, The Great Pigsby Megaways is held at an impressive pile, where players chill outdoors for the base game, then move inside for free spins. While outdoors, the swing band can be heard muffled by the house walls, yet making it inside is where the party blooms into life. Like the gameplay, the audio-visuals haven't changed much, if at all, but they're a swanky representation of how high net worth pigs might live, and the connection between piggies and wealth in online slots is further reinforced.
The Great Pigsby Megaways' gaming occurs on a 6-reel panel, each reel displaying 2-7 symbols on each spin. Varying symbol numbers result in varying ways to win, from 64 to 117,649 at the most. A highly volatile slot, The Great Pigsby Megaways fires off a return to player value of 96.08%, accompanied by an impressive 20,000x max win total. Playable on any device, users are able to select stakes of 10 p/c to $/€50 per paid game round.
Making our way over to the paytable turns up ten regular pay symbols, half low pays, half mids/highs. The low pays are golden Art Deco fonted 10-A card royals, worth 0.4x the bet for six of a kind, rising to 0.5-3 times the stake when landing six cigars and whiskies, gramophones, tiaras, lady pigs, or gentleman pigs. Wild symbols are present on reels 2-6, and when one lands, it expands to cover the whole reel. Expanded wilds substitute for any normal pay symbol and display a number, equating to the number of active wilds that the reel contains.
The Great Pigsby Megaways: Slot Features
As well as expand and subsite, when wild symbols hit, they dump a bunch of coins in the Piggy Bank at the top of the reels. Each time coins are collected in the Piggy Bank, there is a chance free spins, Great Pigsby Re-spins, or Wild Re-spins are triggered.
Great Pigsby Re-spin
When this feature triggers, 3 to 9 instances of the highest value Pigsby symbols are placed randomly on the game board before the reels stop spinning.
Wild Re-spin
During this extra, 2-5 reels are turned completely wild before the reels stop spinning. As usual, the full reel wilds display a number indicating how many wild symbols the wild reel is made up of.
Free Spins
A total of 10 free spins are awarded when this feature triggers. Whenever a scatter symbol hits, +2 additional free spins are added to the remaining amount and one of the low pay card royal symbols is removed from the reels. From then on, the removed symbol is replaced by a non-royal symbol. Royals are removed from low to high, and when all have been taken from the reels, scatter symbols award just the +2 free spins when they land.
The Great Pigsby Megaways: Slot Verdict
'I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.' So said Nick Carraway after mulling over the lives of the well-off in the classic novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Pigsby Megaways doesn't deliver the same level of variety since most (pretty much all) of it has been seen before in The Great Pigsby Megapays, plus or minus a few key ingredients. Most conspicuously, the jackpots have gone, but that doesn't stop The Great Pigsby Megaways from being entertaining in its own right. There's plenty here for fans of the cashed-up porcine online slot theme to sink their choppers into.
For one, the feature triggering method is a bit unusual. Rarely does so much rely on the triggering powers of wild symbols. Players are led to literally all three extras only when the Piggy Bank feels like it's ready to unleash one of the respins extras or the free spins round. Fortunately, the base game avoids feeling like a bland hors d'oeuvre thanks to those expanding full reel wilds. It's worth reiterating that the value on the wild is not a win multiplier as such but represents how many instances of wilds the full reel wild consists of.
As to the three features, they're every bit as good as they were in The Great Pigsby Megaways. Have to say there were stretches when they didn't seem to trigger a whole heck of a lot, yet each has the ability to produce a solid result if luck is running hot. The full RTP is allocated to the regular gaming now since the jackpots have been sliced off, and The Great Pigsby Megaways can turn out wins of up to
Relax Gaming has gotten some good mileage out of its Great Pigsby concept, though The Great Pigsby Megaways offers the smallest step in terms of evolution. In fact, it doesn't really advance the range at all since it is more or less The Great Pigsby Megapays - just without the four jackpots. If Pigsby fans were hoping to be led to a next-level wild soiree, one of those free for all freak fests, well, better temper those expectations. The Great Pigsby Megaways is good, but it's more of a side step than an eyes shut tight leap of faith into a wild unknown.
The Great Pigsby Megaways is undoubtedly a solid release, although it's more of a side step than an eyes shut tight leap of faith into a wild unknown.
