Greedy Fortune Pig

Greedy Fortune Pig: Slot Overview

Pigs in Chinese culture symbolise wealth and are linked to good fortune, two things dear to any gambler's heart. People born in the Year of the Pig, too, have their fair share of positive, as well as some not-so-positive, attributes, and it's been said that out of the 12 Chinese zodiac signs, the pig has the best luck with money. That's if you're into things like that. If you are, then here is Pragmatic Play's Asian-themed slot Greedy Fortune Pig, a game featuring porcine and wealth symbology, expanding roaming wilds, respins, as well as free spins.

If Asian slot aficionados can see something on the screen that they've never seen before, please let us know. A big chunk of Greedy Fortune Pig's view is taken up by a fairly standard sloped roofed, red column-bordered gaming grid, dropping hints of mountains and so forth on the sides. It's a traditional view, a little unadventurous, a little uninteresting. Oh well, if you like this sort of thing, you like it, fair enough.

A 5x3 reelset is where the greedy pigginess takes place, and there are 10 paylines to evaluate winning combinations. Before snuffling in, it is possible to pick a stake as low as 10 c or as high as $/€250 per spin. An optional ante bet may be activated as well, should gamblers choose to do so, increasing the stake by 50% to have extra scatter symbols on the reels, increasing the chance of launching free spins. At its ceiling level, Greedy Fortune Pig has an RTP of 96.5% (or 96.52% when using the ante bet) and is highly volatile.

On Greedy Fortune Pig's list of symbols, from bottom up, are 10-A card royals, a scroll, a frog, coins, and a pot of treasure. Royal symbols pay 1 to 3 times the stake when 5 matching symbols land in a line. Premiums award more, at 4 to 20 times the stake, after a 5 OAK winning line hits.

Greedy Fortune Pig: Slot Features

Players can look forward to expanding walking wilds, Money symbol collection, respins, free spins, and a bonus buy when playing Greedy Fortune Pig.

Expanding Wilds, Money Collections and Respins

Wilds appear on all reels and substitute for all regular paying symbols. There are two of them. A red wild and a green wild. A line of wild-only symbols pays up to 20x the bet. The Money symbol can also land anywhere, displaying a random value of 1x to 8x, the 10x Mini, the 20x Minor, the 40x Major, or the 100x Grand prize.

When Money symbols hit, and there is a wild in view, the values of all Money symbols on the grid are paid. When a wild symbol lands, it expands to cover the whole reel. Winning combinations are paid, and respins are triggered. The wild moves to the left on respins until leaving the grid. More expanded wilds may land during respins and can adopt the same behaviour. Respins continue until there are no expanded wilds in view, paying out on winning combinations and Money symbol collection on each respin.

During respins, when the red wild moves to the left, a multiplier is increased by +1. The current multiplier is applied to all wins after each respin.

Free Spins

Hitting 3 scatter symbols on the three middle reels randomly awards 5, 6, 7, or 8 free spins. During the free spins phase, wild symbols have the same behaviour as they do in the base game, expanding and moving along with respins. However, when the multiplier increases, it remains in place for the whole free spins round. This feature cannot be retriggered.

Feature Buy

By paying 100 times the bet, players can buy the free spins round, where the top level RTP for doing so is 96.55%.

Greedy Fortune Pig: Slot Verdict

Traditional Asian-styled slots are essentially a genre on their own, with additions to the line-up continually being made by game designers. Pragmatic Play itself is a regular contributor with a number of these sorts of slots under its belt by now. Unless you're really deep into this sort of thing, they can sort of blend together a bit, making it hard to tell previous releases such as Pragmatic Play and Co.'s Chests of Cai Shen, Dragon Gold 88, or Fortune Dragon apart. You could say the same about a lot of slots, though, no matter the genre, not trying to single out just one here.

Mid is a reaction Greedy Fortune Pig failed to avoid provoking. It looks same-same average, though the features aren't terrible. Wilds walking across the reels during respins play quite well, and not only do they roam, but they also come with a couple of attached benefits. One is the collection of Money symbols, and okay, the Money symbols don't have tremendous values, but hey, it's something. Two, if the red wild expands and moves, it does everything the green pig does, plus increment the win multiplier. With a chunky multi in hand, players have a better chance of bumping into Greedy Fortune Pig's 8,888x win cap.

To finish on a positive note, the two wild pig characters have a friendly look about them; the theme has been professionally rendered, plus the expanding wilds, Money collections and respins combo has its moments. Greedy Fortune Pig is one for fans to investigate then, while maybe being a bit blah for anyone else not so enamoured.