Harvest Moon Grave Profits

Harvest Moon Grave Profits: Slot Overview

Designed by software provider Pragmatic Play, Harvest Moon Grave Profits is a slot that takes a bizarre and darkly humorous approach to the concept of harvesting. In a major switcheroo, it swaps crops and sun-drenched countryside for a strange world of grave robbers, body parts, and questionable black market dealings, causing the game to stand out as one of the studio's more peculiar releases. Grave robbing has been around for thousands of years, and Harvest Moon Grave Profits seems to partly use the activity as a comment on how the modern world works, providing both a grotesque skin as well as mental fodder for players as they spin their way towards an unusual respins feature.

This is an odd one. It's a game about harvesting the organs from dead bodies and selling them on to… whoever it is that might want to buy them. The grave robbers appear to be humans hiding beneath animal masks, while in the base game, a lizard in a UFO hovers over a grave, sucking up organs, as well. When the respin feature is active, the grave robbers have parked their van in an alley, where they're unloading body parts on green-skinned suits queuing up outside a government building, as if those in charge of things not only approve of this extreme form of capitalism, but are totally complicit in it. It's all a bit puzzling and it feels like there is a deeper meaning here that Pragmatic Play is nudging players towards discovering…

To start the harvesting, gamblers can choose a bet from $/€0.15 to $/€240, and pressing spin sets a 5x4 grid in motion. The game has 15 bet lines evaluating winning combinations that start from the leftmost side of the grid. A medium volatile math model runs the action, pushing out an RTP of 96.5%, with lower return models something to be on the lookout for.

Harvest Moon Grave Profits has ten regular pay symbols, made up of a collection of body parts such as blood vials, fingers, ears, teeth, eyeballs, kidneys, livers, lungs, hearts, and brains. Hitting a winning combination of 5 matching symbols pays 1x to 20x the bet.

Harvest Moon Grave Profits: Slot Features

The base game benefits from a random wild feature before leading into a respins bonus round. An ante bet is available to increase the chance of naturally triggering respins, as are two feature buys.

Random Wild Feature

When the Silver Wild lands, it adds 1-6 wilds to the grid in random positions. When a Gold Wild hits, it adds 1-6 wilds with multipliers of x2 to x1,000 to random positions, which apply their multiplier to all wins passing through them. Multiple wild multipliers in the same win add their values together. If the screen is full of wilds and more wilds need to be added, each remaining wild from Silver Wilds adds a +x1 multiplier to random positions. For each remaining wild to be added from a Gold Wild, a random multiplier is added to random positions on the grid. Gold Wilds trigger before Silver Wilds when both are in view, and both transform into a wild after activating. Wilds substitute for all symbols except the scatter and have the same payout value as the brain symbol.

Respins Feature

Hitting 3 scatters in the base game triggers he respins feature, where only Collect symbols and blanks may land. At the start of the round, a row of 7 symbols with random values from 2x to x1,000 is displayed above the main grid.

The round starts with 3 respins. Each time a Collect symbol lands, it sticks in place till the end of the feature and resets the spin count to 3. The Silver Collect symbol collects 1-6 values from the top row and becomes a Money symbol with the total value. The Gold Collect symbol collects 1-6 values from the top row, then it adds the collected total to all Money symbols on the reels, before transforming itself into a Money symbol with the previously collected value. When a Diamond Collect hits, it first gets the value of all Money symbols on the grid, then all of the other Money symbols take 1-6 random values from the top row for a new total value. The Diamond Collect symbol stays on the screen with the previously collected value. Collect symbols activate in the order of Silver, Diamond, then Gold if multiple types land at once. When no respins are left or the screen is full, the total value is paid.

Ante Bet and Feature Buys

Activating the ante bet doubles the stake to make the chance of winning respins 3x higher. Or, players may buy the respins feature where the lowest value on the top row is 3x for 120x the stake, or where the lowest top row value is 5x for 400x the stake.

Harvest Moon Grave Profits: Slot Verdict

Harvest Moon Grave Profits is an unusual release, and possibly developed by the same daring sector of the Pragmatic Play office who created Hell Butcher, another slot that was quite out of character for a studio better known for releasing retro, Asian, and fish slots. The developer appears to be eyeing the Nolimit City, Shady Lady-type segment of the market and is stepping out of its comfort zone to experiment with squeamish, mind-tickling ideas. That said, while Harvest Moon Grave Profits is thematically unusual, it also kind of holds back from being completely unhinged. Perhaps Pragmatic Play is still testing its limits before recklessly throwing off the shackles of restraint and being totally shocking.

The features are quite inventive as well, though maybe not as creative as the presentation. The base game boosts the possible thrills by occasionally landing Silver or Gold Wilds, which go on to add more wilds, maybe even wild multipliers, to the grid. The respins round is the more intriguing extra, and while fairly innovative, it also resembles Kiosk Raid Spins from Sneaky Slots' Gopnik slot. Like that one, values sit above the reel and are plucked down when the collector symbols land in the main area. The different collector symbols offer varying degrees of potency, but the gist mostly remains the same - collect and store values from a variety of positions and frequencies. Harvest Moon Grave Profits does offer bigger winning potential than Gopnik, at 10,000x the bet, something for the big numbers players to cheer.

Like it or not, Harvest Moon Grave Profits is an eccentric experiment. Harvesting organs from dead bodies and selling them to lizard-like bureaucrats won't be everyone's cup of tea, but taking a less mainstream approach has resulted in a memorable slot. The features might not be as mind-altering as the theme, but there are good ideas here, both in the base game when wilds swarm, and in the respin bonus round, which has all been neatly stitched together like Frankenstein's monster and brought to lumbering life.