Oink Farm

Oink Farm: Slot Overview

Slip on a pair of wellies, throw on some plaid and grab a blade of grass to chew on, folks; we're about to take on Oink Farm, an online slot from Microgaming partner studio Foxium. Farming might be hard work in the real world, but in the slot world, it generally comes across as pretty relaxing. It is in Oink Farm, which presents a smiling, animated version of agriculture while sowing features such as Oink Coin collects, Wild Reels, free spins, and Eggs Rush jackpots.

If you're the sort of person who doesn't like to think about where the patty in their burger comes from or is anti-meat altogether, best to avoid Oink Farm. Then again, maybe not, because this innocuous-looking game seems like it's set in a fantasy farm where happy animals live long, fulfilling lives bounding over hills covered in thick mossy grass while the farmer divides their time between whittling wood and strumming a banjo. It's all very friendly, and the only thing that might intrude on the agricultural zen is the noise reels make when they stop spinning, like a crackling vinyl record.

Oink Farm's antics occur on a 5-reel grid matrix with 4 rows of symbols and 20 paylines - a rather conventional setup in other words. In this medium volatile slot, wins are formed when three, four, or five matching symbols land across a payline, starting from the leftmost reel. As is common these days, the game comes in a variety of RTP settings, so if you want the highest one, look for the 96.23% version. There's nothing particularly unconventional about the win rate either, which clocks in at 25.8% whilst bet limits of 20 p/c to $/€50 per spin are provided.

Moseying over to the paytable reveals ten regular paying symbols. Half of them are 10-A card ranks, possessing five of a kind values of 1.5 to 3 times the stake. Payout size rises to 5-12.5x the bet when landing five higher value carrots, cabbages, chickens, sheep, or foxes. Rounding things off is the farmer piggy wild symbol. Wilds appear on all reels and can substitute for anything except scatters or Oink Coin symbols. Landing five wilds across a payline generates a win worth 20 times the stake.

Oink Farm: Slot Features

Like a lot of games arising from the Microgaming circle of studios at the moment, Oink Farm's max win is most likely to come from its jackpot feature. Complimenting the jackpots are Oink Coin collects, Wild Reels, and free spins.

Oink Coin Collect

Each of Oink Farm's five reels has a Coin Meter situated on top. When Oink Coin symbols land on a reel, they are added to the Coin Meter located above. Collecting 3 Oink Coins in a Coin Meter triggers the Wild Reel feature on that specific reel. Coin Meters are saved at their current level when changing the stake.

Wild Reel

When triggered, this feature makes all positions on its reel wild. In the base game, this lasts for 3 spins; then, the wild is removed from the game grid. Wild Reels substitute for any pay symbol, and scatter symbols remain visible through any Wild Reel.

Free Spins

Windmill scatter symbols appear on reels 2, 3, or 4 and landing 3 of them at once awards 10 free spins. During the bonus round, when a Wild Reel is created by collecting 3 Oink Coins in a Coin Meter, it remains on the grid until free spins end. It is possible to lengthen the bonus round, as any scatter that lands awards an additional +2 free spins.

Eggs Rush

Eggs Rush is the jackpot feature and is triggered randomly on any base game spin. When triggered, 16 chickens appear on screen, and players click one at a time to reveal a jackpot. When three of the same jackpots have been exposed, the corresponding prize is awarded. The four possibilities are the Mini, Minor, Major, or Grand, paying out 15x, 50x, 500x, or 5,000x the bet, respectively.

Oink Farm: Slot Verdict

Microgaming's group of partner studios certainly have a thing for jackpot driven games, as evidenced by the constant outflow of them. Some studios more than others. Foxium is one developer which hasn't used jackpots extensively in the past per se, though they have appeared in games like Gods of Seas: Triton's Fortune and the one-line extravaganza, Foxpot. Well, add another game to the list, as Oink Farm provides keen players with another way of possibly hitting a reasonably sized non-progressive jackpot. Oink Farm isn't exactly the most exciting way of doing so, though the beaming set of animals add a level of life.

Perhaps we've come to expect more of Foxium following the flagship release Cossacks, but Oink Farm was one of their more underwhelming releases. There are a few things to try out, such as the Oink Coin Collect, which creates three spins worth of a Wild Reel in the base game when a meter is filled. When anything becomes sticky in a slot, it's generally a good sign, and entertainment levels did rise in free spins when Wild Reels locked in place for the rest of the round. Nothing extraordinary, but the prospect of all this wild action might be exciting for some. Collecting coins does give you something to do while waiting for the Eggs Rush feature to trigger. That's where the game's max win of 5,000x the bet has a chance to bloom and watching chickens drop eggs and run is an amusing way of handling the pick 'n click aspect.

Keep in mind, this is the same studio that gave us Cossacks The Wild Hunt and Boom Pirates with its 10 million-plus ways to win, so Foxium has the ingenuity to surprise players with shocking numbers and well-made slots. Oink Farm is passable and is likely to perform well with recreational gamers, but it doesn't display the level of ingenuity Foxium has shown in the past. Wild Reels may help quicken the pulse in what is a so-so jackpot game floating amidst an abundant harvest of similarly levelled jackpot games.