The Great Pigsby Megapays

The Great Pigsby Megapays: Slot Overview

Get a taste of the roaring 20s in an Art Deco'd online slot called The Great Pigsby Megapays from software provider Relax Gaming. This celebration of capitalism follows on from an earlier game titled The Great Pigsby (2019), which is, in turn, a play on F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. Joe Dixon described The Great Gatsby as a 'book about luxury, enchantment, glamour, magic spells, aspiration, a vulgar Wonderland, insecurity, pretentiousness, bluffing, soullessness, fakes, phonies, emptiness, desperation, regrets, and impossible dreams.' That's a lot to squeeze into an online slot, it has to be said. To tackle some of the issues, The Great Pigsby Megapays is seen through a porcine lens which offers a particular illumination of its own. Accompanying the societal critique is Megapays, Big Time Gaming's progressive jackpot, respins, free spins, and more.

The party begins outside a fabulous pile, amidst the type of outdoor setting real estate agents like to describe as an entertainer's dream. Muffled swing band music plays, crystallising when players enter the mansion for free spins where the décor is even more elaborately over the top. The Great Pigsby Megapays has a similar graphical look to the original game but has been significantly glammed up. Put it this way, Daisy Buchanan would probably be impressed.

As a busy Upper East Side psychiatrist might attest, sometimes a glitzy exterior belies troubled waters lying beneath the surface. However, this isn't so much the case in The Great Pigsby Megapays, which boasts a set of reliable stats. One to be aware of is RTP, weighing in at 96.19%, with 9.44% allocated to the Jackpots and 86.75% going to the regular game. From there, volatility has been rated as five out of five, while hit frequency tips the scales at 27.42%. Players can use any device to crack Megapays, or attempt to at least, while bets vary from 20 p/c to $/€50 per spin.

The shindig takes place on a 6-reel Megaways powered game panel, with each reel holding 2-7 symbols. The number of ways alternate on every spin, maxing out at 117,649 and winning combos consist of at least three matching symbols in adjacent reels, starting from the left. The symbols found in The Great Pigsby Megapays are similar to those used before, such as lower-value 10-A royals and higher value cigar 'n whiskeys, gramophones, tiaras, lady piggies, and gentleman piggies. Landing a six of a kind winning way fills your pockets with wins worth 0.4x the bet for the low pays, 0.5-3x for the premiums. Wilds are pretty handy. Whenever one hits, it expands to cover all positions on its respective reel. A multiplier value displayed on the expanded wild states how many wild symbols it represents.

The Great Pigsby Megapays: Slot Features

Not only do expanded wilds help pull together winning ways, but they are collected in the piggy bank above the reel area. Collected wilds randomly trigger Free Spins, Great Pigsby Respins, or Wild Respins.

Free Spins

When this bonus round is activated, 10 free spins are awarded. During this feature, whenever a scatter symbol lands, +2 additional free spins are awarded, and one of the low pay royals is removed from the reels. On future free spins, removed symbols are replaced by non-royal symbols. A meter above the reels shows you what to expect in this regard.

Great Pigsby Respin

When a Great Pigsby Respin is awarded, 3-9 of the highest paying Pigsby pay symbols are placed on the reels before any of the reels stop spinning.

Wild Respins

For this feature, one respin is awarded where 2-5 reels are turned fully wild. These full reel wilds can show on any reel except the first one.

Megapays

The Megapays part of The Great Pigsby triggers at random, and higher stakes increase the chance of this happening. When active, the game picks 9, 10, J, Q, K or A at random to be the Megapays Symbol. A special spin then takes place. If the Megapays Symbol hits, any instances of it are stored at the bottom of the reels and all other symbols removed. Another spin then takes place. This process continues until no new Megapays Symbols hit or the Mega Jackpot is won. At the end of the round, having 4-7, 8-11, 2-14, or 15+ Megapays Symbols in view awards the Mini, Midi, Major, or Mega Jackpot, respectively.

The Great Pigsby Megapays: Slot Verdict

From the short but chic intro animation to the muffled sounds of a party swinging like it's nobody's business, to just about everything else, the stylistic talents of Relax Gaming are apparent. There are few studios that can create such a wide variety of games so consistently well, and the studio is just cut from a different cloth to a lot of their competitors. A little like Jay Gatsby himself, refusing to accept his place in society and stepping out into the world (with the help of a bit of bootlegging) to compete amongst his so-called upper-crust betters.

So where does The Great Pigsby Megapays fit into the hierarchy? It's a classy game, which captures some of the spirit of the era, and the rich piggy theme fits Megapays as well as any other. Scoring the Mega Jackpot is sure to be the main motivating factor for players attempting to gate crash this party. However, the lesser features keep the flow going like well-timed hors d'oeuvres. Some are diminished by the relatively low symbol values, for a Megaways game, but a wild reel or two in the right place can fire off a decent result. Royal removals in free spins can be fun, too, and using them ties The Great Pigsby Megapays to the original game, which used a similar feature. Non-jackpot wins are capped at 20,000x the bet, though a lot of players will probably see that as a consolation compared to the Mega Jackpot, which has a seed value of €300,000. Since Megapays is progressive, a portion of each bet is peeled off to feed the pot, and we've seen ridiculous wins in the past, such as an $885,928 payday achieved off a 60p stake.

So far, Megapays has accompanied already popular games such as Bonanza and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. The Great Pigsby Megapays is another remake, though the original slot has received a thorough Megaways makeover in the process. You get the impression this level of jackpot could be attached to any old game, and it would pull in starry-eyed punters. While there is an element of truth to this assumption, the rest of The Great Pigsby Megapays remains a fairly entertaining slot in its own right.