The Great Pigsby Megapays Slot Review

04/05/2022 | Categories: Relax Gaming Slots | Published by: Joe | Last updated: 05/01/2024

We thought it was time to circle back to Relax Gaming and check out a new product from this provider whose portfolio includes software from developers such as Fuga, Felt, and Push Gaming. 2021 was a big year for Relax as they opened a new studio in Stockholm and received a license to operate in the UK market. Thus, they carried over that momentum into 2022, releasing high-quality games like Beast Mode, Hazakura Ways, Tiger Kingdom, Space Miners, Hex, and the one we are looking into today, the sequel to the 2019 light fare affectionately titled the Great Pigsby. The Megapays version of this game made its way onto the internet on April 5, hovering in 100 to 200 territory after its debut in multiple top markets. Below, we analyze how it stacks up to its predecessor and if it will be a title that will get quickly forgotten or show itself as one with some staying power.

Theme & Design

Likely every fan of literature has read or has the 1925 F.Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby on their reading list. According to many, it is one of the most important books in American culture, drawing inspiration from the American Dream’s promise of prosperity and wealth, exploring universal themes like the hopelessness of societal constructs, human follies, and man’s struggle with fate and time. It tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire, and his obsession to reunite with Daisy Buchanan, his former lover. The novel got inspired by a youthful romance F.Scott Fitzgerald had with Ginevra King, a famous Chicago socialite.

The Great Pigsby Megapays provides a pig version of this story transported onto digital reels. It features a tremendous, short opening video with a catchy theme song, something that fans of Relax Gaming have gotten used to expecting. The game has a roaring twenties soundtrack that offers a taste of some swing music, the kind that used to dominate 1920s New York speakeasies. The reels here spin in front of an enormous mansion. That is a house that you get to enter in the Free Spins mode. The visuals of this slot are painterly graphics that feel a bit flat but are colorful and cute enough to keep things engaging. However, as mentioned, the soundtrack is the true star of the show here.

The game utilizes the standard Relax Gaming buttons interface. You can find the spin, turbo-spin, and auto-spin options in the bottom middle section of your screen. The bet-adjuster is to the left of these.

The Great Pigsby Megapays

Specs & Gameplay

The Great Pigsby Megapays utilizes the Megaways engine developed by Big Time Gaming in 2015, an innovative random reel modifier that shifts the number of symbol positions on a reel per spin. The max number of rows in this slot is seven per reel, making the widest grid layout 6×7. The Great Pigsby Megapys boast a slightly above average RTP of 96.19%, which can drop to 86.75% at some sites. The variance setting of this game is high, and its max payout is x20,000, on a max wager of $50. The lowest amount you can bet on this game is $0.2. Its hit frequency is a super decent 27.42, and it utilizes 117,649 paylines.

The low-paying tokens of this game are A to 10 card royals. They all supply wins of x0.4 for six-of-a-kind. The high-paying ones are a 1920s decorative Art Deco headband, a record player, a glass of scotch, and this slot’s two title characters. Six identical symbols for this batch payout wins of x0.5 to x3.

The Wild in this reel-spinner is a golden coin that can expand to cover an entire reel and substitute all pay symbols.

Bonus Features

At the core of this slot’s gameplay are its Wild symbols. These expand to cover entire reels. They will have multiplier values attached corresponding to the number of symbol positions they cover. Any Wild landing on the reels will get collected in the piggy bank above the reel area and give you a chance to trigger a Great Pigsby Re-spin, a Wild Re-spin, or the Free Spins mode. The latter begins with ten complimentary reel rotations. Whenever a Scatter hits inside it, two more free spins get added to your total, and one of the low-paying game tokens gets deactivated, replaced with a high-paying one for the duration of the feature.

In the Wild Re-spin mode, you get a re-spin where two to five reels turn Wild. Again, the multiplier value on each reel equals the number of Wilds appearing on it. The Great Pigsby Re-spin substitutes three to nine symbols on the grid with Pigsy symbols (the highest value pay tokens) before the reels stop spinning during this re-spin.

The Megapays label derives from the four progressive jackpots in play in this Great Pigsby version. These are mini, minor, major, and mega prizes. Note that a fixed percentage of each wager made in this game contributes differently to these jackpots, with 1.5%, 1.3%, 1.2%, and 1.1%. The mode that leads to you potentially attaining one of these rewards begins with the game randomly choosing a low-paying symbol as the Megapays one. Then, an exclusive spin takes place, and if the Megapays token hits, it gets stored at the bottom of the reel grid. Until you keep landing the chosen symbol, it will get stacked on the reels it hits, continuously unlocking new levels en route to the Mega jackpot reward. Naturally, the goal here is to keep hitting chosen symbols on every spin until they pile up to fill their reel and win you this slots most coveted prize.

The Great Pigsby Megapays