Piggy Riches Megaways slot review (Red Tiger)

Piggy Riches Megaways is a Red Tiger Gaming online slot, or is it?!

The seasoned slot player will immediately think: “But wait a minute, Piggy Riches is a Netent slot, how is that possible?”.

That’s the thing: Netent doesn’t have a license to develop Megaways slots. Red Tiger Gaming does have that lucrative license. And in 2019, Netent bought Red Tiger Gaming for $€ 240 million. And so the story unfolds. The acquisition provided Netent with an entrance to start developing their own Megaways slots.

We expect that there will be many more joint ventures between Netent and Red Tiger Gaming with the Megaways franchise in the years to come. Of course, it’s also a perfect win-win situation: using the brand recognition of many strong Netent slots in combination with the power of the Megaways mechanism.

A Starburst Megaways, Gonzo’s Quest Megaways, Jack and the Beanstalk Megaways, Twin Spin Megaways: they’re all coming.

Would this step finally give the struggling Netent the boost she so desperately needs? It just might be.

With all that talk about how the release of this video slot came about, you’d almost forget that we also have a slot to review.

Piggy Riches Megaways gameplay & features

Piggy Riches Megaways is based on the classic Piggy Riches slot, which is dominated by rich little pigs, golden credit cards and incredible riches. The original Piggy Riches is quite a few years old (it was released in 2010), and it is a very entertaining slot.

Fortunately, Red Tiger Gaming hasn’t changed the design: Mr. and Mrs. Piggy still play the leading role, and the money is still whirling around.

The setup of the game is classic Megaways:

• Up to 117,649 Megaways
• 6 reels with up to 7 symbols per reel
• You can bet from $€ 0,10 up to $€ 100 per spin.
• The variance is high: win up to 10,000 x the total bet.
• Winning combinations disappear and make way for new ones.

The theoretical payout rate is 95.71%. That may be just a little lower than we have come to expect from an online slot, but you will hardly notice it when playing this kind of high variance slot.

Symbols & payouts

Mr. Pig is the wild symbol of the game and always covers the entire role. Besides, it contains additional multipliers, which can run up to x 7.

The high symbols consist of the bags of gold, the golden credit card, the car keys, the wallet and the piggy bank. Spin 6 of these premium symbols for payouts between 1.2 x and 20 x the total bet.

The card symbols 10, J, Q, K and A pay out between 0.4 x and 0.8 x the bet for a 6-of-a-kind.

Free spins bonus

Miss Piggy, who looks a lot like a Nouveau Riche Miss Piggy (a bit too much bling), is the scatter symbol.

Spin three or more of them to win the free spins bonus.

To determine how many free spins (and which start multiplier) you will start the free spins bonus game, you may first turn the big bonus wheel.

You are, anyhow, awarded between 7 and 22 free spins. Besides, you get a multiplier between x 1 and x 10.

During the free spins, each winning combination results in a +1 multiplier.

Every time Miss Piggy appears, you get an extra free spin.

Our verdict on the Piggy Riches Megaways video slot?

Red Tiger Gaming and Netent’s first collaboration has proven successful and brings home the bacon.

Although Piggy Riches Megaways plays it safe in terms of gameplay and features, the slot is very entertaining.

The design is superb, the pace is (for a Megaways slot) pretty high, and you can land a nice fat payday during the free spins bonuses.

Oink! Oink!

4 out of 5 stars

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