The Great Pigsby Megapays Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

The Great Pigsby Megapays Review

The moral of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, The Great Gatsby, which is the obvious source of inspiration for The Great Pigsby Megapays, is that riches and status means nothing if you don’t have the love of your life by your side. Even a progressive jackpot can hardly offer you that, but you can perhaps get a glimpse of the high-society lifestyle if you land the Mega Jackpot after it’s been building for a while.

The 3 main features are pretty similar to the original 2019 version of The Great Pigsby from Relax Gaming, but the visuals are perhaps a tad more polished in this Megaways engine follow-up. The intro animation is short and sweet, and the dynamic reels grid is placed in front of the Pigsby mansion. You’re taken inside when the bonus round triggers, and the Megapays Jackpot game can trigger at any given moment.

The Great Pigsby Megapays Slot - Reels Screen

The Great Pigsby Megapays Slot Features

The premium symbols pay between 0.5 and 3 x your stake for 6 of a kind wins, and you also have a Wild symbol that expands to cover the entire reel whenever it lands. The Wild substitutes for all regular pay symbols to help complete winning combinations, and the multiplier value on the wild shows how many wilds the expanded wild represents. Wilds are collected in the piggy bank above the grid, and this triggers 1 of the 3 features described below at random times.

If The Great Pigsby Respin feature triggers, you get 3 to 9 of the top-tier Pigsby symbol randomly spread across the grid before the reels stop spinning.

The Wild Respins feature turns 2 to 5 reels fully wild, but reel number 1 cannot become wild.

The Bonus Round also comes from the piggy bank wild collection at random times, and you get 10 free spins. Whenever you land a scatter during the bonus round, you win +2 extra spins and a low-value royal symbol is removed from the grid for the duration of the feature. The removed royal is replaced by a random premium symbol as indicated by the meter above the grid. The random premium replacement symbol keeps shifting randomly per spin.

The Megapays Jackpot feature can trigger at any time, and higher stakes increases your likelihood of getting the jackpot game. A Megapays symbol is selected randomly from the royal symbols, and all instances of this symbol are stored at the bottom of the grid when they hit.

You get new respins as long as you keep landing the Megapays symbol, and this moves you up the Megapays Jackpot ladder seen on the left.

Here’s an overview of how it works:

• 4-7 Megapays symbols land you the Mini jackpot that starts at €100.
• 8-11 Megapays symbols land you the Midi jackpot that starts at €1,500.
• 12-14 Megapays symbols land you the Major jackpot that starts at €20,000.
• 15+ Megapays symbols land you the Mega jackpot that starts at €300,000.

The 200 Spins The Great Pigsby Megapays Slot Experience

You get a decent taste of the base game, before we trigger the bonus round at 1:40 into the 3:44-minute highlights video. This finally takes you inside the Pigsby mansion in the background, and we managed to get a few random symbol replacements going. You can check it all out for yourself by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

You can always count on Relax Gaming when it comes to spin pace and overall quality, so we’re not surprised that they deliver the goods in The Great Pigsby as well. The dynamic reels engine does its thing as usual, but there are no cascades to keep things interesting in the base game. What you get instead is the randomly triggered respin features, as well as expanding wilds. Not a bad trade-off at all really, but some may prefer the usual bonus round scatter trigger instead.

Either way, the free spins feature comes with an interesting royal to mystery premium replacement system, and things can heat up if you manage to replace a decent number of royals. All the main features are borrowed from the original game, but here you can win up to a solid 20,000x your stake outside of the jackpots. Keep in mind, however, that the main game effectively comes with an 86.75 % RTP, as a full 9.44 % goes to feed the jackpots.

Pros

• Expanding wilds trigger 1 of 3 features at random times:
• Great Pigsby Respin w/ up to 9 top-tier Pigsby symbols
• Wild Respin w/ 2-5 full wild reels (not reel 1)
• FS w/ royal to random premium replacement system
• Win up to 20,000x your stake outside of the jackpots
• Random Megapays progressive jackpot feature

Cons

• Main game RTP is effectively 86.75 % (9.44 % to jackpots)

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