Richy Hog Slot Review

As the title suggests, the main character in Richy Hog slot from Belatra Games is a wealthy pig. The studio says he has “the most beautiful girls, the most expensive cigars and huge safes filled to overflowing with gold bars, pleasantly rustling banknotes and sparkling precious stones.”

Old Sus Scrofa Domesticus has gotten a bad rap for centuries for his apparent gluttony and yet a shrew will easily outeat a pig. Shrews can eat two to three times their body weight per day! So if any animal deserved to be lambasted as a glutton, it’s that little bastard.

Gameplay

The other animal characters you’ll see gracing the 5x4-reel, 20-payline grid – other than our cigar-chomping swine and his flame-haired babe – are police bulldogs and bowler-hat-wearing cats.

Special symbols include bonus Scatters (these look like piggy banks), the Golden Hog, a Magic Safe, and Coins. Then there’s the Police Control symbol and some multipliers – which only appear during Free Spins.

Our wealthy hog is the Wild and it replaces the animal symbols, along with the gold bars, diamonds, stacks of cash, dollar signs, and cigars (these are the low-paying symbols). Coins come with values of 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 500, 1,000, and 2,500.

Lastly, let’s check out the game’s vitals: 96.08% RTP, 5,000x max multiplier, €250,000 top prize, high volatility rate, and all currencies are available.

Features

OPEN AND NUDGE:

Magic Safes are a group of 4 symbols that can appear anywhere during the base game and Free Spins round. As long as there are safes on the reels, the Open and Nudge feature will be triggered and it works like this.

The Safes open up and reveal either a paying symbol or the Golden Hog. The latter will transform into coins, Scatters, or it’ll freeze the reels during Free Spins (using the Police Control symbol).

Once the Open and Nudge feature has done its thing, the next spin will see the reels with Safes move down a position.

FREE SPINS:

You’ll need 3 or more Scatter bonus symbols to trigger Free Spins.

The Police Control symbol will only appear during the round and its job is to freeze the Magic Safes it drops on. This will last for 2 spins. If the Police Control symbol lands on a reel that’s already frozen, the freeze counter will reset to 3.

Now, if two Police Control symbols drop on the same reel simultaneously, that’ll only see the reel freeze for 3 spins (not 6, if that’s what you were hoping for).

Multipliers will only grace us with their presence during this feature and can carry values of 1x, 2x, 3x, or 5x.

Speaking of multipliers, the Free Spin round has an Accumulative Multiplier which means that each Free Spin round you play will increase its multiplier by a factor of 1 (you start with 1x).

Scatter +1 symbols move all Magic Safes up by 1 position for each of these symbols. If the Scatter +1 drops but the Police Control symbol has already arrested the movement of the Safes, then they won’t move up.

At the start of the round, you’ll see a horizontal reel. If a Magic Safe symbol appears here, the reel below will be filled with stacks of Magic Safes. You can also get multipliers on this horizontal reel and they’ll increase the value of the Accumulative Multiplier.

Free Spins persist for as long as there are Magic Safes on the reels, so you want as many Police Control and Scatter +1 symbols landing as possible.

BUY BONUS:

Click on the star icon and for 100x you’ll find yourself whisked away to the Free Spins round.

Performance

I glutted myself on hundreds of spins while I was testing Richy Hog slot and in all that time, the game performed flawlessly.

Maximum Win

Yeah, these are the kind of numbers I like to see: 5,000x as our maximum multiplier, and €250,000 for the top prize. Hell yeah.

As for the betting range, that goes from €0.20 to €50.

Conclusion

I have to admit that it took me a minute or two to digest how the game works but once I wrapped my head around it, it proved to be a pretty funky experience. But let me be completely honest; the base game can get a touch boring.

What impressed me the most was how you can rack up multipliers. On my first outing, I scored 204x and of course, it’s during the Free Spins round where all the magic happens. And by magic, I mean farting pigs. You’ll see what I mean.

I used the Buy Bonus a lot because that’s where the sweet spot is and because each successive Free Spin round means an increased Accumulative Multiplier.

Maybe it was the luck of the Devil, but I made a tidy profit – and sometimes a stunning amount – almost every time I used the Bonus Buy option. There were those few occasions where I tanked but my previous profits covered me so I could keep playing.

Another thing that impressed me was the mobile experience. Goddamn, this slot looks incredible on my iPhone 12 Pro. I know it’s an older phone, don’t judge me. And if you prefer portrait over landscape mode or vice versa, it won’t matter as both orientations rock.

Yeah, I’d say it’s worth the effort of getting to grips with Richy Hog slot.

Slot Details

Software: Belatra Games
Game Type: Video Slots
Paylines: 20
Reels: 5
RTP: 96.08%
Bonus Round: No
Progressive: No
Free Rounds: Free Spins
Max Multiplier: 5,000x
Max Win: €250,000

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