In this video slot from Play’n GO, we find ourselves heading off into the countryside in search of golden coins. Piggy Bank Farm is a rather humorous take on the life of farmer Joe who has planted pieces of plastic and some gold coins on his farm and is waiting to see what will grow. We see him ending up with a farm full of piggy banks having grown when harvesting time has come around. What’s more, you get to smash these piggies banks with a hammer which gives one a certain sense of satisfaction. In this online slot game, there are Wild substitutions, Piggy Bank Spins as well as a free spins round with multipliers of up to x10 these can lead to wins of up to 5,000x times your bet.
Piggy Bank Farm features some entertaining and exciting moments, especially if you manage to build up some solid piggy bank clusters.
Play’n Go is well known gaming provider for turning out quality games at a fast rate. While most of them are quite similar, this one uses an excellent math model and has high volatility. It also has a win potential of 5,000x, which is not bad at all. That been said, there is nothing unusually thrilling to be found in this game. The bonus round is quite interesting when you manage to trigger lots of Piggy Bank Spins within it, and it’s lots of fun to see what the larger piggy bank symbols reveal in the end. It’s bound to keep you captivated when things are going well, unfortunately, those moments can sometimes be a bit few and far between.
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This video slot has a farm theme with a cartoonish quality to the 3D visuals. There are fields with crops, a tractor, as well as a barn in the background. Overall the theme has a rather happy feel to it with the design been colorful, bright, and clear. The backing track has a slight hint of country to it, and it’s not too bad sounding at all and suits the game. Overall, one has to say the design of the theme is nicely done.
On the reels, we find the lower-paying symbols 10, J, Q, K, A royals. The higher-paying symbols are represented by 4 farmyard animals which are the Hen, Dog, Sheep, and the Cow. Landing 3, 4, or 5 cows on a pay line pays you an award of 6x, 12x, or 24x your total stake.
The game’s wild is represented by Farmer Joe. He can appear on reels 1-5 and replace all standard symbols if he makes up part of the winning line. Landing 3, 4, or 5 wilds in combination will get you an award that is equal to 8x, 16x, or 50x your total stake
The gameplay is quite good with the Piggy Bank Spins feature and offers some decent fun and action. As with most slots the main area of action is the Free Spins feature. Here we see multiple hammers bringing multipliers into play making for massive wins.
We find 2 different bonus rounds in this game, let’s take a closer look at them below:
Starting with the Piggy Bank Spins round, this is activated when you land a hammer symbol on reel 5 while playing the base game. This activates a Hold & Spin feature, with you starting with 3 spins. Only piggy banks or blanks can land on the reels, each new piggy bank landed becomes sticky and the number of spins will be reset to 3 again.
Piggy banks can be merged to form 2×2, 3×3, and 4×4 clusters. However, the cash value of the piggy banks will not be revealed until the end of the feature when all of the piggy banks are smashed open by the hammer, with the cash prizes been combined into your total win. The larger piggy bank clusters will pay the most while the smaller clusters pay less. There is also a jackpot worth 500x your stake to be won here. This will happen if you manage to build a cluster that fills up the whole screen with a 5×4 mega Piggy Bank symbol.
The Normal Free Spins round is activated upon landing scatter symbols on reels 1, 3, and 5 at the same time. You will then be awarded 8 free spins, to begin with, what’s more, you can activate the Piggy Bank Hold & Win feature from within the free spins round also. To achieve this you need to land the hammer symbol anywhere insight and not just on reel 5, like in the base game.
Landing more than one hammer symbol will allow you to benefit from a multiplier during the Piggy Bank Spins. This multiplier can go up as high as 10x, meaning that the 5×4 mega cluster will be worth up to 5,000x your stake.
An unlimited amount of extra free spins can also be awarded to you during the bonus round. You will get 3 extra spins added to your tally each time you land scatters on reels 1, 3, and 5 while the feature is active. This means you can activate the Piggy Banks feature many times while a bonus round is active, leading to a very fantastic payout.
It’s plain to see that Piggy Bank Farm is yet another superbly designed video slot from Play’n GO and that even if it is not ground-breaking nor super suspenseful, it still delivers solid fun gameplay that comes with some surprising twists. This slot is highly volatile, yet bonus very often. It is easy to land 3 scatters, however bonus just have poor payouts for most times.
