Fugly Pets Slot Review
A fluorescent tube buzzes over a cluttered back-alley workshop, teal paint peeling, crates stacked to the ceiling and hand-lettered signs pinned to the walls. Fugly Pets, from Stakelogic, fills that grimy little shop with ugly-cute vermin and then makes them work for a living: this is a game that rehearses its best trick in the base game every spin but only ever performs it properly in free spins. The multipliers climb, then get wiped. That tension is the whole design, and it’s a sharper one than the shabby setting suggests.
It runs on a 5×5 grid with 3,125 ways to pay, at 96.00% RTP and full five-star volatility, with wins capped at 5,000x the bet. The interesting part is what the bonus round changes rather than adds: multipliers that persist instead of resetting. Animal-themed chaos is familiar territory for this studio, with Devil’s Trap, Rooster Mobs and Wild Hogs all cut from similar cloth.
The Base Game
Wins land as combinations of matching symbols anywhere on the 3,125 pays, and every win triggers a cascade: the winning symbols clear away, new ones drop in, and the chain continues for as long as new wins form. It’s a familiar loop, and the game layers four modifiers on top of it.
Wilds appear on reels two, three, four and five, substituting for everything except the BONUS symbol. That’s their whole job, and they do it without ceremony.
The paytable is stacked with monsters and vermin at the top and a thin tail of card symbols below. The four creature symbols at the top pay from as few as two on screen; the rest don’t pay until four land, which tells you where the money is meant to come from. Values are multiples of the total bet:
- Red/Brown Monster: 0.2x for two, 1x for three, 2x for four, 5x for five
- Purple Creature: 0.1x, 0.8x, 1.6x, 4x
- Rooster: 0.1x, 0.6x, 1.2x, 2.5x
- Rat: 0.1x, 0.5x, 1x, 2x
- Green Creature: 0.6x for four, 1.2x for five
- Red A and Purple K: 0.4x for four, 0.8x for five
- Orange Badge/Ring: 0.2x for four, 0.4x for five
Symbol Multipliers
Every high-paying symbol carries its own multiplier, starting at x1. When one of them forms a winning combination, that symbol’s multiplier increases before the cascade settles, and any subsequent win involving the same symbol gets the multiplier applied.
The ladder runs x2, x4, x8, x16, x32 and x64. In the base game the multipliers reset to x1 on the next spin, so a single spin can climb a few rungs but never many. The long builds belong to the bonus round, not here.
There are five of these ladders running at once, one for each high-paying symbol, and they climb independently. A spin that wins with the Rooster, cascades, then wins with the Rat has moved two separate multipliers, and each one only applies to wins involving its own symbol.
Roadkill Symbol
The Roadkill symbol only lands on reel five, and it starts life doing nothing at all. It waits until win processing has finished and no more cascades are possible. Only then does it wake up.
It moves left across the reels, removing paying symbols in its path. Each symbol it touches either turns wild, is destroyed, or stays as it is. Every destroyed symbol triggers a fresh cascade and another shot at a win, so a single Roadkill can restart a chain that had already gone quiet.
Because the wilds it creates can complete wins the original grid couldn’t, a Roadkill pass often changes the shape of the board twice over: once when it clears its path, and again when the cascades it triggered settle. It’s the most characterful modifier in the game.
Super Symbols
Super Symbols can land on any reel as oversized blocks: 2×2, 3×3 or 4×4. When one arrives, it removes the symbols beneath it and drops to the bottom of the reel, with a fresh set of symbols filling the space above. So a Super Symbol doesn’t just pay itself, it reshuffles everything on the reel it lands on.
The twist is in how it counts. A Super Symbol is one block, but it pays as if each of its 1×1 cells were a separate regular symbol. A 4×4 Super Symbol is therefore sixteen paying positions in a single drop, which is where the big cascade chains start.
The refill matters as much as the block. The new symbols that fill the space above a dropped Super Symbol arrive fresh, so they can form wins the original arrangement never had, and each of those wins feeds straight into the cascade loop with the multipliers attached.
Free Spins Bonus
BONUS symbols are scattered symbols: they count anywhere on the reels, not on fixed lines. The number that lands decides the award:
- 3 BONUS symbols: 10 free spins
- 4 BONUS symbols: 12 free spins
- 5 BONUS symbols: 15 free spins
More free spins can be won inside the round, so the count isn’t fixed at the trigger. The important change is the symbol multipliers: for the whole bonus they’re persistent and never reset to x1. A high-paying symbol that keeps winning keeps climbing the ladder, and with wilds, Super Symbols and Roadkill all still active, the chains can run long enough for several multipliers to stack up at once.
The five ladders also reset before the free spins are awarded, so every bonus round starts from a clean x1.
Buy Feature
The free spins round can be triggered instantly from the base game. The prices are steep, as five-star volatility buys tend to be:
- 10 free spins: 100x bet
- 12 free spins: 125x bet
- 15 free spins: 165x bet
- Random option: one of the above three, chosen at random
More spins means more chances to build multipliers that never reset, which is what the stepped pricing is selling. The random option simply deals you one of the three fixed packages, so the only thing it changes is what you know in advance.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.2/10
Playing Fugly Pets means watching a lot of base game that’s openly rehearsing for the main event, and the only reason to sit through it is the round where the multipliers finally stick. The ugly little workshop grows on you, though. There’s real charm in a Rooster and a Rat scrabbling for crumbs under a dying strip light.
The persistent multiplier ladder is the best thing here, because it makes the bonus a build rather than a lottery: five ladders climbing independently, each win feeding the next, all of it compounding until the round ends. That’s a genuinely satisfying engine. The cost of admission is the problem: at 100x the bet for the cheapest package, and a five-star volatility engine deciding when you get in organically, most of your money goes on the door.
It suits players who like a long build and don’t mind paying for it, and the grimy, hand-painted style is a nice bonus for anyone tired of polished animal slots. Players who want regular returns from the base game won’t find them in this workshop, and the pets won’t apologise for it.
Fugly Pets FAQs
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How do you trigger the Free Spins Bonus in Fugly Pets?
Three, four or five BONUS symbols scattered anywhere on the reels award 10, 12 or 15 free spins respectively. More free spins can be won during the round itself. -
What does the Symbol Multiplier do in Fugly Pets?
Each of the five high-paying symbols has a multiplier attached to it. A win with one of those symbols raises its multiplier before the cascade, and the possible values run x2, x4, x8, x16, x32 and x64. In the base game they reset each spin, but in free spins they’re persistent for the whole round. -
What is the Roadkill symbol in Fugly Pets?
It only appears on reel five and stays inactive until all wins and cascades have finished. It then moves left, turning symbols wild, destroying them or leaving them alone, and every destroyed symbol triggers a fresh cascade. -
Can free spins retrigger in Fugly Pets?
Yes. It’s possible to win more free spins during a Free Spins Bonus round. -
What is a Super Symbol in Fugly Pets?
A large block, 2×2, 3×3 or 4×4 in size, that can land on any reel. It removes the symbols below it, drops to the bottom of the reel and pays as if each of its cells were a separate regular symbol. -
How much does the Buy Feature cost in Fugly Pets?
10 free spins cost 100x the bet, 12 cost 125x and 15 cost 165x. There’s also a random option that awards one of those three packages, chosen at random. -
What is the RTP of Fugly Pets?
96.00%. -
Is Fugly Pets high volatility?
Yes. The game carries a full five-star volatility rating.
