Great Pigsby Megaways Slot Review
Two searchlights sweep a starry sky above a columned mansion, and at the very top of the pediment, in a glowing arched niche, a golden piggy bank spills coins onto the steps below. There’s even a cat on the roofline, watching. This is the Jazz Age as Relax Gaming tells it, with pigs in the leading roles, and the studio plays the glamour entirely straight.
The studio gave this house two outings, and the earlier one, The Great Pigsby Megapays, we praised in 2022 for dressing a genuinely volatile engine in proper Art Deco styling. This version swaps the Megapays jackpots for Megaways: six reels, up to 117,649 ways, high volatility and a 96.08% RTP. It sits in the same catalogue as Temple Tumble Megaways and the Money Train series.
Six Reels, Up to 117,649 Ways
The grid is six reels wide, with each reel carrying a variable number of rows on every spin. That’s classic Megaways behaviour: the ways count shifts constantly, and the game displays the running total above the reels.
In the space of a handful of consecutive spins the counter can read a few hundred ways and then tens of thousands, because every reel re-rolls its row count independently. Wins work on the pay-ways principle. Matching symbols in any position across three or more adjacent reels, starting from the leftmost reel, constitute a pay way win.
Symbols don’t need to line up on a marked row, and they don’t need to sit on the first row of any reel. The full six-reel, maximum-row layout gives the 117,649 ways figure.
The paytable is priced in multiples of the total bet, and it’s a modest ladder at the top end:
- Pig (blue): 0.7x for three, 1x for four, 1.5x for five, 3x for six
- Piglet (pink): 0.5x, 0.8x, 1x, 2x
- Ring: 0.3x, 0.5x, 0.7x, 1x
- Gramophone: 0.2x, 0.4x, 0.6x, 0.8x
- Drink: 0.2x, 0.3x, 0.4x, 0.5x
- Royals (A, K, Q, J, 10): 0.1x, 0.2x, 0.3x, 0.4x
The symbols carry the theme well. Two pigs, one blue and one pink, head the ladder, followed by the props of the mansion’s good life: a ring, a gramophone and a drink. The five royals fill the bottom rung.
Six of the best symbol returns three times the stake, which tells you the paytable is built for volume of ways rather than per-symbol value, as is standard for the format. A six-of-a-kind premium hit pays 3x on its own, but a tall grid with thousands of ways can land several combinations at once, and the total is what the spin pays.
A premium win reaching from reel one to reel six with multiple symbols on each reel can add up to considerably more than the symbol value suggests. The wild substitutes for all symbols.
The Expanding Wild Reel
The wild is the feature here, and it does more than stand in for other symbols. When a wild lands, it expands to cover the entire reel it arrives on. The rest of the game’s payout character follows from what happens next.
Each expanded wild reel carries a multiplier value, and that value shows how many wild symbols the reel represents. A wild reel marked x3 counts as three wilds stacked into one column. In plain terms, the wild reel does three things at once:
- Substitutes for every paying symbol
- Fills its whole reel, top to bottom, on arrival
- Counts as multiple wilds in one column, per the multiplier shown on it
The multiplier matters enormously on a pay-ways grid. Because wins count matching symbols in any position across adjacent reels, a column that stands in for three wilds multiplies the number of ways each connected symbol can complete through that reel.
On a two-row reel the wild covers two positions; on a tall reel it can cover many more, and a higher multiplier value compounds the effect further. With six reels in play and rows shifting every spin, a tall grid plus one or two expanded wild reels is where the meaningful wins live.
The rest of the time, the ways count does the work and the pays stay small. That’s the shape of the game: brief, structural spikes rather than a steady climb.
There’s no collection meter filling, no scatter count building towards a threshold.
The grid either produces a wild column on the drop or it doesn’t, and the spin resolves in a single beat.
Volatility and Win Potential
This is a high volatility game running at 96.08% RTP, and the maths behaves as that pairing suggests. Wins are modest per symbol, the ways count swings widely from spin to spin, and the expanded wild reels are the mechanism that turns a quiet grid into a paying one.
The potential is structural rather than stated. What a spin can pay is a product of the ways active on it and the wild columns sitting in the middle of them, with up to 117,649 ways on the fullest grid and wild reels that can represent several wilds each. There’s no maximum win figure for this one.
It’s a lean feature set by modern standards. No bonus round, no scatter-driven free spins, no buy menu: just the ways engine and the expanding wilds. Everything the game pays, it pays through those two systems working together, and there’s no second mechanic waiting behind them.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 6.8/10
Sessions here are one long stroll up the mansion’s driveway: the purple dusk holds, the ways count ticks over, and every so often a wild reel lights up a column and the spin matters. That’s the whole reason to choose it, because the expanding wild does real structural work on this grid rather than decorating a feature list.
The strength is focus. With no bonus round, no free spins and nothing to wait for, everything the game pays flows through the ways engine and the wild columns, so a tall grid with two of them can produce the kind of spin most games need a bonus round to reach. The weakness is that same leanness: when the wilds stay away, there’s nothing else, and a 3x ceiling on six premium symbols doesn’t fill the silence.
It suits Megaways players who enjoy the engine for its own sake and like their volatility undecorated, and the Art Deco styling makes the quiet stretches easy on the eye. Anyone who wants rounds, retriggers or a jackpot to chase belongs at the Megapays sibling’s party instead.
Great Pigsby Megaways FAQs
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What is the RTP of Great Pigsby Megaways?
The theoretical return to player is 96.08%. -
Is Great Pigsby Megaways high volatility?
Yes, it’s a high volatility slot, so wins tend to be less frequent and larger when they arrive. -
How many paylines does Great Pigsby Megaways have?
Up to 117,649 Megaways. Wins don’t use fixed paylines; symbols just need to appear on three or more adjacent reels from the left. -
What is the grid size of Great Pigsby Megaways?
Six reels with a variable number of rows per reel, which is what drives the changing ways count on each spin. -
What does the wild symbol do in Great Pigsby Megaways?
It stands in for every paying symbol and, on landing, stretches to fill the reel it arrives on. -
What does the multiplier on a wild reel mean?
The multiplier value on a wild reel shows how many wild symbols that wild reel represents, so an x3 wild reel counts as three wilds in one column. -
Does Great Pigsby Megaways have a free spins bonus?
No. The expanding wild reels and the Megaways ways engine are the whole feature set; there’s no separate free spins round or bonus game. -
When was Great Pigsby Megaways released?
Great Pigsby Megaways’ release date is 19 October 2022.
