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The year of the pig is here! ISoftBet understands this and the provider offers us a 5-reels, 3-rows, 25-paylines The Fortune Pig™ slot to celebrate this event. Without missing a panoply of symbols specific to Chinese amulets and a pig's head as a wild that is really too cute, well round gold-coloured that serves as a wild, a dragon that does not look mean either and bags of money that will help us to grow our bankroll.
In Chinese astrology each year is associated with a zodiac animal in a 12 year cycle. Pigs are diligent, compassionate and generous people with a strong ability to concentrate. The Pig is a playful and plump animal and its characteristics suggest prosperity, joy of living, happiness. This year, according to the Chinese stars, people of the Pig sign have agreed to have a wonderful year.
People of the Pig sign, once their goal is set, use all their energy to achieve it and even if they rarely ask for help from their entourage, they are the first to reach out to all those who need it. Unfortunately they are fooled by their overconfident nature. Pigs normally remain calm in the face of adversity. They manage to deal with problems with great seriousness and insight.
The wild symbol is the pudgy pig's head stacked together and can be obtained in one, two or three positions on the same reel. It can substitute for all regular symbols except the scatter symbol (The Fortune Pig™ golden dragon), and money bags to form winning combinations. The golden dragon with a blue ball (scatter) will trigger 3 times 8 Fortune free spins if found!
During the main game, three scatter symbols anywhere on reels 1, 3 and 5 will activate Fortune 8 free spins. During the free spins, at the beginning of each spin, between 2 and 5 reels are randomly selected to spin in sync (same symbols on each reel). The free spins Fortune cannot be reactivated. The winnings from the free spins will be added to the total winnings, and the bet cannot be changed until the end of the free spins.
Five or more Money Bag symbols anywhere on the reels will trigger 3 Cash Re-spins, played on a special reel game where only Money Bag and Fortune Pigs symbols appear. The Re-spins start with the initial Money Bag symbols in place. During Cash Re-spins when a Money Bag symbol or a Fortune Pig symbol collecting money bags lands on the reels, the number of new spins is reduced to 3.
All money bag symbols that land during the spin remain in place until the Re-spins end. In addition, during Re-spins, if the Fortune Pig symbol lands on the reels, the values of all Money Bag symbols currently on the reels accumulate on the Fortune Pig's position and the Re-spins are reset to 3.
The Re-spins end when no additional Money Bag symbols appear on the special reel set or when all positions on the special reel set are filled. The sum of the values of each position on the special game will be added to your bankroll. The values shown in the cash bags are in coins. Cash Re-spins cannot be re-triggered during Free Spins Fortunes and the value of the bet cannot be changed.
The iSoftBet provider comes to celebrate the Chinese New Year with its new mobile casino game The Fortune Pig™ which has just been released with the theme of the year of the pig which has 5 reels, 3 rows and 25 paylines. The Fortune Pig™ instant video slot has very colourful graphics with gold and red dominating, very rounded shapes and all the fortune symbology is very well represented. If you like games with pigs and money, iSoftBet suggests you try Piggy Bank Megaways™ (2022).
It is true that there are quite a few slots with the theme of China and its symbols and this is another one of them. The jack is nice, the tigers on the sides all cute but do we really have everything a player needs? Let's take stock... A return to player of 95.4% is not great because the average is normally around 96.5% so it's a bit low on that side.
ISoftBet could do better. The volatility is medium to high, it is true that one should not wait too long for the features. They come in very quickly and are triggered quite frequently, which I find quite good for players. The bet values range from €0.01 to €1 which gives us a total bet of between €0.25 and €25: for beginners and players who don't have a lot of money this is perfect.
However, for those who like to bet big, it's not their game because €25 for a High Roller that claims to play and win big is not going to be a good thing. Moreover, the jackpot is not huge, we are talking about a maximum of €12,500, far from the big jackpots of the competitors! The initial bankroll offered in free mode is €1000, which is a far cry from the large bankrolls that some software offers us in order to have enough chips to play at our ease.
As for the features, there are two: Fortune free spins with reels that can be synchronized and that offer more winnings and Cash Respins with Money Bags that give us direct winnings. The features are good and rewarding, of course at a low level but they are recurring. To sum up, The Fortune Pig™ slot is not bad but could do better on some levels which I explained a little earlier in this review.
