FORTUNE PIG

HOW TO PLAY FORTUNE PIG

Long-term readers of Casino Bloke know we are not major fans of Chinese-themed titles. All of them usually do the exact same thing, forcing whatever Chinese reference to the fortune they can find. This iSoftBet release is equally guilty of this. The available symbols are comprised of playing card royals: J, Q, K and A and several stereotypical Chinese icons.

Coins tied together by a red string, a golden bonsai tree made out of coins, a drum, and a golden lion statue. All of them look good, but they have all been done to death by now. A golden pig’s head is a Wild, which can substitute all symbols except for Scatters and Bonus. The golden dragon is the Scatter and is used to activate free spins. Finally, the red money-bag is the bonus icon and is used to trigger Cash re-spins.

Core gameplay follows a very familiar loop. The layout is a standard 5-reel, 3-row playing field with 25 fixed paylines. Wins are granted for collecting three or more identical symbols left to right, following one of the active paylines. Players can set their total bet between $0.25 as the minimum, and $25 as the maximum bet per single spin.

PAYOUTS

While we had lots of fun playing the bonuses, we do wish the cash prizes were better. Despite being a slot all about fortune, it fails to match the maximum win of its competitors. An 800x jackpot is decent, but iSoftBet can do much better than that. The RTP for Fortune Pig is 95.14%, which is way below the current industry average.

FORTUNE PIG (ISOFTBET): CASINOBLOKE’S VERDICT

The entire time we were playing Fortune Pig, we wished we were playing Imperial Wealth instead. While it was also a Chinese-themed title, it did not feel quite so generic. Graphics are a mixed bag, with superb animations, but everything else being bland and uninteresting. The bonuses were fun to play through, especially the money re-spins.

But the fun factor is lost when the prize you get from these special features is simply not worth the time it takes to trigger the bonus. This slot has the potential to be great, but iSoftBet has to fix a few of its glaring issues before that can happen.