90k Yeti Gigablox Demo (4ThePlayer) Slot Demo & Review

4ThePlayer has partnered with Yggdrasil once again for this follow-up to their previous hit 9k Yeti – a great move, we would say. The mountain theme suits the game well, and the symbols are suitably winter-like, too. With so many developers pushing out lazy Megaways clones, 4ThePlayer’s slots really are a breath of fresh air. The sound is suitably ambient, so it won’t annoy you and have you reaching for the mute button, though the endless pinging of the spin button may do.

Let’s get to the meat and potatoes here – 90k Yeti Gigablox is all about the payouts, and the math model is unique and interesting, to say the least. It’s an absolute godsend to see the paytable expressed as multiplies of your stake – why developers haven’t been doing this for years is a mystery to us. The top symbol is, of course, the Yeti himself, paying 4.8x your stake for a line of six. It doesn’t sound great, but remember, this slot has 46,656 possible ways to win – you are never going to win just 4.8x your stake. It could be 20 ways… or it could be 2,000. You just never know. The payouts for the lower symbols do drop quickly, which is a tad disappointing, but is to be expected in this type of game. Just 2x for the top two picture symbols, followed by 1.5x and 1.2x … you get the gist. None of this is a problem, although we were disappointed that neither the wild nor the scatter symbol has any payout whatsoever attached to them. Come on, 4ThePlayer, give us a big payout for six scatters, please!

The betting range begins at €0.10 and tops out at €10.00 – this gives players room to change their bets as their balance changes, and the cap of €10 is sensible given the enormous payouts this slot can deliver. As mentioned previously, it’s already maxed out twice since its release two months ago. That makes the 90k Yeti Gigablox slot game a tempting proposition for any slot player.

The ethos of 4ThePlayer is to create slots with features they would like to see in online slots themselves. This is a brilliant view to take and suits their name perfectly. You will not be surprised to hear that the base game has plenty of tricks, mods, and features to keep you interested whilst you wait for those all-important scatter symbols to land onscreen. On the downside, the base game reels are filled with “snow blocks”, which often block otherwise winning combinations. However, some of the mods and features eliminate these blocks, while others can transform them into winning symbols, so it isn’t all bad.

Yeti Reveal Feature

When the Yeti Reveal feature activates, those annoying snow blocks will become your friend, thanks to the Yeti. He will awaken from his slumber, smash the reel set, and transform all visible Snow Blox into winning symbols. Thank Yeti!

Snowstorm Feature

This feature works much better during the free spins when you do not have the snow blox to worry about, but it’s still nice when it activates during the base game as it guarantees a win. The abominable snowman will again wake from his slumber and course a snowstorm, which rearranges the reel strips into an order that creates a win. All those times you were playing a slot and said to yourself, “Ah if ONLY I had a winning symbol THERE”? … this is the solution to that problem. The Yeti will put that symbol in the correct place for you. Of course, it does not happen every spin, but it feels so good when it happens.

Gigablox & Giga Summon

Reels looking a little sparse? No big blocks in sight? Then, you may get lucky, and the Giga Summon feature will activate. When this happens, the Yeti will expand one or more symbols on the reels up to a maximum of 4×4 slabs of matching symbols. Technically, this does not guarantee a win, but in our experience, you’ll need to be unlucky not to hit one with this feature.

The icy footprints count as the scatters in the 90k Yeti Gigablox online slot, but like most other aspects of this game, things are a little bit different in 4ThePlayer’s vision of the future of online gambling. Even the scatter symbols are not restricted to typical 1×1 symbols – a 3×3 free spins symbol will award 9 free spins, whereas a 4×4 block will award 16 free spins. These huge scatters are rare, of course, but they do drop.

The free spins mode does away with the snow blocks that will undoubtedly have frustrated you in the base game, so be prepared for some big wins here. Every bonus you hit, whether 5 free spins or 20, is accompanied by a guaranteed Giga Summon or Snowstorm feature. The snowstorm definitely works better during free spins and has much more potential for creating a big win. On the other hand, we still think we would prefer a Giga Summon – with bonus reels in play, this is extremely likely to lead to a huge win.

Bonus Buy Feature

There are four choices when It comes to buying your way to the good stuff in 90k Yeti Gigablox – you can bet 60x, 120x, or 240x your stake for 5, 10, or 20 free spins, respectively. Admittedly, the price is a little high on the 10/20 options – but what do you expect from a game that Is chucking out 90,000x stake to lucky players son a monthly basis?

The fourth and final bonus buy option is to spend 150x your stake on a Giga Summon spin. You read that correctly; in our testing, we never saw the advertised 6×6 possible block land, though we did get the 5×5 once. Generally, we won close to the 150x stake we put in, but on no occasion did we win massively above that investment. Perhaps we were just unlucky? It’s impossible to say; therefore, we advise caution with this option.