Piggy Riches Begins Demo (Red Tiger Gaming) Slot Demo & Review

Game Overview

Piggy Riches Begins is Red Tiger Gaming’s next instalment in their (and NetEnt’s) iconic Piggy Riches series. Here, you’ll find a more straightforward progression-based Hold & Win mechanic compared to previous releases, but there are still other modifiers like expanding wilds, multipliers, and a maximum win potential of up to 21,285x. Is it any good? Let’s find out. 

Theme & Design

Whether it’s NetEnt’s original Piggy Riches release or later sequels like Piggy Riches Megaways or Piggy Riches 3: Hog Heaven, this pig-themed range of games has always done pretty well, and the original still remains popular more than a decade after its initial release.

Visually, Piggy Riches Begins looks quite similar to its predecessors, and the reels sit in front of a bright yellow mansion complete with a swimming pool, luxury cars, and even a diving board that’s lined with gold!

Unlike previous releases, however, in Piggy Riches Begins you’ll see character portraits above the reels. These light up as you play through the game’s four levels, as we’ll see later in this review.

Piggy Riches Begins Gameplay & Bonus Features

Piggy Riches Begins runs on a five-reel, four-row layout, and the game uses a 1024-ways-to-win mechanic. You can play for stakes from €0.10 to €4, and the game offers a default RTP of 96.17%. Wins form by landing matching symbols on adjacent reels from the left.

Now, in Piggy Riches Begins, all wild symbols are tied to a unique growth mechanic, starting as 1×1 and gradually increasing to 1×4 as you advance through the game’s four levels. They appear on reels 2, 3, and 4, and when they land, they substitute for all regular symbols. The Collector symbol is the most important and appears only on reel 5; when fewer than six cash/prize scatters are on the grid, it instantly collects their values. Once six or more scatters land, the Hold & Respin bonus triggers first, after which the Collector gathers only cash symbols for the remainder of the round.

You’ll notice that cash symbols display random values, and these can reach up to 20,000x once you unlock Level 4! You can also land multiplier symbols on reel 5 that boost line wins.

Progression itself forms the backbone of the gameplay loop. Each time you trigger a Hold & Respin feature while below Level 4, you climb one level. Each level increases the size of wilds, expands the cash symbol ranges, and opens higher multiplier brackets. Once you reach Level 4, the game stays permanently unlocked, and it’s here that you’ll be able to win the jackpot prizes and land the game’s largest wild symbols.

To trigger the Hold & Respin bonus, you need to land six or more cash/prize scatter symbols anywhere in view. Once you do, all triggering symbols lock in place and you receive three respins. Each position becomes its own reel, spinning individually and landing either cash symbols, prize symbols, collectors, or blanks. 

Each new non-blank symbol resets the respin counter to three. If you manage to land any of the Collector symbols, they collect all cash prizes on screen and then clear their spots.

Feature Buy

Piggy Riches Begins contains three bonus buy options. For 3x your bet, you can guarantee a multiplier on each spin; for 20x, you can guarantee a Collector symbol; and for 60x, you can instantly trigger the game’s main Hold & Respin Bonus.