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Giganimals Gigablox Review

UFOs, aliens, and strange phenomena in the sky are in the wind like never before at the time of writing, with unidentified flying objects being shot down in both the US and Canada. Yggdrasil has taken a humoristic approach to the subject matter, which is hardly unusual in the world of online slots, and Giganimals Gigablox seems to be about farm animals trying to invade an alien planet in their little flying saucers.

You get Gigablox symbols on each spin, and these are capable of filling the whole screen with the same symbol. Low-value symbols, that look like the battery indicator on your mobile phone, are collected in UFO meters. This eventually leads to the bonus round with the triggering symbol turned wild, and you can turn all 4 low value symbols wild in the same way. The 20,000x potential is solid enough, but it’s probably not enough to keep this game from sinking into oblivion pretty soon.

Giganimals Gigablox Slot - Reels Screen

Giganimals Gigablox Slot Features

You can expect the reels to merge on each spin via the Gigablox mechanic, and they can form mega symbols in sizes 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, or 6x6. These gigablox symbols still count as 1x1 sized symbols in win calculations though, and the premium alien symbols pay between 4 and 8 x your stake for 6 of a kind wins. The Wild symbol can land anywhere to substitute for pay symbols, and thus help complete and/or improve wins. Wilds also pay up to 20x your stake for 6 wilds on the same payline.

You can trigger the Wild Surge feature at random times, and this turns at least 1 of the 4 low value symbols into wilds. When low value symbols partake in a win, they are also collected by their respective UFO meters on the left-hand side. All values added to these meters receive a multiplier boost between x1 and x5, and filling a meter triggers the Collection Free Spins round.

You get between 5 and 24 free spins when you trigger the Collection Bonus Round, and you can choose to gamble for more if you get less than 24 spins. This takes place on a wheel, and you risk losing the whole feature if you go there. The low-value symbol corresponding to the meter you filled to trigger the bonus round becomes wild during the feature. Filling new meters upgrade other low-value symbols to wilds as well, and this also gives you +2 extra spins.

You can also trigger the Bonus Round by landing 5+ scatter symbols in view (and these are also counted as 1x1 sized symbols if they land in a larger format). You get 1 free spin per triggering scatter, and you can gamble to get more spins if you wish. Filling meters turn the corresponding low-value symbol wild, and you get +2 extra spins.

The Bonus Buy menu is available in some markets, but not in the UK for sure. If eligible, you can pay 75x your stake to get 10 to 24 free spins, 150x your stake to be guaranteed 24 free spins, or 250x your stake for 24 free spins with one low-value symbol turned wild from the get-go.

The 200 Spins Giganimals Gigablox Slot Experience

You get a brief taste of the base game, before we purchase the top-tier bonus round at 0:36 into the 3-minute highlights video. This gave us the maximum of 24 free spins, as well as the purple battery symbol (the highest value of the low value symbols) as a wild from the get-go. You can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

The Gigablox series hasn’t really been a massive success, and we hardly think what’s on offer in Giganimals Gigablox is gonna change that. The pace of the game is decent with the turbo switched on, but there isn’t all that much happening except the mega symbols that you get used to after a while. Sure, you get some random wild transformations sprinkled in for good measure, but they seldom make a massive impact.

The good news is that there are plenty of ways into the bonus round, as it can trigger both from scatters and from filling 1 of the 4 low-value symbol meters. These are kind of hilarious by the way, as each meter is a UFO piloted by a farm animal. The bonus round itself isn’t all that eventful by default, and at least not until you’ve converted at least a few low-value symbols to wilds. Even then it kind of feels like the base game, but the 20,000x potential is surprisingly high. How realistic it is is another matter, and we know Yggdrasil can do better than this.