Bacon Bankroll  (Bigwinboard.com)

Bacon Bankroll: Slot Overview

Pigs have a reputation for being greedy, as do bankers, whether accurate or not, and the two things go together hand in hand in Bacon Bankroll, an online slot designed by software provider Relax Gaming. Not greedy for features, it seems, as this is not a slot the studio has seriously flexed its mechanical muscles for. Its key trick is splitting high pay symbols, which get a boost in free spins where a fixed win multiplier is called into play. There are also relatively low-value jackpot prizes available from a wheel, so Bacon Bankroll might not be an embarrassment of mechanical riches, a fat banking bonus, but let's see how the game stacks up.

It starts outside a swanky establishment, the sort of bank or financial institution that regular Joes best be steering clear of. The sort of place where if you're wondering if your net worth is large enough to step in the door, it's not. Old Glory waves in the breeze from the rooftop, indicating the USA is where Bacon Bankroll is set; Wall Street, or elsewhere, isn't made clear, though background skyscrapers mean we're downtown somewhere. Trigger free spins, and the action takes place indoors, where chunky computers and chunkier mobile phones provide an 80s touch.

A gilded 5x3 matrix is Bacon Bankroll's play area, where there are 20 paylines awarding wins left to right from the leftmost reel. With a chance to buy the free spins round, gamblers may select a base bet of 10c to $/€100 per spin, and when playing this way, the RTP is 96.22%. As for volatility, the math model is classed as medium.

Pay symbols in Bacon Bankroll are J-A royals, phones, and computer monitors as low pays, then two piggy bankers as the highs. Five of a kind winning combinations pay 2x to 4x the bet. However, high pays can be split, so they are worth up to 50x for 10 OAK. Wilds appear on all reels but not the leftmost reel. They substitute for all regular paying symbols.

Bacon Bankroll: Slot Features

There isn't a huge amount to get through here as Bacon Bankroll's features consist of split symbols, free spins with a win multiplier, feature buy, and a prize Wheel Bonus.

Split Symbols

Both high pay symbols may land as split symbols, meaning it is possible to create winning lines of up to 10 high pay symbols in size.

Free Spins

Scatters land on all reels. Hitting 3, 4, or 5 scatters triggers 8, 12, or 18 free spins, respectively. During free spins, all wins are multiplied by x3, and both high pay symbols are split and stacked.

Feature Buy

Rather than wait for 3+ scatters to naturally hit, players may buy their way into the free spins feature at a cost of 60x their bet.

Wheel Bonus Prize

The Wheel Bonus may be randomly triggered. When it does, players win one of five fixed prizes. They are the 10x Rapid, 20x Minor, 50x Midi, 100x Major, or the 200x Mega.

Bacon Bankroll: Slot Verdict

My have the mighty fallen. It's hard to believe the same studio that made Money Train 4, Dead Man's Trail, and a bunch of other heavyweights also made Bacon Bankroll. At the risk of sounding like a villain, Bacon Bankroll is a very mediocre slot that doesn't feel like a huge amount of thought or resources went into its making - much like rest of the content ever since the studio was acquired by Kindred. This response amplified further after working out it's a reskin of Jungle Jamboree (with lower volatility). On the plus side, Bacon Bankroll doesn't look bad, users get a glimpse into the high-flying world of finance, and the connotations of bankers being as 'greedy as a pig' are clear as day. In other words, the pink, curly-tailed skin is fine and dandy, but mechanics-wise, Bacon Bankroll is about as dated as the world of 1980s business it portrays.

Jungle Jamboree must have had its supporters, though, because here we are with a round two of sorts. Free spins do have that multiplier, though it is fixed, but premiums can land stacked, meaning a full screen of matching high pays would theoretically be worth 3,000x during the bonus round (the max win is 5,106x). It was tricky to link high pays into wins, as they seemed more intent on getting in each other's way. On a less positive note, the Wheel Bonus Prize is a pretty pointless add-on. Having prizes displayed above the reels may provide a certain optical lure for some players, but the values are minimal and totally at odds with astronomical bankers' bonuses. The wheel just doesn't fit all that well, like a last-minute inclusion rather than a dynamic extra. Much of Bacon Bankroll's gameplay feels like that, though, as if it were all unceremoniously thrown together rather than passionately compiled.

And that's Bacon Bankroll, an online slot that looks alright, has a bit of fun with piggy bankers in the 80s, but which mainly stands out for being such an average release for a studio like Relax Gaming.