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Swoll: Slot Overview

Health and fitness are noble goals, keeping the body healthy, fit, and able through exercise, diet, and clean living. Other people just want to get big, real big. Huge. The bigger, the more ripped, the freakier, the better. It's this impulse to stand out from the crowd, to make others experience feelings of jealousy, inferiority or desire, that lies behind software provider Shady Lady's online slot Swoll. Given the studio's track record, don't be expecting a sober documentary about responsibly, patiently pumping iron. Instead, we're plunging into a world of dietary supplements, body augmentation, and lifting heavy things in order to garner the attention of hotties while making weak-limbed, weak-minded betas jelly.

In other words, humour has been injected into Swoll as it has in a number of slots from the Shady Lady portfolio. This is a studio that likes to poke fun and not take things too seriously, which would explain why Swoll bulges with selfie-obsessed individuals, raw meat eaters, and leopard print undies. It's a lifestyle certain people fully ascribe to. It must be quite exhausting, though surely, constantly pushing a body to its limits, fighting to hold back the inevitable entropy that time and age bring, struggling to keep up with competitors who are younger and more virile. Perhaps the struggle is the main thing, shooting your shot while you're able to, and all that. Swoll is a reminder we're not here for a super long time after all, so we've got to choose which areas of life to max out.

Swoll hits the reels with a 5x4 grid, serving up 1,024 ways to land winning combos of three or more matching symbols. Bets range from just 10 cents to €100, and true to the Shady Lady brand, there's a generous stash of optional betting features for those who like to spice things up. Swoll runs on a high-volatility math model, and when you're sticking to standard bets, you're looking at a solid RTP of 96%.

Pay symbols from bottom up are trunks, a bottle of tanning oil, a glass of… something, a slab of meat, four character symbols, and a can of wild energy. Winning combinations of 5-matching symbols in length pay 0.3x to 3x the bet. Wild symbols substitute for all regular symbols.

Swoll: Slot Features

Swoll's key feature is its Swoll symbol, which generates prize values on its own but can be combined with other Swoll symbols to potentially generate even greater payouts. They are joined by free spins, super free spins, as well as Shady Lady's extensive store of feature buys and boosters.

Swoll Symbols

All reels may land Swoll symbols, which appear fully stacked. Landing a full Swoll symbol activates the Swoll feature, where a random coin value and a multiplier are generated. If a full Swoll symbol is not adjacent to any other Swoll symbols, it awards the coin value multiplied by the multiplier. If two or more Swoll symbols are adjacent, they merge, combining their coin values and multiplying their multipliers. Running alongside Swoll symbols are these modifiers:

• Nudge - if partially visible Swoll symbols are present, the Nudge feature may trigger so they move to cover the entire reel.
• Slide - if two or more Swoll symbols (not partial ones) are present, the Slide feature may randomly trigger, moving them leftwards to make them adjacent. This means they will merge, then trigger the Swoll feature.
• Roid Rage - before Swoll symbols merge or payout, there is a chance Roid Rage triggers to upgrade the Swoll symbol's coin value to a higher amount.

Free Spins & Super Free Spins

Landing 3 Protein Powder scatters triggers the bonus game and 6 Nudge Rep free spins. During free spins, Swoll symbols always nudge, and the Slide feature may randomly trigger. Hitting 4 scatters triggers 8 Super Rep free spins where Swoll symbols always nudge and Slide. In both features, players collect an extra spin by landing the +1 Rep symbol.

The Store

From the Store, players can buy boosters, bonuses, highlight reels, and loot boxes. Boosters include the Bonus Boost at 1.5x or Big Bonus Boost at 5x for a better chance of triggering free spins. Nudge & Slide costs 10x to ensure any landed Swoll symbol always Nudges and Slides, while the Swoll Boost at 20x guarantees to land at least 2 partial Swoll symbols on each spin. The bonus buy, Super Bonus Buy, Bronze Bonus, Silver Bonus, and Gold Bonus, cost 93x, 277x, 150x, 340x, and 1,400x, respectively, while the best 3 results from 100, 300, or 500 spins cost 70x, 162x, and 250x the bet. Lastly, Rare, Epic, or Legendary Loot Boxes have a price tag of 170x, 300x, or 470x the bet.

Swoll: Slot Verdict

Given the popularity of health, fitness, and getting swoll IRL, it's surprising there are so few slots based on the subject. Trust Shady Lady, a studio that shuns the obvious (preferring to theme slots with things like brainwashing cults or deadly viruses), to choose this particular topic and design a game which emphasises the humorous side of it. Since this isn't a psychology corner, let's not speculate on the possible conscious or subconscious reasons someone would desire to be jacked, but Swoll offers a glimpse into a world of flesh and supplements, which might provide an answer. If not, oh well, it's a clever slot anyway that takes a comical view of getting huge, and accompanies the original theme with some potent gaming.

The most exciting part of the gaming has to be dem Swoll symbols. On their own, they're not bad; they're able to conjure up a coin value, apply a generated multiplier and fire off a win like a quick warm-up set of bicep curls. However, merging more than one of them together is when they really start to cook. This does not mean, of course, that the meeting of Swoll symbols will always dazzle with a chonk of a win. They can certainly disappoint when they want to. But the combined results could be good, while the Nudge, Slide, and Roid Rage elements also fit the main Swoll feature to a tee, like a posing pouch that barely covers the goods. Some may find Swoll lacks a little depth since it essentially boils down to hitting Swoll symbols, but doing so can be a thrilling experience, and the package as a whole has been buffed to a glistening sheen.

Hit the game's PB, and a 20,000x max win is coming your way. A solid figure, if not exactly a juiced to the limit, benching 500kg, farting constantly though a three hour work out, monster. Drawing clear inspiration from the irreverent style of Nolimit City, Shady Lady once again shocks with eccentric theme and explosive features to create a unique, vein-popping slot.