The barnyard is all abuzz at this present moment, and not because the farmer is deciding what the family will eat this coming Christmas, but rather because the cash values of these critters can reach incredible heights. Oink Farm is the latest in a string of top online slot games coming of one of the industry's mega-corporations, and in this spinner iGamers have three different bonus features that can trigger. There are free spins, wild reels and a jackpot feature, and through it all, there's a potential maximum win amount of 5,000x your stake. Are you ready to bring home the bacon?
You might have seen that Foxium is the online casino software studio that developed Oink Farm, and thought to yourself that this is no mega studio. However, Foxium falls under the Microgaming banner, which is one of the biggest in the business. We’ve recently seen online slot machines such as 6 Jewels and 777 Super Big BuildUp come out of this stable, and most of them have been adding unique features that players may never have seen before, let alone online casinos. In Oink Farm, the unique aspect is the collection mechanic, but more on that later. Touching on the theme, it goes without saying that we have a cartoonish look and feel incorporating a bunch of farm animals, with the pig taking centre stage.
All iGamers at our casino site will have the option of playing on mobile devices or by simply playing on a desktop. Regardless of how you play, everyone will be playing with medium levels of volatility, so wins shouldn't elude you for endless periods of time, although cash returns may not be as good as higher volatility slots. As mentioned earlier, the highest return all players can achieve is 5,000x your stake, which isn't too bad, although not quite as good as the previous Microgaming titles we've reviewed. Oink farm accommodates both high rollers and cautious players, with a minimum stake limit of 0.20 per spin and a maximum of 50.
The farm animals have quite a role to play in this extravaganza, although they’re joined by various other icons in order for players to form 3, 4 and 5 of a kind winning combinations. The symbol values start with the playing cards, 10, J, Q, K and A, with A having the highest value of those. We then have a carrot, cabbage, a rooster, a sheep and a fox.
Additional icons that land on any spin are the windmill, which acts as the scatter, as well as the oink coin, which is a gold coin with a piggie’s head on it.
Wild symbols don't fall like other icons, but rather get generated. Above each reel, you'll see three empty round spaces, and whenever an oink coin lands in any position on a reel, one of the empty round spaces fills. Filling all three spaces above a reel will see the entire reel below turn wild with the pig standing tall. The reel stays wild for three spins, in which that reel will act as any adjacent icon to possibly form a winning combo.
A free spins feature triggers if you land the scatter on reels 2, 3 and 4. This will give you ten free spins, and instead of reels being wild for three spins, if they turn wild, in free spins, they stay wild for the whole feature.
There's also a jackpot feature that can be triggered at any time, where you'll need to pick eggs to try and match 3 bronze eggs (50x your stake), three silver eggs (500x your stake) or three gold eggs (5,000x your stake).
Like most people, you’ll find the theme of Oink Farm a little silly, but it’s not very often that you’ll play slots online that host three bonus features. Besides Megaways online slots, not many regular spinners have such a rich offering, although there are loads more that offer a much higher maximum win amount. However, getting as greedy as a pig playing slots can backfire, and this is a title that can reward all players, and not just the ones that go big.