Piggy Bjorn 2 - Winter is Coming Slot Review

Loot coins drop on reels 1 to 4 stamped with a fixed value from a short ladder: 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 7x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x or 50x. They do nothing by themselves. They sit there as money you have not got yet. The gold Piggy Collect pig lands only on reel 5, and when it turns up with at least one coin in view, every coin value on the reels is added up and paid in one hit.

That 50x top coin is the most meaningful change to the base game. The original ladder stopped at 20x, so a good collect was a pleasant result rather than an event; here one lucky disc can outpay a mediocre Raid round on its own. The Wild covers the line symbols and nothing else, so it can never stand in for a Collect that did not land.

After a spin that produced nothing, the game sometimes freezes a random block of tiles. They crack out of the ice showing one shared mystery symbol across the whole block, which usually converts a dead spin into a small paying one. That much is lifted straight from the first game.

New here is that you can buy it. Thirty times the bet, deducted on every regular spin until you switch it off from the buy menu, with an autobuy toggle so you are not confirming each time. Read the trigger rule again, though. Snow Storm fires only on non-winning spins, so the 30x comes out of your balance on winning spins too, where the feature has nothing to do. The mode returns 97.04%, about a tenth of a point above the base game, and that is exactly why.

Three, four or five Scatters open it and award that many spins, each triggering Scatter converting into a random Raid symbol that acts before the first spin runs. Three spins sounds like nothing at all. The counter resets to full every time a new symbol lands, so the round dies only when the board stops filling, and a hot one runs far past its starting count.

Fill a complete reel or a complete line and the grid grows, twice per round at most and once in each direction, adding a reel and a row. Cover every position on it and the Raid ends there with a 500x Full Reel Bonus dropped on top. Otherwise it plays down to zero, and every value and multiplier standing on the board is summed and applied to the bet. The 80,000x cap belongs to that total and to nothing else in the game.

The roster is too long for names to help, so think in jobs. Values sit still and pay what they show, graded bronze 1x to 20x, silver 21x to 100x, gold 101x to 200x. Spreaders push value outward, each in a different shape: the Bow scatters itself across five positions and does not mind hitting the same one twice, the Hammer pays down its reel and along its line, Payday arrives at double the lowest value on the board and tops up everything else, and Odin's Will eats up to three symbols before redistributing inside a two-position radius. Collectors pull the other way, with Taxes dragging every visible value into itself and the combined Payday / Taxes doing the sweep then handing the whole total back out, keeping none of it. The Axe is the only symbol that multiplies rather than adds, landing at x2, x3, x5 or x10 and applying that to two to five tiles.

Two of them carry a failsafe worth knowing. A Hammer with an empty reel and an empty line doubles its own value instead of paying nobody, and Odin's Will does the same when there is nothing inside its radius. Land either one on a near-bare board and it feeds itself.

Then the Druid Sickle, which is the one to watch for. It lands with no value at all, brings up to four other features to life, and sums their multipliers first so that total becomes its own value before any of them resolve. On a board holding a Gold and a couple of spreaders, that single tile can end up worth more than everything it activated. Fury versions of Bow, Hammer, Odin's Will, Payday and Taxes repeat their entire action on every remaining spin, and they are protected: the Axe cannot multiply them, Odin's Will cannot consume them, the Sickle cannot wake them. Reinforce, last and least, adds a spin to the counter up to a maximum of five and contributes nothing toward the Full Reel Bonus.

The standard buy costs 100x the bet and drops you into the Raid on a random trigger, which means 100x still buys the minimum three symbols and three spins often enough to sting. That mode returns 97.15%.

The second tier costs 500x and guarantees at least one Mega Scatter in the trigger, which in turn guarantees a Fury Taxes collector on the board from the opening spin. GameArt calls this one Raid Bonus Fury and it runs at 98.19%, a full point above the cheap door and the highest return the game offers in any mode. Five times the price for one guaranteed symbol reads steep until you watch a persistent collector sit there for a full round pulling every new value into itself.