Oh, my! The piggy bank is overflowing with cash and its portly porcine manager Mr. Banger is barely managing to keep it all safe inside. This hilarious slot title by Indigo Magic from Bragg Studios gives you a chance to relieve the manager of his burden and line your pockets by doing what's practically community service. Go hog wild and pick the vault clean.
Bankers & Cash is an amusingly satirical slot title that plays on the common trope of wealthy bankers hogging all the money in their vaults. The first thing to welcome the player, apart from the intro splash screen. of course, is the bouncy musical score set to the notes of sparky swing music that establishes the great-gatsbyan atmosphere and places it firmly in the era of the excesses of the Roaring Twenties. This is also the first thing in the line of many that feel well-chosen and totally in line with the game theme.
Mr. Banger, the piggy bank manager and the main game character who keeps throwing money at you while you're triggering features and winning big, is designed and animated tongue-in-cheek, and perfectly represents the stereotype of a decadent bankster stricken with affluenza. There are also bombshell sows appearing on the game symbols, comically exaggerated illustrations of trophy wives and golddiggers that seem to be found wherever there is money to burn. The creators apparently put a lot of effort into building a convincing setting that fits this game like a glove.
Bankers & Cash is played on a classic 3x3 grid and features, apart from the special symbols such as bank manager scatters, wilds and double wilds, also cash symbols, diamond sevens, gold dollar signs and two different half-bitten fruits: a melon and an apple.
Double wilds and repeat pays
The game boasts two distinctive mechanics that complement each other and help players score bigger and better wins. The first is the instant repays Pig Spender mechanic that can trigger randomly after any win that does not start the main Makin' Bacon feature. When that happens, the bank manager goes wild and starts throwing money at you by repeating your last win up to five times.
The other one is the use of double wild symbols. As the name implies, they double the win they help form while they are also the highest-paying symbols in the game. For the heftiest wins in the base game, look for double wilds: three in line will get you a more than handsome 800x your bet. Imagine what it can do in combination with instant repays!
Makin' bacon
The Makin' Bacon bonus game, however, is started by landing three bank manager scatters that are needed to open the vault wide. The grid then expands to 5x3 and you get three respins during which only safe deposit box symbols may land. In practice, that usually means more than three respins as their counter resets every time you land a safe deposit box symbol. Since they are sticky, you can watch them fill up the grid little by little. These boxes remain closed until the end of respins when they open and reveal instant values. But that's not all: if you manage to fill all fifteen positions on the expanded grid, you win one of the meaty jackpot prizes, among them the grand jackpot worth 2000x the bet.
And there's even more! Should you fall into a dry spell scatter-wise and those bank manager symbols start to seem like they were greased up, there's a way out. Simply buy the bonus for 60x the bet and the game's main feature will start for you. Because sometimes luck just needs a little nudge in the right direction.
Our final verdict
Despite its elaborate setting, artwork and animations, the game itself is pretty straightforward. Features in the base game work smoothly to give you pretty decent chances at plumpy wins, while gameplay usually culminates during the respins phase, escalating the tension in anticipation of instant cash prizes from safe deposit boxes and in expectation of landing one of the four jackpot prizes. The gameplay dynamics feel thoroughly thought-out to enhance the overall experience. For example, just one simple design choice of not opening the safe deposit boxes until the very end of the respins phase contributes significantly to suspense-building and entertains to no end. Experienced slotsters will certainly appreciate these subtleties that make or break the game, and the devil is, as always, in these fine details that only seasoned slotsmiths can provide. Overall, the game feels inspired and topnotch, with all elements well-designed, functional and in the right place. A big majority of contemporary slots often have either the setting or the mechanics working for them, but very few have both. Bankers & Cash is one of them as it makes for a highly entertaining, lucrative and chucklesome slot gaming experience.
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