Buggin Slot Review

Buggin Slot Overview

Buggin is a casino slot from ELK Studios where you will visit a colorful and beautiful botanical garden, where the bugs make use of the sweet nectar of life. Yes, the bugs may be small, but together, they will make a big impact and deliver big wins of up to 10,000X the bet. In the '90s, the movie A Bug's Life was released, giving a vibrant and detailed insight into what it was like to live as a bug from our perspective of a miniature world.

This time, we meet some adventurous, wine-sipping, and boogying souls who have created a slot with a wild set of features. Yes, the wilds are certainly the main event here, with features like wild generation, wild merge, and wild redrops being some of the things that can make your stay very rewarding. It's time to find out what stats this game among bugs offers.

Buggin is a video slot from ELK Studios that has 7 reels and 7 rows. A win is created by landing 5 or more of the same symbol type in a cluster of horizontally and/or vertically positioned symbols, which will then explode and fill the progress meter. You can choose between making a Min.bet of 0.20 and a Max.bet of 100. The game has been created with a lower-than-average RTP, with an RTP of 94.0%. Buggin has a medium/high volatility and a hit frequency of 35.0%, where you can win up to 10000X the bet.

Within this colorful gaming adventure among boogying bugs, you have a few festive features to help you in your quest for the big wins. The features in Buggin are Big Symbol, Wild Symbol, Feature Wilds, Wild Redrops, Bonus Game, and Feature Buy (X-iter).

Buggin Slot Information

The game's design is a bug theme, where you visit a beautiful botanical garden where these little creatures live the good life. In the background of the reels, you can see this colorful garden, where a small stage can be seen at the bottom left, indicating that the bugs sure know how to boogie. You can play this slot on all notepads, desktops, and mobiles. You create a win by landing 5 or more of the same symbol type in a cluster, whereby winning symbols will be collected to a progress meter placed above the reels. Once the winning symbols have been collected, new symbols will fall down to cover the empty positions, and depending on the amount of collected symbols, different wild features can be activated. The progress is shown above the reels; there, you can also see which wild features you have activated.

The lower-paying symbols are a leaf, a blueberry, a raspberry, and a fly agaric. Creating a winning cluster with 12 or more of the same symbol type gives between 1.5X to 3X the bet. The higher-paying symbols are a green grasshopper, a blue ant, a purple snail, and a red ladybug. Creating a winning cluster with 12 or more of the same symbol type pays between 20X to 100X the bet. The game's scatter symbol is a golden B, while the super scatter symbol is a golden S. During the spins, you will be able to enjoy several different wild types, where the normal wild has a golden W, while the other Ws are in the colors blue (Removing), green (Upgrading), purple (Random), red (Multiplying), and turquoise (Big). It is now time to find out what the features do.

Buggin Slot Features

What is the max win in the slot Buggin?

You can win up to 10000X the bet.

What are the features in the slot Buggin?

The features are Big Symbol, Wild Symbol, Feature Wilds, Wild Redrops, Bonus Game, and Feature Buy (X-iter).

Big Symbol

During the spins, any symbol type can land as a big symbol in sizes 2X2 or 3X3. For example, a 3X3 big symbol pays as 9 regular symbols of the symbol type it shows.

Wild Symbol

Each winning cluster created will generate a wild symbol. The game's wild symbol helps enable more winning combinations by substituting for other paying symbols. It can also land with a multiplier, and if there are several multiplier wilds within the same win, their values will be added together first and then applied to the win.

Feature Wilds

On each new spin, the progress meter above the reels will be reset, where the wild inventory is emptied, and the wild drop target is randomized, indicated with a lock. By creating wins, the progress meter will fill up, and the winning symbols will be removed from the reels, with new ones falling down to allow for more wins. However, wild symbols will not disappear if they are part of a win. Instead, all wilds within the same win will merge into one wild symbol that receives multiplier values from all the wilds. If you don't have a wild within a win created, a 1X1 wild multiplier will be created. A wild can be part of multiple winning clusters, and thus, it can add its multiplier to several wilds.

The drop-down cascade will continue as long as new wins are created, and when no more wins are created, unlocked wilds within the inventory will be released to 1 or more positions on the reel setup. There are five wild inventories above the progress meter and each time the meter becomes full, a random feature wild will be added to the leftmost empty wild inventory.

A feature wild that was part of a winning cluster will turn into a normal wild symbol after it has performed its function. These are the different feature wilds:

Make Big (Turquoise) = This will select a position with a paying symbol and make it bigger. It can either make a 1X1 to 2X2 or 2X2 to 3X3, where all other symbols it covers will disappear.

Multiplying (Red) = This will award its multiplier to all wild symbols on the reels that are not part of a win.

Random (Purple) = This will randomly place at least 2 wild symbols on the reels, replacing the existing symbol.

Removing (Blue) = This will remove all instances of the lowest paying symbol type on the reels.

Upgrading (Green) = This will select all instances of the lowest paying symbol type on the reels and upgrade them to the nearest higher symbol type.

Wild Redrop

On each new drop, a wild redrop target will appear with a cap on one of the feature wild slots in the wild inventory. Once you manage to collect feature wilds up to this cap, a wild redrop will be executed. It will be with the number of feature wilds displayed, where multiple feature wilds can be collected and added to this redrop of wilds. This feature is unavailable in the super bonus game and can be retriggered during the other modes.

Bonus Game

If you land 3 scatter symbols, the bonus game is activated, and you are welcomed with 7 free drops. If at least 1 of these scatter symbols is a super scatter symbol, the super bonus game is activated instead. If you land 3 scatter symbols during the bonus game, you get 3 extra free drops to the bonus game you activated, but if you land at least 1 super scatter symbol among these, the normal bonus game is upgraded to a super bonus game.

The normal wild symbols that land are sticky and remain between the free drops. If you activate the super bonus game, the wild inventory of all feature wild slots will be locked. These will then be unlocked the first time they are collected, and subsequent free drops will then start with a prefill and release the number of unlocked feature wilds.

Feature Buy (X-iter)

If you want to access the features directly, you can use the X-iter feature buy option. You can choose between the following options:

3X (Bonus Hunt) = You get a higher chance of successfully activating the bonus game.

5X (2 Feature Wilds) = You get 2 feature wilds prefilled and released on the upcoming spin.

10X (4 Feature Wilds) = You get 4 feature wilds prefilled and released on the upcoming spin.

100X (Bonus Game) = You activate the normal bonus game.

500X (Super Bonus Game) = You activate the super bonus game, which will provide a prefill of unlocked feature wilds.

Buggin Slot Conclusion

Buggin is a vibrant and visually captivating slot adventure that provides an uplifting dash of color to brighten up even the darkest and gloomiest times of the season. With its detailed environment and a vibrant set of symbols, including mushrooms, raspberries, blueberries, and bugs, it is the bugs themselves that have the potential for the highest payouts. The wild symbols are generated from winning clusters and contribute to a progress meter, initiating the exciting gateway to unlocking many wild features. With multipliers, upgrades, magnifying symbols, removals, and random events, there are plenty of rewarding moments to experience from these wilds. While the bonus game and super bonus game are undoubtedly the highlights, the base game is still highly entertaining, providing various combinations of events.

There is a significant potential to win big among these bugs, with a maximum win size of 10,000X the bet. However, one aspect that continues to bug me, as with many of the recent releases from this game provider, is the lower RTP that comes with the game. Overall, the game offers a lovely mix of great graphics and engaging interaction between the various wild features, creating a really enjoyable gaming experience.

Buggin is a slot that takes the player to a living world of insects, where wild features come to life to provide an exciting and rewarding gaming experience.