Introduction To Penguin Heist
Penguin Heist is a casino slot from Oi Studios that invites you on a cold nighttime journey with three penguins who have decided that an ordinary evening isn't exciting enough. They have decided to pull off a proper robbery with a getaway car, disguises, and other things taken directly from an action movie. The penguins move in a fun world that looks like a comic book with dark city streets and glowing neon signs. That’s right, this burglary takes place after everyone else has gone to bed. The penguins may look harmless, but there are a lot of things happening in their world, such as jackpots and a LockNWin feature. It’s time to hang out with some feathered criminals.
Theme, Gameplay & Payouts
Penguin Heist is a video slot from Oi Studios with 5 reels, 4 rows, and 25 paylines. The Min.bet is 0.2, and the Max.bet is capped at 50. Penguin Heist has an RTP of 96.01% and a max win capped at 5,000x the bet. The hit frequency is 21.21%, and the game has high volatility.
The slot appears bright and cartoonish, with the reels set in the middle of a dark city street, lit by blue and purple lights. There is a getaway car to the left of the reels, driving towards the right. It’s driven by one of the penguins while the other two hang around it. Above the five reels are four vaults in different colours and a counter. You score wins by landing 3 or more matching symbols on one of the paylines, starting on the first reel to the left. Penguin Heist can be played on mobile phones, notepads and desktop computers, so you can send the penguins on another questionable late-night mission no matter where you are playing.
The lower-paying symbols in Penguin Heist are J, Q, K, and A, which award 1x the bet for five matching symbols. The higher-paying symbols are binoculars, cars, blue penguins, red penguins, and green penguins. These pay between 2x and 10x the bet for five matching symbols, with the penguins themselves obviously taking centre stage. There is also a Wild Symbol, which substitutes for all symbols except Key, Jackpot and Bonus Symbols.
Special Features & Slot Mechanics
What is the max win in the slot Penguin Heist?
You can win up to 5,000x the bet.
What features are available in the slot Penguin Heist?
The features are Wild Symbols, Wild Burst Feature, UpZones LockNWin Feature selection, UpZones LockNWin Feature, Bonus Wheel Instant trigger, Jackpot Wheel, and Buy Feature.
Wild Symbols
Wild symbols are capable of taking the place of other symbols in order to complete a winning combination. They replace regular symbols, but not the Key, Jackpot or Bonus Symbols.
Wild Burst Feature
A counter above the reels starts at 50 and decreases to 0. Each time it reaches zero, another Wild Burst feature is unlocked, and the counter is reset. When all the Wild Burst features have been unlocked, the counter vanishes. If a Wild Burst symbol lands, it randomly selects one of the already unlocked features.
The Regular Vault and Double Vault symbols can be obtained during the first spin. Each activation of the Wild Burst feature results in a golden zone appearing on the reels, which turns all the symbols within that zone into Wilds. The Regular Vault merely sets up its golden zone, whereas the Double Vault also includes an additional Wild Burst symbol.
Once 50 spins have been made, the Respin Wild Burst feature becomes available. The Respin symbol for this feature locks in the winning combinations and causes the reels to be respinned, and if there are no more non-winning symbols left to respin, the amount from the original spin is paid out twice.
The No Low Wild Burst feature is unlocked after 100 spins, eliminating all the low-value symbols from the reels, after which the reels cascade and new symbols drop into the empty spaces. The Wild Stacks Wild Burst feature becomes available at 150 spins, and the Wild Stacks symbol can convert between one and three of the reels that contain Wilds into Wild Stacks.
The Wild Multiplier Wild Burst feature is finally activated after 200 spins. It causes the symbols to turn regular Wilds into multiplier Wilds with multipliers from x2 to x10. When such multipliers occur in the same winning combination, they add together.
UpZones LockNWin Feature Selection
The LockNWin feature can trigger randomly whenever the Bonus symbols have been gathered into their respective Bonus Pots. There are four Bonus symbols: Museum, Jeweller, Bank and Mansion. Each of them fills the pot at the top of the reels itself, but it should be noted that the growing pot is only visual and does not increase the chance of activating a feature. Just one feature can be triggered at a time.
Museum provides 3 Spins and 3 UpZones, Jeweller gives 4 Spins and 4 UpZones, Bank offers 5 Spins and 5 UpZones, and Mansion gives 6 Spins and 6 UpZones. Additionally, you have the opportunity to gamble on the feature in order to advance to a higher tier. If the gamble is successful, you will receive the higher feature, but if it is unsuccessful, you will get nothing and be sent directly back to the base game.
UpZones LockNWin Feature
When you enter the main UpZones LockNWin feature, the game displays the standard grid with an extra top row that includes special symbols. The Diamond symbols appear on the main reels and can pay out between 0.5x and 100x the bet. Some of the positions are identified as UpZones, and if a Diamond lands in one of these positions, the top row is activated and another UpZone is created.
The top row spins horizontally and includes Collect, Boost, Multiplier, Spin and Jackpot symbols. The Collect symbol collects all the Diamonds from the reels, and the Boost symbol increases the value of each Diamond from 1x to 25x the stake. The Multiplier symbol randomly multiplies a Diamond by a factor of x2 to x100. If the boosted values are not taken into account, the highest possible return from a multiplied Diamond is 2,000x. A diamond that has already been multiplied cannot be multiplied once more.
The Spin symbol gives you an additional 2 to 3 spins, and the Jackpot symbol starts the Jackpot feature. The UpZones LockNWin Feature stops when all the available positions have been filled or when the spins have been used up.
Bonus Wheel Instant Trigger
The Bonus Wheel is triggered when Key Symbols land on all reels. The Key symbols can be gathered over a number of spins, with more than one Key appearing on a single spin. The Bonus Wheel grants one of the LockNWin features associated with the Museum, Jeweller, Bank or Mansion UpZones.
Jackpot Wheel
Jackpot coins can occur in the base game, and there are Mini (10x), Minor (25x), Major (250x), and Mega (2,500x)coins. More than one coin of the same type can show up on a single spin, each one increasing the relevant jackpot by 1 times the bet. When you collect jackpot coins, you have the opportunity to activate the Jackpot Wheel, which then awards one of the four guaranteed jackpots.
The Mini Jackpot begins at 10x and can go as high as 25x. The Minor starts at 25x and has a maximum of 100x, while the Major begins at 250x and can reach 500x. The Mega Jackpot starts at 2,500x and can rise all the way to 5,000x.
Feature Buy
To go straight to the Museum UpZones LockNWin feature, you’ll have to pay 36.48x the bet. The Jeweller feature costs 62.49x, and the Bank feature sets you back 104.13x the bet. Finally, the Mansion feature costs 156.50x.
Final Thoughts On Penguin Heist
The theme of Penguin Heist causes smiles right away. The idea of three penguins pulling off a nighttime robbery is already a much better one than most of us have come up with, and Oi Studios has done a good job of turning this concept into a vibrant little adventure. The neon city background, the getaway car and the cartoon-style penguins all give the game a lot of character, as do the symbols and the bonus features.
However, the graphics are very similar to those of another developer in the Games Global network: Pear Fiction Studios. The features are also almost identical to the ones in games such as Treasures of Mjolnir and Alpha Gods Zeus 2. The game becomes more interesting the more you play it, but that is also kind of a curse, because you need to make hundreds of spins before all features are unlocked.
The jackpots, which are also identical to Alpha Gods Zeus 2, are a pleasant addition. The Mega Jackpot, which will award between 2,500x and 5,000x the bet, certainly draws your attention, although there are other games with higher and more interesting jackpots.
Penguin Heist from Oi Studios is a colourful and entertaining slot with plenty happening behind its chilly heist theme.
