Piggy Riches 2 Megaways slot review

Piggy Riches 2 Megaways slot at a glance

The game comes from Red Tiger, the studio founded in 2014 that NetEnt bought in September 2019 and that has sat inside the Evolution group since December 2020. Red Tiger is known for its daily drop jackpots and for rebuilding older ideas on the Megaways engine, and this sequel follows that pattern: it takes the pig-and-piggy-bank theme of the 2020 original and adds a richer bonus and a higher ceiling.

Every figure above is the developer’s published specification as listed by reference sites such as the OLBG Piggy Riches 2 Megaways listing (opens in a new tab). If the RTP shown in your casino’s help screen differs, the help screen is the version you are actually playing, so trust that.

How the features work in Piggy Riches 2 Megaways

Piggy Riches 2 Megaways pairs a shifting reel set with a single headline bonus. Every paid spin changes the height of the six reels, so the number of ways moves from spin to spin, up to 117,649. The bonus that sits on top of that is a Hold & Respin round, and Lady Pig is the symbol that sets it off.

Triggering the bonus

Lady Pig is a scatter, so she doesn’t need to sit on a particular way or reel sequence to count. When enough Lady Pig scatters appear on one paid spin, the base game pauses and the Hold & Respin round begins.

What happens in Hold & Respin

This style of round swaps normal spinning for a gradual fill of the screen. In the usual hold and win format, the special symbols that land are held in place, the rest of the positions spin again, and each new special symbol that drops in also stays put. The round keeps going while respins remain, and the result is built from everything held when it ends.

That makes the round feel very different from the base game: instead of watching for matching symbols across the ways, you’re watching the board slowly fill. A round that collects only a few held symbols pays little, while one that keeps adding can grow well beyond the stake.

The scatter count, the starting respins and the values the held symbols carry aren’t in our checked data, so they remain on the help screen. Feature buys aren’t offered to British players, which means the bonus can only be reached through normal spins.

How the Megaways reels change your ways to win

The game uses the Megaways mechanic, which Big Time Gaming licensed to Red Tiger in October 2018. Instead of a fixed grid, each of the six reels shows a random number of symbols on every spin, anywhere from 2 to 7. Wins pay for matching symbols on adjacent reels from the left, so the number of ways on a spin is simply the six reel heights multiplied together.

So the headline 117,649 is the very top of the range, reached only when all six reels show seven symbols. Most spins land well below that. More ways do not make the game more generous overall: the paytable is balanced so the long-run return stays at 95.71% whatever the reel heights do. What the shifting reels change is the shape of your results, with small wins on short reels and occasional larger hits when tall reels line up.

The ways count tells you how many symbol paths can form a win on a spin, not your chance of winning. Your odds are set by the paytable and the random number generator, which no reel pattern can predict.

The Lady Pig Hold & Respin bonus

The main feature is a Hold & Respin bonus started by Lady Pig scatter symbols. In a hold and win round, certain symbols lock in place while the remaining positions keep spinning, giving repeated chances to add more. It is a close cousin of standard respins, with the twist that what you have already landed stays put.

The exact number of scatters needed, how many respins you start with and what the locked symbols can award are game details we have not been able to confirm from the developer, so open the paytable before you play. The help screen is where the trigger, the respin count and the values are set out, and it must be available before you stake, under the Gambling Commission’s game information rules.

Piggy Riches 2 Megaways RTP: what 95.71% costs in pounds

RTP is the share of all money staked that a game pays back over a very large number of spins. At 95.71%, the remaining 4.29% is the house edge, and your expected loss is simply your total stake multiplied by 4.29%. Total stake means turnover, including winnings you put back in, not just the money you deposit.

Set against a slot at 96.50%, the gap looks small per spin but adds up. At 50p a spin for 300 spins, a 3.50% edge costs £5.25 on average against £6.44 here, so this game charges about £1.19 more for the same session. That is not a reason to avoid it if you like the game, but it is worth knowing, and our high RTP slots list shows where the cheaper options are.

These are long-run averages. Any one session can end far above or far below them, which is where volatility comes in.

High volatility and a £20 budget

Slot volatility describes how unevenly a game spreads its returns. High volatility, as here, means many small or empty spins punctuated by rarer, bigger wins, with a good share of the return tied up in the bonus. The practical result is that a modest budget can run out before you see the feature, and that is ordinary behaviour rather than a sign that anything is wrong.

The expected cost of each £20 staked is the same 86p at any stake size, because the edge is a percentage. What changes is how many spins your £20 buys and so how many chances you get at the bonus. Smaller stakes give the game more room to settle; larger stakes make each session a sharper gamble.

The 20,000x max win in context

The top prize is 20,000 times your stake. That is a cap on a single game round, not a target, and it sits at the extreme tail of the game’s results. Neither Red Tiger nor reference listings publish how often it lands, and we do not quote third-party estimates.

Casinos can also set their own maximum payout per game or per day in their terms, so check those if you play at higher stakes. Think of the ceiling as describing how wild the game can be, rather than what to expect from a session.

Piggy Riches 2 Megaways against the original

The first Piggy Riches Megaways came out in January 2020. The sequel keeps the same studio, the same Megaways format and the same headline RTP, so the main difference in published figures is the size of the ceiling.

With an identical RTP, a bigger ceiling has to be paid for somewhere in the maths, usually by making mid-sized wins a little scarcer. The cost per £1 staked is the same in both games; the sequel simply leans further towards rare large results.

Playing Piggy Riches 2 Megaways online in the UK

British rules shape how this slot plays at any UK-licensed casino:

• Slot stake limits: £5 a spin for players aged 25 and over since 9 April 2025, and £2 for 18–24s since 21 May 2025, as set out in the Gambling Commission’s online slots stake limit guidance (opens in a new tab).
• No autoplay, a minimum of 2.5 seconds per spin and no turbo or slam-stop, under the game design rules in force since 31 October 2021.
• No celebration sounds or animations for a return that is equal to or less than your stake.
• Your net spend and time played must be shown on screen in real time.
• Since a Gambling Commission warning in January 2020 (opens in a new tab), feature buy-ins are not offered to British players, so any bonus-buy button you may see in videos from elsewhere will not appear; see our feature buy page.
• Your age and identity must be verified before you can deposit or play, including demo play.

How to play Piggy Riches 2 Megaways

1. Set a deposit limit in your casino account before you start; our deposit limits guide explains how.
2. Search the casino’s game lobby for Piggy Riches 2 Megaways and open it.
3. Open the help screen and confirm the RTP version, the Lady Pig trigger and the paytable.
4. Choose a stake within your budget and within the UK cap (£5, or £2 if you are 18–24).
5. Press spin for each round; there is no autoplay on UK slots.
6. Watch the net position display and stop when you reach the limit you set.

Similar Megaways and hold-and-respin slots

If you like the mix of shifting reels and a lock-and-respin bonus, these games on our slot reviews hub share part of the formula:

Blood Suckers Megaways stands out on cost, with the highest published RTP of the group, while Trillionaire Megaways reaches further at the top end.

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