Doggy Riches Megaways

Doggy Riches Megaways Overview

If you wanted to know what the Queen’s Royal Corgis get up to in their spare time between sitting on her highnesses lap, it turns out that they are the hosts of an exciting Megaways video slot. Designed by Red Tiger Gaming, Doggy Riches Megaways brings players into one of the many vaulted ceiling rooms of the Royal palace to indulge in some lavish and opulent spins with two truncated little dogs. Mechanically this game is played on a six-reel Megaways board with an RTP of 96% and a top win of 10,500x the stake per spin. Doggy Riches Megaways is available across tablets, laptops, and mobile platforms.

The features for this game start with the Megaways gaming mechanic, which changes the number of symbols that land in each reel with every spin. If you land seven symbols in every reel, the game gives you an enormous 117,648 ways to win. This game also runs a cascade feature that destroys winning symbols and replaces them with new ones from above. Look out for Royal Corgi symbols here, too, as they are super wilds and come with 2x multipliers that boost winnings. Finally, this game also has a potentially lucrative free spins round. All features will be explained in more detail later on in the review.

Theme and Symbols

The theme for Doggy Riches Megaways is the luxurious and palatial lifestyle of the corgis that belong to the Queen of the UK. In reality, Queen Elizabeth 2nd has four dogs – two corgis, one dorgi (a Dachshund-Corgi mix), and a cocker spaniel which joined the pack this year. This being a fantasy game, however, the theme is represented in a cartoon style, with the corgis represented as the monarchs of their all-canine Kingdom. If you love dogs (especially small, big-eared ones) and the royal family, this will be right up your street in terms of aesthetics.

The background for this game, by the looks of things, is one of the corgi royalty’s breakfasting rooms in what we can assume is a vast and well-appointed palace. To the left of the reels, we have a teapot and set of cups monogrammed with the dog’s pawprints next to what appears to be a lemon drizzle cake elevated above the table on a serving pedestal. Behind this table is an amusing adaption of the Beatles Abbey Road Album, with each band member walking a corgi on a lead. To the right of the reels, there is a comfortable blue sofa and a picture of the Blitz in London.

The playing window is a framed picture with appropriate bone details and a large golden crown in the centre.
The symbols for this game are split into low-value, high-value and special symbols. The low-value symbols for this game are the four card suits- club, diamond, heart and spade made to look like dog tags. The spade is the most valuable of these, worth 0.7x the stake for the top combination. On the other hand, the more valuable symbols are the set of gloves, the cup of tea, the banknote, the locket, and finally, the crown. The golden crown is the most valuable of these symbols, paying out at 3x the stake for the top combination. The specials finally comprise the regular corgi wild, the blue corgi wild and the red corgi wild.

Game Play

Doggy Riches Megaways is played on a 6-reel, Megaways playing board with up to 117,649 pay lines. To win combinations, players must land three or more matching symbols on pay lines moving from left to right, starting from the leftmost reel.
The betting range for Doggy Riches Megaways is 10p to £10 per spin. To adjust their bet levels, players can toggle their stake up and down using the tool located at the bottom left-hand side of the screen.
Further information, including a short tutorial and a display of the paytable, can be found via the menu button in the right-hand corner of the screen. The spin and auto spin buttons are located in the centre of the screen.
Volatility for this slot is rated in the very high range. The return to player percentage for Doggy Riches Megaways is 96%, which is average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 10,500x your stake.

Features

As explained in the introduction, this game runs a Megaways playing dynamic, meaning that every spin has a different number of symbols in each reel. Landing the maximum of seven symbols in each reel will give players 117,648 ways to win. However, this doesn’t happen very often. Nonetheless, this playing mechanic usually ups the chances of recording wins.
The second feature is the cascade feature or, in this instance, the ‘chain’ feature. This feature comes into play every time that a win is registered. When this happens, all of the winning symbols are blasted off the reels and replaced by new ones, giving players extra chances to score wins from the same spin. The chain dynamic only stops when the new set of symbols falling into place does not form a win.

Next on the feature list is the Royal Corgis feature. This feature concerns the Super Wild Symbols. When they land, they do so in an expanded format, covering the reel on which they land. The blue corgi wild lands only on reel 2, and the red one only land on reel 5. Each comes with an attached 2x multiplier value, meaning that if any combination uses it as part of the win, the payout will be doubled in size. If both red and blue corgis land on the same spin, their multipliers are combined. When this happens, the free spins feature will also be triggered.

As mentioned above, the free spins feature is triggered when both red and blue corgi wilds land together. The game will then award players ten free spins, with the corgi wilds locked in place for the duration. Every win in the free spins round also contributes to growing an attached multiplier up to a maximum of 20x the stake.
The free spins game also has its own mini-game called the baby corgi’s bonus. When this happens, the corgis will send love letters to one another. These correspondents obviously lead to more amorous consequences, as soon up to five baby corgis land on the reels, which perform the role of wilds in the free spins, helping to form more wins.

Conclusion

Plenty of puppy-inspired fun awaits players of this game. The quality in both the graphics and playing dynamics is very high here, and the level of care shown in the setting and characters also indicates a lot of work. From a playing perspective, the win potential is decent – a good top win, and RTP are mostly to credit for this. However, volatility is very high, so features are a little temperamental in arriving.