New slots are thin on the ground this week with only 3 new entries. Let’s cover 2 of them up top, then jump into our Game of the Week below.
Starting with Piggy Bank Hold & Win from BGaming, it’s the kind of thing experienced players will have seen before: one of those basic 3 x 3 slots with a holding base game designed to just get you into the bonus round, and you do that by lining up 3 symbols across the middle row. When you do trigger this Hold & Win feature, you’ll pull in one of the 3 benefits represented by the 3 pigs at the top of the grid: extra spins, multipliers on certain spaces, or a bigger grid. You know the drill. The RTP is decent at 96.98% but the max win is low at 2,500x.
Nolimit City are often a shoe-in for Game of the Week, but not this time unfortunately. Catfish Hunters is an average fishing slot, when all’s said and done – it’s just not that exciting. OK, it might be more interesting than Big Bass, but that’s setting the bar pretty low. For a start, this doesn’t feel as ‘extreme’ as your usual NLC slot. There’s nothing particularly dark or funny going on, aside from electrocuting fish. Characters from previous NLC titles do show up on the Imposter Wild symbol, so that might be enough to raise a smile from some players who know the studio’s back catalog. Also the music just doesn’t mesh with the theme here.
This is all ways pays on a 5 x 3 grid, and 1 or more Electrical Frames appear in random positions on the grid when you spin. If these cross over with the Fish Money symbols, the fish gets shocked and you get the money value. To be honest, this feels like the central way to land wins in the base game. You do also have those Imposter Wilds, and each character creates its own special benefit. For example, the Karen Wild adds Electrical Frames to itself and to all its adjacent positions, while the Cletus Wild transforms all winning regular paying symbols into random Fish symbols.
There’s also a global multiplier which goes up whenever a fish is shocked, but it feels underutilized. The bonus round doesn’t really add much benefit, and while we’re long past the days of every NLC game being a must-play, it still sucks when a dud comes along.
Now let’s get onto that Game of the Week.
New Slots
- Crazy Mart Bonanza – AvatarUX
- Piggy Bank Hold & Win – BGaming
- Catfish Hunters – Nolimit City
Game of the Week
Crazy Mart Bonanza from AvatarUX is easily described as similar to the classic Sugar Rush title.
Yes, it’s a tumbling cluster pays slot taking place on a 7 x 7 grid, and groups of 5 or more of the same symbol count as a win. Each winning cluster will tumble away to make room for more symbols to drop in, and the squares behind will each get assigned a multiplier. More wins on the same squares will grow the multiplier, and scores can build up pretty nicely if you get a load of wins in the same area.
Helping things along is the Wild symbol, which stays on the board even if it helps form a win. It’s actually represented by a supermarket security guard on a scooter, and he zooms around the board, building his multiplier up. You’ll soon realize this game’s setting is an after hours convenience store, so the symbols are designed on various fast food type items, everything rendered in a colorful cartoon style.
In the bonus round, just like Sugar Rush, the multipliers build over the course of the feature, rather than resetting with each spin, as in the base game. It’s a simple mechanic, and one we’ve seen plenty before – even Recycle Riches from last week used this concept – but it makes for the best new slot this week.
Try it out for yourself below!



