Bankin’ More Bacon: Slot Overview

Step aside, folks—there’s another piggy squeezing up to the trough to try and profit from the banking craze. It’s called Bankin’ More Bacon, and it follows on from one of Blueprint Gaming’s earlier pig-themed finance slots, Bankin’ Bacon. Staying true to the world of money, “enough” is never enough, so the developer has headed back to the butcher for an extra serving of bacon. Metaphorically, of course. What Blueprint Gaming has actually done is round up a set of familiar mechanics it’s used before, slap on a curly tail, and release Bankin’ More Bacon. Might as well see what it’s got.

Bankin’ More Bacon is set on a polished slice of downtown in a sleek, modern city packed with skyscrapers. It’s hard not to think of that money-hungry machine that pulls cash in, throws it at risky plays, and then leans on the government for a rescue if the “investment” plan blows up in speculators’ faces while they chase quick returns. Ah well—yolo, and it’s not their money, right? Sorry if that comes off a bit salty. While writing this, reading parts of Geert Mak’s ‘The Dream of Europe’ didn’t exactly make the financial sector look like the kindly guardian of people’s savings it sometimes claims to be. Still, Bankin’ More Bacon can’t be blamed for the global economy nearly grinding to a stop. Apologies, piggies.

Bankin’ More Bacon runs its operation on a 6-reel, 4-row setup, giving players a total of 4,096 ways to win. Wins pay left to right, starting from the leftmost reel and continuing across adjacent reels. Under the hood sits a highly volatile math model delivering a default RTP of 96%. There’s no bonus buy here, so it’s simply a case of choosing a wager of 10 c to $/€10 per spin and hoping the bank dishes out more payouts than it takes in.

The paytable is packed with banking icons and royals. Card ranks 9 to A are the lower-value symbols, paying 1 to 1.5 times the bet for a 6 OAK combo, while hitting 6 matching purses, banknotes, scales, tills, or gold bars returns 2 to 5 times the bet. Wilds assist in forming winning ways by substituting for any standard pay symbol, and they can land anywhere except the leftmost reel.

Bankin’ More Bacon: Slot Features

Anyone who’s been following Blueprint Gaming lately will recognize that nearly every mechanic here has already shown up in earlier releases. In short, the added layers include the Piggy Collect feature, where Cash symbols are gathered and Collect symbols get unlocked, plus free spins, where Collect symbols are accumulated to unlock extra free spins paired with multipliers.

Piggy Collect

With every spin, Cash symbols can appear on all reels. Also in play are Cashpot money symbols—the Mini, Major, or Mega—worth 20x, 200x, or 2,500x the bet, respectively, and they are awarded when a Piggy Collect symbol is visible. At the start of the game, the Piggy Collect symbol shows up only on the rightmost reel until additional upgrades are achieved. If a Piggy Collect symbol lands at the same time as one or more Cash symbols, it triggers the Piggy Collect feature.

Once triggered, the Piggy Collect symbol expands to cover the full reel and collects the amounts displayed on the Cash symbols after any standard wins have been counted. Following a Piggy Collect payout, a new Piggy Collect symbol may be unlocked. Any Piggy Collect symbols that have been unlocked remain active from then on. The Collect types are:

• Dual Collect – when a Piggy Collect symbol collects Cash symbols, it becomes possible to land Piggy Collect symbols on the leftmost reel as well.
• Lock & Spin – when a Piggy Collect symbol collects Cash symbols again, the Lock & Spin Piggy Collect is unlocked on the leftmost and rightmost reels. When landing it, any Cash symbols are held while the reels spin for a chance to land extra Cash symbols. This continues till no new Cash symbols land.
• Cash Boost – when a Lock & Spin Piggy Collect symbol collects Cash symbols, the Cash Boost Piggy Collect symbol is unlocked on the leftmost and rightmost reels. When landing it, Cash symbols in view are boosted by up to 5x before being collected.
• Golden Safe – when a Cash Boost Piggy Collect symbol collects Cash symbols, the Golden Safe symbol is unlocked. If a Golden Safe is in view when Piggy Collect symbols collect a win, it accumulates Cash symbol values before being collected along with them.

Piggy Free Spins

Landing 3 or more scatter symbols grants 10 free spins, and if 4, 5, or 6 scatters trigger the feature, an additional cash prize of 20x, 100x, and 500x the bet, respectively, is paid as well. In free spins, players can collect Piggy Collect symbols when they land. After collecting 3, 6, 9, or 12, players receive +5 extra free spins at each milestone, along with a multiplier of x2, x3, x5, or x10, respectively. Multipliers apply to collected Cash symbols.

Bankin’ More Bacon: Slot Verdict

Sure, Bankin’ More Bacon isn’t the same as Bankin’ Bacon, but it also doesn’t feel far removed from a stack of other Blueprint Gaming titles like The Goonies Hey You Guys, D10S Maradona, Funky Budha, and it’s essentially a copy of King Kong Cash Even Bigger Bananas. Because of that, it’s tough not to yawn while slogging through Bankin’ More Bacon’s murky trough of low-effort sameness. Even the theme feels a bit flat—just more bacon, meaning more pigs dropped into a predictable banking setting we’ve seen plenty of times already.

Putting the grumpiness aside for a second, Bankin’ More Bacon does have the ingredients to entertain players who love Money symbol collect slots, especially with multiple Collect symbol types available to unlock. The free spins round also benefits (or disappoints, depending on your taste) from a Big Bass Bonanza-style Collect symbol progression, where extra free spins arrive alongside multipliers. It’s a template that’s proven itself before, works reasonably well here in isolation, and will almost certainly show up again down the line.

Probably in several more iterations too, resurfacing again and again until players tire of it and chase the next big gambling trend. Until then, Blueprint Gaming clearly understands how to keep an audience spinning—after all, the studio has been around for years. So, for piggy-ophiles who don’t mind Bankin’ More Bacon’s lack of fresh ideas, it’s a tidy Money symbol collect slot with a max win of 10,000x the bet worth trying—at least until Bankin’ Even More Bigger Bacon comes trotting in.