Fugly Pets: Slot Overview

Outside of our relationships with other people, few connections compare to the one many of us have with our pets. Some would even argue it can be just as powerful—if not stronger—than the bond we share with humans. When you stop and think about it, welcoming an animal into your home and building a life around it is a little strange. Still, the affection pets give can feel constant, loyal, and wonderfully uncomplicated… alright, we’ll leave it there before things get too sentimental. The point is, Fugly Pets from Stakelogic is an online slot that celebrates pets—specifically the “fugly” ones—which, in their own way, can be even easier to adore.

That said, it would be unfair to label Fugly Pets as a fugly-looking game, even if Stakelogic leans into a grimy, rundown aesthetic. The background is a bit hard to read; in the base game you’ll spot plants, unidentifiable electronics, and random objects scattered around like hints. But hints of what, exactly? A store? A patched-together home? Maybe it’s one of those “pick the story that suits you” situations. Either way, the visual quality itself is impressively polished.

Next to Fugly Pets’ 5×5 gaming grid is a bar showing the 5 high-paying animal symbols. This ties directly into the symbol multiplier mechanic explained in the next section. The game runs on 3,125 ways to win, forming winning combinations when matching symbols land on adjacent reels from the leftmost side. With the cascading wins mechanic, winning symbols get removed, allowing new symbols to drop into place and continue until no further wins appear. All of this supports a default RTP of 96% and a medium-high volatile math model. Betting options are a bit narrow, ranging from 10 c to $/€50 per spin.

In the paytable, Fugly Pets includes 5 premium pet symbols along with 5 low-paying Ten-to-Ace card royals. A 5 OAK premium hit returns 1.2 to 5 times the bet, while 5 matching royals pay 0.4 to 0.8 times the bet. Scruffy teddy bear wilds can appear on every reel except the leftmost, helping to form winning ways by substituting for any standard paying symbol.

Fugly Pets: Slot Features

Every animal character in Fugly Pets is connected to a symbol multiplier that applies in both the base game and free spins, with the key difference being that it becomes persistent during the bonus. Alongside this, the game also features Roadkill symbols, Super symbols, and bonus buys.

Special Symbols

• Roadkill symbol – The Roadkill symbol only appears on the rightmost reel. It stays dormant until all win calculations are complete and no further cascades can occur. After that, it travels left, clearing paying symbols in its path. Each affected symbol may turn wild, be destroyed, or stay the same. Any symbols that are destroyed cause a cascade, giving you another opportunity to land wins.
• Super symbol – Super symbols can land on any reel. These are oversized symbols in 2×2, 3×3, or 4×4 formats. When they appear, they remove the symbols underneath and then drop to the bottom of the grid. The empty positions above are refilled with new symbols. Super symbols pay as though they are made up of individual 1×1 symbols.
• Symbol multiplier – Each of the 5 high pay symbols is tied to its own symbol multiplier, beginning at x1. Whenever a high-paying symbol forms a winning combination, its associated multiplier increases before the cascade happens. Any subsequent win after the cascade that includes that same high-pay symbol will have the win multiplier applied. In the base game, multipliers return to x1 for the next spin, or they reset before free spins are awarded.

Free Spins Bonus Game

Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols triggers 10, 12, or 15 free spins, respectively. During free spins, the big change is that symbol multipliers do not reset throughout the entire bonus. Additional free spins can also be won during the feature.

Feature Buy

The free spins feature is available via the feature buy. You can purchase 8, 12, 15, or a random pick from the three free spins amounts for 100x, 125x, 165x or 130x the bet, respectively.

Fugly Pets: Slot Verdict

These little weirdos make it tough to be overly harsh, because Fugly Pets is genuinely easy to warm to. It’s a characterful slot that pairs its lovable misfit animals with a strong set of mechanics, so there’s plenty to enjoy. In the base game, the features feel slightly restrained since symbol multipliers reset between spins, but free spins is where the system really gets room to breathe—and it works nicely. It also helps that the high-pay symbols can form winning combinations from just 2 OAK and up. So even though a 2-of-a-kind doesn’t pay a massive amount, it still boosts the related multiplier, which could—just maybe—pay off later in the bonus.

The use of ways instead of paylines is welcome as well, and there was a fleeting thought that Fugly Pets’ symbol multiplier setup would be a great fit for a scatter-paying slot. Oh, wait, it sort of was in Tiki Tiki Hold ‘n’ Win. Still, the extra features do their job perfectly well here, and they support potential winnings of up to 5,000 times the stake. That’s the win cap Stakelogic has set. Put together a strong streak of high-pay hits during free spins, and those wins could combine with some seriously built-up multipliers—if fortune decides to cooperate.

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and there’s definitely something sweet about “ugly” pets that sparks a warm, protective kind of fondness. Fugly Pets has that same appeal. It may not be the online slot equivalent of a Crufts champion, but it has plenty of heart.