Gator Gold Deluxe Gigablox : Slot Overview

Yggdrasil Gaming has decided to revisit one of its earlier releases, Gator Gold Gigablox, and give it a “Deluxe” touch by bolting a few additions onto the bonus round. Calling it “new” is a bit debatable, as the headline tweak is a symbol upgrade system similar to the one Thunderkick helped popularise in Pink Elephants. Beyond the bonus, the adjustments are small (including the stats), but there’s enough here to justify the updated name. Let’s take a look.

If you’ve already played the original Gator Gold Gigablox, you can skip ahead to the features to see what’s been added. Everything else is largely unchanged: a bright African backdrop that’s fairly traditional, with acacia trees, open grasslands, a splash of water, blue skies, and mountains on the horizon. It looked familiar then and it still does now. Some developers really dial up the spectacle with Africa-themed slots; Yggdrasil keeps things more restrained, although Gator Gold Deluxe Gigablox is still easy on the eyes.

Gator Gold Deluxe Gigablox runs smoothly across devices and lets you wager from 20 p/c to $/€100 per spin. Just like before, the action plays out on a 6×4, 4,096 ways to win grid, with the Gigablox mechanic adding randomness. This feature fuses neighbouring reels to form oversized Gigablox reels. For instance, a spin could connect reels 1 and 2 into 2×2 blocks of identical symbols, while reels 4-6 might combine into 3×3 blocks. The configuration shifts every spin to keep things unpredictable. The maths model is much the same too: Highly volatile, delivering a win 22.8% of the time and producing an RTP of 96%.

Wins in Gator Gold Deluxe Gigablox land when matching symbols appear on adjacent reels starting from the left. As you’d expect, the symbol set is unchanged as well: 9-A card ranks make up the low pays, paying up to 1-3x the bet, while the premium icons are zebras, meerkats, wildebeests, cheetahs, and gators, paying 3.5 to 6 times the bet for six of a kind. The logo tiles act as wild symbols, appearing on reels 2-6 and substituting for any regular paying symbol.

Gator Gold Deluxe Gigablox : Slot Features

The first gator outing wasn’t exactly loaded with features, so the deluxe edition comes across as a fuller package. Alongside Gigablox, you’ll find wild multipliers, free spins, a free spins gamble, and a symbol upgrade system.

Land at least 5 free spins symbols and the bonus round begins. You receive 1-3 free spins from each triggering free spins symbol. This time around, before the feature starts, you can choose to gamble for extra free spins. The gamble uses a wheel: hit green to gain additional spins, but land on red and you lose all free spins.

In free spins, two elements appear that you won’t see in the base game. First, wilds may land with x2 or x3 multipliers, which boost any wins they help create. Second, there’s a new upgrade symbol that shows up on the sixth reel during free spins and is collected whenever it lands. For every 3 upgrade symbols collected, all of the lowest high paying symbols are upgraded to the next symbol up in the value ladder. Each time an upgrade happens, +2 free spins are awarded. At maximum strength, every premium can be upgraded all the way to the top golden gator tile. Finally, any free spins symbol that lands during the bonus also grants extra free spins.

Bonus Buy

Where available, eligible players can skip the build-up and purchase the free spins feature instead. Buying instant access costs 60x the bet and awards 5-30 free spins.

Gator Gold Deluxe Gigablox : Slot Verdict

Is it worth heading back to Africa to see what Gator Gold Gigablox’s newer sibling brings to the table? If you enjoyed the original, then yes—because Yggdrasil’s changes are mostly improvements and don’t take anything away from what worked before. It’s a bit like buying a chocolate-dipped soft-serve and being given a free flake on top—why would you turn that down?

Has the deluxe edition effectively replaced the original? More or less, since there’s very little the first game offers that this one doesn’t. The free spins round has more going on, and the symbol upgrade idea adds extra interest once one or more symbols have been boosted. With more high-paying symbols appearing, it’s natural to think bigger wins might come around more often. However, the overall potential remains the same as before. That can make the makeover feel slightly unnecessary, but the top prize is still 20,000x the bet, which was strong from the outset—now you simply have a fresh route that might get you there.

In summary, the additions are a positive step and bring a new twist to the free spins bonus. They’re the kind of extras that arguably should have been included in the non-deluxe Gator Gold game, which could feel a little light on features. With almost everything else staying as it was, Gator Gold Deluxe Gigablox comes across more like a 1.7 update than a true 2.0 overhaul.