Moleionaire: Slot Overview

Every so often, a slot name turns up that makes you grin, and Pragmatic Play has delivered one of those here. It’s called Moleionaire, which naturally brings to mind a mole who’s somehow hit the jackpot in life and is now living like a millionaire. The idea isn’t totally unheard of either, since Relax Gaming blended animals and wealth in Beellionaires Dream Drop. Still, that’s pretty much where the overlap stops, because Moleionaire is a non-jackpot, cluster pays game, built around a symbol-to-wild conversion mechanic as its main attraction.

Pragmatic Play does venture into nature-themed settings now and then, as shown in titles like Rabbit Garden and Country Farming. Moleionaire won’t exactly inspire office workers to ditch the city and embrace country life, but it’s a pleasant enough backdrop. The friendly mole sits beside the 7×7 grid, popping out of his burrow with a cheerful smile. It does make you wonder how he earned his fortune. Overall, the scenery keeps things bright and upbeat.

Despite the lighthearted presentation, Moleionaire is a highly volatile slot, with a top RTP of 96.08%. Stakes run from 20 c to $/€240 per spin, and if you’d rather jump straight into the bonus, there’s a free spins buy option available. Since it’s a cluster pays game, you must land at least 5 matching pay symbols connected horizontally and/or vertically to form a winning cluster and receive a payout.

Moleionaire’s pay symbols are mostly nature-themed items. From lowest value to highest, you’ll see leaves, cones, flowers, butterflies, carrots, pears, radishes, and berries. Clusters of 5 matching symbols pay 0.2 to 1 times the stake, while clusters of 20+ OAK return 10 to 250 times the stake. The gold coin wild can replace any symbol except the free spins scatter. After each win, the winning symbols pay out and are then removed from the grid. The remaining symbols fall into place, with new ones dropping in from above to fill the empty spaces and give you another shot at winning on the same spin. This tumbling sequence keeps going until a tumble produces no further wins.

Moleionaire: Slot Features

Moleionaire keeps things fairly straightforward. You get tumbles, the Cluster Reaction mechanic as the main hook, plus a free spins feature and a free spins buy option.

Cluster Reaction Feature

With every spin, before any tumbles occur, 2 pay symbols appear inside the mole’s thought bubble. If those symbols are present on the grid and end up next to each other when the spin finishes, they transform into wilds. During the transformation, it can happen at random that 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 wilds are placed on that same position. The number of wilds placed is added to the symbol count for any winning clusters they help form.

Free Spins

In the base game, landing 4, 5, 6, or 7 scatter symbols awards 8, 10, 12, or 14 free spins, respectively. Moleionaire’s paytable doesn’t outline any new rules or extra mechanics that aren’t already in the base game, aside from the note that ‘Special reels are in play during the feature.’ which may appear in the rules section. If you land 3+ scatters during the feature, it retriggers and can add up to +16 extra free spins, respectively.

Bonus Buy

You can activate the free spins feature directly from the base game by purchasing it for 90 times the bet. When you buy the feature, 4 to 7 scatter symbols land at random to start the round.

Moleionaire: Slot Verdict

Moleionaire is… fine. It lands as a fairly average slot without much standout appeal. The mole character adds some charm, but that’s largely where the personality ends. The theme is used well enough, the features do their job, and after watching Moleionaire run through its routine for a while, any initial novelty fades pretty quickly. Even after checking the paytable before spending real time with it, there wasn’t much to build excitement, and once the gameplay settled in, it didn’t reveal many surprises either.

The bigger letdown is that there’s no clear statement that free spins bring anything meaningfully different to the table. That’s always a shame. It’s possible that wild transformations in free spins have a higher chance of dropping extra wild symbols onto the transformed positions than in the base game, but since the documentation doesn’t say so, there’s no certainty. In any case, it’s not among Pragmatic Play’s strongest feature ideas. With cluster pay levels topping out at 20+ at the upper end, even a flood of wilds doesn’t open up huge potential. There are no multipliers to lift payouts either, so imagining Moleionaire reaching its 5,000x win cap feels a little optimistic.

To wrap it up neatly, Moleionaire isn’t Pragmatic Play’s best effort. The feature set has some potential, but it misses the extra spark that could have made it feel more memorable. Something like an additional supporting mechanic or richer cluster payouts might have stopped Moleionaire from coming across as a bit of a disposable release.