Swag Bag Bonanza: Slot Overview

It’s time to do a little virtual robbing in the online slot Swag Bag Bonanza from Relax Gaming. This isn’t the first outing where the studio has leaned into a crime theme, having done so not long before with Mega Heist. Even so, while both games revolve around criminal antics, they play very differently. Where Mega Heist features a distinctive “shuffle to the finish line” style bonus, Swag Bag Bonanza opts for a more familiar money symbol collection mechanic, paired with a level-up style free spins system where multipliers get tossed into the bag.

As an exclusive release, Swag Bag Bonanza is set in the UK’s capital, with Union Flags fluttering, a double-decker bus rolling by, and the iconic Big Ben clock tower visible in the background. With London being one of the world’s major financial hubs—and a logical target for a heist-themed slot—the location fits perfectly. Interestingly, according to the Guardian and Wikipedia, London’s biggest heist happened at the Graff jewellery store on New Bond Street, where thieves stole 43 jewelled items worth £40 million in 2009. The culprits were eventually caught, which supports the old idea that crime doesn’t pay. Will Swag Bag Bonanza be any different? Let’s find out.

Built into the side of the bank in Swag Bag Bonanza is a 5-reel, 4-row grid, with wins calculated across 12 paylines. The game runs on a highly volatile model and offers a single fixed RTP of 96.3% when staking 20 c to $/€100 per paid spin. Winning combinations are formed by landing matching symbols from left to right, beginning on the far-left reel.

The paytable contains ten standard symbols. Low pays are the 10 to A card ranks, paying 4 times the bet for a 5-of-a-kind. Higher-paying icons include gold bars, gems, bags of loot, a Faberge Egg, and a crown, which return 8 to 32 times the bet for 5 matching picture symbols. Both robber symbols and cop symbols act as wilds, substituting for any regular pay symbol. Hitting a line of 5 cops or 5 robbers also pays 10 times the bet. That said, wilds only show up in free spins where they gain extra functions, which makes all those money symbols in the base game feel somewhat pointless.

Swag Bag Bonanza: Slot Features

Inside this swag bag of potential, aspiring thieves can trigger the Buster Respins feature, Swag Bag free spins, Super Swag free spins, plus a bonus buy option.

Busted Respin Feature

During the base game, landing 2 scatter symbols starts the Busted Respin feature. The reels containing the scatters become locked in place, and one respin is performed on the remaining reels that are still unlocked. Once the respin finishes, wins are checked, and if any extra scatters appear, the free spins bonus round is awarded.

Swag Bag Free Spins

Scatters can land on every reel, with 3 scatters grant 10 free spins and 4 scatters grant 15 free spins. These same free spin amounts also apply when advancing to higher stages. Free spins include a stage progression system featuring increasing multipliers as stages rise. There are 5 stages with multipliers of x1, x2, x3, x10, and x50, and these multipliers apply to swag symbol collections. Swag values during free spins range from 2x to 10,000x the bet.

Every stage is split into four segments. Whenever a robber symbol lands, it not only collects any swag symbols currently visible, it also fills one segment. Completing all 4 segments progresses to the next stage, and additional free spins are granted. The game first completes the current set of free spins and multiplier, then moves into the next stage where the higher multiplier becomes active.

Whenever a cop symbol lands, it removes all filled segments from the current progress toward collection—though cops can’t push the stage back down. Super Swag free spins can be reached from Swag Bag free spins by reaching the last stage.

Super Swag Free Spins

Landing 5 scatter symbols in the base game also awards Super Swag free spins. In this mode, the robber and the cop both collect swag symbol values. Every collected swag value has the x50 multiplier applied. This feature cannot be retriggered.

Buy Feature

Using the buy feature, players can enter the free spins round for 49x the bet. When purchasing the free spins feature, the RTP is 96.6%, and the outcome can be either Swag Bag free spins or Super Swag free spins.

Swag Bag Bonanza: Slot Verdict

Swag Bag Bonanza ended up being one of the more irritating titles reviewed in a while. To start, luck is luck—sometimes it goes your way, sometimes it doesn’t—and it’s entirely possible we simply ran cold during the Swag Bag Bonanza session. Still, it felt unusually hard to get the different parts of Swag Bag Bonanza to line up into anything particularly rewarding. Plenty of repeat bonus rounds failed to build into much, even with the fair buy price, and the characters and mechanics seemed determined to be as aggravating as possible. That was certainly the impression.

It’s easy to imagine this game delivering strong moments, yet for whatever reason, Swag Bag Bonanza repeatedly refused to cooperate. Robbers would land and push the meter forward, only for cops to arrive and wipe out the progress, leaving things stuck in place. Or the stages would advance, then swag symbols would appear all over the reels, but no robbers would show up to collect them and take advantage of the multiplier. It kept looping like a slapstick cops-and-robbers movie where the police are just as clumsy as the crooks, turning the whole heist and pursuit into a chaotic farce.

If Swag Bag Bonanza happens to be running well for a player, the experience would probably be very different. Some of the higher swag symbol values are genuinely appealing; landing the top 10,000x one—the most coveted of the lot—would be something special. For clarity, Swag Bag Bonanza’s win cap is 10,000x, so if someone manages to collect the biggest swag symbol, that’s the end of the story in the best possible way, with no multiplier needed. Beyond that, there may still be fun here for the right audience—perhaps anyone after a Big Bass Bonanza-style vibe in a bank-job theme—but during the review, Swag Bag Bonanza worked very hard to be difficult to enjoy.