90K Yeti Gigablox: Slot Overview
Back in 2024, developer 4ThePlayer strapped on their
hiking boots, hired a Sherpa to carry their ☀️ heavy belongings and made the long trek
through the Himalayas in 9K Yeti – a trident of a name serving ☀️ three purposes. One, it
sort of referenced the height in meters of Mt Everest, two, it pushed the game up ☀️ any
alphabetised list, and three, it was roughly what the max win was. Two of these
purposes remain for the ☀️ follow up 90K Yeti Gigablox, and big win players will be
pleased to know Everest hasn't increased in height by ☀️ 10x recently. Obviously,
4ThePlayer is going large for the sequel, and they've had help in doing so by
incorporating Yggdrasil's ☀️ Gigablox mechanic. As well as this are Snow Blox, Yeti
Reveals, Snowstorms, Giga Summons, and free spins.
Visually, it looks like ☀️ 4ThePlayer
picked a calmer day to begin the ascent, as the weather is more pleasant than it was in
9K ☀️ Yeti. The Yeti's there, as cut as ever, huffing, and puffing on the side of the
screen, occasionally triggering a ☀️ modifier to give players a helping hand. The main
difference is the new 6x6 Gigablox powered game grid, where it ☀️ is possible to have up
to 46,656 ways to win. However, in the base game, Snow Blox randomly appear which
☀️ essentially are dead symbols that don't contribute anything except block combinations
from being made. Due to Gigablox, when you hit ☀️ spin, you never know how the reels will
align. This is because Gigablox merges reels to create symbols of 2x2 ☀️ to 6x6 in size,
adding dynamism to the action.
Playable on any device, 90K Yeti provides stakes from 10
p/c toR$/€10 ☀️ per spin, a modest range likely in order to reduce liability due to the
massive max win figure. Volatility is ☀️ high, crazy high during testing as masses of
nothing could be offset by something surprisingly huge dropping out of nowhere. ☀️ The
RTP, meanwhile, is slightly below average at 95.5%, though it has decreased slightly
from the previous one's value of ☀️ 97%.
Landing a regular win occurs when matching
symbols land on consecutive reels from the left-hand side of the panel. When
☀️ calculating a win, Gigablox symbols break down into individual 1x1 sized tiles first.
The symbols haven't altered much either, so ☀️ players get 10-A card ranks worth 0.8x your
stake for six of a kind, followed by ropes, picks, tents worth ☀️ up to 1.2x your stake
for 6oak, and finally Sherpas, a lady climber, a man climber, and Yetis as the ☀️ top
paying symbols worth 2x-4.8x for a full line. Once again, Everest is the wild,
substituting for all symbols except ☀️ the scatter.
90K Yeti Gigablox: Slot
Features
4ThePlayer has beefed up the features where several modifiers are randomly
activated in various stages ☀️ of the game, while the main one is free spins. Occurring at
random in the base game is the Yeti ☀️ Reveal feature. When activated, the Yeti will
destroy Snow Blox to reveal winning symbols.
The Snowstorm is another arbitrary
feature. In ☀️ this one, the Yeti shuffles the reels into a new order to create a
win.
Giga Summon can strike at any ☀️ time, where the Yeti summons a large Gigablox reel
containing symbols of at least 4x4 in size.
The icy footprint symbol ☀️ is the scatter,
and 5 or more trigger free spins. The number of spins awarded is equal to the number ☀️ of
triggering scatter symbols in view on the reels. During this bonus round, Snowstorm and
Giga Summon features have an ☀️ enhanced chance to trigger, with at least one guaranteed.
Also, all Snow Blox are removed from the reels for the ☀️ duration of the round. Lastly,
for every scatter that lands in the feature, +1 additional free spin is awarded.
If
available, ☀️ players can choose from 4 feature buy modes. These are 5, 10, or 20 free
spins, or a Giga Summon ☀️ Spin where a 4x4, 5x5, or 6x6 Gigablox reel is guaranteed.
90K
Yeti Gigablox: Slot Verdict
4ThePlayer might have gone large with ☀️ 90K Yeti, but there
are mixed feelings about it. The game starts off well, with a great view of Everest ☀️ and
lines of prayer flags they have throughout the Himalayas rattling in the wind. It's
some nice oil painting imagery ☀️ evoking the beauty of Everest, hinting at the deeper
spiritual significance it has for some people. Then when you click ☀️ to enter the game,
the mysticism is replaced by a much more mundane, down to earth sensation. It doesn't
look ☀️ bad at all, just not as entrancing. Only saying all of this because not everyone
is going to walk away ☀️ with 90K Yeti's colossal top prize, and what you're left staring
at while trying to do so is kind of ☀️ average. Apart from the grid swap, not much has
changed visually or atmospherically since 2024, and others have since stepped ☀️ in to do
this part of the world a bit better, Katmandu Gold being a prime example.
It is nice
having ☀️ a few modifiers in the base game to liven things up. As is using pay ways rather
than the fixed ☀️ paylines you usually get in a Gigablox game. However, the Snow Blox do a
good job of stunting the mechanic's ☀️ effectiveness in the main game and it is a relief
when they are completely removed for free spins. Then the ☀️ whole set-up shakes them off
to show what it can do. Despite the several modifiers, there's no real trick or ☀️ secret
to getting decent results. You just want masses of the same symbol to hit to take
advantage of the ☀️ ways and the six reels. As the name alludes to, if it all goes to
plan, wins as high as ☀️ 93,312x the bet are possible – this was achieved during
100,000,000 simulated game rounds. Hitting 90k in real life is ☀️ akin to getting high-def
pics of an actual Yeti and would be super positive news for 4ThePlayer.
Like the
previous one, ☀️ there is something a little off about 90K Yeti, but it's hard to pin down
exactly what the issue is. ☀️ Maybe it's the Snow Blox, or the way you have to wade
through a load of spins before anything happens, ☀️ maybe the way the Yeti constantly
stares at you is a little disconcerting. Whatever it is, 90K Yeti dangles a ☀️ massive
carrot, which will no doubt be enough to help some players see past any idiosyncrasies
and take on a ☀️ big, fanged, challenge.
