Bugs Money

Reflex Gaming, publishing through Yggdrasil's partner network, opens Bugs Money on a simple forest clearing — tree trunks framing the reels, bushes filling the background — a quieter setting than the studio has used before. A single bee works the scene at rest, gathering pollen among the flowers before the reels start spinning.

The layout is a standard 5-reel, 3-row grid with ten fixed paylines, and combinations pay from three matching symbols upward, reading left to right. The low-value symbols are a standard suit set — hearts, spades, diamonds and clubs — each returning 5x the stake for a full five-symbol line. Four insect and flower icons make up the premiums — a ladybird, two differently coloured butterflies and a single flower — paying between 20x and 100x for a five-symbol line. A firefly-lit bottle acts as the wild, substituting for every symbol except the scatter.

Betting starts at a base of 0.20 per spin. An optional Golden Bet side wager is available too, adding 50% to the stake in return for twice the chance that free spins trigger — worth considering given the default max bet caps out at just 1 per spin. RTP ships in four configurations — 95.5%, 94%, 90.5% or 86% — and volatility is rated high with a 29.6% hit frequency.

A Glow Wilds reel modifier can fire on any spin, base game or bonus, dropping extra wild symbols onto random positions on the grid. Three, four or five scatters land a same-spin payout worth 8x, 40x or 200x the stake and trigger the free spins round, where the player then picks from four spin counts, each tied to its own multiplier range: 3 spins running from x5 to x50, 7 spins from x3 to x20, 10 spins from x2 to x10, or 15 spins from x1 to x5, with the exact multiplier drawn fresh on every spin within the chosen range. Landing scatters on reels one, three and five during the round retriggers it at the originally selected spin count. A Queen Bee appears on reel three only in the bonus and is itself wild; when she lands, the running multiplier gains a flat 10x on top of whatever it has already reached, which is how the game's headline wins get built.

The maximum win is listed at 55,028x the stake, and there is no bonus-buy route into the feature — free spins can only be reached by landing scatters during play.