Fatz’s Diner

High volatility and a 9,000x ceiling define Fatz's Diner, the October 2023 release from Yggdrasil Gaming that reimagines an American diner with an all-animal waitstaff. A goat, a hippo, a crocodile, a lion and a monkey handle premium symbol duties, while berries, meat, foliage and bananas cover the lower end of the paytable against a backdrop of checkerboard tiles and neon signage.

Reels run 5 across with 40 ways to win rather than a fixed-line structure, meaning a matching run from the first reel onward pays out however it falls. Five connected animal symbols return between 1x and 4x the stake depending on which one lands, and the food icons cap out lower at 0.8x for the same run length. A wild shaped like a vinyl record covers for any of these.

Buying into the feature costs either 100x the stake for a random 10 to 30 free spins, or 600x for the full 30 spins with the Hippo's personal multiplier already built up to x9 before the first spin even plays. Reaching Free Spins without paying for it means landing five or more scatter symbols, which sets the starting spin count at five plus the number that triggered it; further scatters during the round add still more spins. The Hippo multiplier that anchors this feature starts at x3 in every case and rises by 3 each time the Hippo contributes to a win, staying at that level for the rest of the round instead of dropping back down between spins.

Underpinning all of this is Gigablox: two to five neighbouring reels can fuse into one giant column on any spin, base game or bonus, producing block symbols sized anywhere between 2x2 and a full 5x5, with every symbol except Expand & Respin able to appear this way. Expand & Respin symbols themselves award a respin and grow the current Gigareel by a single position toward where they landed, and versions carrying their own multiplier can stack extra respins and expansions in the same sequence. During Free Spins, gathering three Expand & Respin symbols raises the smallest size the Gigareel can shrink back to for the remainder of the round.

Four RTP settings are available for this title — 96%, 94%, 90.5% and 86% — with the standard configuration paying back 96% on the high-volatility model described above, and stakes adjustable from 0.20 to 40 per spin.