Software provider Pragmatic Play dusts off the wellies and straw hat and heads out of town to the place where food comes from, that is, a well-tended farm. Well, some of the food anywhere, like the stuff that bursts out of the ground and so on. Farming is a topic which gets some love in the online slot world, though it's not exactly an immensely populous category. In Rabbit Garden, players aim to sow the seeds just so in order to sprout features such as tumble wins, Coins collections, and free spins with a growing win multiplier shovelled in for good measure.
One of the fun things for casino game makers when designing a farm slot must be all the bright, cheerful imagery they get to use. Rabbit Garden is no exception and is packed to the ceiling with fecund fields, sunny weather, and a general all-over feel-good factor. As if farming consists of walking over a patch of land while nature's produce spouts at your feet, then gets spirited away to market as if by magic. Obviously, real farming is a lot harder than that, though when playing an agricultural slot like Rabbit Garden, it's fun to pretend.
>Like online slots, farming also has a strong business element where the crass yet important issue of money gets involved. In Rabbit Garden, that means stake selection, where bet levels start at 20 p/c and max out at $/€100 per spin. There's no Ante Bet, but certain markets have access to a bonus buy, allowing players to buy the bonus round for 100x the base bet. When buying free spins, an RTP of 96.08% can be expected, slightly up from the 96.05% produced when betting regularly, and the volatility has been rated by the makers as high.
Pragmatic Play must have sprinkled one or two growth hormones onto the gaming area since its larger-than-normal grid consists of 7 reels of 7 symbols each. Forty-nine symbols drop into the picture on each spin, creating wins when blocks of at least 5 matching symbols are connected in vertical or horizontal directions. Winning clusters are removed from the grid by the Tumble feature, and the gaps they make are filled by symbols falling from above. Tumbling continues until no new win is formed. A base level five symbol win pays 0.2 to 1 times the bet, whereas a full 15-49 symbol cluster is worth 20 to 150 times the bet. Symbols themselves are J-A card icons, a wheelbarrow, a fox, and a bunny, whereas wild symbols do not crop up at any moment to bestow their substitution ability.
>Rabbit Garden has two other important symbols, though. The scatter is needed to trigger free spins, while Coin symbols feed into the Coin Collection feature. Here's how they work.
When Coin symbols appear on the board they come with random money values from a defined set – 1x-3x, 5x, 10x, 15x, 25x, 50x, 100x, 250x, 500x, or 1,000x the bet. On random base game spins, 4, 6, 8, 10, or 12 Coin symbols can appear on the reels in random spots. Whenever a winning cluster is adjacent to a Coin, players are awarded the value of the Coin.
Carrot-covered scatters are the way to gain access to the free spins round. When 4, 5, 6, or 7 scatters are in view, players pick up 5 free spins plus a win of 2x, 5x, 20x, or 100x the stake, respectively. Now, Coins are guaranteed to be added to the reels on every free spin with random values in random positions. This occurs in a progressive manner, meaning 4 coins for the first free spin, 6 for the second, 8 for the third, 10 for the fourth, and 12 for the fifth.
During free spins, winning symbols are collected as points on a meter – each winning pay symbol is worth 1 point, while each collected Coin contributes 3 points. Reaching certain levels on the meter triggers +5 extra free spins with the same number of guaranteed Coins on each free spin as the initial set. Getting to level 2, 3, 4, or 5 comes with a multiplier applied to wins, and Coin collects of x2, x3, x5, or x10, respectively. The number of points needed to level up is clearly displayed on the paytable and on the meter when free spins are active.
>Getting back to nature goes hand in hand with simplifying your life, at least for a while, in an attempt to escape the hustle and bustle of modern life with all the temptations and stresses it entails. Rabbit Garden is fairly simplistic to match but not overly so. The features it has have been neatly designed to work with and off of each other. Much like the way we sow seeds, nature adds dirt, water and light to grow the seeds into whatever foodstuff they may be; then, we eat the bounty they provide or sell it for profit. It's kind of magical when you think about it, on one level mundane and easy to overlook perhaps, yet magical too.
Okay, we're back, and even though we wouldn't call Rabbit Garden a magical experience exactly, as far as farm slots go, it's a pretty decent one. It doesn't have the same individual spark as something like Fat Rabbit or Wild Yield, or Big Bad Wolf Megaways if we're really stretching the farming/rural genre definition, yet it's not bad. Players who like what Push Gaming's doing with Coin/instant prize symbols might have their interests piqued by what Rabbit Garden does, too. With a win cap of 10,000x the bet, there's room to manoeuvre should the levelling up in free spins be going swimmingly. More specifically, the added win multipliers might come in handy, plus Coin values can be high, though the chunkier ones are unlikely to land in huge quantities or all that often.
However, the opportunity for a solid win is a technical possibility in Rabbit Garden, making it an all-around positive choice for players after a taste of rural life. It might not do enough to motivate users to flee to the farm for good, trading in their briefcase, travel pass, and Zoom meetings, but Rabbit Garden's not bad for a taste of the countryside.
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