Goat Getter

Goat Getter: Slot Overview

Quick, say something witty about goats… Nope, got nothing; goats just aren't animals we come across every other day. Perhaps they aren't perceived as having the right charisma to make it big in the online gambling realm. Is that all about to change, though? If software developer Push Gaming has anything to say in the matter, the answer, hopefully, is yes. The reason why is that the studio has designed Goat Getter, a scatter paying slot, which places the humble goat in a starring role. As well as goats, Goat Getter's packs in a bunch of features such as Coin Pot symbol prizes, a Coin Drop feature, free spins with a gamble feature, and bonus buys.

Some goats are herded in pens, others roam, and it appears to be the latter sort we come across in Goat Getter. A pointy tree forest is where players find themselves, reminiscent of Peter & Sons' style, where birds float lazily around in the sky while a low-key backing tune meanders along. After taking in Goat Getter's environment for a while, have we got this all backwards? Are we really living our full potential, cooped up in a car or bus or whatever to work, cooped up in an office or some other location they have to pay us to spend our hours at, followed by more cooped up-ness for the ride home, 5 days a week, month in month out for years until we've earned the chance to rest in our elder years? Or should we be like the Na'vi, one with nature, one with the community, breathing fresh air, exercising our minds, bodies and spirits to the utmost? Just a thought.

When joining the goats out in this mountainous region, players pick a bet of 10 p/c to $/€100 and can opt to switch on the Push Bet should they so choose. When the Push Bet is on, the stake increases by 20% whilst also increasing the chance to win the feature by 34%. A rather precise figure. When the Push Bet is active, the default RTP is 96.44%, dropping to 96.4% when not using it. With a medium-high volatile math model, Goat Getter is played on a game grid using 5 columns of 6 symbols.

Symbols in a scatter win are removed from the reels by the cascade mechanic. Any empty gaps this creates are filled by symbols cascading from above, and the sequence ends when no new scatter wins are formed. Just to reiterate, Goat Getter is a scatter pays slot that awards a win when at least 6 matching symbols land on the board in any position. From low to high, Goat Getter counts amongst its regular pay symbols diamonds, clubs, spades, hearts, eggs, mushrooms, crystals, a green chest, a purple chest, and a red chest. Landing a baseline 6-8 of a kind win pays 0.3 to 5 times the bet, while an 18+ symbol win awards 15 to 500 times the bet. Goat Getter has no wild symbols on its reels in the base or bonus game.

Goat Getter: Slot Features

Aside from the fundamental cascade mechanic, Goat Getter comes bundled with Coin Pot symbols, a Coin Drop feature, free spins, and bonus buys.

Coin Pot Feature

Coin Pot symbols are symbols with an Instant Prize value attached. When 6 or more Coin Pots land and no more wins occur, the Coin Drop feature is triggered – 6, 7, 8, or 9 Coin Pots in view awards 0.5x, 1x, 2x, or 4x the bet, respectively. If 10 or more Coin Pots are in view, then the Instant Prize values attached to each one become active and are paid out. Values range from 0.5 to 1,000 times the bet.

At the start of the Coin Drop, all symbols are removed except for Coin Pots or Bonus symbols, which fall to the bottom of the grid. When triggered from the base game, Mystery Boxes fall in from the top, revealing either a dud symbol, a Coin Pot symbol, or a bonus Symbol. If 3 or more bonus symbols are in view from a base game trigger, free spins will activate.

When triggered from free spins, the Mystery Boxes reveal duds, Coins, Pots, or Goat symbols. When Coin Pots and Goat symbols are revealed, the Goat collects active Instant Prize values. Any multiplier the Goats possess is applied before the total win is paid out, then the Goat is collected. When only duds are revealed, or all spaces are filled, the Coin Drop round ends.

Free Spins

In the base game, landing 3 bonus symbols awards 6-12 free spins, 4 bonus symbols awards 10-16 free spins, and 5 bonus symbols awards 14-16 free spins. Before the round begins, players are able to gamble for the chance to win extra free spins or lose them if unlucky. Now, during free spins, the Goat symbol may land. When it does, each Goat in view will collect the value of any Coin Pots in view. Goat symbols are collected by a progression meter when they land as well. The meter has 4 levels. Each level is achieved when 5 Goats have been collected. Reaching levels 1, 2, 3, or 4 activates an x2, x3, x5, or x10 multiplier, respectively, while awarding +5 free spins each time. The multiplier applies to any Coin Pot symbol values collected by the Goat symbol.

Bonus Buy

From the bonus buy menu, players can buy free spins triggered by 3, 4, or 5 bonus symbols for 100x, 200x, or 400x the bet, respectively. Or, a random bonus buy for 175x the bet.

Goat Getter: Slot Verdict

While Push Gaming is obviously well equipped to shock players with outrageously lethal gaming engines, Goat Getter is evidence it can cater just as well to other tastes and preferences as well. Any player, really, enthralled by scatter pays slots would do well to check out what Goat Getter has to offer. It covers so many bases. For one, its scatter wins + cascade mechanic makes an excellent combination. Some cascading slots feel shy about using the cascade mechanic too often. Others, like Relax Gaming's Cluster Tumble, have no qualms about stringing together a long line of consecutive cluster wins. Goat Getter did not reach the same levels of ludicrousness Cluster Tumble did, but it was noticeably more liberal with the mechanic than a lot of slots are.

The busy cascading feels like something that could help draw players keen on scatter pays games in for a look. A savvy move on Push Gaming's part in a game rife with savvy choices. Another example is the inclusion of the instant prize collection feature. Not only do Goats collect Cash Pots, but the Coin Drop feature makes an excellent addition to the base game and to free spins. Like scoring potentially lengthy chains of cascading scatter wins, the Coin Drop adds value, not just monetary, but it provides an extra layer of entertainment, doling out extra bang for your buck, as it were. In free spins, it's even better, helping to lengthen a bonus round while also letting Goats do some collecting and getting collected in return to help achieve those all-important multipliers.

In short, Goat Getter Is a game chock full of good ideas, with a 10,000x the bet win cap icing on top. From the playful theme choice and presentation to the swag load of extras not typically found in a scatter pays slot, just as goats have a reputation for eating anything, there's something here to suit all sorts of gambler types.