Peppe’s Pepperoni Pizza Plaza

The studio’s latest release, Peppe's Pepperoni Pizza Plaza, takes a different direction with an Italian culinary theme. Unfortunately, this slot doesn’t stray far from its predecessors and instead serves up a pizza-themed version of the Big Bass formula. If you were hoping for something truly fresh, you're in for a disappointment.

Visually, Peppe's Pepperoni Pizza Plaza is designed like a slice of pizza, but the gameplay feels far from original. The game uses the same mechanics we’ve seen before: Money symbols, wilds, and multipliers galore. If you enjoyed Pizza! Pizza? Pizza!, you might feel a sense of déjà vu. Even the free spins feature includes a quirky twist—pickles jumping off a conveyor belt as bonus round modifiers—but even this feels like an odd attempt to inject some personality into an otherwise lackluster game.

The game features a 2-3-4-5-6 grid, with a ways-to-win system rather than traditional paylines. It’s highly volatile, with bets ranging from 10c to CA$250 per spin, and an optional ante bet that ups your stake by 50% for a higher chance at triggering free spins. The RTP is 96.55%, which doesn’t change whether you choose the ante bet, bonus buy, or regular play. In other words, no real surprises there.

As expected, the features in Peppe's Pepperoni Pizza Plaza are heavily inspired by the Big Bass series, with a few tweaks here and there. Money symbols (represented by chili peppers) can appear with values between 2x and 2,000x your bet, and they’re collected during free spins. Speaking of free spins, players can win 10, 15, or 20 free spins depending on how many scatter symbols land.

Before the round starts, you’ll randomly receive between 0 and 5 modifiers. These modifiers can add more Money symbols, wilds, or Golden Wilds to the reels, or even start you off from Level 2 of the progressive feature. However, these additions feel more like minor adjustments to an already tired formula.

When wilds land during free spins, they collect Money symbol values, and if a Golden Wild hits, the grid expands. However, no new winning combinations can form on the expanded grid, which then resets to its default size. Collecting four wilds retriggers the feature, with increasing multipliers for Money symbol collection. But let's be honest, it all feels like the same old mechanics with a new coat of cheese.

Bonus Buy

If you’re impatient and don’t want to wait for the free spins to trigger naturally, you can buy the feature for 120x your bet. It’s a familiar gimmick that’s quickly becoming overused, and it’s hard to shake the feeling that Reel Kingdom is just rehashing the same game over and over, changing only a few cosmetic details.