Swoll Slot (Shady Lady)

The Swoll slot has 5 reels, 4 rows and 1,024 ways to win. Winning combinations are pretty standard as you required 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols from left to right, starting from reel 1, on adjacent reels. Only the highest payout per way to win will be awarded.

With a 10p minimum bet per spin, the maximum is £5 in the UK (or £2 for under 25s). There are 2 ways to change your bet: use the plus and minus buttons or press/click the Bet amount to see all available options. Non-UK players have Autoplay (10-1,000 auto spins) and Turbo Mode.

The Swoll RTP rate is 96.2%, with 53.67% from the base game and 42.5% from the bonus features. As with most slot games, Shady Lady has created 94.15% and 92.14% RTP alternative versions (open the Paytable to see which version you’ve got).

9/10 on the volatility front (high), the hit frequency rate is 23.56%: this means a winning outcome will form every 4.24 spins on average. To trigger a bonus feature, this will occur every 192 spins on average. In terms of max win potential, Swoll comes with 20,000 x bet max wins: this is no max win probability information available.

The Swoll slot has a gym/parody theme. You head to the temple of gains where, according to Shady Lady, shredded influencers flex fake truths and even faker physiques. Poking fun at gymfluencer fever you see on social media, you can expect steroids and lies as dream go off the rails.

The setting is a makeshift gym somewhere in California presumably as you’ll see palm trees out the roll-up garage door. With a red sports car out front, you’ll see pictures of Joe (the gymfluencer) on the wall in his car, with chicks on a yacht and in his leopard thong. It’s clear that Swoll is tongue-in-cheek.

With a high-tempo soundtrack, low-value symbols include leopard thongs, tanning oil, glasses of egg yolks and steak. The 4 high-value symbols are represented by a gym guy, 2 gym bunnies (who have had more plastic surgery/Botox than you can imagine), Joe (who looks a little like the Liver King) and a Wild Energy Drink. Both Joe and Wild Energy Drink symbols are the best paying as they award a 3 x bet payout for 5 in combination.

Swoll comes with a few special symbols. You have a 4-high Swoll symbol and Protein Powder Scatter symbols which are key to the game’s various bonus features. More on these below.

Swoll Mobile

Created with HTML5 technology, Swoll can be played on mobile, tablet and desktop devices. Available to play on iOS and Android smartphones in Portrait Mode, the full visual experience is best on a PC or laptop in my opinion. This is the case with all Shady Lady slots too.

The Swoll slot comes with several bonus features: the focus are Swoll symbols which come with a coin value and multiplier. Awarded when appearing fully on a reel, multiple Swoll symbols merge for even bigger prizes. With 3 random modifiers, there are 2 free spins features for even bigger win potential.

Swoll Symbols

On all reels, Swoll symbols can appear fully stacked (4 rows high). When a Swoll symbol lands fully on a reel, the Swoll feature is triggered, awarding a random coin value and multiplier.

If the stacked Swoll feature is not adjacent to any other Swoll symbols, the coin value multiplied by the multiplier is awarded. If 2 or more fully stacked Swoll symbols land next to each other, the Swoll symbols merge into a single, massive Swoll.

All coin values are added together and all multipliers and multiplied with the total multiplier applying to the total coin value. The more Swoll symbols that merge, the bigger the possible payouts and the greater the transformation.

Nudge, Slide & Roid Rage

As well as Swoll symbols, there are 3 random features that may be triggered. The details are as follows:

• Nudge: When 1 or more Swoll symbols land, the Nudge feature may trigger randomly. Swoll symbols that don’t appear fully will nudge up or down to fill the reel completely.
• Slide: If 2 or more full Swoll symbols appear on the reels, the Slide feature may activate. All full Swoll symbols except the leftmost will slide left until they are adjacent to one another. Once adjacent, the Swoll symbols merge with the Swoll feature activated.
• Roid Rage: Before any Swoll symbol merges or pays out, the Roid Rage feature can randomly activate. Upgrading the coin value of the Swoll symbol to a higher amount, this boosts your winning potential.

Free Spins & Super Free Spins

The Free Spins feature is triggered by landing 3 Protein Power Scatter symbols during a base game spin. With 6 Nudge Reps (free spins) awarded, all Swoll symbols automatically nudge to become fully stacked. The Slide feature can also randomly activate. Look out for +1 Rep symbols as these award 1 extra free spin.

Landing 4 Protein Powder Scatter symbols will trigger the Super Free Spins feature, with 8 free spins. Both Nudge and Slide features always activate, which guarantees maximum Swoll stacking. You’ll also see +1 Rep symbols for additional free spins.

The Store

For non-UK players, the Swoll slot game has ‘The Store’: this allows you to purchase various boosts, bonus features, Highlight Reels and Loot Box options:

• Bonus Boost: for 1.5 x bet, you boost your chances of triggering the free spins features. 
• Big Bonus Boost: for 5 x bet, your chances increase further.
• Nudge Slide: for 10 x bet, you trigger the Nudge & Slide features.
• Swoll Boost: for 20 x bet, you are guaranteed at least 2 Swoll symbols.
• Bonus Buy: for 101 x bet, you will trigger the Free Spins feature.
• Super Bonus Buy: for 283 x bet, you will trigger the Super Free Spins feature.
• Bronze Bonus: for 138 x bet, you will trigger a Bronze version of the Free Spins feature.
• Silver Bonus: for 346 x bet, you will trigger a Silver version of the Free Spins feature.
• Gold Bonus: for 1,590 x bet, you will trigger a Gold version of the Free Spins feature.
• Highlight Reels: With 3 options, you buy the best 3 of 100, 300 or 500 spins for 73, 172 or 259 x bet, respectively.
• Loot Boxes: With Rare, Epic and Legendary Loot Box options, you will be awarded 1 of 9 Enhanced Bonuses. There are Bronze, Silver and Gold Enhanced Bonuses which cost 193, 349 or 573 x bet respectively. There are 1, 2 or 3 star versions of each option, with higher win potential the more stars.

Swoll Slot

Rating: 4.2/5

Swoll is a humorous/parodical take on gymfluencers that focuses on Swoll symbols that nudge, slide and merge for 20,000 x bet max win potential.

Chris Taylor

The Swoll slot is the 6^th game from Shady Lady. With the studio not averse to parodical and controversial themes, this hilarious game pokes fun at gymfluencers we all see in their droves on social media. Previous releases include cult-inspired Brainwashed, virus-themed Oops and Orphan Organ (which is based on alien orphans that are made to sing).

All about Swoll symbols, they need to appear fully on a reel to activate the Swoll feature. With a coin value that is multiplied by the multiplier, multiple Swoll symbols will merge in a massive Swoll, thus boosting the win potential. To help you achieve these, Swoll symbols can nudge to be fully visible and slide to be adjacent to each other. I really like the Roid Rage feature as this upgrades to the coin values for even bigger win potential.

In the 2 free spins features, win potential is higher as Swoll symbols always nudge with the Slide feature applying in the Super version. With 20,000 x bet max wins, getting bigger with the various complimenting extras is the key to winning in the Swoll slot.

Thematically, Relax Gaming’s Beast Mode sees you head to Muscle Beach in Venice, LA. Another option is Wicked Games’ Transformers which is based on a chemically-enhanced weightlifting lunatic. If you want controversial slots though, Nolimit City are the masters (i.e. Remember Gulag, Kenneth Must Die, Blood Diamond, Land of the Free etc).

The Swoll slot review was written by Chris Taylor from our OLBG Expert team who who written over 10,000 slot game reviews in an iGaming career spanning over 2 decades. 

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Chris Taylor is an industry veteran originally from Gibraltar. Having worked in the online gambling industry since 2004, Chris loves slots and has reviewed over 10,000 online slot games. Running a slots-focused website for 13 years, Chris is the go-to guy for everything slots-related.