“Harvest Moon – Grave Profits”: Silver, Gold, and Diamond Collect Symbols Power Up the Respin Round
A rundown of Pragmatic Play’s new release Harvest Moon – Grave Profits. Silver and gold wilds turn symbols into wilds, and gold wilds attach up to 1,000x. In the respin bonus, three types of collect symbols, silver, gold, and diamond, gather money symbols.
Key takeaways
- Pragmatic Play released a new slot on August 13 that mixes retro sci-fi with a graveyard.
- On a 5-reel, 4-row, 15-payline grid, silver and gold wilds turn up to 6 symbols into wilds.
- A gold wild attaches a multiplier of up to 1,000x to each symbol it changes.
- In the respin bonus, silver, gold, and diamond collect symbols gather money symbols. RTP is 96.50% and the max win is 10,000x.
A UFO landed in the graveyard
The setting of “Harvest Moon – Grave Profits,” released on August 13, is oddly charming. A UFO hovers over a graveyard under a full moon, and a man in a horse mask stands holding a shovel beneath neon signs. Pragmatic Play called it “reptilian retro-futurism.” It mixes radiation, aliens, and grave robbing into the mood of a 1950s sci-fi movie.
The grid is 5 reels, 4 rows, with 15 paylines. Considering that most recent Pragmatic Play releases were pay anywhere or Megaways, it’s a payline slot for the first time in a while. The fun of this game is concentrated in the base game wilds and the money collection structure of the bonus.
The symbol lineup is fun too. The high-paying symbols mix graveyard props like skulls, coffins, and tombstones with retro sci-fi props. There’s a separate row at the top of the grid, and money symbols land there during the bonus. The “upper” values that silver collect symbols gather are exactly this row.
Silver wild and gold wild
Two kinds of wilds can drop in the base game. When a silver wild lands, it turns up to 6 other symbols into wilds, and the screen can be covered in wilds in an instant. A gold wild does the same thing, but attaches a random multiplier of up to 1,000x to every symbol it changes. Pragmatic Play called these “radioactive wilds.”
When 6 wilds appear at once on a 15-payline game, several lines can hit at the same time. Add a gold wild’s multiplier on top, and even the base game has room for a big result. It’s a mechanic designed so the wait for the bonus never gets dull.
A 15-payline slot is back
Many of Pragmatic Play’s recent new releases use pay anywhere, Megaways, or cluster mechanics, where a win happens whenever symbols gather anywhere on the grid without regard to paylines. Harvest Moon is a traditional 5-reel, 4-row slot where wins must connect from the left along 15 fixed lines. The feature that creates six wilds at once only shows its power when it fits this payline structure. Depending on which lines the wilds cross, the same number of wilds can give different results.
A payline slot has the advantage that its rules are easy to see. The winning lines are drawn on screen, so the win process is easy to follow. If you’re tired of the frantic tumbles of pay anywhere games, it’s a welcome structure.
The three collect symbols of the respin bonus
The bonus starts when 3 scatters appear. It’s respins, not free spins. You begin with 3 respins, and each time a new symbol lands, the count refills to 3. The flow is similar to Hold & Spin. This is where the three collect symbols, silver, gold, and diamond, drop.
| Collect symbols | What it does |
|---|---|
| Silver | It gathers the money symbol values at the top of the grid and takes their sum as its own value |
| Gold | It gathers the upper values like silver and also absorbs the money symbol values on the grid |
| Diamond | It collects all the money symbol values on the grid, then adds the collected value back onto each money symbol to grow it |
When a collect symbol lands, it turns into a money symbol with a value attached, resets the remaining count to 3, and stays on the grid until the bonus ends. The diamond collect symbol is the strongest. It doesn’t stop at gathering every value on the grid; it adds those values back onto other money symbols. The later a diamond lands, the more value has built up beforehand, and the bigger the effect.
What matters is that all three types stay on the grid. Once a silver collect symbol gathers the upper values and becomes a money symbol, a gold or diamond that lands later absorbs that value again. Collecting begets more collecting, so the longer the respins last, the more the values grow in steps. Conversely, if only money symbols pile up without any collect symbols, the bonus ends smaller than you’d expect.
This kind of collect bonus shares its roots with the Big Bass series, where the fisherman collects fish values. Pragmatic Play has applied this formula to many themes, but splitting it into three tiers of collect symbols is new this time. Similar games are listed in the Money Collection article.
By the numbers
According to the media pack, the free spins (respin bonus) entry comes once every 212.96 spins on average. A base game win comes once every 5.67 spins, 1,000x or more once every 140,048 spins, and the 10,000x max win once every 7.64 million spins. Volatility is medium.
The bet unit is unusual. With 15 paylines, the bet multiplier is 15x and the minimum bet is 0.15. The max bet is 240 and the max payout cap is 2.4 million. Bonus buy has two options, 120x and 400x, and ante bet is 2x. RTP is 96.50%.
A respin bonus once every 213 spins on average is a low threshold among Pragmatic Play’s new releases from the same period. Death Dominion is 433 spins and Eastern Fury is 289 spins. On the other hand, 1,000x or more is rare, at once every 140,000 spins. You get into the bonus often, but big results only come when the collect symbols overlap well.
The name Harvest Moon
The “Harvest Moon” in the title means the full moon of the autumn harvest season. What the grave robber digs up in the graveyard isn’t grain but “grave profits.” If Death Dominion, released the same summer, is classic gothic horror, this game is closer to a B-movie sci-fi comedy. Even with the same death theme, the feel is completely different. In the free demo, you can see a diamond collect symbol land for yourself.
Source: Pragmatic Play official news · Pragmatic Play media pack game overview