Provider
Yggdrasil Gaming
Paylines
40 fixed paylines (left to right)
Gigagong Gigablox sticks Yggdrasil's signature mega-symbol mechanic into a red-and-gold temple courtyard, with cherry blossoms drifting across a misty mountain dawn and an actual bronze gong hanging beside the reels. The “King Kong” pun in the title is silly. The execution isn't.
You're playing a 6×4 grid with 40 fixed paylines, left-to-right only. RTP sits at 96% across both standard play and the buy-in mode, volatility lands in medium territory, and the ceiling caps at 5,120x your stake. Bets run from $0.20 up to $400. Released back in September 2023, this was Yggdrasil's first proper Asian-themed Gigablox release.
Here's where it gets interesting. Any reel can roll a single 2×2, 3×3, or even 4×4 block instead of regular symbols. Land a 4×4 koi mega on reel three and suddenly you're counting matches across sixteen positions at once. Super Wilds push this further by expanding to fill an entire reel whenever they land.
The Gong symbol is the real star, though. Each Gong on the reels pays your base stake multiplied by the global Gong meter shown top-right. After it pays, that meter ticks up by one, and the engine immediately processes the next Gong at the new value. Chain three or four Gongs in view and the multiplier escalates fast. When a Gong lands as a Gigablox block, it splits into individual symbols, each paying separately at the rising multiplier. It's a clever feedback loop.
Free Spins trigger from 6 or more bonus scatters in view, with Gigablox bonus blocks splitting into their component scatters for the count. Six to ten scatters give you 10 free spins, and 11+ give you one spin per scatter landed. The Gong meter starts at a random elevated value and crucially doesn't reset between spins inside the feature. Both Super Wilds and Gongs hit far more often during the bonus.
Buy-in players get one option: 10 free spins for 100x your stake, with juiced Gong and Super Wild rates. And here's my one gripe, Yggdrasil usually offers a tiered ladder of buy options on their bigger releases, so seeing just a single tier here feels a bit thin. Still, the math is the same 96%, and the chaining Gong mechanic does most of the heavy lifting on its own.