PG Soft

The Great Icescape

RARE Slots Video Slots Animals Ice Fish Cartoon

Antarctic rescue slot with a blocker-clearing objective

Only 0.1% of slots feature Respins With Increasing Win Ways.

SlotRanker Score

/ 99

05099

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How this score is built

RTP

96.33%

return to player

Volatility

Medium volatility

variance

Max win

7,963×

top multiplier

Min bet

$0.25

per spin

Reels

3125 lines

Player rating

4.1 ★

4 votes

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4.1 / 5

4 ratings

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Five weighted signals shape the composite. Four context signals refine ties. See how we rate for the full methodology.

Payouts & RTP9/10

RTP 96.33% → 9.0/10

Volatility8/10

medium → 8.0/10

Win Potential7.8/10

x7963.00 (7963×) → 7.8/10

Features6/10

9 features → 6.0/10

Game Mechanics7/10

f=9 r=5 p=3125 → 7.0/10

Context signals (tie-breakers)

Layout5/10

5x5 → 5.0/10

Bet Flexibility4/10

0.25–5 (×20) → 4.0/10

Provider Reputation7/10

provider avg 7.0 → 7.0/10

Popularity5.3/10

search demand p66 + proxy blend (70/30) → 5.3/10

Popularity blends real player search demand (~30 markets) with a catalogue-derived proxy; games without measurable search demand use the proxy alone. Not live play telemetry.

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SlotRanker Score: 70 — The Great Icescape by PG Soft

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Slot Summary

Anyone drawn to a bonus that must be earned by clearing visible blockers gets a clear objective in The Great Icescape. PG Soft places 12 blockers across a 5-by-5 grid; winning symbols break them until the Bonus Respin Feature starts. The 96.33% RTP and medium volatility sit behind a rescue-story format in which extra lives and multiplier gains come from collected winning symbols.

How It Plays

Twelve blockers occupy fixed grid positions during the main game. Each winning symbol involved in a combination breaks one blocker, making ordinary wins advance the rescue objective.

Clearing every blocker changes the reel set and opens Bonus Respins. The round begins with an extra life and a 2x multiplier.

Theme & Atmosphere

The Great Icescape places a baby penguin in Antarctica, where its friends are trapped inside ice blocks and need to be rescued.

The rescue story explains the blocker mechanic directly: every broken section of ice brings the grid closer to releasing the trapped animals and starting the bonus.

Animals Ice Fish Cartoon

Features & Win Potential

The number of available win ways can increase from 45 to 3,125 as the reel set changes, altering the grid's capacity during play.

Winning symbols are collected according to their backgrounds. Groups of 10 can either increase the multiplier or grant another life for the respin sequence.

Multiplier Respins Medium volatility 5 Reels 96% RTP Colossal Reels Grid Reelset Changing Respins with increasing win ways

Bonus & Free Spins

Bonus Respins begin after all 12 blockers are destroyed. The player receives an extra life and a 2x multiplier when the feature starts.

Blue-background collections raise the multiplier, while purple-background collections add lives. Those two meters determine how the respin round can continue and strengthen.

Spec sheet

The Great Icescape at a glance.

Identity

Slot nameThe Great Icescape

StudioPG Soft

Released7/3/2019

Math

SlotRanker Score70

RTP96.33%

VolatilityMedium volatility

Max win7,963×

Bet range$0.25 – $5.00

Player rating4.1 / 5 · 4 votes

Format

Reels5

Paylines3125

Layout5x5

Features

Themes

This game is searched most in Brazil, Thailand, and Indonesia.

Expected average based on this slot's 96.33% RTP — individual sessions vary with volatility.

Bet per spin

Spins per hour400

Session length (hours)

Cost per hour$3.67

Cost per session$3.67

Estimate only, for entertainment purposes — treat gambling as entertainment, not a way to make money, and set a budget you can afford to lose.

How long could a bankroll last on The Great Icescape? We simulate thousands of sessions from this game's published RTP and volatility — the long-run math, not a prediction of your next spin.

Bankroll ($)Bet per spin ($)Speed

Volatility tier: Medium

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How this works

Each simulated spin either misses or returns a win drawn from a log-normal distribution, with the hit rate and spread set by the slot's volatility tier (Medium). The model is calibrated so the average return equals this slot's published RTP (96.33%), with wins capped at its top multiplier (7,963×).

This is a simplified, parametric model of the game's math — not its real paytable. It exists to make the house edge visible over many sessions, so the numbers above are averages across thousands of runs, never a forecast of one.

This is math, not a prediction. Real sessions vary wildly, and no strategy changes a game's built-in house edge. Play for fun, set limits, and never bet more than you can afford to lose.

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Compare The Great Icescape with other games

	The Great Icescape Score 70This game	Bling Bling Penguin: Ice on the Beach Score 83	Spinguin Score 82	Northern Boom Score 57	Mac & Cheese Score 88
Identity
Studio	PG Soft	Games Global	Popiplay	Belatra Games	Massive Studios
Released	7/3/2019	8/1/2024	5/25/2023	12/29/2021	12/25/2024
Math
RTP	96.33%	96.11%	96.14%	94.14%	96.5%
Volatility	Medium volatility	High volatility	High volatility	Medium volatility	High volatility
Max win	7,963×	10,000×	5,820×	2,500×	50,000×
Format
Reels	5	5	5	5	6
Layout	5x5	5x3	5x3	5x3	6x4
Paylines	3125	243	25	25	Cluster Pays
Min bet	0.25	0.1	0.1	0.25	0.1
Max bet	5	20	40	50	10
Features
Progressive	—	—	—	—	—
Wild symbol	—	—	✓	✓	✓
Free spins	—	✓	✓	✓	✓
Scatter symbol	—	✓	✓	✓	✓
Multiplier	✓	—	—	—	✓
Bonus game	—	✓	✓	✓	✓
Respins	✓	—	✓	—	—

Every number is shown as a delta against The Great Icescape.

Comparing against

The Great Icescape

PG Soft

RTP

96.33%

Max win

7,963×

Score

Bling Bling Penguin: Ice on the Beach

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+ Wild+ Free Spins+ Scatter+ Bonus Game− Multiplier

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