Egypt Megaways

Egypt Megaways: Slot Overview

No second prizes for guessing what Egypt Megaways from slot developer Red Tiger might be all about. That's right, Egypt Megaways is indeed an Ancient Egypt-themed online slot powered by Big Time Gaming's popular gaming mechanic. An unoriginal-sounding slot gets features which are somewhat unoriginal as well, but they can be effective regardless and include things like full reel wild ways multipliers and free spins where the wilds stick and/or roam about the place alongside a rising win multiplier.

The simplistic name would tend to suggest that Egypt Megaways might be a relative of Athens Megaways, and the games do share one or two similarities. Stylistically though, Egypt Megaways also felt like it was distantly related to Gonzo's Quest Megaways. Both of those slots dive deep into their themes and come out dripping with attractive artwork from their respective genres. In Egypt Megaways' case, it is held in a 'Golden Crypt' complex with titanic statues and an almost oppressively reverential atmosphere. Red Tiger has shunned the cartoonish land-based imagery that sometimes appears in an Egyptian slot, preferring to go down the heavy realistic route instead.

Furthering the realism angle for a bit, we come to Egypt Megaways' stats. For starters, Egypt Megaways is a highly volatile online slot, possessing a theoretical return to player value of 95.71%. It is played on a 6-reel game grid, where each reel may land between 2 and 7 symbols. This means the number of ways to win may also vary, where the maximum amount is 117,649. The game does not have a bonus buy or ante bet, and stake levels vary from 10 p/c to $/€2 per spin.

One of Egypt Megaways' core goals is to land at least three matching symbols from the leftmost side of the grid on adjacent reels to trigger a payout. Hitting a 6-of-a-kind winning way made up of the low pay 10-A card symbols pays 0.4 to 0.8 times the bet, while the same thing made up of the 5 high pay symbols of Egypt is worth 1 to 5 times the bet. Winning symbols are removed from the reels, making way for symbols to drop down from above to fill the empty spaces.

Egypt Megaways: Slot Features

If you've played a few Red Tiger Megaways slots before, a lot of what's covered here, such as Wild Reels and free spins with a rising win multiplier, should be familiar.

Wild Reels

Each of the four middle reels displays 4 lights above it. When an Eye of Horus scatter symbol lands, it lights up one of the lights on its reel. When all 4 lights on a reel are lit, a Gold Super Wild is placed on the reel, remaining in place until all lights on the reel have gone out. Lights go out one by one when the Super Wild is part of a win and after a spin has been made. The middle two reels start with 2 lights already lit.

Super Wild

The Super Wild covers the whole reel and has a ways multiplier of x2 to x7. The ways multiplier represents how many symbols the Super Wild is counted for in win calculations. Wilds substitute for all regular paying symbols.

Free Spins

Landing 3 scatter symbols triggers the free spins bonus round. Before it begins, players decide whether they want 12 free spins with 1 Super Wild, 8 free spins with 2 Super Wilds, or 3 free spins with 3 Super Wilds. During free spins, the chosen Super Wilds are always on the game grid though they may or may not move positions between free spins. This only happens on the middle four reels. At the start of a free spin, the Super Wilds get a new random ways multiplier of x2 to x7. When used in a win, Super Wilds are destroyed, but they spawn again at the start of the next free spin. Free spins start with an x1 win multiplier which increases by +1 following a win and is applied to all wins during the round. The win multiplier is capped at x15, and free spins cannot be retriggered.

Egypt Megaways: Slot Verdict

Egypt Megaways is one of those games that's hard to fault yet hard to go wild and crazy about as well. Everything about Egypt Megaways has been neatly thought through and executed, making it hard to point out severe criticisms. By the same token, Egypt Megaways doesn't possess anything astounding either, nothing which severely expands on the Egypt slot genre or the Megaways gaming engine. Two hugely popular concepts in the online gambling world rolled together into one neatly made slot.

Some of Egypt Megaways' highlights include its pleasing graphics, and the chamber players find themselves in is about as mysteriously alluring as they get in an Ancient Egypt slot. The music bounds along at a great rate of knots, too, so gamblers with a soft spot for all things Egyptian should be able to appreciate the artwork on offer in Egypt Megaways. As for the gaming side, it's basically Super Wilds with their ways multipliers all the way; that's about it for the most part. Using a collection method to trigger Super Wilds rather than just drop them in at random adds a chase element to the base game, arguably making it more interesting than it might have been otherwise. The sticky/roaming element in free spins is even better since whatever Super Wild option was chosen stays on the board for the bonus round's full duration. These full reel wild ways multipliers are a popular gaming device with Red Tiger and have popped up in several of its Megways games now – Buffalo Mania Megaways and Athens Megaways being two such examples.

For whatever reason, Red Tiger has chosen to go big on Egypt Megaways. Far bigger than a lot in its back catalogue. Despite the free spins win multiplier being capped at x15, Egypt Megaways has a max win figure of 34,104 times the bet. A sizable cherry on the top for players looking for an Egyptian-themed Megaways game that's not too experimental but still supplies dependable gameplay regardless.