Forever Split Megaways

Forever Split Megaways: Slot Overview

'Till death do us part' could be a very long time for vampire couples, an eternity in fact, if they can stay away from sunlight and pointy stakes. However, if love starts to wane over those long years, it might not take much to push the relationship status into hate - especially when infidelity is involved. Such is the complex tale woven by Pragmatic Play's Forever Split Megaways, an online slot that explores the ins and outs of vampiric love, hate, extramarital affairs, and divorce proceedings. Beneath the gothic drama is a slot which combines an unusual narrative with more familiar mechanics of the Megaways variety as it goes about tumbling and multiplying its way to a settlement that will hopefully please both parties, as well as players.

Forever Split Megaways is oddly themed, and it opens with two individuals sitting across a table from each other in the middle of negotiations. One holds a document, the other sips from a cup of what could very well be blood while their new partners or lawyers watch on. Further glimpses of how the couple got to this stage are breadcrumbed out during win count-ups, but suffice to say there are sordid details from both parties. Why or how the studio chose to twist this into a vampiric love and hate story is something we could speculate till the sun rises and the participants turn to ash, but the divorcing undead certainly puts a unique spin on things. If one of Pragmatic Play's objectives was to think outside the thematic box, it has certainly achieved that in Forever Split Megaways.

The game grid is made up of 6 vertically spinning reels and two horizontally spinning rows above and below the main area. The leftmost reel can have up to 5 symbols, the rightmost reel up to 6 symbols, and the middle four columns, including the top and bottom rows, can have up to 7 symbols on them. This means a total of 72,030 ways to win are possible when the reels are full. Gamblers may wager $/€0.20 to $/€240 in this medium volatile slot where the top RTP comes in at 96.58%.

Forever Split Megaways' pay symbols are J-A, a picture, a ringed finger, a watch, a necklace, a lady and a man character. Royals pay 0.4x-0.75x for 6 OAK, whereas the other symbols are worth 1x-10x for 5 OAK. Wilds do not appear in this game. There is a tumble feature, though, which removes winning symbols and replaces them with new symbols, repeating until there are no more wins.

Forever Split Megaways: Slot Features

In Forever Split Megaways, players find a Settlement Multiplier feature, free spins, ante bets, and feature buys.

Settlement Multiplier

Pay symbols on the top and bottom 4 position rows can land with a multiplier of x1-x15. When winning combinations form with these symbols, their multiplier is added to a total Settlement Multiplier, which is used to multiply winning combinations. The Settlement Multiplier resets at the end of base game spins.

Free Spins

Scatters land anywhere except on the two special top and bottom rows. Hitting 3 scatters awards 10 free spins, plus 5 extra free spins are granted for each additional triggering scatter beyond the third. During free spins, the total Settlement Multiplier is persistent until the end of the feature. Furthermore, all pay symbols on the top and bottom special rows are guaranteed to have a multiplier.

Ante Bet & Feature Buys

Ante Bet 1 costs 1.5x to have 2x the chance of triggering free spins, while Ante Bet 2 costs 3x to have 5x the chance. The two buy options are free spins for 100x, or super free spins for 500x, where the symbols on the top and bottom rows have values of x2-x15.

Forever Split Megaways: Slot Verdict

The divorce proceedings of two immortal beings would likely be a complex, sticky situation, involving entities that have potentially been around for hundreds, if not thousands of years, accumulating masses of possessions, memories, and dark deeds. Forever Split Megaways, by contrast, is pretty straightforward, delivering a sturdy mix of Megaways, tumbles, and multipliers. Yet little in the game has been completely safe from Pragmatic Play's experimental scalpel. This includes the Megaways gameboard itself, as even the reel set-up is a little unusual, including the maximum number of ways to win, though thousands upon thousands of them are possible, and this is a key attribute in any Megaways slot.

Setting the grid up the way it has allows for multiplier-bearing symbols to land on the two horizontal rows, and gamblers will want to see as many of them land as possible. Instead of consecutive tumbles increasing the win multiplier, as is often the case, it's multiplier symbols that do the job, provided they find themselves used in a win. What's encouraging is that multiplier symbols are available in the base game as well, so the Settlement Multiplier is not confined to free spins only. However, pay symbols with multipliers were quite rare in that phase, and difficult to link with wins. Goes without saying that free spins are where the game really gets a chance to draw blood, though, since the Settlement Multiplier is persistent and pay symbols on special rows are guaranteed to carry multipliers. When the multiplier symbol collection is going well, the Settlement Multiplier is able to reach some seriously chunky levels, leading to equally chunky results.

It could be argued that the Megaways phenomenon might have peaked a while back, but the mechanic is still totally capable of driving fun, exciting slots. Forever Split Megaways can count itself as one of these. Pragmatic Play has dunked the engine in a weird yet strangely enjoyable theme, and while the features - tumbles plus win multiplier are common Megaways extras on a fundamental level, the studio has added bite through the precise way its interplaying parts function, how the multiplier is fed, and a 10,000x the bet win cap lurking over all. Roll it together, and you've got an offbeat Megaways slot for fans of the mechanic to sink their fangs into.