Into The Wild Megaways

Into the Wild Megaways: Slot Overview

In Greek, the word στέκι (steki) is used to describe a place that people routinely go to eat, meet friends, or hangout. In the slot world, one of the most popular stekis has got to be the North American countryside. Every other week it seems, we're loading up the SUV and heading out of town to some off-grid location that looks like Monument Valley. This time we are joined by Blueprint Gaming in an online slot called Into the Wild Megaways. This slot features their new Replicator Reels feature alongside cascades and free spins with a progressive multiplier.

Into the Wild Megaways is close in spirit to slots like Blueprint's own Bison Bonanza and Buffalo Rising Megaways, plus countless others set in this part of the world. Into the Wild Megaways view is pleasant if a bit common, depicting the windswept rocky outcrops this hauntingly beautiful region is famous for. You can see the appeal, and Into the Wild Megaways is as attractive, if not more so, than plenty of others in this category. The soundtrack is just as pleasing and helps deepen the mood.

Playable on any device, Into the Wild Megaways accepts bets of 20 p/c to $/€10 per spin. Or, add 25% to that to activate the Wild Bet, which doubles the chance of triggering free spins. The RTP remains the same whether the Wild Bet is off or on, at 96.09%, as does volatility which is medium-high.

To work the Replicator Reels feature in, the game grid is made up of 6 main reels holding up to 5 or 6 symbols each, plus a 4-symbol tracking reel above and below the main ones. Using this set-up means players get 1,024 to 117,649 ways to win, the number dependent on the amount of symbols hitting on each spin. Wins are made up of matching symbols hitting from the left-most side in adjacent reels and include 9-A card icons as the lows, then wolves, bison, eagles, and bears as the highs. Landing a six of a kind winning way is worth 0.5-1.5x the bet for the royals and 1.75-10x the stake for the premiums. Wilds land naturally on the top or bottom horizontal reel or are created on the main reels by the Replicator Reels function. However they get there, wilds substitute any normal pay symbol.

Into the Wild Megaways: Slot Features

Into the Wild Megaways' most original aspect is its Replicator Reels feature, which is joined by more conventional Megaways extras such as cascades and free spins with a progressive win multiplier.

Cascades

Every winning way triggers the cascade feature. The winning symbols are removed and replaced by new ones dropping down from above. If the new symbol drop creates a new win, the cascade mechanic triggers again and only stops when no new win appears.

Replicator Reels

When matching pay symbols land on the top and bottom reel, all instances of the specific symbol type on the reel between them are transformed into wilds. If wild symbols land opposite each other on the Replicator Reels, the whole reel becomes wild. Replicator Reels are available in the base game as well as the bonus game.

Free Spins

When scatter symbols land on the reels, they are collected and removed from the grid. Any gaps are filled by symbols dropping down from above. Collecting at least 3 scatters in a game round awards 8 free spins. If there are additional scatters in view, each one adds +2 spins up to a maximum of 14 free spins. During the free spins bonus round, a win multiplier is introduced, starting at x1. Following winning cascades, the win multiplier increases by +1 with no upper limit on how high it can go. When in free spin mode, landing 3 scatters will retrigger the feature. If the round ends and the total when is less than 10x your bet, four additional free spins are awarded.

Bonus Buy

Players able to access bonus buy features may get one in Into the Wild Megaways. Paying 150x the bet spins a wheel to award 5 to 20 free spins. The RTP for buying free spins is 96.45%.

Into the Wild Megaways: Slot Verdict

Into the Wild Megaways is an ably made game which delivers everything a North American wilderness fan could ever want from a thematic standpoint. Well, maybe not everything, if you like a touch of Native American culture sprinkled in as well. Into the Wild Megaways keeps cultural references to a minimum to focus on the natural world. Blueprint has also kept it pretty generic as well. There are few quirks or little details to make the game feel unique. It's all the sorts of rocks, dust, vast skies, and animals you expect to find in this type of game. Hey-ho.

If you were hoping the gaming end of the bargain would boost the generic imagery, you might be disappointed. It doesn't do anything wrong. Blueprint's vast experience with Megaways (they were the first to licence the mechanic) ensures that Into the Wild Megaways runs as smooth as you like and is capable of powering out some nice consecutive cascade wins. The problem is it doesn't really do anything extraordinary either. The Replicator Reels feature is similar to Federation Wild Spins in Rick and Morty Megaways, but a bit more potent, perhaps? Double wilds leading to wild reels could be interesting, though regular symbols were tougher to transform while we were testing the game out. The bonus round is a typical progressive win multiplier and free spins combo, so there is nothing particularly sensational to see. Potential is big, on paper at least, where wins are capped at 50,000x the bet, or 250,000 credits, whichever comes first.

As well as coming up with eye-catching innovations, Blueprint Gaming is also extraordinarily good at making evolutionary tippy-toe steps as well, which kind of describes Into the Wild Megaways. This is standard Megaways gaming, using a stock standard theme, with a relatively newish feature on the side. Completist North American nature-buffs might feel the need to tick Into the Wild Megaways off their list, but others won't be missing a whole lot if they don't get around to giving it a try.