Mayan Multi Mayhem: Slot Overview
Better known for its focus on Hold&Win games, iSoftBet has nevertheless turned its design prowess to craft the cluster paying grid slot Mayan Multi Mayhem. As the first word of the title makes clear, Mayan Multi Mayhem is a trip to the Americas with one of the more popular ancient civilisations found in the online slot realm. When there, players can take in the sights while experiencing features such as Mayan Multipliers and free spins with a progressive multiplier aspect.
Grid slots often come with a stack of extras, bells, whistles, and so on, yet Mayan Multi Mayhem isn't really like that. It's simpler, and this carries over to the game's presentation as well. iSoftBet has taken a unique stylistic approach to the Mayan theme that's a little hard to describe. It has a chunky look, and the way the grid is lit up creates an almost Holiday movie premier effect, like spotlights beaming on a theatre while the stars roll up in limos to smile and have their pictures taken. Except, about the only living things in sight are some fireflies buzzing around what looks like a pot plant. iSoftBet has taken the Mayan theme in an intriguing direction, and the result is quite different to what a lot of these sorts of games tend to look like.
Whilst iSoftBet has taken a sort of less is more approach when it comes to features and visuals, Mayan Multi Mayhem is a surprisingly big game for the studio in terms of winning potential. We'll drop the big number soon, but at the start, it's a case of picking a bet from 20 p/c to $/€20 per spin on any device to get the ball rolling. It's a highly volatile slot, creating wins when five or more matching symbols are connecting horizontally or vertically, leading to a theoretical return to player value of 95.98%.
Winning clusters are removed from the 7x7 sized grid, and symbols tumble down from above to fill any spaces. If this creates a new winning cluster, the process is repeated until no new win appears. Like the rest of the game, the symbols are somehow nondescript but kind of eye-catching at the same time. On the lower end of the paytable are five blocks with Mayan-inspired designs on them, paying 0.1x for five of a kind up to 5-40x for 15+ of a kind. Then we get four premium gem symbols worth 0.25-0.5x for a five-symbol cluster or 50-250x for a 15+ sized cluster win. The big 'W' token is the wild, which can replace any pay symbol.
Mayan Multi Mayhem: Slot Features
As well as substituting, when a wild symbol hits, it zooms up to a Totem section at the top, where there is a chance it triggers a multiplier. If so, the multiplier is applied to any current wins. More than one Totem can be triggered, and the values added up to a maximum of x250. The multiplier values it is possible to get are x2, x3, x5, x6, x7, x8, x9, x10, x12, x15, x20, x25, x30, x40, or x50.
Free Spins
Players activate free spins when 3 or more scatter symbols are in view. The specific awards are 8, 10, 12, 15, or 20 free spins for landing 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 bonus symbols, respectively. In free spins, you'll notice a ladder of multiplier values displayed on either side of the main grid. At the end of each free spin, the lowest value on the ladder is removed. Wild symbols are still needed to activate the multiplier by flying into a Totem as in the base game. Also, it is possible to extend the bonus round with the help of scatter symbols. Each one that lands awards an additional free spin – no limit.
Mayan Multi Mayhem: Slot Verdict
We know iSoftBet has a penchant for Hold&Win games, but if Mayan Multi Mayhem is anything to go by, the studio appears to have a knack for making grid slots, as well. Mayan Multi Mayhem isn't the most complicated grid slot out there by a long shot, and players who like a tangle of modifiers, symbol/charge collectors and so on might find Mayan Multi Mayhem a little dry for their tastes. Picking Mayan culture as a theme is tantamount to a licence for studios to go all Baroque and drape vines around elaborately carved stone structures. iSoftBet hasn't done that, and yet, there is something memorable about Mayan Multi Mayhem that makes it stand out from the bunch.
The same goes for the gameplay, really. Players used to a hundred and one features in a grid slot will have to tone those expectations down if they want to extract maximum enjoyment out of Mayan Multi Mayhem. Both base game and free spins are equally simplistic and boil down to hitting wild symbols in conjunction with cluster wins in a bid to score what can be sizable multipliers to jack winning totals. It's worth noting wild symbols do not need to be part of a winning cluster to generate a multiplier. Multipliers are key to achieving the best results in Mayan Multi Mayhem, and by best results, we're talking about wins as high as 20,000x the bet. A figure which adds a considerable amount of weight and appeal to the game.
When a Mayan-themed grid slot from iSoftBet landed, we weren't really sure what to expect, but any suspicions weren't how Mayan Multi Mayhem turned out to be. It's an unusual game, simple, understated, yet unexpectedly potent, and it somehow wormed its way under the skin. Whether Mayan Multi Mayhem turns out to fulfil its potential remains to be seen, yet it's technically got the firepower, so it should present an enticing challenge for certain grid slot players to take up.
Instead of overwhelming grid slot players with an elaborate design, iSoftBet takes the opposite approach in Mayan Multi Mayhem, creating a simple yet impactful game.
