Mega Don Feeding Frenzy

Mega Don Feeding Frenzy: Slot Overview

While Mega Don is a fictional name, a Megalodon was a huge shark that swam the seven seas millions of years ago. The name megalodon means 'big tooth', and some say these terrifying beasts could grow up to around 17 metres in length and weigh 50 tons+. Not something many people would want to bump into when deep sea diving and megalodons must have had to consume a lot of their aquatic brothers and sisters to survive. Consumption is a principal aim in Mega Don Feeding Frenzy, an online slot from provider Play'n GO and a follow-up to Mega Don released mid-2022. In the spirit of feasting, Mega Don Feeding Frenzy has a Snack Time feature and Shark Feast free spins.

Any thalassophobiacs would do well to avert their gaze when Mega Don Feeding Frenzy loads. Who knows what is swimming around in the dark blue ocean void behind the gaming grid? It's a little ominous. What could be down there? Sharks, barracuda, octopus, angry clown fish, Cthulhu and the corpse city nightmare of R'lyeh? Fish dart about the place, running towards or away from something? It is hard to say. You have to feel for some of the creatures on the reels, too. Most of them are prey fish, while others are toothy terrors of the sea. Mega Don Feeding Frenzy is part cartoon Finding Nemo in spirit, part Jaws, making users think twice about dipping their toes in the water.

Like the animals it celebrates, Mega Don Feeding Frenzy is a beast of a slot, possessing a highly volatile math model and sizable winning potential – the number is big on paper, at least. As per usual, the default RTP comes in at 96.2%, with lower models available, as well. Players are free to pick a stake of 10 c up to $/€100 per spin, and the action occurs on a transparent 5x3 grid with 1,024 ways to win.

Wins are awarded for adjacent symbol combinations landing left to right, beginning from the leftmost reel. Six non-shark symbols make up Mega Don Feeding Frenzy's low pays, worth 0.4 to 1 times the bet for 5-of-a-kind, while a leopard shark, hammerhead shark, and Mega Don are the 3 high pays, awarding 2 to 6 times the bet for a 5 symbol win. Coral wilds appear on reels 2, 3, 4, and 5, substituting for all symbols except the scatter.

Mega Don Feeding Frenzy: Slot Features

Mega Don Feeding Frenzy doesn't go overboard with features, basically offering two – Snack Time and Shark Feast free spins.

Snack Time

When Snack Time triggers randomly at the start of a base game spin, up to 3 random small fish (the non-shark symbols) are selected to be upgrading symbols. If the selected upgrading symbols land, they transform into a shark symbol, which is also randomly selected. This chosen shark symbol increases in frequency on the reels during the Snack Time feature.

Shark Feast

Landing 3, 4, or 5 golden fish scatter symbols awards the Shark Feast bonus round plus a payout of 2x, 15x, or 50x the bet, respectively. Next, players choose which shark option to play for the feature:

• 10 free spins with 88 leopard sharks on the reels – 3/5 volatility.
• 8 free spins with 98 hammerhead sharks on the reels – 4/5 volatility.
• 6 free spins with 108 Mega Dons on the reels – 5/5 volatility.

At least one low-pay fish symbol is active as the upgrading symbol from the start of the feature, and it is possible to activate up to all 6 low-pay symbols. When activated upgrading symbols appear on the reels, they upgrade to the shark symbol chosen at the beginning of the round. Activated upgrading symbols stay active until free spins end. Landing 3 or more scatter symbols retriggers the feature with the possibility to win up to 20 free spins in total:

• 3 scatters award +2 free spins and 1 additional upgrading symbol.
• 4 scatters award +4 free spins and 2 additional upgrading symbols.
• 5 scatters award +6 free spins and 3 additional upgrading symbols.

Mega Don Feeding Frenzy: Slot Verdict

Sharks munch fish, and at times, Mega Don Feeding Frenzy was happy munching the balance, too. As well as a steel nerve, players might benefit from patience to really see what this game can do. The previous Mega Don slot had a free spins frequency of 1 in 350, and though the figure for Mega Don Feeding Frenzy wasn't available, it would not be a surprise to know it was about the same. Hopefully, willing participants are good at, and enjoy, doggy paddling in the water while toothy creatures circle in the murky lower depths because they may be in for waits while Mega Don Feeding Frenzy decides to, or decides not to, launch into an actual frenzy.

As such, for a lot of the time, if not most, it was hard to majorly differentiate Mega Don Feeding Frenzy from its older sibling. The graphics are arguably more pleasing on the eye, though Mega Don was already a feisty-looking game. One of the changes is apparent once Shark Feast triggers, since this time, players can choose which shark the upgrading symbols will transform into and the corresponding number of free spins. Free spins were often as brutally demoralising as the base game, returning disappointing results, failing to link up many of the chosen shark symbols, no matter which one was selected. The key appears to be scatter symbols.

It's not mentioned in the game rules, but in Mega Don, the more triggering scatters, the more upgrading symbols are active from the start of the feature. Since the round only ever triggered with 3 scatters during testing, it was impossible to test this hypothesis in Mega Don Feeding Frenzy. What we do know is that retriggers not only add much-appreciated free spins, but they activate additional low-pay symbols. The more upgrading symbols, the greater the chance of getting extra chosen shark symbols on the screen. Like night and day, having even 2 or more upgrading symbols active could transform Mega Don Feeding Frenzy into an exciting upgrade delirium.

Extra upgrading symbols may also provide a better chance of circling Mega Don Feeding Frenzy's max win figure too, which on paper, theoretically speaking, is 20,000x the bet - double the amount in Mega Don. Mega Don Feeding Frenzy once again shows that shark slots (Razor Shark, Razor Returns) can be mighty volatile. Others' results may vary, of course, and solid hits surfaced during testing, but swimming alongside Mega Don Feeding Frenzy could also be an intimidating experience.