Raging Waterfall Megaways

Raging Waterfall Megaways: Slot Overview

Upon reaching a certain size, raging is about as excellent a way of describing a big cascading waterfall as it gets. One of the most famous, Niagara Falls, for example, discharges over 2,400 cubic meters of water per second while it rages. Raging Waterfall Megaways is also the name of a Pragmatic Play online slot that dumps a load of sea creatures over the edge into a frothing cauldron of tumbles, Megaways, respins, and free spins with modifier-triggering scatters.

The theme might be a little confusing if you're not used to equating ocean-going creatures with waterfalls. But, around the world, water is discharged into the sea from great heights, and some of them are rather impressive, too. Raging Waterfall Megaways wasn't overly impressive at first look, though it does possess a warm, inviting charm, all bright colours, happy characters, and fast-flowing falls. The symbols and the background imagery were slightly jarring, but water unites much of everything on the screen, providing enough logical reasoning to proceed.

For the active play area, Raging Waterfall Megaways is made up of 6 main reels and an upper horizontal bonus reel. Combine the two, and up to 7 symbols may land in each column, producing up to 117,649 ways to win. Hitting a winning combination triggers the tumble mechanism, which removes winning symbols and replaces them with a symbol drop, repeating in this way as long as wins keep appearing. Bet 20 c to $/€240 per spin, and the maximum RTP is 96.5%, dropping a little to 96.48% when using the ante bet, while the math model volatility is high. The point of using the ante bet is it makes triggering free spins more likely at a cost of 1.25x the bet.

Four coloured gems are Raging Waterfall Megaways' low pay symbols, granting 0.4 to 0.75 times the bet for a 6 OAK matching combination. Players get more, at 1 to 10 times the bet, when 6 matching fish, starfish, crabs, snails, anchors, or pearl symbols land. Assisting the combination linkage, the wild symbol substitutes for all symbols except the scatter. It appears on all reels except the leftmost reel in the base game and not on the leftmost and rightmost reels during free spins.

Raging Waterfall Megaways: Slot Features

As well as tumbles, Raging Waterfall Megaways delivers a Multi Chance feature in the base game (and bonus round), accompanied by free spins where scatter symbols trigger various effects, and free spins can be bought from the bonus buy.

Multi Chance Feature

If there are matching symbols on reels 2 to 6 on the initial spin before tumbles but no matching symbol on the leftmost reel to create a win, the Multi Chance feature may activate. When it triggers, the leftmost reel respins, and the result will land 7 symbols.

Free Spins

Hitting 4 scatter symbols in the base game awards 8 free spins plus 2 extra free spins for each triggering scatter beyond 4. During the bonus round, when a scatter symbol hits, it reveals a modifier at the end of all tumbles:

• +1 free spin.
• +1x Multiplier - +1 is added to the total multiplier that applies to all wins during the round.
• Remove Lowest Symbol - each time it hits, it removes the lowest paying symbol remaining on the reel strips until the end of the feature.
• Upgrade Wilds - adds more wilds to the reel strips till the bonus round ends.

The Multi Chance feature is upgraded, so when triggered, it also respins the rightmost reel if that reel does not have the symbols matching those on reels 2 to 5 that triggered it.

Feature Buy

By paying 85 times their bet, players can buy a triggering spin that lands at least 4 scatter symbols.

Raging Waterfall Megaways: Slot Verdict

Raging Waterfall Megaways wasn't a game that elected masses of excitement from the get-go. The theme felt a little off, as if the oceanic references didn't quite fit with the waterfall ones. Sure, this might be nitpicking, but with so many slots to choose from, why push yourself to like a game that doesn't thematically click? But, for some gamblers, maybe towering columns of water pouring into the sea is nothing new, and they'll feel right at home within Raging Waterfall Megaways. Either way, the light is bright, the vibe friendly, providing enough reason to press the old play button and see what pours forth.

Onto the base game then, which was a little on the low-key side. Tumbles are there, stringing consecutive winning combinations together as they often do in a Megaways slot. There is the Multi Chance feature, that's something. Turning a non-winning spin, which landed a decent number of matching symbols on reels except the leftmost, isn't the worst thing to ever happen. It might even be quite a sweet turnaround in fortunes, actually; you just never know. Having twice as many reels respinning during free spins is a handy tune-up, and scatter symbols triggering modifiers is a positive gear shift. Loading the win multiplier this way might not be as steadily thrilling as a win multiplier growing with each tumble, but you get the chance of adding wilds or removing the lowest pay symbols as compensation.

This system is good for pouring out wins up to a cap of 10,000x, showing you don't necessarily need a tumble-triggered progressive win multiplier in a Megaways slot to push out sizable hits. At the end of the day, the positive things Raging Waterfall Megaways can do help give it a personality, but they weren't quite enough to make the game really stand out from the constant flow of Megaways slots.