Big Cat King Megaways Slot – Free Demo
Provider:
Blueprint Gaming
Every winning cascade in Free Spins pushes the multiplier up by one, and nothing knocks it back down until the round ends. In my 420 spins the diamonds fell three times, none retriggered, and the three rounds paid 30.80 between them, with the game quoting 50,000x as its top prize.
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Blueprint big cats, September 2020
The Blueprint game that grabbed my notice was Big Cat King Megaways, which was launched on 22 September 2020, and being the pushover for high volatility and big upside that I am, confessedly this looked like the most enjoyable to assess out of the lot. At least so I reckoned. I played it at 1.40 a spin from a starting balance of 1,000.00.
Blueprint was receiving a lot of exposure around that launch, as some of you may have spotted, particularly if you haunt casino circles and Twitch live broadcasts. Some of it may be a consequence of a sound promotional approach. But the games themselves were unquestionably beginning to appear more intriguing, with an uptick in both volatility and upside. Sweet Success Megaways and Eternal Phoenix Megaways are two other Megaways games from Blueprint Gaming.
Some aspects I'm not so wowed by, such as the relatively low bonus rate and a somewhat underlying bland vibe to the games. My 420 spins brought three triggers, on spins 22, 55 and 415, the last two with 5 scatters for 17 free spins. In all fairness many studios wrestle with that, and what I'm attempting to express is that most studios possess a particular aesthetic (appearance and texture) linked with their games that appear to be tough to shed. In some instances that is all well and good. But in other instances it rapidly grows stale and monotonous.
Big Cat King Megaways is a big cat themed slot. Winning symbols are cleared from the grid and new ones drop into the gaps, which can form further wins on the same spin.
In terms of layout, it's fairly standard as well, making use of 6 reels of 2 to 7 symbols and up to 117,649 ways, and punters can wager between 0.20 and 10 per spin. A horizontal top reel with 4 positions sits above the main reels, and during Free Spins it is the only place scatters appear.
Five cats above the royals
The low-paying symbols are composed out of A, K, Q, J and 10 royals, and the premiums are 5 in sum. They are depicted by panthers, cheetahs, leopards, tigers and lions. The latter is the most rewarding, handing you 50 times the stake for 6 of a kind. The Tiger comes next at 7.5 times the stake for 6, and the Lion is the only symbol that pays from 2 of a kind.
For every symbol except the scatter, the wild symbol substitutes. Mystery symbols also land at random, and all of them turn into the same randomly chosen symbol.
Diamonds, a top reel and a multiplier that never resets
4 diamond scatter symbols grants 12 free spins, and the free spin feature can be retriggered by hitting 3 scatters on the top reel. That grants an extra 5 free spins. When the round starts, the optional Spin Booster lets the player pay for spins of a wheel that can add up to 50 extra free spins, at 10x the bet per wheel spin on a 4-scatter trigger.
In the free spins feature, punters will profit from a win multiplier. It climbs up by 1 with every winning cascade and never resets, boosting the size of the wins that follow. The Roaring Free Spins Bet sells the round directly, with 8, 10 or 12 free spins for 50x, 75x or 100x the bet, and each bought round starts the multiplier at x1.
Three triggers in 420 spins
Big Cat King Megaways did not seem well balanced during my session at least, yielding 218.26 of the 588.00 I staked over 420 spins. The session return came to 37.1%, a long way under the published RTP. That is something that is more or less anticipated from a high volatility slot. Only 95 of the 420 spins paid anything, 51 of them less than the 1.40 stake, and the longest dry run lasted 15 spins. It should be pointed out, however, that individual sessions can fluctuate a great deal with any internet slot, so there are never any assurances of anything. The balance never climbed above the 1,000.00 it started at, touched 623.82 at its lowest and finished at 630.26.
Minty’s Closing Thought: Big Cat King Megaways is a respectable slot with a huge 50,000 times the stake max win, albeit the theme does not appeal to me regrettably, and seeing the upside for every single spin is comparatively modest, I presume one would have to strongly rely on retriggers to come anywhere near to that sort of win. The free spins multiplier has no upper limit, but none of my three rounds retriggered, and together they paid 30.80, or 14% of everything won.
Is it something I will play? No, not truly, but the upside is in the end what honestly rescues the game for me. My biggest win was 19.60, 14 times the stake, from the Free Spins round on spin 55, while the base game's best was 16.80 on spin 329. Other might of course differ.