Legacy of Ra Megaways Slot – Free Demo

Blueprint’s bland streak on six Megaways reels

Who minds, if the gameplay is sturdy, the mathematics on target and there's decent cash to be won? As a point of fact, all of the items cited are elements that have helped thrust Blueprint Gaming from a kind of relative obscurity to a more pivotal spot on the marketplace. Blueprint Gaming built Legacy of Ra Megaways on the Megaways mechanic, which it licenses from Big Time Gaming. Punters are now growing progressively conscious of its games. Sweet Success Megaways is another Blueprint Gaming slot on the same mechanic.

Despite this, Blueprint Gaming has not managed to sway me, and in my view there's still a kind of samey air to the games that the firm appear to be powerless to shed. For this review I played 340 spins at 1.00 a spin, starting from a balance of 1,000.00. The bonuses are for the most part excessively difficult to activate. In my session the Free Spins round triggered just once. What I believe, however, doesn't always count of course. Punters incline to have a wide outlook in general, and you'd be stunned to hear about some of the games many punters keep hammering away at on a daily basis. 49 of my 340 spins paid something, and 21 of those paid less than the 1.00 stake.

Legacy of Ra Megaways is the title of this Blueprint Gaming video slot. It is run on a 6-reel Megaways reel layout with up to 15,625 ways, and it's not precisely abundant in base game extras. The ways count shifts from spin to spin; on spin 150 of my session it stood at 3,600, and a win across 16 of those ways paid 4.80 at the 1.00 stake.

It's the bonus that carries most of the wallop. Where the operator offers it, the Ra Bonus Bet guarantees at least 3 Bonus Scatters on a spin, which starts Free Spins, at a cost of 100x the total bet.

Legacy of Ra Megaways comes with an RTP configuration of 96.01%, and there's no call to dig into that, as it's comfortably within the tolerable band. In my session I wagered 340.00 and won back 124.40, a return of 36.6% that took the balance from 1,000.00 to 784.40.

Aesthetically, it's a respectable looking slot. But that samey air that I noted previously is still there, and to be just, there are more studios than Blueprint Gaming suffering from this ailment. My balance peaked at 1,026.00 after a 31.00 win on spin 5, the biggest of the session, and the next-best was 9.80 on spin 273.

The female explorer at the top of the pay table

Climbing up to the more valuable symbols, I spot the female explorer on the reels. She is the most profitable one, granting you 25 times your stake for 6 of a kind. A win is made of matching symbols on consecutive reels starting from the leftmost reel, whatever the height of the symbols, and all winning combinations on a spin are added together.

On all reels bar the first, the wild symbol can land. It substitutes for all symbols except scatter and bonus symbols, and there is no Wild during free spins.

Five Bonus Scatters on spin 331

To obtain entry to the free spins round, you will have to hit 3 or more Bonus Scatter symbols, and beginning with 10 free spins, punters will get an expanding symbol. Four Bonus Scatters award 15 free spins, five award 25 and six award 50. When the round begins, 1 special symbol is chosen at random. If enough of that symbol lands during the free spins, it expands to cover its whole reel and pays from anywhere on every winline at once. Now, you can retrigger the round. My one round came on spin 331 from 5 Bonus Scatters, ran 25 free spins without a retrigger and paid 9.60, which was 9.6x the stake and 8% of everything I won in the session.

Is Legacy of Ra Megaways commonplace?

Legacy of Ra Megaways is not poor mind you, though it makes no effort to come across as anything other than the basic, rather commonplace, slot that it is. With that stated, there's that samey air to it. Play'n GO's Legacy of Dead also picks a special expanding symbol for its free spins.

Minty’s Expert Conclusion: This is not Blueprint Gaming's grandest hour. Perhaps it was never intended to be. My longest run without a win lasted 35 spins, ending on spin 50, and the balance bottomed out at 780.00. It might provide some amusement to you, if you're prepared to see beyond the absence of extras and inventiveness.