Tiki Treasures Megaways Slot – Free Demo

Tiki masks on a horizontal reel

Well, initial impressions were lukewarm at best, and the crew chose a familiar theme, that of tiki masks, to display what they can manage. Tiki Tumble, a Push Gaming slot, is built on the same tiki theme. The gameplay occurs on a 6-reel layout, with a horizontal reel above reels 2 to 5 and up to 117,649 ways. Wins pay left to right for 3 or more matching symbols on adjacent reels, and cascading reels clear every winning symbol so new ones can drop in on every spin. For all its chatter of riches, it’s scarcely stirring material. Across 310 spins at a 2.00 stake, the biggest single win was 24.00, 12 times the stake.

A spread of wagers can be located in Tiki Treasures Megaways, from 0.10 to potentially 100 per spin at the higher end, and the RTP is listed at 96.03%. Volatility arrives as moderate to high. It is rated as 4 out of 6. Only 75 of the 310 spins paid anything, 35 of them less than the 2.00 stake, and a base-game win of 7.40 was enough to rank among the session's five biggest.

A win worth 50 times the stake is awarded for 6 of a kind of the green tiki mask. Mystery Symbols on screen all turn into the same randomly selected symbol, in the base game and in Free Spins. Wilds are depicted as golden coins. They replace everything except scatters to complete winning ways. Jackpot King triggers at random when 4 Jackpot King symbols land, and collecting 15 or more crowns leads to the Wheel King bonus with a chance at the progressive jackpot.

Four letters that never lined up

Free spins are won if the letter scatters form T-I-K-I, and punters get 4 choices – 15 spins at x1, 10 spins at x5, 5 spins at x10, or Mystery Choice. Any +5 symbols that land with the letters add 5 free spins.

Our Minty Verdict: Those 310 spins cost 620.00 and returned 222.20, a session return of 35.8%, and the balance never rose above the 1,000.00 it started with.

Gaming of old with a 31-spin dry patch

Tiki Treasures Megaways comes across as a touch of a disappointment, and it’s definitely not an especially inventive adventure that carries punters to spots they’ve never been before. It is entirely the reverse. The longest run without a win lasted 31 spins and ended on spin 182. Tiki Treasures Megaways seems like gaming of old, from a standard theme to recycled mechanics. Temple of Treasures Megaways is another Megaways slot from Blueprint Gaming.

On that point, Tiki Treasures Megaways is not entirely bereft of considered design, and having four choices when the bonus game is triggered shakes matters up to a level. They are much of a sameness, though. In Free Spins the win multiplier rises by 1 after every winning cascade, does not reset between spins and has no upper limit. Maybe the slot might have been more attractive if Blueprint Gaming had embedded the mechanics firmly in a genuinely inventive theme. In 310 spins the letters never spelled T-I-K-I, so the round did not trigger once. Tiki Treasures Megaways’s dime-a-dozen gameplay and formulaic visuals struggle to provoke much enthusiasm as it is. A retrigger needs 3 or more scatters during Free Spins and adds spins without raising the multiplier.

Will Blueprint Gaming set the imaginative floodgates free for the following one? It would be a massive surprise to witness them follow up with something ultra-radical, given how cautious they’ve played it with Tiki Treasures Megaways, but maybe shock and awe is the longer-range master strategy? I’m sure to find out in due time.