Astro Newts Megaways Slot – Free Demo

Where the Purple Astro Newt pays from two

Astro Newts Megaways is a Video Slot with 6 reels, 2 to 7 symbols per reel and up to 117,649 ways. Wins pay left to right on adjacent reels, starting from reel 1. It is wagerable from 0.10 to 20.00, and the game contains a Purple Astro Newt as well as a Green Astro Newt symbol. The Purple Astro Newt is the only symbol that pays from 2 of a kind, while every other symbol needs at least 3.

There is also a wild symbol that substitutes for all symbols except Fuel and a Fuel symbol that is collected in the fuel tank meter. That Wild appears on reels 2 to 6. An Expanding Wild symbol solely appears on reels 2 to 5. When it lands, it expands to cover the whole reel.

Fuel, fission and falling symbols

Players can collect Fuel through the game, and when a player collects 6 Fuel in one spin series, they will be granted 8 Free Spins. The count includes Fuel that lands during that spin's tumbles. Fuel clears after each spin's tumbles in the base game. Free Spins started three times in my 490 spins, on spins 185, 333 and 335.

During Free Spins on Mars, every Alien Super Fuel obtained counts as 2 Fuel. Each one also awards 1 extra free spin.

Each winning symbol divides into 2 if winning symbols land on reels of 2 or 3 symbols, and this occurs once per symbol. Any number of symbols can split during a single spin, and each split adds ways.

Any time a win lands on the reels, tumbles are activated, and winning symbols vanish and new ones fall in until no more wins emerge. Only 84 of my 490 spins paid anything, so most spins never set off a tumble.

Pig on the Moon appears at random. It can grant Wilds or Expanding Wilds with the rewards below.

• Up to 4 Wilds
• Up to 2 Expanding Wilds

Moon first, Uranus last

This Free Spin mode is activated by collecting 6 Fuel in one spin series or purchasing it for 86x the wager, and in it the multiplier rises by 1 with every winning tumble. All three of my bonuses started on the Moon with 8 spins.

Collecting 4 Fuel moves the player to the next planet. Past the Moon come Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, in that order. It grants up to 4 additional spins. Only my spin 185 bonus advanced, reaching Mars for 12 spins in all and paying 190.00, or 38x the stake.

The multiplier rises by 2 with every winning tumble when reaching Saturn. Jupiter locks any reel that reaches 7 symbols at 7 for the rest of the feature, and on Uranus wins pay both ways for up to 235,298 ways.

A 203x hit inside a losing session

Astro Newts Megaways is a very volatile slot. My longest run without a win lasted 35 spins and ended on spin 406. It is one with an RTP of 95.90% and a max win of 20,000 times the stake. The top line of the paytable, 6 Purple Astro Newts, pays 50x the bet.

But when it comes to slot games, graphics mean nothing if the numbers are poor, and when testing it out I really managed to hit a 203x win. That came on spin 333, where 8 Free Spins on the Moon paid 1,015.00 and the base game added 3.50.

Minty’s Closing Thought: Over 490 spins the balance nonetheless moved from 5,000 to 4,563.50. I wagered 2,450.00 at 5.00 a spin and got back 2,013.50, a session return of 82.2%.

To obtain anything out of it, the player needs to advance to the Free Spins. The three bonuses paid 1,290.00 between them, 64% of everything the session won. Even if so occurs, my largest bonus never departed the Moon. Just before it the balance had dropped to its session low of 3,986.00.

This is a hectic slot with numerous mechanics. The balance peaked at 5,074.50 on spin 335, after the last two bonuses landed two spins apart. I quickly realised however that I didn't truly extract much out of it, and the spins continued presenting me with wins beneath the stake, and bonuses were rare and far between. Of my 84 paying spins, 38 returned less than the 5.00 stake, and 148 spins separated the first bonus from the second.

This slot is far more apt to drain a balance than to permit you to be ahead of the house.