Morgana Megaways Slot – Free Demo
Provider:
iSoftBet
Two Golden Holy Grail triggers inside the first 34 spins, then 306 spins without a third: Morgana Megaways handed back 59.5% of what I wagered, and most of what it did pay came from the base game rather than the symbol collection in Free Spins.
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iSoftBet goes Megaways
I didn't sign up to assess it because I believed it was going to be excellent when I learned the news of iSoftBet launching a Megaways slot. I played it at a 2.00 stake, starting from a balance of 1,000.00. I already had a sense it wouldn't. Over 340 spins the balance fell to 724.40, a session return of 59.5%. It was because the Megaways mechanic itself might draw some attention, and after all, that's how I pick out slots to assess, since I can't conceivably assess them all. Other iSoftBet Megaways titles include The Ruby Megaways and Fu Fortunes Megaways.
As exciting as it may appear to some, the layout is nothing out of the usual: this is a 6-reel slot with 2 to 7 symbols per reel and up to 117,649 ways, and punters can wager between 0.20 and 20 credits. A win needs 3 or more matching symbols on neighbouring reels, starting from the leftmost reel. It arrives with heaps of features. On a random base game spin, the grid is set to the full 117,649 ways. I'll run through them one by one.
Morgana pays for two
Symbols on the reels include a 9, a 10, a Pink Gem, a Dragon, an Eye and Morgana, with the latter, granting you 50 times the stake for 6 of a kind, the most profitable. Morgana is also the only symbol that pays for 2 of a kind, at 2x the stake, while 6 of a kind pays 5x the stake for the Eye and 4x for the Dragon.
A wild symbol is also featured. It lands on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 only. It replaces all pay symbols except the Scatter. The reels also carry J, Q, K and A, which pay between 1x and 2x the stake for 6 of a kind.
There is also a Mystery Symbol mechanic, and it enters into play in both the base game and the free spin round, where what it does is that all Mystery Symbols in sight change into the same pay symbol. During Free Spins they always turn into the symbol being collected, and they never become a Scatter or a Wild.
The Holy Grail went quiet after spin 34
After two triggers in my initial 34 spins, it took me the leftover 306 without another. During Free Spins, pay symbols are collected in order from the 9s up to Morgana, and each completed level adds free spins and raises the minimum number of ways for the rest of the round. This is what the Golden Holy Grail Scatters award when they land:
3 Scatters - 10 free spins.
4 Scatters - 15 free spins.
5 Scatters - 20 free spins.
6 Scatters - 30 free spins.
The Minty Summary: The Megaways mechanic is excellent, while the slot is most certainly not. My biggest win was 132.00, or 66.0x the stake, from the first Free Spins round on spin 7, which completed the 9 and 10 levels for 25 spins in all. The returns are feeble to state the least.