Wild Hammer Megaways Slot – Free Demo

A top reel that rewrites the grid

There is no studio game page for Wild Hammer Megaways at all, so every figure attached to it arrives second hand. A strike on the four-cell reel above the grid can turn every copy of one symbol wild at once, and in the free spins the win multiplier keeps climbing from cascade to cascade without resetting when a spin ends. Here, players travel to a Norse realm full of runes and multipliers. A 440-spin run at a 1.00 stake took the balance from 1,000.00 to 1,238.20. The game is driven by the Megaways engine.

The developer has opted for the customary 6-reel Megaways grid to house the game, in what can only be described as a Viking inspired realm. A 4-cell horizontal reel runs above it. Those four cells are what the Wild Match reads. It’s situated in one of those mythology settings that crop up in slots, all shields, wolves, and hammers on the reels.

Wild Hammer Megaways is accessible across all devices and can be played by fixing bets of 0.20 to 20.00 credits per spin, and ruling the thunder-struck action is a high volatile math model.

From 2 to 7 symbols a reel

This being Megaways, the number of symbols on each reel varies on every spin, in this case from 2 to 7, and there are no paylines, so wins happen when three matching symbols land on adjacent reels from the left. If more than three matching symbols are on the reels, they multiply the win, and this mechanism gives players up to 117,649 ways to win. That top figure needs all six reels running at their full seven symbols on the same spin. No guesses what the pay symbols are - all Norse figures in assorted shapes and colours. The first batch are rune shields bearing 10 to A. The remaining five are Freya, Loki, Fenrir, Thor and Odin, and only one paytable value has been obtained: six Odin pay 25x the stake. Odin is the highest paying symbol of that group. The wild is Mjolnir, Thor's hammer. It substitutes for the paying symbols. That leaves just two specials to address in the next section.

Cascades into a multiplier that never resets

The feature that frequently shows alongside Megaways, cascades/reactions, is present here. A cascade run does the work behind the largest base-game win of the logged session, 31.00 on spin 366, where a Wild Match on Fenrir carried four drops. Successive wins are possible in Wild Hammer Megaways, then: winning symbols are cleared, symbols drop to fill the gaps, and wins are reassessed until a drop pays nothing, and it is accompanied by a triggered number of free spins where multipliers come into play.

The golden shield is the free spins scatter symbol, and 4 or more in view award the feature. It landed twice in the 440 spins logged, on spin 43 and again on spin 122. The trigger arrives roughly once in 253 spins. Those two rounds came 79 spins apart. Once in, a choice comes into play: 10 spins at 1x, 8 spins at 3x, 5 spins at 5x, or a mystery option with a random spin count and multiplier. The pick went to 8 spins at 3x the first time and 10 spins at 1x the second. The win multiplier rises 1x per cascade, uncapped, and carries over between spins, and moreover, scatters landing inside the feature each add 1 more free spin. That turned the second round's 10 spins into 11.

A guarantee with no price on it

Plainly, the largest wins are going to arrive during free spins. The two rounds of the session paid 522.00 between them, out of 678.20 won in all. Wild Hammer Megaways provides a guaranteed means of getting to them via the feature buy option. The buy hands over the round directly instead of waiting on four scatters. That is barred for UK players, and its cost has not been corroborated by any source I could check.

What the Wild Match did over 440 spins

The other extra resides in the base game: two or more matching symbols on the top reel turn wild. The symbol that goes wild is whichever one repeats across those cells. Every occurrence of that same symbol on the reels below turns wild too, and sources place this at approximately once every 25 base spins. Over the logged run it came out at 17 base spins.

Norse mythology, again

It’s not exactly the most novel theme. Norse mythology has been done to death and the top reel has been done before.

On the gameplay side of things, retaining the customary 6 reel grid hasn’t blunted the thrills. Some might differ, though, especially since the top reel does most of the work. What the Wild Match does is simplify everything, hasten the pace, and give the game an almost Bonanza feel at times. iSoftBet's Megaways catalogue also takes in Morgana Megaways and Fu Fortunes Megaways.

Minty’s Final Note: Two free spins rounds paid 522.00 of the 678.20 this run won, which is 77% of the total off roughly one spin in two hundred, and the rest of the 440 spins was a base game where 39 of the 84 paying spins returned less than the 1.00 that bought them.

Where the 440 spins finished

Wild Hammer Megaways has traits to amuse a variety of different players, though its base game can be fairly dull. The longest stretch without a win in the logged session ran 22 spins, ending on spin 343. Across 440 spins only 84 paid anything at all, 39 of those below the stake. The balance moved between a low of 972.70 and a peak of 1,436.70 over that run. The game’s core is its free spins. The second of them started its multiplier at 1x and raised it only through cascades. They paid 283x and 239x the stake on the two instances they landed and accounted for 77% of everything won.