Muertos Multiplier Megaways Slot – Free Demo

A top row that spins the other way

The top row above reels 2 to 5 spins on its own, from right to left, and it is the only place in the game a Wild ever lands. Pragmatic Play's Muertos Multiplier Megaways arrives with the Megaways engine licensed from Big Time Gaming.

Muertos Multiplier Megaways is a handsome looking slot situated in a Day of the Dead festivity crowded with skulls and candles. I ran 470 spins of it at 36.00 a spin.

The game accepts total bet levels of 0.20 up to 240.00 per spin, and players receive some pleasant hefty symbols on the game's six reels. The number of ways moves about from spin to spin: one frame from my session has 1,152 of them in play on a 64.80 win. Reels 1 and 6 carry up to seven symbols each. Reels 2 to 5 carry up to six plus one further on a top row, which spins separately from right to left.

Payouts happen when matching symbols alight successively from the leftmost reel, any size of neighbouring combination; the wild symbol assists in this regard by standing in for any of the pay symbols. Where two combinations fall on the same pay way only the higher of them is paid, while wins on separate ways are added together. Bear in mind it can only come into play when it alights on the top row. Reels 1 and 6 therefore never produce a wild at all. It is never anywhere else, and never for the Bonus symbol. The Bonus symbol has no such restriction and appears on all six reels. The game does not have fixed paylines, but offers up to 117,649 ways to win.

Where the multiplier meter is kept

Start with a breakdown of the Tumble mechanic. It comes into play whenever there is a winning combo on screen. When there is, the winning symbols are paid and cleared, the remainder fall down and fresh symbols drop in at the identical size as the original spin result, and so on and so on, until no fresh winning symbols alight and the entire sequence is paid to the balance. In my session 93 of the 470 spins paid anything at all, and 42 of those returned less than the 36.00 stake.

Another feature during a win is the Wild Multiplier, and every wild that strikes bears a random x2 or x3. It applies to the present tumble and every subsequent one. Fresh wilds can still drop into the top row as the tumbles run. It is collected in a meter, additional wilds multiply the collected value, and in the base game the meter reverts to x1 at the close of the spin.

Lastly, the concluding feature is the Free Spins game, and the Bonus symbol is the scatter. It can also be triggered instantly from the base game by buying it for 100x the total bet, which at a 36.00 stake prices the plaque at 3,600. When 3 or more alight anywhere, they grant players with a number drawn at random - 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 or 14 on a three-symbol trigger. On a six-symbol trigger the lowest award available is 8. The smaller awards fall off the list as more Bonus symbols alight. A bought feature lands 3, 4, 5 or 6 Bonus symbols at random, so it draws from the same lists. Below 14, the award can be wagered on a wheel: a win appends one free spin, a loss surrenders the lot and terminates the round. The published chances run from 64.43% on the 5 to 6 step up to 86.41% on 13 to 14, and 14 is where the gamble stops. The rules of the bonus game are the same as the base game bar one crucial distinction - the multiplier meter begins at x1 and is retained for the entire round, with every tumble adding x1 and every wild multiplying it, and the round can be retriggered with no limit on how often. A retrigger of 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 further Bonus symbols pays 1, 2, 3, 4 or 6 extra spins respectively.

The Minty Breakdown: The meter is only carried across a whole round once the free spins begin, and 470 spins bought me exactly one of those rounds — 33 times the stake, 14% of everything the session won back, against a 49.8% return overall. Pragmatic Play publishes that same 96.03% on Mammoth Gold Megaways, and the same 117,649 ways turn up again on Release the Kraken Megaways.

470 spins at 36.00 a spin

Muertos Multiplier Megaways is a respectable game. It handed back 8,420.40 of the 16,920.00 I put through it. It's essentially Big Time Gaming's Megaways feature with a few additional bits. The additions are the multiplier meter and the wheel that gambles the free spin count.

Tumble wins keep the base game rolling along. They did not always arrive: one run of 27 spins produced nothing, ending on spin 346. The highlight is the retained multiplier meter from the Free Spins feature, which can mount up nicely, and the game stops at 10,000 times the stake. Hitting that cap ends the round where it stands, the win is paid and any free spins left over are forfeited. Across 470 spins at a 36.00 stake the largest hit was 1,296.00 credits, or 36 times the stake, and the session returned 49.8% of what went in. The low point was 91,435.60, and the balance closed at 91,500.40.

At the end of the day, as a standalone slot, Muertos Multiplier Megaways is fairly good. Pragmatic Play puts the buy at 96.00%, a shade under the figure it publishes for the base game. Potential is there due to tumbles and the retained multiplier, and yet only one bonus surfaced in 470 spins. That one landed on spin 203 and moved the balance from 96,904.00 to 98,056.00. Its 1,188.00 - 33 times the stake - constituted 14% of everything won, with the balance never once climbing above where it started.