Pompeii Megareels Megaways Slot – Free Demo

A volcano wild and 370 spins at 240 credits

Pragmatic Play’s newest is Pompeii Megareels Megaways. I played 370 spins at a stake of 240 credits, starting from a balance of 100,000 credits. The medium for its striking figures arrives in the shape of an old Pompeii theme. Centurion Megaways is another Megaways game with a Roman setting.

Choosing a bet level is in order to start spinning, and stakes range from overall spin amounts of 0.20 credits up to 240 credits apiece. By the end my balance stood at 99,064 credits, a session return of 98.9%. RTP stands at 96.00%. The lowest my balance fell was 83,272 credits. Volatility is in the high band. Only 71 of my 370 spins paid anything, and 37 of those returned less than the stake. When it is paired with the max win, some fierce play is achievable, and this being a Megaways game, I get 2 - 7 rows on each of the 6 reels and up to 117,649 ways to win. My longest run without a win lasted 18 spins and ended on spin 67.

Symbols are composed of 10 - A royals at the bottom end. Six of a kind pays 1x the stake on the A and 0.5x on the J and 10. Bigger payouts come from the theme influenced top pay symbols - the Gold Coin, Shield, Chariot, Armour, and the Emperor, and that final one is the most valuable base game symbol. It will pay 5 times the stake for six of a kind. Six Armour symbols pay 2.5x the stake and six Chariots pay 2x. The volcano symbol is the Wild, which can land on reels 2 to 6 and substitutes for any symbol except the fireball Scatter. Wins pay for 3 or more matching symbols on adjacent reels, starting from the leftmost reel.

Why a reel grows after spin 185’s kind of tumble

It employs a tumble system to extend wins, if for some reason you haven’t run across it thus far. My biggest base-game hit came from a tumble sequence on spin 185, paying 17,280 credits, or 72x the stake. How it works is that winning symbols are removed from the reels when they land. That is to make room for fresh ones to drop into their spot. This can produce more winners, which can produce more winners, and so on. After a tumble, any reel holding a winning symbol may randomly grow to a new height of up to 7 symbols, which is what the Megareels in the name refers to.

There is one additional main feature aside from tumble wins. It's a fine one, however, and is named the Free Spins feature, and it comes into effect when 4, 5 or 6 fireball Scatters land on the reels. They award 15, 20 or 25 free spins, and any additional Scatters that land do not retrigger the spins. I triggered the round three times, on spins 195, 277 and 310.

Each win during the spins is multiplied by the number of symbols removed in that tumble, and the feature ends when the free spins run out. Five removed symbols make a 5x multiplier, and the multiplier resets on each free spin.

Fireball rounds worth 17x, 47x and 80x

Pompeii Megareels Megaways is one of those slots that can move from nothing to 100 in a wink of an eye. My 15-spin round on spin 195 paid 17x the stake, the 20-spin round on spin 277 paid 47x, and the 15-spin round on spin 310 paid 80x, the biggest win of my session. Despite the Megaways engine, I am dealing with a more conventional slot than it might initially seem, in a sense.

Minty’s Closing Thought: Free Spins paid 34,560 credits in total, 39% of everything I won.

The name of the game is winning it all, or, trying again another day, and by all, players are looking at payouts of up to 10,000 times the stake. I could have placed that figure in the opening line of the write-up. Curse of the Werewolf Megaways is another Megaways game from Pragmatic Play.