Big Bad Wolf Megaways Slot – Free Demo

Six pigs for 6x, one wolf for 50x

The visuals are a bit unimpressive at first look when you boot up Big Bad Wolf Megaways, though you can never assess a slot purely on appearance, so let’s give the game a shot. I played 315 spins at a 20.00 stake from a 5,000.00 balance. Quickspin has run with a layout made up of 6 reels and 2 to 7 rows. The number of ways changes from spin to spin with how many symbols land on each reel, up to 117,649 when all six reels show seven. It has abandoned paylines as such, and instead, punters merely need to hit combos of identical symbols on successive reels (left to right) to chain together winners. Only the highest win on each way is paid. The arrangement is quite basic. The Wild lands only on reels 2 to 5 and substitutes for everything except the Piggy Wild and the Moon Bonus Scatter.

To be frank, the biggest cash is going to arrive courtesy of the bonus features. The free spins need three Moon Bonus Scatters in the base game, and I did not land three in 315 spins. I will glance at these soon, and a brief scan of the paytable shows that the symbols on their own are not especially lucrative. The Wolf is the only symbol that pays for two in a row, and it tops the table at 50x the stake for six. What isn’t so good is that below the Wolf, six of the highest pig are worth a measly 6x the stake, and this might be sufficient to turn some punters off. The other two pigs pay 5x and 4x the stake for six, and none of A, K, Q and J pays more than 0.5x the stake for six.

The outcome is unexpectedly lopsided when you pair the delightful visuals with the gameplay bundle. The balance never climbed above the 5,000.00 it started from. Throw in some busy additional features. Only 34 of my 315 spins paid anything, and 19 of those paid less than the 20.00 stake.

Piggy Wilds that wait for the second tumble

Numerous additional features are remaining with the offbeat theme. They have been handed an inventive turn, and first up is the tumble – always a positive sign. Hit a win and the winning symbols are cleared while fresh ones plug the spaces, a cycle that persists as long as there are fresh wins. Every tumble win contributes to the overall win while it does so. Early in my session, spin 7 kept tumbling as its win built from 11.00 to 19.00 and then 23.00, and a Piggy turned into a Piggy Wild on the reels along the way. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd Piggy symbols become Piggy Wilds on reels 2 to 5 if you tumble 2, 4 and 6 times, and this is labelled as the Piggy Wild feature. Piggy Wild substitutes for every symbol except the Wild and the Moon Bonus Scatter.

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As ever, Free Spins are at the top of every punter’s dream list. The rules list a 96.44% return for buying straight into them, against 96.05% for the base game. The Moon Bonus Scatter symbols trigger the Blow Down the House Bonus Game, and for their efforts, punters who hit three are granted 11 free spins, and more in relation to the count of Moon Bonus Scatters collected during them:

• 3 scatters are worth 3 extra free spins and +5 to the multiplier.
• 6 scatters earn you 3 extra free spins and +10 to the multiplier.
• Each scatter beyond 6 yields 1 extra free spin.

Free spins continue until they are spent. Moon Bonus Scatters collected during them blow down the houses and move the round to its next stage. The win multiplier climbs by 1 with every win, and it does not revert during this phase.

Single symbol combos might be rather on the modest side, as you can observe. My best win was 420.00 on spin 64, 21.0x the stake, and no other spin paid more than 7.0x.

Final Minty Score: 20.9%. That is what 6,300.00 of stakes turned into over my 315 spins, while Quickspin promises 96.05%. The houses stayed standing the whole time, so every credit the game paid back came out of the base game, and a single 21x hit on spin 64 did most of the lifting. For a wolf this hungry, that is a thin menu.

315 spins against a 96.05% sticker

Quickspin’s Big Bad Wolf Megaways won’t transform the betting world. My 315 spins returned 1,316.00 on 6,300.00 wagered, a session return of 20.9% against the stated 96.05%.

Big Bad Wolf Megaways isn’t the answer if you are a punter who requires leading edge 3D visuals, but appearances aren’t everything. It is character that wins out in the finish, and Big Bad Wolf Megaways is strong on that score. My longest run without a win lasted 38 spins and ended on spin 180, and spin 181 paid 140.00, or 7.0x the stake.

Big Bad Wolf Megaways is a decent, if not pioneering attempt, and it achieves more than enough to render Quickspin a studio to monitor in the future. The balance bottomed out at 16.00 and ran out after spin 315. The sole issue they confront currently is handling the strain of following up an inventive slot with something even finer. I hold great expectations.