Odin Infinity Reels Megaways Slot – Free Demo

A three-reel grid that grows on demand

Studio ReelPlay travels north once more. Every spin begins on three reels, and the grid only grows if the game gives it a reason to. The Norse themed slot is named Odin Infinity Reels Megaways. I played 370 spins of it at 6.00 a spin. The title refers in part to the deity whose lance rests at the top of the paytable, in part to the way new reels work their way into the proceedings, and when they do, players gain from a symbol multiplier and added reels which enlarge the grid as well as the default Megaways win ways with no ceiling at all. Gungnir sits outside the usual win rule and pays wherever it lands, from five participating symbols upwards. ReelPlay has fiddled with this concept in several slots before this one.

Runes, gold trim and the panels on the right

Recalling memories of the studio's previous Infinity Reels slots, ReelPlay has adhered to the mythological theme, encircling the default 3-reel game area with plenty of Asgardian imagery, and it's a little hard to discern exactly where this is set. Clearly, it's some sort of chamber, like a shrine. There is a stormy mood as well which adds a touch of majesty. Runes strew the screen, chiselled into stone in a raw form. Six runes make up the low end of the paytable, with the raven, horse, wolf and gold-helm god ranked above them. The polished versions appear on the reels, and a bit of gold trim decorates the grid. During a base-game win the panels down the right report the state of the round: on the frame I captured at a 6.00 total bet, a Valknut win of 45.60 sat beside a Symbol Win Multiplier reading x3 and a Symbol Ways panel listing 24 and 4 for two of the rune symbols. Yet these aren't quite ReelPlay's finest graphics - I've certainly encountered more visually striking slots from the studio. Each of those reels can hold up to five symbols.

Base Bet 0.20 at a 6.00 spin

So there are prizes when the game goes on one of its positive benders, growing reels, hurling in multipliers and whatnot, and the RTP is 96.18%. Across my 370 spins, 67 of them paid something, and 34 of those paid less than the 6.00 stake.

When at least three matching symbols land left to right from the first reel onwards, across neighbouring reels, wins are awarded in Odin Infinity Reels Megaways. Coinciding wins for different symbols are added together. When this occurs, the Infinity Reels mechanism engages and possibly snowballs into several other features. Nothing is paid until the chain stops, since the win is only calculated once no further reel is added. Wins are multiplied by the Base Bet. That is the total bet divided by 30. At the 6.00 total bet I played, that put the Base Bet at 0.20. The wild symbol is the Valknut, surfacing from reel 2 onwards, and it substitutes for any regular pay to assemble a combination, with the exception of Gungnir.

The reel chain and the multiplier it feeds

Central to Odin Infinity Reels Megaways is the reel that gets added to the right of the grid, and reels keep arriving as long as the newest one improves a combination. The condition is narrow: the new rightmost reel has to improve a combination, not merely land symbols, and each one that arrives is spun and tested in turn. There is no limit on how many can appear, or on the number of Megaways they generate.

Furthermore, every added reel fuels the symbol multiplier. It is applied to all symbol wins, so it takes the whole combination rather than one part of it. It begins at x1 in all stages of the game, and after each added reel in the base game, the multiplier rises by +1. In the base game it drops back to 1 with each new spin. There is no limit placed on how high it can climb. There is also the Infinity Bonus, a fixed 888x the total bet for any spin that adds 12 or more reels, and the symbol multiplier does not affect it. It counts towards the round's win cap and is trimmed if it would break it.

What the two wheels decide

The last feature is 8, 10 or 12 free spins. Ten is the most common of the three at 1 in 2, with 8 at 1 in 3 and 12 at 1 in 6. It is awarded when a Gungnir win is in view, since any Gungnir win triggers the round, and two wheels determine it, one for the spin count and one for a Free Spin Level of 1 to 4, each level equally probable. The two wheels can be spun in either order. Whatever the level is fixes the multiplier step for the round, +1, +2, +3 or +4 per added reel. A level 4 round therefore moves the multiplier as far on one added reel as the base game does on four. The chief advantage here is that the symbol multiplier never resets as it does during the main game. It carries across spins as well as within them, so whatever it has climbed to stays there for the rest of the round. Should a Gungnir win land during the round, it awards +4 free spins. One of my four rounds retriggered that way, on spin 312, and paid 222.00, 37.0x the stake, taking the balance to its session peak of 5,205.20.

Minty’s Expert Conclusion: The build is the symbol multiplier: one step per added reel in the base game, up to four steps per added reel inside a bonus round, and no reset while the round is running. Across 370 spins at 6.00 the best of my four bonus rounds returned 65.0x the stake, and nothing in the session came within reach of the 888x the Infinity Bonus pays, let alone the 20,000x cap.

Where this sits among ReelPlay's Infinity Reels games

In a sense, Odin Infinity Reels Megaways picks up where the studio's other Infinity Reels games left off. Money Mariachi Fiesta Infinity Reels and El Dorado Infinity Reels are ReelPlay's other Infinity Reels titles.

Odin Infinity Reels Megaways is neither poorer, nor markedly better than its forerunners, and the gameplay is kind of intriguing. Bonus rounds accounted for 1,188.00 of the 2,124.60 I won back, or 56% of it.

370 spins against a 20,000x cap

Speaking of potential, Odin Infinity Reels Megaways arrives with one of ReelPlay's higher rewards, payouts of up to 20,000 times the stake. Reaching it would take a chain of added reels long enough to drag the multiplier up with it. The round concludes the moment the max win is reached. Any free spins still owed are cancelled at that point. My 370 spins never got near it: four bonus rounds appeared, the best of them worth 65x the stake, and the session finished at 95.7% with the balance down from 5,000.00 to 4,904.60. They arrived unevenly, one on spin 59, then nothing until spin 271, then two more on spins 302 and 312. In saying that, the ever-present symbol multiplier is a surprisingly pleasing addition, and it's not a freak event, but it's not every day you spot one outside of a bonus game. The longest I went without a win was 18 spins, ending on spin 300, two spins before the round that paid 65.0x.

Tallying everything up, Odin Infinity Reels Megaways manages to come across as something a little distinct. The three rounds that ran without a retrigger paid 42.0x, 54.0x and 65.0x the stake. It doesn't seem like a breakthrough slot though. The balance bottomed out at 4,515.20, immediately before the second of those rounds. It's more of a curiosity which may please some players as much as it leaves others cold.