Mystery Reels megaways slot review (Red Tiger)

The decision by Big Time Gaming to license the Megaways concept out to other providers was nothing short of brilliant

Not only are we now getting ever more new Megaways slots from different providers to play, but you can also see all sorts of add-ons and innovations to this very successful concept.

After Relax Gaming, WMS, and Blueprint, it’s now Red Tiger Gaming’s turn to release their very own Megaways slot. The name? Mystery Reels Megaways.

This awakens our curiosity, for sure. Red Tiger Gaming slots are often authentic originals and almost have creative bonus rounds.

That meant that Mystery Reels Megaways held a lot of promise. We were extremely intrigued by how the talent pool of this software giant would deal with this concept.

The result is a bit of a disappointment. In pure Red Tiger Gaming style, we were expecting that there would have been all kinds of mystery bonuses and mini-features that perhaps also could have been stacked on top of each other.

These are not present in Mystery Reels Megaways. This does not mean that this slot is a failure, certainly not. It is just a much different slot in the end than we thought hoped it would be.

How does the Mystery Reels Megaways slot work?

Mystery Reels Megaways is a classic Megaways slot. This means six reels with a maximum of 7 symbols per reel.

It operates with the win all ways mechanism, and that means that you have up to 117,649 ways to win.

Furthermore, winning combinations disappear to make way for new ones. This makes it possible to get multiple winning combinations in succession during the same turn, and it is also possible to gather enough scatters to win the free spin bonus. Unless, of course, you spin three scatters right off the bat.

This slot’s variance is high, and the theoretical payout rate, also known as Return to Player, is 96.18%.

Betting starts at $€ 0.20 and goes up to a maximum of $€ 10 per spin.

Mystery Reels

At random times Mystery Reels can arise. When this happens, question marks will appear on the reels, and these will all turn into the same symbol. This can create nice winning combinations, mainly if this feature occurs during the free spin bonus.

Symbols and payouts

Mystery Reels Megaways has all the classic fruit machine symbols: the red 7’s, stars, liberty bells, horseshoes, and of course, a whole lot of fruit.

The red 7 is the highest paying symbol and will reward you with 50 x the total bet if you have six 7’s.

The stars, liberty bells, and horseshoes also are relatively well paying: between 2 x and 7.5 x the bet.

All fruit symbols are worth anywhere from 0.8 x up to 1.8 x the total bet for every combination with six of the same symbols.

Free spin bonus

As soon as you get 3 or more scatter symbols (free spins), you win 8 free spins.

You have an opportunity to parlay that into more spins, but that is a bit of a gamble. To do this, you have to spin a wheel with 4, 12 or 20 free spins on it. So, you can win more spins, but you can also fall back down to 4. If you continue, the second spin offers the possibility of a maximum of 30 free spins and the third one a maximum of 40 spins.

During the free spins, every winning combination will result in a +1 multiplier. There is no limit to this multiplier.

It is possible to win extra free spins during the bonus round: every 3 (or more) scatters earn you +5 free spins.

The maximum payout during the free spin bonus round is around 10,000 x the total bet. Those are some serious numbers.

Our verdict on the Mystery Reels Megaways video slot?

Mystery Reels Megaways is a somewhat safe, solid first Megaways slot from Red Tiger Gaming.

They did not want to take too much risk.

We hope that this game developer’s future Megaways slots will be sprinkled a bit more with the magical Red Tiger dust before being released.

3 out of 5 stars.

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