Moriarty Megaways Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Moriarty Megaways Review

With the Moriarty Megaways slot, iSoftBet expands its Twisted Tale slot range, bringing Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and Professor Moriarty back together in this action-packed detective-themed release. As the title implies, unlike other slots that drew inspiration from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, Moriarty Megaways relegate traditional heroes to second place, while the main scoundrel plays a central role.

Moriarty Megaways - Slot Outlook

Those who are acquainted with Disney's Twisted Tale book series know that the anthology is based on the question 'what if some actions had never occurred?', giving a twist to the original story. The Twisted Tale slot series from iSoftBet follows the same principle, delivering a unique gaming experience. Naturally, stories are focused around a 'good guy', or to be more precise, a hero, and iSoftBet turns things upside down, allowing players to experience the plot from the perspective of an anti-hero, or villain.

This takes us to Moriarty Megaways, where Sherlock Holme's archenemy and the infamous criminal mastermind, Professor Moriarty, headlines. Loading the game brings players to 18'th century Baker Street, London, where Doyle's fictional detective dwelled. True to the developer's style, the slot boasts high-end graphics, as well as comes with a top-notch soundtrack that plays whilst you spin the reels and picks up the tempo to become more suspenseful when you hit bonus features, adding a final touch to the atmosphere.

Moriarty Megaways: Reel Screen

Moriarty Megaways is played on a standard Megaways grid, consisting of 6 reels with 2-7 rows and a 4x1 top tracker above middle reels, producing up to 117,649 ways to play on each spin.

As for the stats, the slot is surely well-balanced and sticks to average figures. The volatility tends to the high side of the spectrum, while the RTP is solid at 96%. Moriarty Megaways comes with a common Megaways betting range, allowing players to place wagers from 0.2$ to 20$ per spin. The maximum potential is fairly decent as wins of up to 37500x of the bet are possible.

The symbol collection includes 10 regular symbols, split into two categories. On the lower side, we see a bunch of A-9 royals, while premiums include in ascending order two chess pieces, Moriarty signet ring, and the criminal professor himself.

Landing at least 3 symbols adjacently starting from the leftmost reel is required to score a win, while the top star Moriarty needs only 2. Individual symbol values are relatively nice, paying from 0.8x to 1.75x for lows, and from 2x to 50x for highs. Helping you to form winning combos is the Wild symbol, which appears only in the top tracker and acts as a substitute for any other regular symbols.

Moriarty Megaways - Bonus Features

The Cascading Wins feature lies at the core of Moriarty Megaways and is active on any spin during both the base and the bonus games. Whenever a win occurs, all winning symbols get removed from the grid to allow new ones to tumble down onto the reels and fill empty spaces. The cascades keep going until no new winning combos are available.

On any spin during the base game, there's a chance for the following modifiers to pop up and award a special prize:

• Sherlock's Max Megaways - forces the reels to produce 117,649 Megaways and activates a progressive multiplier that increases by 1x with each consecutive cascade.
• Watson's Mystery Symbols - adds a random number of Mystery Symbols to the reels and creates a guaranteed win, plus adds a progressive multiplier that grows by 1x with each consecutive cascade.

The real madness starts when you trigger the Free Spins feature as it plays out on 3 reel sets simultaneously, producing up to 352,947 Megaways. 3 Scatter symbols landing anywhere in view award 15 spins to start, and each additional Scatter adds +5 spins to the total tally, up to 30.

Now, the progressive multiplier is always active and increases with every cascade, as well as Sherlock and Watson symbols are added to the reels. The action kicks off on Moriarty reels, while Sherlock's and Watson's are locked on start. Collecting Sherlock and Watson symbols will award a single spin on the respective reel set with the corresponding modifier active. Once finished, the reels will lock again and require collecting another 3 symbols to unlock.

The Free Spins feature can also be extended by landing 3 Scatter symbols on the top tracker of either Sherlock or Watson reels on a single spin. Moreover, if the bonus game ends with a total win of fewer than 50 times the stake, the Moriarty Guarantee will trigger and award +5 additional free spins.

Note that this can only happen once.

Those who desire to skip the less exciting part and plunge straight into the bonus game can use the Moriarty Bet feature, which will instantly give access to the Free Spins bonus for the cost of 150x of the total bet.

Moriarty Megaways - Slot Verdict

Like all other games in the Twisted Tale series, Moriarty Megaways features its own distinctive feature that makes it stick out from the crowd of other Sherlock Holmes-inspired slots. While previous titles featured locking prizes, special collection mechanics, and exciting Hold and Win bonus, the series continues to go from strength-to-strength with this one and we are now left wondering what other unique extras will iSoftBet introduce in the next release.

If you love iSoftBet's take on well-known stories in the Twisted Tale series with villains taking precedent over good guys, be sure to check out previous releases, such as Morgana Megaways, where you play as an evil enchantress from King Arthur's legend, or Queen of Wonderland Megaways, where a foul-tempered monarch, Queen of Hearts, takes a central place in classic Lewis Carroll's novel.