Merry Christmas Megaways Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Merry Christmas Megaways Review

We see a lot of Xmas reskin jobs every Holidays season, and Merry Christmas Megaways does very little to stand out in any way, shape or form. It’s basically an Xmas makeover of the already forgotten Gimme Gold. Megaways, with the 95.5 % RTP adjusted down from the far more decent 96.5 % you get in the original game. Everything else is identical, including the £250,000 win cap.

If you’re looking for a simple, predictable and traditional Christmas slot, you cannot go wrong with Merry Christmas Megaways. However, there are better alternatives in the Holidays genre this year. What you get here is cascading wins with mystery symbols, and a bonus round with an unlimited progressive win multiplier. Nothing new to see in other words, but maybe good enough for a whirl or two between the endless Christmas dinners.

Merry Christmas Megaways Slot - Reels Screen

Merry Christmas Megaways Features

The Santa symbol sticks out because it’s worth 50x your stake for a 5-oak win, while the 3 other premiums pay between 2 and 7.5 x your stake for the same.

The Wild symbol will only slide in on the top horizontal reel, and it cannot appear on the regular grid. The Wild holds no value of its own, but it steps in for all regular pay symbols to help complete winning combinations.

You can decide to switch on the Fortune Bet feature between any given spin sequence, and it will cost you 50 % more per spin if you do. The upside is that you’re 3 times as likely to trigger the Bonus Round with the Fortune Bet turned on.

Winning symbols are removed via the Cascading feature, and replaced by new and/or existing symbols that drop down from above to fill the gaps. This process repeats as long as you keep winning. Symbols are also removed from the top sliding reel, and replaced by new symbols that slide in from the right.

Mystery symbols can appear in random numbers at random times, and these are all revealed as a random matching pay symbol.

The Bonus Round triggers when you land at least 4 scatters anywhere in view, and 4 scatters award 12 free spins. Anymore triggering scatters above the minimum of 4 awards +2 extra spins on top of that. A progressive win multiplier with no upper limit becomes active during the feature, and it increases by +1 per cascading win. You also get +5 or +10 extra spins when you land 3 or 4 scatters on a free spin, respectively, and up to 80 free spins can be won at the most.

The 200 Spins Merry Christmas Megaways Experience

Nothing overly exciting happened for us in the base game, and you can therefore safely skip to the 2-minute mark, where we finally trigger the bonus round with 4 scatters. The feature plays out for the remainder of the 5:19-minute highlights video, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

We might suffer from Xmas slot fatigue at this point, but Inspired Gaming’s Merry Christmas Megaways is about as traditional and standard as it gets with this genre and engine. It also happens to be a reskin of their less than memorable Gimme Gold. Megaways, except for the fact that the RTP has been dialled down to a below average 95.5 %.

Those familiar with BTG’s licenced Megaways engine will know the setup well. You get a top sliding reel with wilds, cascading reels and mystery symbols.

The bonus round comes with the usual unlimited progressive win multiplier, and the Christmas wrapping is about as cozy and personal as last year’s Xmas card from a long-forgotten granduncle you’ve never met.

Pros

• Top sliding reel with wilds
• Cascading Wins and Mystery symbols
• FS w/ unlimited progressive win multiplier
• Win up to £250,000 (max win cap)

Cons

• Reskin of Gimme Gold. Megaways
• RTP sliced from 96.5 % to 95.5 %

If you appreciate Merry Christmas Megaways you should also try:

Gimme Gold. Megaways - is a better alternative than the game at hand, at least if you don’t care too much about Xmas. It comes with all the same features, and overall the same math model, except for the theoretical returns which clock in at a far more solid 96.5 % in this original release.

Christmas Carol Megaways - is Pragmatic Play’s Xmas contribution from last year, and it revolves around the classic story of the miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, being transformed into a more generous person. You can play with up to 200,704 win ways, and the bonus round comes with a starting multiplier up to x10 and a 20,000x potential.

Santa's Big Bash Megaways - is something as rare as an Xmas release that’s not a reskin job, and Iron Dog Studios has created a Magic Bauble collection system that eventually triggers the bonus round. The feature comes with an unlimited progressive win multiplier, and you can win up to 25,000x your stake.

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