Almighty Bear Megaways

Almighty Bear Megaways: Slot Overview

In the 'my dad could beat up your dad' argument over what is the toughest critter in the animal kingdom, brown bears rate highly. Of the brown non-polar bear variety, Kodiak bears are the biggest. According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, males can be 10 feet tall when standing on their back feet (the height of a basketball hoop) and weigh up to around 680 kg. That… is truly frightening. Fortunately, players only encounter wildlife in pixelated form should they take on Almighty Bear Megaways, an online slot designed by software provider Blueprint Gaming.

And not a shabby arrangement of pixels it is either, as Almighty Bear Megaways is a handsome nature slot. It's played in a dimly lit forested area where little blue lights float up from the bottom of the screen. Not only bears reside in this zone, but a host of wild animals, which you'll meet soon. Almighty Bear Megaways has a slightly magical feel to it, but thematically, it generally keeps its paws on the attractively rendered ground.

Almighty Bear Megaways lays out its symbols on a 6-reel vertically spinning area and a 4-symbol reel on the top, spinning side to side. At full capacity, 117,649 Megaways are provided. Winning combinations begin on the leftmost reel and can include symbols from the top reel. Trekking in the bush starts by selecting an appropriate stake of 20 c to $/€10 per spin, while the default RTP in this highly volatile slot is 95%.

Winning symbols are removed from the gaming area during gameplay to be replaced by others falling down or from the side on the top reel. Cascading wins carry on until a win is not created after a drop. As for the paytable, four leafy card suits sit on the lower value side of it, while the higher side has a lynx, a deer, a wolf, a big cat, a bear on the lookout, and an angry bear. Six matching card suits in a win pay 0.8x to 1x the bet, while 6 identical animals in a win are worth 1.75 to 50 times the bet. Wilds help out by substituting for any of the regular pay symbols. Wilds land only on the top reel.

Almighty Bear Megaways: Slot Features

Almighty Bear Megaways' herd of features are Mystery symbols, cascades, free spins with an increasing multiplier, a gamble feature, and a feature buy.

Mystery Symbols

Mystery symbols may appear in any grid position. All Mystery symbols on the reels reveal the same random symbol type, which can not be scatters or wilds.

Free Spins

In the base game, scatter symbols land on any of the main vertical reels. Landing 4 scatters awards 12 free spins, plus 5 free spins are awarded for each additional triggering scatter. Free spins use a win multiplier that starts at x1 and increases by +1 after every cascade. Hit 3 scatters on the top reel to win +5 extra free spins or 4 scatters on the top reel to get +10 extra free spins.

Gamble

Before free spins begin, players can gamble the number of starting spins via a spinning wheel gamble feature. Winning or losing gambles awards the amount displayed on the screen, which could be zero.

Bonus Buy

For 50x the bet, the reels will spin to land a minimum of 3 scatter symbols to trigger 8 free spins. Only 3 are needed to enter the free spins round this way.

Almighty Bear Megaways: Slot Verdict

Since we live on a planet where studies have suggested that almost half of all animal species will be extinct by the end of 2100, in what Earth.org calls 'one of the greatest ecological destruction known to mankind', let's begin with bad news. Almighty Bear Megaways started off with an enchanting-looking roar. The graphics were richly evocative, the animals looked extraordinary, and Blueprint Gaming has laid the magic and mystery of nature bare for all the world to see. Well, a bunch of gamblers to see, at least. Then, once the paytable was opened up, Almighty Bear Megaways' lack of mechanical creativity was laid bare for all to see. It's basically Bonanza with a bonus buy and mystery symbols. For sure, this is a winning set of extras that has titillated countless gamblers, but it has gotten a tad stale by now.

Now that rant's over, on to some of Almighty Bear Megaways' better points, of which there are a few, including the already mentioned pleasing artwork. Bonus buyers should be happy with the relatively modest cost of the bonus buy. Fifty times the bet isn't a bad price tag to enter a free spins round with a multiplier, which increases after cascades. The RTP remains the same when buying free spins, but still, it feels like a positive inclusion.

At the end of the day, Almighty Bear Megaways delivers dependable gaming in an inviting outdoor setting; it's just the features aren't likely to win innovative twist of the year awards any time soon.