Gears of Eternia Megaways Dream Drop

Gears of Eternia Megaways Dream Drop: Slot Overview

Fans of Masters of the Universe, prepare to be… massively disappointed. This is because Gears of Eternia Megaways Dream Drop, made by software provider Four Leaf Gaming, does not revolve around the battles of He-Man and Skeletor on the fictional planet of Eternia. It is, however, a science fiction-themed slot with a strong steampunk bent. Yes, that means brass, gadgets, charismatic characters, goggles, and flying contraptions to go with potential Dream Drop Jackpot escapades.

Gears of Eternia Megaways Dream Drop's base game is held in a sweet steampunk-style township. A blossoming, doomed, city of industry makes up the background, accompanied by a sweeping soundtrack that when added together gave off strong Piltover vibes. Or maybe even Langara for the SG1 heads out there. You half expect an explosion to go off while Jinx sits on a rooftop, detonator switch in hand, devious smirk on face. Play shoots into the atmosphere to join a flotilla of flying machines careening through the clouds, making it one of Four Leaf Gaming's most engaging slots thematically.

Onto the mechanical side now, Gears of Eternia Megaways Dream Drop has a 6-reel main grid, spinning vertically, and a 4-position upper reel, spinning horizontally. Combine the two, and it is possible to have up to 117,649 ways to win in play. Keeping in mind the higher the bet, the bigger the chance of triggering a Jackpot win, where the options are 20 c to $/€100. Producing an RTP of 94.06%, the math model is medium-high volatile.

Winning symbols nip off the reels after paying and are replaced by new symbols cascading in. Repeat cascade wins continue until a win does not appear after a cascade. Pay symbols are, from the top down, a dashing lady, a dashing man, a compass/timepiece thingy, goggles, and A to 9 card ranks. For hitting 6 matching symbols in a winning way players collect 0.8x-1.2x for the royals, or 3x to 15x for the premium symbols. Wilds replace any regular pay symbol. The Wild multiplier increases with each wild that lands up to x5.

Gears of Eternia Megaways Dream Drop: Slot Features

Gears of Eternia Megaways Dream Drop brings to bear synch features as cascades, Mystery symbols, Bomb symbols, free spins, and Dream Drop prizes.

Mystery Symbols & Bomb Symbols

Mystery symbols can appear stacked 1 to 4 in height, revealing a pay symbol or wild. Mystery symbols upgrade to a new symbol on every cascade until they are part of a win. The highest symbol an upgrade can get to is an x1 wild. Bomb symbols, meanwhile, provide a second chance to win. When there are no more wins, and a Bomb symbol is present on the top reel, all symbols are removed except Mystery, wilds, or scatters before new symbols drop in.

Free Spins

Hitting 3 scatter symbols awards 10 free spins, plus 5 extra symbols for each additional trigger scatter that lands. In free spins, any Mystery symbols still on the grid at the end of a spin sequence carry over to the next spin as a regular symbol.

Dream Drop Jackpot

A Jackpot spin may trigger before a normal spin. If 6 Dream Drop symbols land on the spin, the Dream Drop Bonus is activated. In the DD Bonus, either a Dream Drop symbol or an empty space lands on a set of reels each spin. Every reel is linked to a Jackpot prize. When the first reel is full of Dream Drop symbols, its applicable prize is awarded. Seed values for the Jackpots are €1 for the Rapid, €5 for the Midi, €100 for the Maxi, €25,000 for the Major, and €500,000 for the Mega. 12% of the total bet goes to Jackpots, so values rise.

Nitro Spins & Fortune Coins

Enabling Nitro Spins increases the chance of landing Mystery symbols, increases scatters, and increases coins landing on the reels. 50% is added to the bet when Nitro Spins are active. Fortune Coins are collected when they randomly land in the game. Coins can be collected and spent across all Four Leaf Gaming slots on things like Nitro Spins.

Gears of Eternia Megaways Dream Drop: Slot Verdict

The setting for Gears of Eternia Megaways Dream Drop is quite a good one; the rest, meh, take it or leave it. As a straight Megaways slot, removing the Dream Drop part for a moment, the gaming was, sorry to say, deathly dull. There is almost nothing, with the possible exception of the Bomb symbol, which would make a Megaways veteran get out of bed to see. Bomb symbols explode, Mystery symbols do their thing, as do cascades. Free spins are probably the game's biggest letdown. No rising multiplier? O…k… Not that you need a multiplier in a Megaways free spins round, as long as something steps in to take its place and be all thrilly. The Mystery symbols carrying over to the next free spins as normal symbol effect is, don't want to be mean, but it's weak.

What's weird is that steampunk is all about inventors and technology and so forth, whereas Gears of Eternia Megaways Dream Drop feels lacking in that department. However, steampunk has been described as sci-fi, which uses old technology, so maybe Four Leaf went for that approach. If so, the studio nailed it because features-wise, Gears of Eternia Megaways Dream Drop lags behind the times, with no non-DD centrepiece feature to brag about whatsoever. But you know, Gears of Eternia Megaways Dream Drop is about all there is to choose from if a steampunk slot welded to the Dream Drop network is on your wish list. The background world-building could hardly have been much better.

So, theme is the thing around here, and players smitten with brass and Jackpots should have a pretty swell time trying their luck with Gears of Eternia Megaways Dream Drop. Gamblers outside this subset may find it harder to dig what the game does or does not do, especially since there are masses of other Dream Drop slots to select.