Megaways Jack Frost

Megaways Jack Frost: Slot Overview

If you like things that are cold, or snow, or ice, or winter in general, then maybe you'd be best buds with Jack Frost, who is/was said to be the personification of all those things, and more. He's also the star in Megaways Jack Frost, an online slot from developer Iron Dog Studio. It's funny… Megaways Jack Frost sounds very close to Megaways Jack, one of Iron Dog Studios' early Megaways slots, and given the developer's track record, imagine our surprise to realise this wasn't a clone of that game. Hol' up though, after inspecting the next candidate on the list, yep, Megaways Jack Frost is indeed a reskin of another Jack and the Beanstalk slot from Iron Dog, namely, Megaways Jack And The Magic Beans.

Where the previous Jack game was held in a fecund green field with a massive beanstalk reaching up to the sky, Megaways Jack Frost takes place in an icy land of falling snow, snow-covered trees, mountains, clouds, and a snow-covered house. In other words, there's a lot of snow about the place. Like Megaways Jack And The Magic Beans, this game's got a charming feel to it, and according to Wikipedia, Jack Frost may have roots in Anglo-Saxon and Norse customs of winter. He was named in literature in 'Round About Our Coal Fire', published in 1734, and from then… oh, sorry, there won't be a test on this later. It's just that some games encourage deeper investigation. At times, it's because the topic is so fascinating. Other times, it's because there's not much else to say. In the case of Megaways Jack Frost, it was a little bit of both.

If you can handle the on-screen cold temperatures, taking part in Megaways Jack Frost means picking a stake of 10 c to $/€20 per paid game round. Like its predecessor, this is a highly volatile gambling machine, producing an RTP of 96.14% by default, rising up to as high as 96.5% when buying free spins. Run by Megaways under licence from Big Time Gaming, Megaways Jack Frost's grid lands 2 to 7 symbols on each of its 6 reels, translating to win ways of up to 117,649.

Whenever a way win pays out, the winning symbols are destroyed, and other symbols drop down to replace them. Consecutive tumbles continue as long as wins appear on the reels. Cracking open the paytable, ten Jack Frost-inspired symbols make up the regular pays. They are 10 through A card ranks as the lows, then a snowflake, frozen fruit, a bird with a bowtie, reindeer, and a boy as the high pays. Filling the grid from one side to the other with a 6 OAK winning way pays 0.6 to 1 times the bet when achieved by the low pays or 2 to 25 times the bet for the picture symbols. In the base game, wilds appear on reels 2-5, while in the bonus game, they land on reels 2-6. The wild's job is to substitute for any of the regular pay symbols to help create wins.

Megaways Jack Frost: Slot Features

Going hand in hand with Megaways is a tumble feature, as well as a special Jack Frost symbol, Jack Frost features, free spins, and buy options.

Special Jack Frost Symbol

The special Jack Frost symbol can trigger features in the base game and in free spins. In the base game, it guarantees a win by creating a winline made of low pays, high pays, or wilds. In free spins, it can trigger a random feature from the Jack Frost Feature list.

Jack Frost Features

The possible features from the Jack Frost Features list are these, triggered per symbol if it lands on the reels:

• Additional free spins are awarded.
• An additional multiplier is awarded.
• An additional locked reel is awarded.
• An additional reel for the Jack Frost symbol to land on is awarded, progressing left to right from reels 2 to 5.
• Awards high pay symbols on the reels.
• Awards high pay symbols in place of low pay symbols on the reels.

After the feature has occurred, any special Jack Frost symbols still on the reels are turned into wilds.

Free Spins

Landing 4 scatter symbols triggers the free spins feature. Scatters are present on reels 2 to 5 and only once per reel. When the round triggers, the number of free spins, the multiplier, the amount of locked reels, and the Jack Frost frequency are chosen at random. Getting 4 consecutive tumbles awards +2 free spins, and each winning tumble increases the multiplier by +1.

Buy Free Spins

The three choices here are 100x the bet (RTP 96.5%) to buy free spins with a random number of spins, multipliers, locked reels, and Jack Frost frequency, or 160x the bet (RTP 96.3%) for at least 8 free spins with random multipliers, locked reels, and Jack Frost frequency, or 200x the bet adding at least an x4 multiplier on top of the previous buy option.

Megaways Jack Frost: Slot Verdict

Studios are in some ways like regular individual people, each one with its own personality, ways, habits, wants, and dreams. While some studios would rather slide down a rusty razor blade using their crotch as a braking system than release the same thing twice, others have no qualms recycling, recycling, and recycling some more. Obviously, Iron Dog Studio is one of those developers that has no issues using the same stuff again and again. Not saying one method is inherently better than the other, but you know, how many firsts in life are as good the second time around?

Actually, maybe good isn't the right word, but there's something special about a first that can be missing the second time. So it threatens to be with Megaways Jack Frost, which was a repeat performance of Megaways Jack And The Magic Beans, just with snow and stuff. Magic Beans zealots might be grinning ear to ear with the knowledge, but we'd have to say Megaways Jack Frost was no better the second time around. Don't get us wrong, there is decent enough Megaways gaming to be had here if being cold is your thing. One standout in these games, for example, is the random way free spins components are awarded at the start of a bonus round. Likely just as neat here as it was in the Magic Beans game.

Naturally, the more free spins components awarded, the neater it may be, as they might well come in handy for getting within striking distance of Megaways Jack Frost's substantial 25,000x the bet max win. It feels a bit bad admitting this, but Megaways Jack Frost pretty much ended up the way it was suspected to at the beginning of the review. Not a bad game, but it was another Iron Dog Studio reskin that didn't make a major impression when the curtains had closed.