Mummy Megaways

Mummy Megaways: Slot Overview

Ancient Egyptian culture is full of customs and ways which may seem unusual to modern ways of thinking and few more so than the procedure of mummification. This is the process of embalming and preserving a dead body. One reason why, according to a net search, is that the Egyptians believed it was possible to live after death, but only if the body had been preserved. That’s pretty good news if it was within a person’s power to set up a post-death mummification, but a bit sad if it was beyond someone’s means. Anyway, it is into the Ancient Egyptian world we go to experience software provider NetEnt‘s slot Mummy Megaways, where players encounter spirits who lead to three types of wild Feature Spins.

One positive thing about Mummy Megaways is its audiovisuals. They aren’t extraordinary, and there are certainly grander representations of Ancient Egypt in slots compared to Mummy Megaways’ cobwebby, pillared location. But they have a disarming cartoon look to them, and the ploddingly rhythmical soundtrack actually sounds like the sort of thing workers would listen to as they’re dragging immense blocks of stone to build colossal structures beneath a beating anvil of hot sunlight. On each spin, Mummy Megaways’ 6-reel Megaways powered grid lands from 2 to 7 symbols on each reel, varying the number of ways to win up to 117,649.

Winning combinations begin from the leftmost reel and must hit along adjacent reels. The symbols forming wins vanish, making spaces for others to drop in, which may create new wins. Avalanches keep avalanching until a new win does not appear. Generating a max RTP of 96%, Mummy Megaways is medium/high volatile and has a stake range of 10 c to $/€20 per game round.

The low win symbols are 10, J, Q, K, and A card ranks, paying out 0.5 to 1.5 times the player’s stake when a combination of 6 OAK land on the reels. The game’s high wins are stylistic lotus leaves, Ankhs, Eyes of Horus, birds, and scarabs. High win awards range from 2 to 30 times the bet for 6-of-a-kind. Wild symbols land in different colours with different abilities, but they all substitute for any regular pay symbol and are worth 30x for 6 OAK.

Mummy Megaways Slot Features

Three different Feature Bars sit on top of the grid and are filled on any spin when the correspondingly coloured playful spirits land on the reels. Each Feature Bar takes 30 spirits to be completely filled, and more than one bar can be filled at the same time. Any playful spirits collected over 30 are transferred inside the Feature Spins.

Playful Spirits

Up to 6 playful spirits can appear on the reels on paying symbols at random. Any landed playful spirit on the reels fills the Feature Bar of the same colour.

Feature Spins

Filling a Feature Bar completely awards its corresponding Feature Spin. When more than one Feature Bar is filled on a single spin, combined Feature Spins are triggered where up to 3 features are awarded at the same time, depending on how many and which Feature Bars were filled:

• Blue Feature Spins – 3 Feature Spins are awarded with a Random Wild on each spin. A Random Wild creates up to 6 instances of itself in random positions.
• Purple Feature Spins – 3 Feature Spins with an Expanding Wild on each spin are awarded. Expanding Wilds change size to cover the whole reel.
• Yellow Feature Spins – 3 Feature Spins with a Spreading Wild on each spin are awarded. Spreading Wilds transform random symbols around it into copies of itself.

Mummy Megaways: Slot Verdict

For a while at least, Mummy Megaways provided a modicum of entertainment via its pleasing sights, sounds, and its three intriguing Feature Spins. The game gave off slight whiffs of the NetEnt classic The Wish Master, or more so its follow-up, The Wish Master Megaways, as links to those games included some of the visuals and getting spins with a certain feature or features active for them. Mummy Megaways has a more limited set of features, however. In this game, it’s all about wilds to the exclusion of all else – multis are missing, for example. You do get spreading, expanding and random wild effects, maybe even combined if you’re really lucky, but that’s it.

Therefore, Mummy Megaways’ novelty factor soon wore thin in a haze of rotating through plain base game spins and Feature Spins. This is a Megaways-powered slot, though, so mountains of ways to win combined with spreading wilds might turn out to be quite profitable. Not super profitable by Megaways standards due to a max multiplier of 5,000x the bet, but good things might happen within these parameters. Whether players will have the patience to stick around and find out, ploughing through the downtimes was a question that hovered up in the consciousness.

Till tedium well and truly kicks in, Mummy Megaways has a few tricks stashed up its mummified sleeves it can let loose on the reels. None are drop-dead unmissable or particularly innovative in any way, being basically spreading wild effects, but okay, Mummy Megaways’ gaming environment is pleasant, so Egypt fans have another option for whiling away some time on.

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