Sumo Supreme Megaways

Sumo Supreme Megaways: Slot Overview

Japan might have given the world sushi, robots, and ninjas, but one cultural event that has yet to spread across the globe is the sport of sumo. For a population perceived as being slim and polite, sumo, in some ways, seems very un-Japanese. However, it's a popular sport in the country, where towering giants push and shove their opponents, quite vigorously, out of the ring or to the ground. ELK Studios used the big fellas in Sumo Sumo, and now competitor Pragmatic Play has had a go in the online slot Sumo Supreme Megaways.

Sumo Supreme Megaways' base game takes place in what looks to be a training environment in an open courtyard space with a ring stashed beneath the gaming grid, surrounded by hordes of big-bellied onlookers. Sumo wrestlers train in a heya (a stable), where they presumably eat a lot of food and practice pushing each other about. It is an unusual sport, but when you start thinking about sports in general, a lot of them have a vague pointlessness at their core; perhaps they all do.

Maybe that's overly negative thinking because sports and games are fun, and getting involved with Sumo Supreme Megaways requires picking a stake of 20 c to $/€240 per spin. Players are also able to activate the ante bet for an extra 25% on the stake to have more scatters on the reels, increasing the chance of getting free spins. Backed by a highly volatile math model, Sumo Supreme Megaways' top RTP is 96.55%, or 96.53%, when buying free spins. A 5-reel Megaways game grid lands 2 to 6 symbols on each of its reels, creating up to 7,776 ways to win.

Weights and sumo wrestlers are Sumo Supreme Megaways' pay symbols. Weights depicting the numbers 6 to 10 pay 0.4-0.5 times the bet for a 5 symbol win, while the 5 wrestlers award 0.6 to 3 times the bet for a 5 OAK hit. Wild symbols appear on all reels. They substitute for any symbols except the scatter, and 5 wilds pay 3 times the stake.

Sumo Supreme Megaways: Slot Features

Sumo Supreme Megaways puts players on a diet of tumbles, a target weight feature with three different prizes, free spins, and a feature buy.

Tumble Feature

Like sushi and soy sauce goes the combination of Megaways and tumbles. The tumble mechanic means after a win has paid out, the winning symbols disappear from view. The remaining symbols tumble down, and new symbols come in from above. If a new win is created after the symbols fall, the tumble feature repeats itself.

Target Weight Feature

Every symbol in Sumo Supreme Megaways except the scatter or wild has a weight value attached to it. In addition, special Extra Weight symbols may land on the reels, taking a random weight value of 11 to 40. A random target weight is determined for each spin. Under each reel is a box showing the total weight of all symbols on the reel. If the total weight of a reel is equal to or higher than the spin's target weight, the box opens and reveals a prize:

• Money Award - an instant cash prize of 0.5x to 500x.
• Multiplier - a value of x2, x3, x4, or x5 is applied to wins on the tumble and all possible money awards on the same tumble.
• Expanding Wilds - wild symbols are added to all positions on the reel above the box.

After every tumble on the same spin, the target weight goes down by 1. Each box opens only once per spin. If all boxes open on a spin, the last one reveals all 3 possible rewards - money award, a multiplier, and expanding wilds.

Free Spins

Scatter symbols land on all reels. Hitting 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9+ scatters triggers 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, or 28 free spins, respectively. At the beginning of a free spins session, a target weight is randomly determined for the whole round. The target weight goes down by 1 after every tumble. Hitting 4 or more scatters retriggers an additional +4 free spins.

Buy Free Spins

For 75x the bet, players can buy a game round that lands 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or more scatter symbols, triggering the free spins feature.

Sumo Supreme Megaways: Slot Verdict

Sumo is a sport which is fascinating to watch, but if you grew up outside of the culture, it might be hard to really 'get'. Possibly less hard to get is a shove of entertainment out of Sumo Supreme Megaways. Pragmatic Play has picked an uncommon theme, presented it nicely, and linked it to features, which make sense, if flipped in a certain way. By flipped, it means sumo wrestlers generally want to get bigger and put on weight. In Sumo Supreme Megaways, you want to see the target weight drop in order to have a better chance of getting heavier totals on the reels, thereby triggering the prize lying hidden in corresponding boxes. You still want to see as much bulk as possible on each reel, though.

Dropping the target weight by 1 per tumble in the base game wasn't hugely helpful, so having a persistent quality for the target weight in free spins is a positive. Even then, triggering stacks of box prizes took a bit of work to accomplish. Each of the three prizes is desirable, provided it's not one of the small change money awards. Full reel wilds in a Megaways game are nothing to sniff at, nor is a win multiplier. Perhaps if multiplier values were persistent in free spins as well? That might have been good, but let's not get greedy here. As it is, when Sumo Supreme Megaways puts its full force into pushing and shoving, its winning potential is capped at a sizable 12,500x.

Megaways slots are so dime a dozen these days that when a casino game maker comes along with one which stands out, it is appreciated. Pragmatic Play has managed to do this with Sumo Supreme Megaways, a creative slot that stirs its unusual subject matter with logically linked features into something unique.