Reel Spooky King Megaways

Reel King gets a festive Halloween makeover for this spooky new game created by Inspired Gaming. You’ll notice immediately if you have played Reel King Megaways that this is more or less a clone of the original game in a new scarier skin. However, it is obvious that in the visual change, they have also subtly dropped the RTP, so this game is actually statistically worse in terms of spin to win ratio. However, we shouldn’t pin Inspired Gaming to the wall too hard, as developers commonly practice this. As long as you know the risks going in.

Reel Spooky King Megaways Overview

The features for this game are fivefold, with some features being natural Megaways features and others being more explicitly related to this game. One of the more obvious is the cascades feature, which is activated every time a win is registered. When this happens, the winning symbols are blasted off the reels and replaced by a new set, giving players a chance to win multiple wins from one spin. There is also a Lit Reels feature, a Reel King feature, a free spin feature and finally, what the game calls a spin chance feature. All features will be explained in more detail later on in the review.

Theme and Symbols

As you may have noticed, the theme for this slot is Halloween. The annual holiday devotes to all things spooky—interesting fact: Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. One night of the year, the Celts believed that the line between the living and the dead was blurred, allowing ghosts and ghouls of the past to return to the world of the living to reap revenge and right wrongs they were dealt when they were living.

The background for this slot is a typical one consistent with most Halloween night traditions. It is cold dark, and the moon shines brightly in the sky. In the undergrowth and on the streets of the living world are all sorts of skeletons lit up in various colours, like cheap decorations. Not a great many details can be picked out of the background as the playing board is so enormous.
Speaking of which, the playing window is modelled after a collection of gravestones with various skull decorations entailing their way along the edges.

The symbols for Reel Spooky King Megaways are split into low value, high value and special symbols. The lowest value symbols are the creepy cherries, scary plum and terrifying watermelon. The next set of symbols in terms of value are the six playing card values from 9 to A, paying anywhere between 0.2 and 7.5x the bet. Up again from these is the cauldron which pays anywhere up to 50x the stake for the top combination. This symbol also provides wins even if there are just two of them. Finally, there is a wild icon and a bonus, none of which payout instant cash wins.

Game Play

Reel Spooky King Megawasy is played on a 6-reel, Megaways playing window with anywhere up to 117,649 pay lines. Being a Megaways game means that anywhere up to 7 symbols can fall on any reel each time they spin. To win combinations, players must land three or more matching symbols on pay lines moving from left to right, starting from the leftmost reel.
The betting range for Reel Spooky King Megawasy is 20p to £20 per spin. To adjust their bet levels, players can toggle their stake up and down using the tool located at the bottom left-hand side of the screen.

Further information, including a short tutorial and a display of the paytable, can be found via the menu button in the right-hand corner of the screen. The spin and auto spin buttons are located in the centre of the screen.
Volatility for this slot is rated in the medium range. The return to player percentage for Reel Spooky King Megawasy is 95.56%, which is below average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is £250,000.

Features

The first feature in this game is the cascades feature. When a winning combination is found during the base and free spins games, the winning symbols from that win will be jettisoned from the reels and replaced by a new set, giving players multiple chances to score wins from the same spin. These cascades will keep falling until a new winner is not found.

The next feature is called the Lit Reels feature. In the base game, 0-6 reels can light up in yellow colour. One extra reel is lit yellow for each subsequent cascade. If all six reels are turned yellow, the Reel King feature will be triggered. Another cascade past all reels being turned yellow, and the Super King feature will trigger. Yet, one more triggers the Spooky King feature.

The Reel King, Super King and Spooky King features, when triggered 1-2, 2-3 or 3-6 mini-slots, will appear. Each mini slot has a single pay line and lands paying pumpkin icons or nothing. These mini-slots also have active lit reels; if all three reels become lit, players are taken to the free spins trail. If mini-slots produce losing spins and less than three reels are lit, it will disappear. The feature terminates when no more mini reels are left.

If players trigger the free spins round, they are first given the option of gambling to get more spins. Landing on the green part of the gambling wheel gets you up to another 25 spins, however, landing on the red part reduces the number of spins you have.
The Spooky King Free spins come with an unlimited win multiplier, which increases by x1 for every winning cascade. Lighting reels red can also result in free spins.

Finally, the Spins Chance feature automatically triggers if your balance falls below the current spin cost yet is greater than zero. It gives you the last chance spin. However, it only does so based on the spin of a lucky wheel – green +spin red+ end of the game.

Conclusion

If you like Reel King Megways, chances are you’ll like this. However, as we said in the introduction, make sure you are aware of the drop in RTP as that might have quite the impact on the returns you expect from this game.