Medusa Megaways slot review (Nextgen)

Nextgen is, after Relax gaming, Red Tiger, WMS and Blueprint Gaming, the fifth provider that has been licensed to create Megaways slots

This means that there will be a whole new angle to Megaways phenomenon: Medusa Megaways is well-known for making entertaining slots with fun bonus features.

Their first Megaways release is based on their very own and popular Medusa slot.

The sinister music, the beautiful Medusa, the soldiers responsible for extra prizes, fits perfectly with the Megaways slots mechanism.

Nextgen has done an excellent job with this slot: it is recognisable and almost entirely new at the same time.

Winning extreme amounts of money is also possible in Medusa Megaways: up to 50,000 x, the total bet has been reported. There is a maximum payout attached to that, though.

Furthermore, Medusa Megaways is filled to the brim with exciting features, like mystery wilds and mystery scatters, a buy a bonus feature and the option to play your bonus round again.

How does the Medusa Megaways slot work?

By now the Megaways gaming engine should be well known to most people: a variable number of ways to win per spin, high variance and avalanche symbols.

Betting starts as low as $€ 0.25, which goes up to $€ 25, per spin.

The payout rate is dependent on the fact that you choose the Buy a Bonus option or not. If you play without it, the payout rate is 96.28%. But if, on the other hand, you choose the Buy Pass (=Buy a Bonus), then the RTP (Return to Player) goes up to a very palatable 97.63%. This option costs you 75 x your total bet.

There is also the atmosphere and the music, dark and sinister, just like in the original Medusa video slot. Medusa was a tough lady: if you looked her in the eyes, you turned to stone. And that’s the kind of mistake you can only make once in your life.

Symbols and payouts

All the well-known symbols return to this game.

Medusa herself is wild and replaces all symbols except for the scatters.

Spin a Pegasus 6 x, and you win 750 coins, and 6 petrified soldiers will get you 150 coins.

The other premium symbols (a ring and winged shoes, among others) payout between 20 and 50 coins with a 6-of-a-kind.

The card symbols 9, 10, J, Q, K and A are all worth 10 coins for 6 identical symbols.

Free spin bonus

3 scatters will net you10 free spins, every scatter on top of that is worth an additional five free spins.

During the free spins, you start with a multiplier of 2 x that is increased after every winning combination by +1. There is no limit as to how high the multiplier can climb.

Retriggering extra free spins during the free spins bonus round is possible.

You can receive help with this from the special soldiers that drop on the reels. As soon as this happens, the soldier is bitten by a snake, from the left or the right.

If the snake bites him on his left-hand side, you win extra wilds on the corresponding reel. Does the snake bite the soldier on his right-hand side, he changes into a scatter symbol.

Medusa can also show her beautiful, but deadly, self and change into multiple wild symbols.

Temptation Feature

As soon as the bonus round ends, you receive the option to keep the winnings or play it all over again.

An ideal solution if the first bonus round was not up to snuff. Medusa will even hint at what the best option would be: keep the money or play again.

Our verdict on the Medusa Megaways video slot

Medusa Megaways is surely one of the best Megaways slots up to now. It has many classic Medusa slot features and introduces a whole lot of new cool stuff.

Safe and secure, but also spectacularly exciting and fresh.

A smart move by Nextgen Gaming who will undoubtedly score big time with their first Megaways slot.

It leaves us wanting more and makes us wonder what the next step is for Nextgen. A 300 Shields Megaways slot or a Foxin’ Wins Megaways game?

Time will tell.

The only thing left for us to do is to determine the final score:

4.5 out of 5 stars.

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