Judgement Day Megaways Slot Review 2024

Industry stalwart Red Tiger Gaming provides a timely reminder of its slot-building prowess with the apocalyptic-flavored Judgement Day Megaways!

Strap in for a hard-hitting release that packs a punch in more ways than one as we’re invited to get all philosophical and question our time on this fair earth.

The game’s clear highlight, aside from its dramatic cinematic quality and exquisite visuals on show, is an eye-watering 100,000x max payout – putting it among the esteemed company that includes the likes of Tombstone RIP, Money Train 3, and Razor Returns.

How does Judgment Day Megaways shape up against those three fan favourites? Not bad at all, all things considered.

The game’s creator has wasted no time in setting the scene from the off. Heavy with an unmistakably somber tone, Judgment Day Megaways greets players with the rather ominous warning that “Their Wrath Has Come.” Lovely.

If that doesn’t give you the heebie-jeebies, then an opening scene depicting the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse just might.

As the game loads, the focus shifts to a bleak, fantastical wasteland that evokes a sense of foreboding as to what lies in store. Menacing stone pillars accompany piles of skulls in the mist while jagged tree branches jut out rather threateningly and a pair of skeletal hands, half-wrapped in cloth, reach around to clasp the grid.

It’s pretty clear we’re not in Kansas anymore.

What follows should settle the nerves somewhat: compelling, multi-layered gaming wrapped in stunning artwork and topped by that headline-grabbing max win.

Let’s examine each in a bit more detail.

Judgement Day Megaways Base Game and Features

This is by no means Red Tiger’s first Megaways rodeo. What it does mean is that we get a game panel made up of 7 reels and 6 rows producing a random number of symbols on every spin with 117,649 ways at full pelt.

A high-powered theme gets a highly volatile game engine, while winning combos, as is standard, must be formed of identical symbols lining up from the first reel onwards across three or more adjacent reels.

Cascades, a Megaways bed-fellow, are here to bestow continued chances at wins by clearing the grid of winning symbols. Fresh symbols then drop in to fill the vacant cells, and the process continues upon each successful cascade.

The four playing card suits, plus a star, comprise the game’s low-paying symbols, complemented by high-pays an axe, an esoteric purple shape, a sword, and a skull. Because you can never have enough skulls to help reinforce a morbid vibe.

Symbol values aren’t the most generous we’ve seen; the most lucrative fetching 5x wins for 6OAK, but they are counterbalanced by the game’s suite of features.

Not always a feature of Megaways games, Wild symbols are present here, replacing regular symbols when they show up to help pull wins together.

Let’s burrow further into the slot’s stack of extras…

Seals

One of four randomly chosen demons summons its wicked powers if a Seal hits anywhere on reels 2-5, while the triggering Seal morphs into a wild matching that of the Horseman in question – be it of the Conquest, War, Famine, or Death variant.

It is possible to unlock each Horseman on a given spin. Here’s what they all bring to the table:

Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Conquest: Watch as the Conquest rider unleashes arrows into the sky, which proceed to rain down Skull Wilds on other symbols in view. Note it’s not possible for arrows to land on scatters or other wilds.

War: Win ways get a boost when the War Horseman enters the fray by randomly slashing in half symbols on reels containing fewer than 7 symbols. Scatters and Seals are not affected by this particular modifier.

Famine: Carrying on the bleak outlook, here’s a Famine Horseman, who operates a little unusually. When activated, he tots up the number of symbols on two individual reels, then applies a win multiplier up to 7x to each based on the other’s symbol count.

Death: Not had your fair share of gloom for one session?

When the Death Horseman is triggered, one or two of the middle four reels will be dragged down to reveal wilds carrying win multipliers. The further a reel is dragged, the higher its potential multiplier, with reels dragged down up to 3 positions max.

Judgement Day Megaways Free Spins

8 Free Spins are yours in return for landing 3 scatters in the base game. To kick off the feature a judge decides at random which Horseman shall show up on each spin for its duration, while all others can be brought into play by landing Seals.

Retriggers are possible; 3 more scatters grant you 4, which sees another Horseman join the party.

Judgement Day Bonus Buy

Those outside the UK will benefit from a Bonus Buy option. Red Tiger has granted players access to the Horseman Feature and Free Spins round for a total cost of 10x and 90x your bet respectively.

Judgement Day Megaways: Our Verdict

I think we all need a lie down after putting Judgment Day Megaways through its paces.

Needless to say, this is no game for the faint-hearted, or for those whose idea of fun involves putting their feed up to Jeremy Kyle with a tub of ice cream while spinning away on a candy-filled game to while away a few hours on a carefree Sunday.

While the game screams Red Tiger Gaming in places – especially the graphics department – the studio has pushed the subject matter to the extreme, daring to go where they’ve seldom been before while knitting it all together smartly with the use of four demonic horsemen and their unique features.

Let’s not forget that 100,000x max win, either. Whether or not anyone can get close to tapping that sky-high figure will remain to be seen, but it sure adds almighty clout to what is already a highly polished, gripping affair.

Judgment Day Megaways is about as heavy as it gets in terms of theme, volatility, and looks – all wrapped up into one irresistible, weighty package sure to keep the adrenaline flowing from the first spin to the last.