Atlantis Megaways Slot Review
A drowned city sits behind these reels. Toppled stone columns and blocky masonry fade into blue-green murk down either side of the screen, shafts of pale light filter down from a surface you never see, and the grid floats above it all in open water, brightening to a cyan glow behind the top row. The chiselled gold logo cracks and glints in its framed panel, and a column of coloured pearls stacks down the left edge. Atlantis Megaways dresses like treasure.
It doesn’t play like it, and that’s the interesting thing about it. ReelPlay built it on the same formula as their Hypernova Megaways, but tuned it low: 96.1% RTP, a hit rate of 25.4%, and low volatility, so where most games with 117,649 ways use them to chase brutal swings, this one pays out steadily in small pieces. The payout cap is 8,641x the bet, with stakes from 0.20 to 25 per spin. Hypernova Megaways and Hercules 10K Ways chase a similar ceiling far more aggressively.
Base Game & Features
Each spin deals between two and seven symbols to every main reel, and a top reel sits above the middle four, adding one extra symbol to reels 2 through 5. A single reel, top reel included, can show up to seven symbols. The Megaways meter keeps a running count of how many ways the current layout pays, and the number swings wildly from spin to spin.
Wins pay left to right on adjacent reels, regardless of symbol size. Only positions containing the winning symbol count towards that symbol’s win, the highest win is paid per combination, and coinciding wins are added together. All wins are multiplied by the total bet.
Every winning symbol is part of a reaction. Winners are cleared away and replaced by symbols falling from above on the main reels and sliding in from the right on the top reel, so one win can chain into several. That’s the rhythm of the base game: land a win, watch the reactions run, hope the chain keeps going. It’s the only thing carrying a session between bonus rounds.
The wild is a temple icon that substitutes for everything except the scatter, and it only ever lands on the top reel. It turns up to complete lines the main reels couldn’t finish themselves. Because it only exists on that extra row, it can never start a win on its own; it can only extend one that’s already forming on the reels below.
The scatter is a treasure chest, and six or more of them trigger the Bonus Respins. That’s a high bar for a scatter count, and it’s the only door into the feature. There’s no second bonus, no free spins round, no pick-me game. Between triggers, the reactions are the whole show.
Everything on the game panel is standard, and worth a quick rundown:
- Spin button – places a bet and spins the reels; the space bar does the same
- Menu button – info pages, lobby, bet changes, autoplay and settings
- Balance meter – shows the current balance
- Total bet meter – displays the wager staked
- Win meter – displays the current win amount
- Bet settings – opens the bet window, from 0.20 up to 25
- Autoplay – 10 to 100 automatic spins, with the remaining count on the button
- Game settings – sounds, music, full screen and left-hand mode
- Megaways meter – the potential ways to win on the current layout
- Bonus meters – the bonus amounts on the ladder
Atlantis Megaways Bonus Respins
Six or more scatters lock in place and award three respins, with every position that isn’t held spinning again. Land a new scatter and it locks too, and the respin count resets to three. The round only ends when the respins run out or every visible position on the reels is filled with chests.
The sequence runs like this:
- Six or more scatters land anywhere on the reels
- All scatters are held, and three respins are awarded
- Every unheld position spins; new scatters lock and reset the count to three
- The round ends when respins run out or the grid is full of scatters
- Each locked scatter then pays a prize or a bonus prize
Up to 42 bonus and prize positions can be revealed across the feature. The prizes aren’t progressive, and the round plays at the bet of the triggering spin. Wilds don’t appear during the respins, and normal symbol pays are switched off for the duration. Everything the round pays comes from the chests themselves, not from the lines the grid happens to form underneath them.
Alongside the cash prizes, four bonus jackpots sit on a ladder beside the reels:
- Mini Bonus – 10x the total bet, awardable more than once per feature
- Minor Bonus – 50x the total bet, awardable more than once per feature
- Major Bonus – 250x the total bet, once per feature at most
- Grand Bonus – 2,000x the total bet, once per feature at most
Non-bonus prizes range from 1x to 100x the total bet, and values displayed over scatter symbols have already been multiplied by the bet amount. Because every new scatter resets the counter, a round that keeps landing chests keeps extending itself. The respin meter counts down on screen, and each reset buys the feature another stretch of life.
The repeatable Mini and Minor matter more than they first appear. In a grid-filling round that drags on through reset after reset, those smaller tiers can stack several times over, so a long feature doesn’t live or die on whether the Grand shows up. The single-shot Major and Grand are the ceiling; the repeatables are the bread and butter.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.2/10
Playing Atlantis Megaways is a slow drift past a very pretty shipwreck. Wins arrive often, the balance barely moves, and the drowned city looks lovely doing absolutely nothing to hurry you along. The one reason to pick it over flashier Megaways titles is precisely that: it’s the rare game on this engine you can sit with for an hour without leaving bruised.
Its strength is the respin round’s reset, which can turn a single trigger into a long, stacking feature that pays at every tier on the way up. Its weakness is that the base game carries everything alone between triggers, and six scatters is a steep ask, so long stretches pass with nothing but small reaction wins to show for them.
This is one for steady-handed players who like long sessions on modest stakes and don’t need a bonus every few minutes; it isn’t one for anyone after the hard swings of Hypernova Megaways or its sharper cousins. Atlantis rewards patience, and it pays for it slowly, but it does pay.
Atlantis Megaways FAQs
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What is the RTP of Atlantis Megaways?
The RTP is 96.1%. -
Is Atlantis Megaways high volatility?
No, it’s a low volatility slot, which means wins tend to come steadily rather than in rare large bursts. -
What is the hit frequency of Atlantis Megaways?
The hit frequency is 25.4%, so roughly one in four spins produces a win. -
How many paylines does Atlantis Megaways have?
It has up to 117,649 ways to win, with the number on any given spin depending on how many symbols each reel shows. -
How do you trigger the Bonus Respins in Atlantis Megaways?
Land six or more scatter symbols anywhere on the reels. The scatters lock in place and award three respins, with each new scatter resetting the count back to three. -
Can the Bonus Respins be retriggered?
Yes, in effect. Any new scatter that lands during the round is held and resets the respin count to three, so the feature keeps extending as long as chests keep appearing. -
What are the jackpot prizes in Atlantis Megaways?
Four bonus prizes sit on the ladder: the Mini at 10x your bet, the Minor at 50x, the Major at 250x and the Grand at 2,000x. The Mini and Minor can be won more than once in a single feature; the Major and Grand only once each. -
What is the maximum win on Atlantis Megaways?
The maximum win is 8,641x your bet.
