Bar X Safecracker Megaways

Bar X Safecracker Megaways Slot Review

Under the bevelled gold frame and the crimson backdrop, there’s a safe that pays out almost nothing until it suddenly pays everything. Bar X Safecracker Megaways is built on one steep divide: a base paytable where most lines return a sliver of the stake, and a feature round where an unlimited multiplier quietly climbs until one long cascade chain settles the whole session. It’s a patience game wearing a fruit machine’s clothes, and the retro lacquer makes that easier to live with than it sounds.

Blueprint Gaming has dressed the cabinet in thick, sober gloss – polished gold and lacquered red, no cartoon in sight – and bolted it to the engine that powers Buffalo Rising Megaways and Genie Jackpots Megaways. Six reels, up to seven symbols each, a ceiling of 117,649 ways to win, and an RTP of 96.50%. It’s a leaner proposition than the studio’s licensed blockbusters, closer in spirit to Eye of Horus Megaways: scatters, cascades, one multiplier, nothing you don’t need.

Base Game & Features

Megaways and Cascades

Each of the six reels can reveal up to seven symbols in view, and the reel heights change from spin to spin, so the number of ways to win shifts constantly. A full seven-high roll across all six reels is where the 117,649 figure comes from; anything less lands somewhere in the thousands. Wins form on left-to-right adjacent symbols regardless of their height, and payouts are multiplied by the stake.

Multiple wins on the same drop all count. Because matching symbols pay on every way they occupy, a single spin with a common symbol stacked across the first four reels can return several separate wins added together. It’s the kind of arithmetic that makes Megaways grids feel busier than their fixed-line cousins.

Every win triggers a cascade. The sequence runs like this:

1. Winning symbols explode off the reels and the win is credited.
2. New symbols drop in from above the reels, or from the right of the symbols sitting on top.
3. Any new win from the fresh symbols pays out and detonates in turn.
4. The chain continues until a drop produces no new win.

That last step is the quiet engine of the game. A single spin can pay four or five times over if the drops keep landing matching symbols, and every reaction feeds directly into what the free spins round does with a multiplier.

Mystery Symbol

Scattered among the pays is a letter O. When one comes to rest, every O on the grid flips over to reveal the same paying symbol, so a cluster of them can convert a dead spin into a full screen of matches. It works the same in the base game and the feature, and it’s the only symbol behaviour in the game beyond the wild and the scatter.

The Wild and the Reel Tops

The wild substitutes for every symbol except the scatter, and it lives only in the positions above reels 2 to 5. Those overhead positions exist to feed the cascades: when symbols are removed, the ones sitting above slide in from the right, and a wild arriving that way can complete a line the drop would otherwise have missed. Reels 1 and 6 never get one.

Symbols and Pays

It’s a classic Bar-X roster: diamond, 7, BAR, X and the royal run. Values below are multiples of the total bet, and the diamond is the only symbol that pays for two.

• Diamond – 1x for two or three, 5x for four, 12.5x for five, 25x for six
• 7 – 0.5x for three, 1x for four, 1.25x for five, 2.5x for six
• BAR – 0.15x for three, 0.25x for four, 0.5x for five, 1.25x for six
• X – 0.15x for three, 0.25x for four, 0.4x for five, 1x for six
• A, K, Q – 0.1x for three, 0.2x for four, 0.3x for five, 0.75x for six
• J, 10, 9 – 0.05x for three, 0.1x for four, 0.2x for five, 0.5x for six

There’s no maximum win figure for this one. The spread between the top of that list and the bottom is steep, and the royal run makes up the bulk of the grid, so most individual lines pay a fraction of the stake. The serious returns have to come from the feature, not the base pays.

Bar X Safecracker Megaways Free Spins

The scatter does one job. Land four of them and the free spins round begins; land five or six and each extra scatter adds more spins on top. It’s the oldest trigger structure in the Megaways book, and this game doesn’t decorate it.

What the round adds is an unlimited win multiplier, and it’s tied directly to the cascade chain. The order of operations matters:

1. A win lands and pays at the multiplier’s current value.
2. The reaction removes the winning symbols and drops in new ones.
3. The multiplier steps up by one for the reaction.
4. The next win in the chain pays at the higher value, and the cycle repeats.

The multiplier never resets for the duration of the feature. So the early cascades build the number and the late ones pay at it, and a round that opens with a dud spin isn’t wasted – the counter keeps whatever the previous chains earned.

The escalation compounds with the mystery symbol. A screen of Os flipping mid-cascade can extend a reaction chain several steps, and every extra reaction is another multiplier notch. One long chain late in the round, when the multiplier has climbed, is the entire payoff structure of this game.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.1/10

This is a game of standing in front of a vault and waiting. Nearly everything Bar X Safecracker Megaways pays happens in the feature, so a session is mostly cascades, mystery symbols and small change, punctuated by the round where the real arithmetic lives. That’s the whole reason to pick it: the retro cabinet is handsome, but you’re here for one unlimited multiplier and the patience to let it climb.

At its best, the feature is genuinely electric – a multiplier that never resets means a late cascade chain can dwarf everything before it. At its worst, the base game is thin gruel, and the lean spells between features ask more of you than the polished presentation admits.

It’s for players who like a stripped-back Megaways and don’t mind earning the big one; it isn’t for anyone who wants constant feature hits or a buy menu to shortcut the wait. Cracked properly, the safe still has something inside it.

Bar X Safecracker Megaways FAQs

• What is the RTP of Bar X Safecracker Megaways?

  The RTP is 96.50%, and that figure is the game’s total expected return.
• How do you trigger free spins in Bar X Safecracker Megaways?

  Four scatters win the free spins round, and every extra scatter beyond the fourth awards additional spins on top.
• What does the mystery symbol do in Bar X Safecracker Megaways?

  The mystery symbol is a letter O. When one lands in view, all mystery symbols in view transform into the same paying symbol, which can complete wins across several reels at once.
• How many paylines does Bar X Safecracker Megaways have?

  It’s a MEGAWAYS game with up to 117,649 ways to win on each spin. Wins form on left-to-right adjacent symbols regardless of their height.
• What is the grid size of Bar X Safecracker Megaways?

  The game runs on six reels with variable heights, showing up to seven symbols per reel. The number of ways to win changes from spin to spin as the heights shift.
• Where can the wild symbol appear in Bar X Safecracker Megaways?

  The wild only appears in the positions above reels 2 to 5, sliding in from the right as cascades refill the grid. It substitutes for every symbol except the scatter.
• Does the free spins multiplier reset in Bar X Safecracker Megaways?

  No. The round features an unlimited win multiplier that increases after every reaction and doesn’t reset, so long cascade chains build its value as they pay.
• When is Bar X Safecracker Megaways released?

  Bar X Safecracker Megaways’s release date is 5 September 2019.