Big Cat King Megaways Slot Review
A lone snow-capped peak over dry savanna grass, an acacia tree, and a reel housing built into tan stone ruins: Big Cat King Megaways makes its surroundings do the talking, because the game underneath them doesn’t say much until the bonus arrives. That’s the honest shape of it. Blueprint Gaming have built a deliberately quiet base game whose only real job is delivering you to a free spins round with no multiplier cap, and whether that single-mindedness works is the whole question. Six reels, up to seven symbols per reel, up to 117,649 ways to win, and a 96.50% RTP.
It sits in familiar company alongside Buffalo Rising Megaways, Safari Gold Megaways and Lion Thunder, all Blueprint, all big-beast territory. Whether the king of this plain out-roars his stablemates is what follows.
Base Game & Features
Each reel can show up to seven symbols, and the heights change on every spin, so the ways to win swing constantly anywhere up to that 117,649 ceiling. A win is two to six matching consecutive symbols from the leftmost reel, however tall each symbol sits. All winning combinations are added together, and payouts are multiplied by your stake.
Cascading Symbols
Every win triggers a cascade. The winning symbols explode off the reels and new ones fall in from above, and the chain keeps going for as long as new wins keep forming. It’s the standard Megaways loop and it’s doing the usual work here: one spin can quietly become five.
There are extra symbol positions above reels 2, 3, 4 and 5, and those are the only positions that can reveal Wild Symbols. When those positions empty out, they’re replaced from the right. The wild substitutes for everything except scatters, and only the highest win is paid per combination. It’s a neat restriction: the wild can’t help open a win on reel one, only extend one that’s already underway.
Three things are working the reels on any given spin, each with its own trigger:
- Cascading Symbols – every win, no exceptions
- Wild Symbols – only in the positions above reels 2, 3, 4 and 5
- Mystery Symbol – any position, any spin
Mystery Symbol
The Mystery Symbol can appear in any position. When it lands, every Mystery Symbol in view reveals the same random symbol, which can turn a scattered handful of placeholders into a full six-reel win in one motion. The one thing it can’t reveal is a scatter, so the feature builds pays but never buys you the bonus.
Big Cat King Megaways Roaring Free Spins & Bonuses
Roaring Free Spins
The bonus is scatter-triggered, and the entry ladder is a generous one by Megaways standards:
- 4 Scatter Symbols in view – awards 12 Free Spins
- Every additional scatter – adds an extra 5 Free Spins each
- Scatter wins – paid in addition to reel wins
Scatters can land on any reel but never in the positions above reels 2 to 5, which is worth remembering: the four positions that hide wilds in the base game are sealed off from triggering the bonus.
Once you’re in, an Unlimited Win Multiplier is active from the first spin. It increases by 1 after every cascade, and there’s no cap on it, so a long cascade chain in a single spin keeps ratcheting the multiplier upward. The triggering stake carries through the whole round, and at the end the total winnings for the spins are displayed and credited before regular play resumes.
The round retriggers, and from an unusual direction. Those same positions above reels 2 to 5 reopen during the bonus, but this time they can reveal Free Spins Scatters instead of wilds:
- 3 Free Spins Scatters – 5 extra free spins
- 4 Free Spins Scatters – 10 extra free spins
It’s a tidy loop: the positions that couldn’t help you trigger the bonus become the positions that extend it, and every extension is another spin on an uncapped multiplier.
Spin Booster
Before the free spins begin, you can choose to play the Spin Booster. Pressing Buy spins a wheel for the amount displayed, and landing in the gold Spin Boost segment awards up to 2 additional spins per hit. The wheel keeps spinning until you press Play or you reach the maximum of 50 free spins.
It’s a pre-bonus gamble that only pays in spins, and it’s the most distinctive idea in the game. Everything you win on the wheel is upside on a round with an uncapped multiplier attached, and because the maximum is 50 spins, the wheel’s value is hard-capped no matter how long your luck holds.
Roaring Free Spins Big Bet
There are two big bet options, and both skip straight to the Spin Boost screen exactly as if the bonus had triggered naturally:
- 50x bet – takes you straight into the Spin Booster screen
- 100x bet – same route, same Spin Booster screen
Neither option changes the round itself. The price buys the entry, the Spin Booster decides how many spins you leave with, and the free spins play out exactly as a natural trigger would.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.7/10
Most of your time on this savanna is spent waiting, and the game is honest about that. The reels spin, cascades rattle through, the Mystery Symbol turns over, and none of it amounts to much until four scatters show up. The one reason to sit through the quiet is the Spin Booster: a pre-bonus wheel that lets you build your own spin count before an uncapped multiplier even starts, which is a genuinely involving few seconds in a game that’s otherwise happy to run itself.
That uncapped multiplier is the strength. Because it climbs on every cascade rather than every spin, one long chain can do more work than a dozen short ones, and the retriggers keep feeding it. The weakness is everything before it: the base game has three tools and none of them can open a win on their own, so a cold session here is very cold indeed.
This is one for the patient hunter rather than the grazer. If you enjoy the build-up, the wheel and the long-shot multiplier, there’s real prey here. Players who want something happening on every spin will find the plain a little too quiet.
Big Cat King Megaways FAQs
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How do you trigger free spins on Big Cat King Megaways?
Land 4 Scatter Symbols in view for the base award of 12 spins, with each further scatter adding 5 more. Scatters can land on any reel but never in the positions above reels 2, 3, 4 and 5. -
What does the Spin Booster do?
Before the free spins begin you can spin a wheel for the amount displayed. Landing in the gold Spin Boost segment awards up to 2 additional spins per hit, and the wheel keeps spinning until you press Play or reach the maximum of 50 free spins. -
What does the Mystery Symbol do in Big Cat King Megaways?
All Mystery Symbols in view reveal the same random symbol, which can complete or extend wins across the grid. The Mystery Symbol cannot reveal scatter symbols. -
Can you retrigger the free spins round?
Yes. During free spins, the positions above reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 can reveal Free Spins Scatters: 3 of them award 5 extra spins and 4 award 10 extra spins. -
Can you buy the bonus on Big Cat King Megaways?
Yes. The Roaring Free Spins Big Bet comes in two options, at 50x and 100x your bet, and both take you straight into the Spin Booster screen just as if the bonus had triggered naturally. -
What is the RTP of Big Cat King Megaways?
The RTP is 96.50%. -
How many ways to win does Big Cat King Megaways have?
Each spin can have up to 117,649 ways to win across six reels showing up to seven symbols each. Wins pay left to right from the leftmost reel, with all winning combinations added together. -
When is Big Cat King Megaways released?
Big Cat King Megaways’s release date is 22 September 2020.
