Reel King Megaways Slot Review
A royal-blue cabinet wallpapered with fleur-de-lis, a thick gold frame with carved scroll corners, and a drift of piled coins firing starburst flares up the bottom of the screen: Reel King Megaways is a British pub fruit machine dressed as a royal treasury. The dressing is glossy and plasticky, and that’s the point – it’s a polished arcade cabinet, not a reimagining.
Inspired has rebuilt the pub classic on a 6×4 grid with up to 117,649 ways, an Extra Reel above the middle four reels, and a 12,500x win ceiling, running at 96.23% RTP with medium-high volatility. Stakes run from 0.20 to 20.00 a spin.
On the studio’s shelf sit Centurion Megaways and Cops ‘N’ Robbers Megaways, both of which reach for spectacle. This one keeps its pub roots. Let’s see if the king earns the crown.
How the Base Game Pays
There are no paylines here. Wins land by matching two to six symbols across adjacent reels from the left, and each award is multiplied by the number of symbols per reel in the combination. Only the highest award pays per combination.
Wins on different combinations are added together, and all payouts are multiplied by the base bet. That multiplication by symbols per reel is the Megaways twist: a six-symbol reel in a win pays six times the base award for that combination.
The wild substitutes for all symbols and appears only on the Extra Reel, in both the base game and the free spins. It doesn’t form part of the furniture – it turns up where it’s most useful, above the middle reels where ways are thickest.
The paytable is classic fruit machine stock, with the Coin Bag on top. Values below are multiples of the base bet:
- Coin Bag – 2.00 for two, 5.00 for three, 10.00 for four, 25.00 for five, 50.00 for six
- A – 1.00 / 2.00 / 2.50 / 7.50 for three to six
- K – 0.25 / 1.00 / 1.50 / 2.00 for three to six
- Q – 0.25 / 0.50 / 0.75 / 2.00 for three to six
- J and 10 – 0.20 / 0.40 / 0.60 / 1.75 for three to six
- 9 – 0.20 / 0.25 / 0.60 / 1.00 for three to six
- Plum – 0.15 / 0.25 / 0.50 / 0.90 for three to six
- Watermelon – 0.15 / 0.25 / 0.50 / 1.00 for three to six
- Cherries – 0.10 / 0.20 / 0.40 / 0.80 for three to six
It’s a flat ladder. The gap between the Coin Bag and everything below it is steep, and six-of-a-kind royals pay pocket change.
Note too that the fruit symbols – plum, watermelon, cherries – all pay less than the lowly 9, which tells you exactly how much nostalgia weighs against the maths. The top two symbols need only two or three matches to pay anything at all, while everything below A needs three. Most of the real money in this game arrives through the features, not the line pays.
Cascades and the Extra Reel
Every winning symbol is part of a cascade. The cleared symbols vanish and fresh ones drop into the gaps, arriving from above on the main reels and sliding in from the right along the Extra Reel.
A cascade that produces another win keeps the chain going, and there’s no stated limit on how long one run can last. Chains that stretch beyond the first cascade are what the bonus structure feeds on.
The Extra Reel is that second gold-edged bar of four blue panels hovering above the main grid. It feeds an extra symbol to reels two, three, four and five – the middle of the grid, where the biggest way counts come from. When a wild lands on it, it can complete combinations across several reels at once.
The way count itself swings constantly. Reel heights change every spin, so one spin can carry barely a thousand ways and the next over six thousand. Because the award is multiplied by symbols per reel, a win that lands while the middle reels are stacked tall pays several times what the same combination pays on a thin grid.
Cascades aren’t just a payout mechanic here. They’re the engine of the whole bonus structure – the longer a chain runs, the more the game gives back in features.
The King Bonuses
Extra cascades trigger the Super King and Mega King bonus upgrades. The three tiers stack up the left edge of the screen as lit blue plaques – MEGA KING at the top, SUPER KING beneath it, REEL KING at the foot of the ladder, above a run of blue chevrons ending in a gilt scroll.
Each upgrade steps you up from the basic Reel King bonus towards the richer versions. The ladder is visible throughout play, so there’s always a running measure of how close the next tier is.
The free spins run on the same rules as the base game: cascades clear and replace winning symbols, the Extra Reel keeps feeding symbols to the middle reels, and the wild stays in play on that top row. What changes is the escalation – extended cascade chains are what carry you up the ladder.
The step-by-step of a round, then, is simple enough. Land a win, watch the cascade clear it, and hope the replacements form another combination; each link in that chain is progress towards the next King tier.
There’s no retrigger rule for the free spins, so treat each round as what it gives you on arrival. The escalation structure, not retriggers, is where the depth sits.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7/10
Playing this is like pulling up a stool at a pub machine that quietly learned new tricks: the coins still pile up at the bottom, the fruit still pays badly, and the reason to choose it is that one good cascade run can turn a dull spin into a march up the King ladder.
The strength is that escalation. Because the upgrades key off chain length rather than waiting for scatters, momentum builds in the base game instead of stalling between bonuses. The weakness is the paytable beneath the Coin Bag – it’s so thin that most spins outside the features feel like filler.
This is one for players who enjoy the slow build of a cascade chain and don’t mind a flat paytable while the ladder fills. Anyone chasing quick, big hits will find the waiting long. For a nostalgic night on the fruit machine with modern machinery inside, the treasury doors are open.
Reel King Megaways FAQs
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How do cascades work in Reel King Megaways?
Every winning symbol is cleared from the grid and replaced, with new symbols dropping in from above on the main reels and from the right along the Extra Reel. Chains continue while new wins keep forming, and extra cascades trigger the Super or Mega King bonus upgrades. -
What does the Extra Reel do?
It’s the row of four panels sitting above the main grid. It feeds an extra symbol to reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 in both the base game and the free spins, and it’s also the only place the wild appears. -
Can the free spins retrigger in Reel King Megaways?
No retrigger rule is published for the free spins, so each round should be treated as what it awards on arrival. The depth sits in the escalation instead: extended cascade chains carry you up the King tiers during the round itself. -
How do you trigger the Super King and Mega King upgrades?
Extra cascades trigger them. When a cascade chain extends beyond the first win, the bonus upgrades stack up the left edge of the screen, stepping you from the basic Reel King bonus up through Super King and Mega King. -
How many ways to win does Reel King Megaways have?
The game is played with up to 117,649 ways to win. There are no paylines – wins are matched across adjacent reels from the leftmost reel, and each award is multiplied by the number of symbols per reel in the winning combination. -
What is the RTP of Reel King Megaways?
The RTP is 96.23%, which sits comfortably in the competitive range for Megaways titles. -
What is the maximum win on Reel King Megaways?
The maximum win is 12,500x your bet. -
What are the bet limits on Reel King Megaways?
Stakes start at 0.20 and top out at 20.00 a spin.
