In its English translation, Muertos Multiplier Megaways by developer Pragmatic Play more or less equates to Dead Ones Multiplier Megaways. That might sound a bit grim until we remember Muertos Multiplier Megaways refers to the famous Day of the Dead celebration. The Mexican holiday is certainly popular in the gambling realm, with a large number of slots using it to add a dash of life and colour. Paradoxical, perhaps, since the holiday has a focus on death, but not so much since it's a positive celebration of family or friends who have passed away. Anyway, Muertos Multiplier Megaways is draped in Mexican cultural references, cliched or not, take your pick, and makes use of an intriguing progressive multiplier method to potentially power up wins.
Players are brought to an anonymous Mexican village to experience Muertos Multiplier Megaways in. Colourful houses line either side of the panel, one side featuring a big floating donkey tethered to the roof by some rope. Sprinklings of skulls and candles allude to the popular celebration, but Muertos Multiplier Megaways isn't a slot which lets off a truckload of fireworks to mark the date. It's a bit more tasteful in that regard and is capped by an excellent guitar track fluttering effortlessly when the reels are idle, picking up the pace when they're spinning, and launching into full-on fiesta mode when free spins arrive.
>In typical Megaways fashion, the gaming takes place on a grid made up of 6 vertically spinning reels and one horizontally spinning tracking reel. Taking into account the four symbols on the top reel, up to 7 symbols can land on each aligned column, producing 117,649 ways to win when fully expanded. Highly volatile, Muertos Multiplier Megaways comes with a range of RTP settings, with 96.03% being the preferred one - it drops a titch to 96% when buying free spins. Playable on mobile, tablet or desktop devices, bets vary from 20 p/c to $/€100 per spin.
A total of ten pay symbol types are present on the grid, forming a win when they land in adjacent reels starting from the leftmost side. Card suits start us off, where we come across hearts, clubs, diamonds, and spades, then guitars, nachos 'n dip, tacos, cacti, liquor bottles, and skulls. Hitting a six symbol winning way of suits gets you 0.5-0.6x the bet, or 0.75 to 5 times the stake for six of the remaining symbols. Wilds appear only on the top reel and are able to substitute for any regular pay symbol.
While playing Muertos Multiplier Megaways, be on the look for features such as tumbles, wild multipliers, free spins, and possibly a bonus buy.
After a winning way has hit, the symbols involved are removed from the reels by the tumble feature. Then, symbols remaining on the reel strip fall down to fill in all of the empty spaces. If the tumbling symbols create a new winning way, the tumble feature triggers again. When no new win appears, the next spin can occur.
When wild symbols hit, they are allocated a multiplier of x2 or x3. This multiplier is stored to the side of the reels on a meter and applies to the current tumble as well as any future tumbles on the same spin. When new wilds hit, their multiplier values multiply the value already stored in the meter. The multiplier is reset to x1 at the start of each base game spin.
>The chilli-covered symbol is the scatter, and landing at least 3 of them triggers the free spins round. Before the round begins, a random amount of free spins is generated. This could be 5-14, 6-14, 7-14, or 8-14 if triggered by 3, 4, 5, or 6 bonus symbols, respectively. If less than 14 free spins are displayed, players have the option of gambling for more on a wheel. If the gamble is successful, +1 free spin is awarded, up to a maximum of 14. If unsuccessful, all free spins are lost.
During free spins, a couple of things change. One is that following every tumble, the win multiplier increases by +1. Furthermore, wild symbols continue to be collected on the win multiplier by x2 or x3 as in the base game. However, in free spins, the win multiplier does not reset until the round is finished. Landing 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 scatters in the feature triggers an additional 1, 2, 3, 4, or 6 free spins with no limits to the number of retriggers.
If available, players may be able to buy free spins, randomly triggered by 3, 4, 5, or 6 scatter symbols for the cost of 100x the bet.
>In a growing crowd of Day of the Dead-themed slots, Muertos Multiplier Megaways manages to stand out for a number of reasons. For one, interestingly, it's a bit more restrained, a bit more tasteful than these sorts of slots can sometimes be. Picking The Day of the Dead to build a slot around gives game makers the opportunity to go overboard with colourful subject matter. It's probably pretty tempting to pack a slot with related items like a stuffed piñata. Muertos Multiplier Megaways does a bit of stuffing, yet it's a slightly lower key than some of its competitors in some ways, though all the better for it.
Like the visuals, Pragmatic Play hasn't gone overboard with the features either, yet each part here has a role to play. As is usually the case, features like tumbles or win multipliers work okay on their own, but when brought together is when the real good stuff gets the chance to happen. An example of this occurred during one of the first free spins rounds when the win multiplier was sitting on x15, then a wild symbol hit, instantly bumping it up to x30. It's worth repeating that wild symbol multiplier values are not added to the win multiplier. Instead, each wild multiplies the win multiplier value, meaning it can quickly grow. Not always, of course, but the opportunity is there and leads to max win capabilities capped at 10,000x the bet.
If you're looking for a Day of the Dead slot that overwhelms you with visuals and a smorgasbord of features, Muertos Multiplier Megaways might not be quite the right match. Don't worry, though; Muertos Multiplier Megaways is no bashful wallflower. There are plenty of lively cultural artefacts here to experience, or cliches, depending on your point of view. However, for a well put together, relatively tastefully made slot, it might be just the right combination of Day of the Dead atmosphere and smart features to hit the spot.
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