Best Megaways Slots
Megaways slots change shape on every spin. The reels do not hold a fixed number of symbols, so the number of ways to win moves from a few hundred to well over a hundred thousand between one spin and the next. That single rule is what every game on this page has in common, and it is the only thing they all share.
Everything else is the studio’s decision — how the cascades behave, how the free spins are bought or triggered, how far the multiplier can climb. This page ranks the ones we rate highest, then lets you browse the full catalogue and try any of them for free.
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What Are Megaways Slots?
A Megaways slot replaces the fixed grid of a classic slot with reels that change height on every spin. Where an ordinary five-reel game shows three symbols per reel and pays on twenty or twenty-five fixed lines, a Megaways game draws a new reel height each time you press spin, commonly two to seven symbols, and pays on every combination those heights allow, left to right.
The consequence is that the game does not have a ways-to-win figure. It has a range. The count is recalculated at the start of every spin, printed on screen, and it changes again the moment symbols are removed and replaced.
The format carries Big Time Gaming’s name, and the oldest Megaways titles in our catalogue are theirs. What the catalogue shows directly is broader than one studio: Megaways games here come from 34 different providers, which tells you the mechanic is available well beyond the studio the format is named after.
That breadth matters more than it sounds. Two Megaways games can share the reel mechanic and almost nothing else, because everything layered on top of it, cascades, feature round, paytable, belongs to whoever built that particular game rather than to the format.
How the Ways Are Counted
The arithmetic is simple and worth doing once, because it explains why the numbers get so large so quickly. Multiply the number of symbols on each reel together. Two symbols on every reel of a six-reel game gives 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2, or 64 ways. Seven symbols on every reel gives 7⁶, 117,649, the figure the format is best known for.
Nothing about that number is a jackpot or a bonus. It is the count of distinct left-to-right paths across the reels at that moment, and it falls back to a few hundred on the next spin if the reels come up short.
What Changes Between One Megaways Game and the Next
The reel behaviour is the constant; everything else varies. Reel count changes, most are six, some are five, a few use a horizontal reel above the main set that adds symbols to the ones beneath it. The maximum height varies too, which is why not every Megaways game reaches 117,649.
Beyond the reels, everything is the studio’s own: whether wins cascade and how many times, whether free spins carry a multiplier that never resets, whether the feature can be bought outright, and how the paytable is weighted. Two games with the same headline figure can play nothing alike.
That is the practical reason this page ranks games rather than simply listing them. The format tells you how the reels behave. It does not tell you whether the game is worth your time.
How Megaways Works
Three mechanics do most of the work in a Megaways game: the variable reels, the cascade, and the multiplier that usually rides on top of the free spins. They are separable, and understanding them separately is what lets you read a game before you play it.
Cascades
When a winning combination lands, the symbols that formed it are removed rather than paid and left in place. Symbols above drop down to fill the gap, new ones enter from the top, and the game checks for wins again. If it finds one, it repeats.
This has a direct effect on the ways-to-win count. Every cascade redraws the reel heights, so the number changes mid-sequence, a spin that opened on eight hundred ways can be paying on twenty thousand by its third cascade. A single spin can therefore resolve into a long chain of wins, or into nothing at all, and the distance between those two outcomes is wider than on a fixed-line slot.
Multipliers on the Free Spins
Most Megaways games attach a multiplier to the cascade sequence during free spins, and the usual design is that it does not reset between spins. It climbs for as long as the round lasts. That is where the large results in this format come from, not from the base game, and not from the ways-to-win count on its own, but from a long cascade chain running while the multiplier is already high.
It also explains why the free spins round is where studios differentiate most. How the round is triggered, how many spins it grants, whether the multiplier carries over and how fast it climbs, those choices separate two games far more than the reel mechanic does.
Reading the RTP
RTP is the long-run return on money staked, and on a Megaways game it deserves a second look for a reason specific to the format: the same title can be published with more than one RTP setting, and the operator chooses which one to run. A game listed at 96.5% on one site may run several points lower on another.
The figure we show is the declared theoretical RTP of the game as the studio publishes it. It tells you what the maths is designed to return over a very large number of spins. It says nothing about a session, and it is not a ranking of how a game feels to play, which is why we rank on our own rating rather than on RTP alone, and why the RTP ranking further down this page is presented separately.
What This Means When You Pick One
The format sets the shape of the outcome, not its size. A Megaways game will give you long stretches where nothing resolves and occasional spins that cascade several times over, that is the design working as intended, not a game running hot or cold. What varies between titles is how far that swing goes, and that comes from the studio, not from the engine.
How We Rate Slots
Every rated game on this site is scored by hand, on the same scale, whatever mechanic it uses. There is no separate Megaways score: a Megaways game is judged as a game, and how well it uses the format is one of the things that judgement covers.
The rating is not calculated from the RTP, the maximum win or any other published figure, those are inputs, not the result, and it is not supplied by the studio or the operator. We play the game first, in demo, for long enough to see the base game and at least one feature round.
Whether the mechanic is used or just present. On a Megaways title this is the clearest signal: a game that reaches its headline ways count once in a thousand spins is not the same product as one that sits high regularly, even where the printed maximum is identical.
Whether the feature round justifies the wait. A round that grants few spins with a multiplier that resets is a different game from one that carries the multiplier through, and on this format, that is where most of the value sits.
What it costs to get there. Trigger frequency, and, where the game offers it, what the feature buy asks for relative to what it returns.
Whether it holds up. Games that are pleasant for twenty spins and repetitive for two hundred score lower than their headline numbers suggest.
This takes time, which is why not every game in the catalogue carries a rating yet. Ranked games are the ones we have played and scored; the rest are ordered by release date, newest first, and are no less worth trying, they simply have not been through this process. When a game is rated, the ranking above updates on its own.
RTP shows the long-run return on €100 staked, higher is mathematically better, though session variance still drives short-run feel.
Highest RTP Megaways Slots
RTP shows the long-run return on €100 staked: higher is mathematically better, though session variance still drives short-run feel.
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Madame Mystique Megaways
98.03%
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Witch Blood Megaways
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The Dog Mansion Megaways
98.00%
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98.00%
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White Rabbit Megaways
97.72%
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The ranking above orders every Megaways slot we hold on its declared RTP, and it rebuilds itself as games are added, so it does not go stale the way a hand-written list would. If RTP is your first filter rather than your last, the same logic runs across the whole catalogue in our high RTP slots collection.
Megaways Slots by Provider
The catalogue on this page spans 34 studios, but it is far from evenly spread. A handful of them carry most of the titles, and several have a single game each.
The most striking part is the top of that list. Big Time Gaming, the studio the format is named after, does not lead it, Blueprint Gaming, Pragmatic Play and iSoftBet all hold more Megaways titles in our catalogue than the studio that gave the mechanic its name. Inventing a format and producing the most games with it turn out to be two different things.
| Studio | Titles in this catalogue | Our rating |
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| Pragmatic Play | 53 | 9.1 |
| Blueprint Gaming | 49 | 9.1 |
| iSoftBet | 41 | 8.2 |
| Big Time Gaming | 34 | 8.8 |
| Red Tiger | 19 | 8.9 |
| Iron Dog Studio | 17 | 8.2 |
| Stakelogic | 16 | 8.4 |
| NetEnt | 11 | 9 |
| Skywind | 10 | 8.8 |
| BGaming | 9 | 7.6 |
The provider filter on the catalogue above narrows the list to a single studio, and each provider page carries its full range. If you have liked one studio’s Megaways games before, that is a better predictor of the next one than the format itself, two Megaways titles can share the name and almost nothing else.
Play Megaways Slots for Free
Every game listed on this page has a free demo on our own site. Open any title from the catalogue above and the demo runs in the browser, no account, no deposit, no email. It is the full game with play money, including the feature round if you can trigger it or buy it.
That matters for this format more than for most. A Megaways game is hard to judge from its numbers: the ways-to-win figure tells you nothing about how often the reels actually reach it, and the maximum win tells you nothing about how the cascades behave on an ordinary spin. Twenty minutes in demo tells you both.
Demo play is also the only honest way to compare two games with similar headline figures. Where the paytables and the printed RTP look alike, the difference is in the feature round, and that is something you have to see run.
Playing for real is a separate step, and it depends on where the game is available rather than on the game itself.
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Typical Megaways Bonus Features
Four features recur across the format often enough to be worth recognising.
Cascading reels, winning symbols are removed and replaced, and the reels are re-evaluated. Near-universal in this format, and the mechanic that makes the ways-to-win count move mid-spin.
Unlimited win multiplier, a multiplier that climbs through a free spins round without resetting. This is where the format’s largest results come from.
Feature buy, paying a fixed multiple of the stake to enter the free spins directly. Not available everywhere, and not available in every jurisdiction.
Persistent or expanding symbols, wilds that stay in place across cascades, or symbols that grow to cover a reel. Studio-specific, and one of the clearest ways two Megaways games differ.
Use the feature filter on the catalogue above to narrow the list to games that carry any of these. If you are looking at variable-ways formats more broadly, megapays slots apply a related idea with a different payout structure.
Frequently Asked Questions
How Do Megaways Slots Work?
Each reel draws a new height on every spin, usually between two and seven symbols, and the game pays on every left-to-right combination those heights allow. Multiply the heights together and you get the ways-to-win count for that spin, which is why it changes constantly.
What Does RTP Mean on a Megaways Slot?
It is the theoretical long-run return on money staked, published by the studio. On this format it deserves a second look, because the same game can be released with more than one RTP setting and the operator chooses which to run.
Can I Play Megaways Slots for Free?
Yes. Every game on this page has a free demo on our site, playable in the browser without an account or a deposit.
How Many Megaways Slots Are There?
We currently hold 326 of them, from 34 studios. The catalogue on this page lists all of them and the count updates as games are added.
Which Studios Make Megaways Slots?
The format carries Big Time Gaming’s name, but our catalogue holds Megaways games from 34 different studios. Use the provider filter on the catalogue to see the range from any single one.
Why Does the Same Megaways Slot Have a Different RTP on Another Site?
Because many titles ship with several RTP configurations and the operator picks one. The figure shown here is the studio’s declared theoretical RTP for the game.
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