Blazing Wilds Megaways: Slot Overview

If you’re completely over joker-led, jazzy, groove-heavy “classic” slot vibes, you may want to look away. Pragmatic Play’s Blazing Wilds Megaways leans hard into that exact style. It’s not, in other words, a game that’s trying to reinvent the look or the sound. Where it does add something a bit more distinctive is its headline mechanic: an upward-expanding wild feature that also creates a multiplier equal to the number of wilds on the reel – and that multiplier is doubled during the free spins round.

Still, first comes that joker-forward, jazzy, jammin’ exterior. “Filled” might be pushing it, since there’s only one joker/harlequin character on display: wide-hipped and slim-waisted, holding a heart card, posed beside the reels much like Zues in Gates of Olympus, except she’s planted firmly on the floor. The “jazzy” part is delivered through flashing lights and a funky, bass-driven disco soundtrack. It can feel a little plasticky, but for players who enjoy this kind of presentation, it should hit the right note.

Blazing Wilds Megaways runs on a 6-reel Megaways setup where 2 to 7 symbols can appear on each reel, creating up to 117,649 ways to win. The top four position reel isn’t used for standard pay symbols, wilds, or scatters like a typical tracker reel. Instead, it’s reserved for showing multiplier values generated by the wild feature, which we’ll get to shortly. The game uses a highly volatile math model and comes in multiple RTP configurations, with a default of 96.06% – with stakes ranging from 20 c to $/€240 per paid spin.

As you’d expect from a Megaways title, the tumble mechanic removes winning symbols after they pay, then drops new symbols in from above to fill the gaps. Chains of tumble wins stop once a spin produces no further win. All pay symbols form wins left to right starting from the leftmost reel, and there are 10 in total: 10-A card ranks, followed by a ring, money, a gold-filled box, sevens, and diamonds. A 6 OAK win with royals returns 0.5 to 1 times the bet, while the same outcome using high pays delivers 1.25 5 times the bet. Wilds can land on reels 2 to 5, substitute for all pay symbols, and activate the Expanding Wild feature when they appear.

Blazing Wilds Megaways: Slot Features

Blazing Wilds Megaways takes its title from its expanding wilds mechanic, which ties in with free spins and is also available through a bonus buy option.

Expanding Wild

Any time a wild symbol lands, additional wilds are added above it until the reel is filled up to the top. Once the expansion completes, a multiplier appears in the box above that reel, and it is equal to the number of wilds on the reel. Any win that runs through the expanded wilds is affected by the multiplier. When multiple multipliers are on the screen simultaneously, they multiply together. After each tumble, if the wilds responsible for the multipliers are part of a winning combination, those multipliers are removed.

Free Spins

In the base game, landing 4, 5, or 6 scatters awards 15, 20, or 25 free spins. While free spins are active, all multipliers created by expanding wilds are double the amount of the wilds on each reel. Free spins cannot be retriggered.

Buy Free Spins

By paying 100 times the bet, players can purchase the free spins feature, which is triggered by a random set of 4, 5, or 6 scatters on the activating spin. When free spins are bought, the RTP decreases to 95.93%.

Blazing Wilds Megaways: Slot Verdict

Blazing Wilds Megaways feels like classic Pragmatic Play: a familiar showy package built around a relatively fresh (though not brand-new) idea in the base game that becomes more impactful once free spins kick in. That idea is the Expanding Wild feature. Most expanding wild mechanics spread downward, following gravity, rather than climbing upward the way this one does. That upward expansion is somewhat unusual for a Megaways slot, although it’s not unheard of—Hacksaw Gaming’s Beast Below, for instance, uses its Expanding Sirens feature in a similar direction. Both games also attach multipliers to their upward-expanding wilds, though on a per-wild basis, Beast Below takes the edge here since its multiplier can climb as high as x200.

That said, Blazing Wilds Megaways brings far more ways to win, includes a tumble mechanic, and its multipliers aren’t additive. With that combination in play, the game can turn genuinely hectic—maybe even a little “blazing”—when things line up. There’s also room to argue whether this style of multiplier injection during free spins is preferable to the more traditional rising multiplier after each winning cascade. For some players it will be, and at minimum, Blazing Wilds Megaways provides a different and potentially thrilling approach to multipliers. Comparing the two might take time, though, since a free spins frequency of 1 in 369 suggests bonus rounds won’t appear especially often in theory.

Overall, Blazing Wilds Megaways delivers that signature Pragmatic Play game-show shine along with a feature that’s worth testing out, particularly if a jazzy joker theme on a Megaways framework is your kind of thing—and the 10,000x the bet win cap is a solid target to chase as well.