Cash ‘N Riches Megaways: Slot Overview

The cash-and-wealth angle is one of those evergreen slot themes that keeps popping up time and time again. With Cash ‘N Riches Megaways from Microgaming partner Triple Edge Studios, “evergreen” might be generous. “Overused” feels closer. Still, a familiar theme isn’t a problem if the rest of the package brings something fresh to the table—anything that helps it stand out from similar titles. Unfortunately, Cash ‘N Riches Megaways offers little in the way of new ideas, instead recycling a checklist of familiar components without doing much of note with them.

Visually, it opens with a disco-like scene of glitterball vibes and sparkling lights, plus a huge diamond stuffed with cash on the left. It’s undeniably gaudy, though that’s pretty much expected for this kind of game. In that sense, Triple Edge does capture a lively mood, and Cash ‘N Riches Megaways has a bouncy feel, but a persistent sense of “seen it all before” hangs over the experience and never really goes away.

Cash ‘N Riches Megaways runs on desktop, tablet, and mobile, with bets ranging from 10 p/c to $/€20 per spin. Action plays out on a layout of 6 main reels plus a four-cell upper reel, delivering up to 117,649 ways to win. As expected with Megaways, the number of ways varies from spin to spin. Wins land at a 33.1% hit rate, or about one in three spins, and every standard win activates the Rolling Reels feature. RTP is variable, with the best version set at 95.98%, while volatility is officially listed as high.

Sadly, even the symbol set feels a bit cheap in Cash ‘N Riches Megaways, which uses ten regular pay symbols. The low pays are 9-A royals, paying 0.8 to 1.8x the bet for six of a kind, while the high pays are four misty-looking gemstones. Hit 6 gems on a line to score 2 to 50 times your stake. Exclusive to the upper reel is the money clip wild, which substitutes for all symbols in Cash ‘N Riches except scatters.

Cash ‘N Riches Megaways: Slot Features

If you’re not already eager to try Cash ‘N Riches Megaways, this part probably won’t boost your interest much. The feature set includes Rolling Reels, a Jackpot Pick Game, and free spins.

Rolling Reels

Rolling Reels is essentially a cascading mechanic, where winning symbols are removed and new ones drop in from above. The Rolling Reels keep cycling, stacking repeat wins until no further winning combination appears.

Jackpot Pick Game

On each spin, wilds are gathered, and there’s a chance to trigger the Jackpot Pick Game. The more wilds you collect, the higher the likelihood of it activating. Once the Pick Game begins, 12 face-down tokens appear on the screen. Players select them one by one until 3 matching tokens are uncovered, which awards the related jackpot. The jackpots available are Mini, Minor, Major, or Mega, paying 15x, 50x, 100x, and 5,000x the bet, respectively.

Free Spins

Hitting four scatter symbols that spell out ‘C’, ‘A’, ‘S’, ‘H’ awards 12 free spins. On top of that, any extra scatter visible adds +5 spins to the total. A win multiplier is active during free spins, beginning at x1 and rising by +1 after every Rolling Reel cascade. In this mode, scatters can land on the top reel, and when 3 or 4 are visible, players receive an additional 5 or 10 free spins.

Cash ‘N Riches Megaways: Slot Verdict

Cash ‘N Riches Megaways struggled to generate much excitement or curiosity from the moment it loaded through to the end of testing. The main issue is its generic presentation, paired with the sense that every component is a watered-down take on ideas borrowed from other games. The theme, the features, spelling out ‘CASH’, and the “pick me” style bonus all feel extremely standard. It wouldn’t have been such a letdown if there were even a small twist tucked away somewhere, but if any originality exists here, we didn’t manage to find it.

On the upside, the features run smoothly, and the Rolling Reels plus win multiplier plus free spins combination has entertained plenty of players before and can certainly do so again. Maybe fans of retro-leaning Megaways slots will be tempted. Microgaming partner releases have been packed with jackpots lately, so there’s clearly demand for them. Another benefit is that the potential doesn’t stop at the Mega Jackpot’s 5K value, with a max win of 18,163x. That said, having to dig this hard for positives isn’t exactly encouraging.

You know those thin scraps of old soap left in the shower or bath—too small to use alone, but somehow still hanging around? Cash ‘N Riches Megaways felt like the slot version of a soap ball made by pressing a bunch of those leftover pieces together. Sorry if that comes off a little brutal, so we’ll wrap up by saying Cash ‘N Riches Megaways didn’t win us over, though players who want a spin through familiar features in a well-worn setting may feel differently.