NFT Megaways: Slot Overview

NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, can be thought of as digital items tied to a blockchain, which is used to prove ownership and verify authenticity. They can take the form of in-game assets, unique collectables, or digital art. At the more outrageous end of the spectrum, there was the sale of Jack Dorsey’s first-ever tweet for nearly $3 million, a digital “house” for roughly $500,000, and, of course, Brooklyn film director Alex Ramirez-Mallis’ NFT take on “One Calendar Year of Recorded Farts”, which went for 420 bucks. Some people label NFTs a scam, while others view them as the future. Maybe they’re the 21st-century equivalent of tulip mania? Only time will tell.

In the meantime, there’s NFT Megaways from Red Tiger, a slot that pairs 8-bit styling with a very current theme. NFT Megaways leans into the crypto boom and the mountain of memes that have grown around it. Gameplay unfolds across 6 main reels, with up to 7 symbols per reel, plus a horizontal 4-symbol upper reel known as the Crypto Punks Bar. With all reels fully stacked, players can access 200,704 ways to win. On the audiovisual front, it’s a treat for 8-bit fans: blocky visuals and deliberately tinny sounds that will remind some of classic gaming days. Still, it’s not pure nostalgia—Red Tiger smartly offsets it with a ton of modern references.

No matter whether the retro vibe or the modern theme is your main draw, most players will agree on the math model—assuming high volatility is what they’re after. The RTP is a touch higher than Red Tiger’s typical level at 96%, and there’s solid potential on offer. Available on any device, NFT Megaways comes with stakes of

Playable from 10 p/c to $/€10 per spin, the usual Megaways rules apply for wins: matching symbols must land on adjacent reels from the left-hand side, in any row, to create a combination. The low-paying symbols are cryptocurrencies—Doge, Litecoin, Ethereum, and Bitcoin. Above them sit the higher pays, packed with pop-culture nods like Tesla’s Cybertruck, Twitter’s Larry the Bird, Mona Lisa wearing Thug Life sunglasses, a Shiba Inu (mooning, naturally), and a “diamond hands” symbol—diamond hands being a familiar rallying cry across many subreddits, crypto-related or not.

NFT Megaways: Slot Features

NFT Megaways delivers features such as chain reactions, wild multipliers, and Crypto Spins. The chain reaction mechanic clears winning symbols from the grid after they pay, allowing new symbols to tumble into the empty spaces. This can create additional wins from the same spin, and the chain reactions keep going until no further win lands.

“Get punks, get rich” is the slogan in NFT Megaways. The Crypto Punks are 4 wild symbols that appear only on the Crypto Punks Bar above the main reels. These wilds substitute for all paying symbols. On top of that, when wilds are used in a winning way with low-paying symbols, the relevant Crypto Punk collects them. Every collected symbol makes the Crypto Punk’s multiplier to increase by +1 per symbol gathered.

So, if a Crypto Punk helps form a win that includes 5 low-pay symbols, it creates a x6 multiplier. If a Crypto Punk is involved in a win made up only of high-pay symbols, it gets removed as part of the chain reaction. Up to 2 Crypto Punks can land simultaneously, and each one’s multiplier is capped at x30. When 2 Crypto Punks are part of the same ways win, their multipliers are multiplied by each other. After a paid spin, multipliers reset.

Hitting 3, 4, 5, or 6 Crypto Spins symbols anywhere on the reels awards 10, 15, 20, or 25 Crypto Spins, respectively. During the feature, 4 meters—one for each Crypto Punk wild—appear beside the reels. In this mode, when Crypto Punks increase their multipliers, they are not reset until the free spins feature ends. As before, x30 remains the maximum. Scatters can still land during the bonus, and getting 3, 4, 5, or 6 awards a further 5, 10, 15, or 20 free spins.

NFT Megaways: Slot Verdict

With crypto’s constant price swings, the “mother of all short squeezes”, rug pulls, the surge of retail investors, the arrival of non-fungible tokens, puts, calls, and “tendies”, it’s difficult to picture something more 2021 than spinning NFT Megaways—unless you’re doing it using real cryptocurrency. Red Tiger has gathered a range of red-hot themes and made the inspired decision to package them as a retro video game, neatly fusing old-school presentation with new-school subject matter.

At times, NFT Megaways plays as intensely as the topics it references. For one thing, landing Crypto Punks can be hugely lucrative in Crypto Free Spins. In that mode, Punks regularly build up strong multipliers, and while we didn’t manage to see two of them combine in the same ways win, the idea of them multiplying each other was certainly tempting. In testing, our best bonus round returned around 600-700x the bet, complete with a frenzy of 8-bit bleeps, pixelated punks, and multiple scatter retriggers. It’s easy to wonder what it looks like when the feature truly moons and reaches NFT Megaways’ top win of 10,500 times the bet.

Some will say Red Tiger is trying to jump on half a dozen bandwagons at once, but the mix of so many memes—paired with genuinely strong features—results in something that feels more entertaining than tacky. Or, at the very least, it’s an enjoyable slice of cheese. It also raises the question: in ten years, will people look back on NFTs the way many now regret not buying bitcoin when it was almost worthless? Or will bagholders be left clutching digital farts, like a Dutch burgher in 1637 hanging onto a worthless Semper Augustus?