8 Tigers Gold Megaways

8 Tigers Gold Megaways Review

There aren’t all that many full-blown asian-style Megaways titles out there as of yet. 8 Tigers Gold Megaways is a notable effort with the licenced engine.

The oriental audiovisual presentation is decent, albeit a tad generic, but we do like the tiger animations when you choose from the 8 bonus round options. The base game is kept somewhat interesting by a couple of random features, and these can both do some damage on a lucky day. Don’t expect them too often though, and the more volatile bonus round options are still your best chance at cracking the 20,000x potential.

8 Tigers Gold Megaways Features

The premium symbols are typical for an asian-themed slot, and they pay between 1.5 and 10 x your stake for 6 of a kind wins. The Tiger Wild can land on reels 2 to 5 only, and it steps in for all regular pay symbols to help complete winning combinations. The wild symbol holds no value of its own, however.

You’ll benefit from 2 randomly triggered base game features, and these are the Fa Fa Fa SuperWays and the Tiger Multiplier. The Fa Fa Fa SuperWays feature will trigger when the reels are spinning, maxing out each reel with 8 positions and thus also maxing out the number of megaways at 262,144 for that spin. The Tiger Multiplier can trigger only when a wild is part of a win, and a multiplier between x2 and x25 will then boost the payout.

You need 3+ Yin/Yang symbols anywhere in view to trigger the Bonus Round, and the feature comes with a total of 8 free spins options. Choose your tiger carefully however, as the global win multiplier increases by the starting value for each wild tiger win. You can go for 25, 20, 15, 12, 10, 8 or 5 free spins, and these options combine with a starting multiplier of x2, x3, x5, x7, x10, x13 or x25, respectively. There’s also the Mystery Option that gives you a random combination.

Just to be clear, even if more than one wild is part of the same win, only one multiplier is applied, and the global win multiplier increments accordingly. Finally, you can win 5, 10, 15 or 25 extra spins by landing 3, 4, 5 or 6 scatters on the same free spin.

When the bonus round is finished, you get directly into the Play It Your Way feature. You can exit the feature with your total bonus round winnings at any time by hitting the Collect button, or you can gamble for more free spins. You can even seamlessly bank as much of your winnings as you want, but this decreases the odds of winning more spins.

On a final note, there is an Extra Chance feature that you can switch on to either double or triple your bonus round chances, and this will cost you 25 or 50 % more per spin, respectively. Non-UK players, and anyone eligible, can purchase the bonus round directly via the Bonus Buy Choice feature. This will set you back 100x your stake for 3+ guaranteed scatters on the next spin, or you can pay 328x your stake for a random combo of 15, 20 or 25 free spins together with a Tiger Wild starting multiplier of x10, x13 or x25.

The 200 Spins 8 Tigers Gold Megaways Experience

We grinded along in the base game for a while, without too much to show for it, so we decided to purchase the bonus round. This happens around the 1-minute mark into the 5:37-minute highlights video, and we decided to go for the 10 free spins with an x10 starting multiplier option. We “played it our way” and lost the gamble, so we purchased the Mystery Bonus Round right after. See it all for yourself by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

First of all, we really like the pace of this game, and you can burn through plenty of spins in record speed, not least since there is no cascading wins feature to slow you down. This is good news for players who cannot take advantage of the bonus buy feature, and so are the 2 Extra Chance ante bet options. The 2 base game features didn’t trigger all that often in our experience, but especially the Tiger Multiplier can make a solid dent at times.

Both features add to the unpredictability of the gameplay however, which is never wrong. Having plenty of bonus round options is hardly grounds for complaints either, unless you suffer from Aboulomania (which is pathological indecisiveness). The win multiplier can increment with up to +25 per tiger wild win, which makes the solid 20,000x potential seem achievable. The Play It Your Way gamble system might entice a certain crowd to, and there is enough here to possibly recruit punters who’re normally not into oriental-style releases.

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