Towering Ways Aztec

Towering Ways Aztec Review

We have already seen similar systems in action before, and this developer enjoys experimenting with new and potentially innovative ways of doing things. In this installment they’re introducing a new system called Towering Ways, but similar grid expansion systems have been seen before. Towering Ways Aztec is all about removing blocker tiles, and symbols morph to potentially give you longer winning streaks.

Take this all the way to stage 6, which means that the grid is maxed out, and “magic” may happen. If you don’t win in stage 6 you can trigger a jackpot game for prizes up to 25,000x your stake, and if you do win the bonus round choice screen is secured. You get 2 different options, and only one of them comes with an increasing win multiplier. The overall 20,000x potential is solid as well, but we found the pace to be way too sluggish for our taste.

Towering Ways Aztec Slot Features

The premium symbols pay between 0.28 and 0.8 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and the Wild symbol pays 1.6x for the same. Wilds can also substitute for pay symbols to help complete and/or improve wins, like wilds usually do. You can also land 1x2-sized Mega Tower Magic Mystery symbols on reels 1, 2, and 3, and they all reveal a randomly selected matching symbol when they appear.

You start with a 2-3-4-3-2 grid with 2 positions blocked at the top of each reel. Each win unlocks 2 blocker tiles and morphes the winning symbols into new randomly selected symbols after the win calculation. The grid expansion and symbol morphing continues as long as you keep winning, which also affects the number of win ways. The maxed out 4-5-6-5-4 grid comes with 2,400 ways to win, and the symbol morphing continues if you win after that.

After the grid has been maxed out, which means you’ve successfully landed a win in stage 5 of the process, you get to the critical stage 6. Here a Big Bonus Feature can trigger at random times when you fail to form a winning combo. This can land you the Mini, Minor, Maxi, Major, or Grand Jackpot, and these pay 5x, 50x, 500x, 5,000x, or 25,000x your stake, respectively.

If you succeed in landing a win in Stage 6 of the base game, you trigger the Bonus Round after the win sequence has come to an end. You then get to choose between the Warrior or the Shaman feature, and either way you get extra free spins for every 3rd win you land in the bonus rounds.

The Warrior Bonus round comes with 6 free spins, and you start at stage 1 for each new spin. The win multiplier increases by +1 for every 3 wins. The Shaman feature also gives you 6 free spins, but each spin starts at stage 3, and there is no win multiplier in this bonus round version.

If eligible, you can purchase the bonus round via the Bonus Buy menu, but this feature is not available in the UK for sure. You get a mix of both worlds when you purchase the bonus round, as the warrior multiplier goes together with always starting at stage 3 per spin. The price is 48x your stake, and the bonus buy RTP is 96.04 %.

You can trigger a Win-Win feature when you win less than 10x your stake in the bonus round, and this is basically a spin on a wheel that may or may not retrigger the bonus round for you. This Win-Win feature will not always trigger if you win less than 10x, but there is a chance it may happen.

The 200 Spins Towering Ways Aztec Slot Experience

You get a brief taste of the base game, before we purchase the bonus round at 0.32 into the 3:30-minute highlights video. It plays out for the remainder of the video, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

When it comes to game pace there is a certain sweet spot range that comes across as satisfying, and when going below that things get annoying really quickly. Towering Ways Aztec is one of the most sluggish slots we’ve tried in a while, and you feel like an exhausted mule pulling a mill stone after a couple of spins. Spin pace should long since be a science in this industry. A higher pace means more money for the developers, casinos, and potentially for the players, so it’s a win-win really.

The game itself isn’t all that bad if you like “slow motion”, but speed up our video above to 2x and see for yourself how much smoother it flows. The unblock and morphing symbols system is an innovative winning streak system, and it goes well together with the mystery symbols. The multiplier bonus round seems like a good idea since the symbol values are low, and you can apparently win up to 20,000x your stake outside of the jackpot feature. In the end, the pace and the below par visuals ruins the experience too much to merit a return anytime soon.