Beware the Deep Megaways mixes classic Megaways features like Tumble Wins and Mystery Symbols with a powerful progressive multiplier in the free spins round which can catapult your wins to epic levels at fast speeds!
Tumble Wins
The tumble wins feature is simple. After any win, winning symbols are removed from the reels and remaining symbols drop down to fill the spaces left behind. Then, new symbols drop down from above the reels to fill remaining spaces. This process can create more wins, in which case it repeats. And on on, until no more wins are formed.
Mystery Symbols
Another feature often found in Megaways slots is the Mystery Symbol. These display an image of green seaweed floating in the deep – no specific symbol – and when they drop they will transform into one random symbol from the paytable. And where two or more drop, they ALL transform into the same symbol. That increase your odds of landing a win.
Wild Multipliers Up To 100x
You should look out for the wilds that only drop onto the bottom 4×1 reel set. These ALWAYS carry a random multiplier which will be applied when a win way includes the wild. In the base game multipliers may be 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 10x or 25x. But in the free spins round they can be higher at 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 10x, 25x, 50x or 100x.
Two Free Spins Rounds With Progressive Multipliers
The best part of Beware the Deep is definitely the free spins round. Not least because you get two configurations to choose from. Before you get there you need to unlock the feature by landing four or more of the Bonus symbols, represented by the shark cage.
The Deep Free Spins
The first option is The Deep. You get 10, 12, 14 or 16 spins for 4, 5, 6 or 7 bonus symbols. Before the round begins you get the option to gamble to increase your free spins count. The gamble is on the spin of a wheel. Win, and you go up to the next level – 10 becomes 12, 12 becomes 14 and 14 becomes 16. Lose, and you drop a level down to a minimum of 6 free spins.
If you hit the bottom level then the gamble stops and round begins. The same is true if you get up to 16 spins.
The Deep Free Spins come with a progressive multiplier that starts at 1x and increases by 1x with each successive tumble. This global multiplier is applied to EVERY win in the round. But that’s not all because if a win includes one of the wild multipliers from the bottom reel set then the value of that multiplier is also added to the global multiplier.
And finally, if you land a Bonus symbol above a Wild then that wild is locked in place for up to 3 tumbles during which it’s multiplier value changes on every tumble.
Extra free spins can be awarded at 2, 4, 6, 8 or 10 spins for 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 bonus symbols landing on one free spin.
Even Deeper Free Spins
The Deeper Free Spins option has the same progressive multiplier format as The Deep. However, elsewhere it uses an alternative format where instead of being given a fixed number of free spins, your round only ends when your progressive multiplier hits a pre-defined level. The more bonus symbols that triggered the round, the higher the progressive multiplier threshold that ends it.
- 4 bonus symbols – round ends when the progressive multiplier hits 15x
- 5 bonus symbols – round ends when the progressive multiplier hits 20x
- 6 bonus symbols – round ends when the progressive multiplier hits 25x
- 7 bonus symbols – round ends when the progressive multiplier hits 30x
Once again, you can gamble to improve the configuration of the round, up to the 30x level. This is on the spin of a wheel. If you win, you go up to the next level. If you lose, you drop down a level, down to a minimum of 10x. When you hit the bottom or top levels, the round begins.
Once again, if you land a Bonus symbol above a Wild then that wild is locked in place for up to 3 tumbles during which its multiplier value changes on every tumble.
And finally, landing a bonus symbol at any point will increase the progressive multiplier threshold for the end of the round by 1x.
