Invaders Megaways™

Theme and Design

Invaders Megaways showcases SG Digital's creative talents throughout, invoking the spirit of 80s Space Invaders games, as well as tales of abductions in mid-west America, and all with a Men In Black style humour. The game is set in a rolling landscape of corn fields and remote houses, with crop circles visible under a starry sky. The cartoon style is fun and the paytable is stacked with cosmic ray guns, mad scientists, cows ripe for abduction and aliens giving the peace sign.  And it’s all capped off with a bleepy, techno soundtrack that drives the action along relentlessly. Top stuff!

RTP and Variance

Invaders Megaways has a very respectable 96.3% RTP which is about average for online slot games. This is also, as you would expect from a Megaways title, a high variance game with a volatile payout distribution. However, it’s fair to say from our testing that Invaders does kick out regular wins, if at the cost of having very low symbol values and therefore very small payouts until you hit the free spins bonus round where things can get much more epic. 

Maximum Win

The maximum payout in Invaders Megaways is 25,000x. By any standards, that isn’t bad. If you like high paying slots, check out our list of the slots with the highest maximum wins.

Symbols and Paytable

Invaders Megaways has a standard 6 reel set up with between 2 and 7 rows on each reel, randomly decided on each spin. It is a win ways game which means it pays for identical symbols on adjacent reels from left to right, starting on reel 1, regardless of their row position.

That is how you get up to 117,649 win ways per spin when all 6 reels show 7 rows (7x7x7x7x7x7).

The paytable doesn’t show huge value, but remember, you have so many win ways and features to enhance those values. At the low end are the cards, 9 through to Ace. These are valued at from 0.04x for 3 9s up to 0.28x for 6 Aces. Premiums are the ray guns, a nervous looking cow, a mad scientist, a little green alien, and the Invaders logo. These are valued at from 0.08x for 3 ray guns up to 4x for 6 Invaders logos.

Features and Gameplay

There is certainly no shortage of features in Invaders Megaways, from the traditional Cascading Wins through to some very fun and compelling modifiers that come into play in the free spins round, mixing wilds, multipliers, expanding symbols and stacks, and an Alien that triggers an instant increase in paylines up to 1,000,000.

Cascading Wins 

SG haven’t forgotten the bread and butter feature that the best Megaways™ games have – look out for this every time you score a win. The winning symbols are removed from the reels and new ones drop in to replace them. If this creates more wins, so the process repeats. Until no more wins occur.

UFO Wild Selector

SG get creative here – above the reels is a 5×1 row containing each of the symbols in the paytable. When a spin is activated, a small UFO hovers over these symbols before choosing one to land on. When this happens, instances of the selected symbol on reels 2 to 5 are zapped and transformed into wilds to increase the chances of scoring a win.

Unicow Feature

One of the highlights of Invaders is the Unicow feature which triggers on base game spins only. When the Unicow lands, EVERY reel will then expand to between 7 and 10 rows high, creating up to 1,000,000 winlines.

Free Spins Feature With Modifiers on EVERY Spin

Finally, we get onto the main event – the free spins round.

You’ll need to land FOUR or more scatter symbols to trigger the spins. Four scatters gets you 7 free spins, five gets you 10 free spins, and six or more gets you 15 free spins. It is also possible to increase the free spins total further during the round by landing between 3 and 6 scatters to get you between 4 and 15 free spins.

Then, once the round begins, the UFO will do its thing above the reels, turning every instance of one symbol into a wild. Additionally, there is a different modifier associated with each symbol, and they work as follows:

Invaders Logo: All highest paying logo symbols will expand to cover the entire reel, creating potential for a big payout.

Mad Scientist: A win multiplier with x2 value is applied to any win. Then, each successive win in a cascade sequence doubles the win multiplier up to a max multiplier of 256x.

Alien: if the alien is the selected symbol, each time it lands on the reels, it will enhance the height of the reels as well as each adjacent reel. This can create up to 1,000,000 winning ways.

Cow: If the cow symbol appears, it becomes a wild with a value of x2.

Ray Gun: 1 Wild will be delivered to the reels for every ray gun symbol that lands. This doesn’t apply to cascading ray gun symbols.