Book of Goddess Mega Moolah Slot Review

20/12/2023 | Categories: Microgaming Slots | Published by: Joe | Last updated: 21/11/2024

Games Global, the company that bought the Quickfire distribution network in 2021, has not made as many headlines as one would expect from a company of this stature. In the second half of 2023, we can only remember the introduction of Blue Ring Studios, a Sydney-based developer. It also made the news cycle in the second half of 2023, when the brand’s progressive WowPot jackpot surpassed €30 million. At the time of writing, this prize stood at over $43 million. The game we will review today is a Book Of version of the legendary Microgaming spinner Mega Moolah. It connects to that game’s progressive jackpot network, which has many dozens of millionaires, boasting a €2 million seed value.

Book of Goddess Mega Moolah made its way into the online gambling arena at the tail end of November 2023. It managed to enter the top one hundred and fifty rankings in multiple markets. But it trailed behind the original Mega Moolah game, which is still doing well worldwide, and a few offshoots, like Neon Valley Studios’ Atlantean Treasures Mega Moolah. Below, we analyze this game and tell you how it stacks up against some of its siblings.

Theme & Design

The initial Mega Moolah game hit the Web in 2006 as a medium-variance slot with an RTP of 88.12% and twenty-five paylines. The jungle-themed spinner took the online casino sphere by storm, chiefly due to its looming mega reward. It attained worldwide glory due to a 2015 story of an ex-British soldier landing a $20 million jackpot on its reels on a $0.25 bet. Today, over a dozen Mega Moolah games exist, and not all of these come from Microgaming’s (Games Global’s) team, as some come from partner studios, like Stormcarft Studios, JustForTheWin, Gameburger Studios, Triple Edge Studios, and more.

The theme here is Ancient Egypt, but it is accurate to say that it is more so the Book Of Mechanic and the Mega Moolah brand itself. It is essential to note that this title is essentially a sequel to the 2009 Mega Moolah Goddess slot, a remaster version set in Egypt featuring Cleopatra. We should also add that this is not the first Mega Moolah Book Of Games, as Games Global released Book Of Mega Moolah in September 2023. You likely know that Book of Ra pioneered this special expanding symbol genre, and Play’n GO brought it to a new level of mainstream gaming popularity. Hence, we can say this product’s theme is a blend of these franchises.

The presentation of Book of Goddess Mega Moolah stays true to the elementary visual style the Mega Moolah games have become known for in the sector. The graphics here have a 2000s reel-spinning feel, feeling a bit flat and overly colorful. The game looks like a remnant of a past era, and that was the design team’s goal. We do not quite like this, but given there is a concept behind it, we can’t grumble too much about the presentation here. The soundtrack is also a bit of a blast from the past, sounding like a tune from a late 1990s Sierra strategy game, boosted with more advanced animations than those found in online slots from the 2000s.

Right of the 5×3 grid that hovers flanked by sets of pillars and in front of a prize wheel float the buttons in Book of Goddess Mega Moolah, organized in a vertical stack. These start with the bet-adjuster, followed by the spin functions, with the setting three-bar icon at the top that pulls out the mute option and the info and help page icons.

Book of Goddess Mega Moolah

Specs & Gameplay

Book of Goddess Mega Moolah is a high-variance slot with an RTP of 86.71% with a jackpot contribution rate of 5%. It has a base max win of x5,000, with a wagering range that starts at $0.1 and goes up to $25. The gambling action here gets played out on a 5×3 layout with ten paylines, and the hit frequency in this new entry in Games Global’s renowned franchise is 30.16.

You create winning combos in this Mega Moolah game by getting two to five identical symbols to fall on one of the ten paylines here. The low-pay group consists of A, K, Q, J, and 10 card royals, paying either x7.5 to x15 for five-of-a-kind combos. The premiums, represented by four images here, supply maximum wins of x75, x200, or x500 you stake. They do so when five matching tokens from this group appear on the reels on a spin. Unlike the low-pay counterparts, symbols from this batch can fashion wins even with two instances of them landing. And the book with the eye of Ra on it is this game’s wild/scatter.

Bonus Features

As in all Book Of games, you need three scatters to activate the free spin round, where ten on-the-house reel rotations get awarded, with the possibility of you retriggering this mode. Note that the activating lines and bet size get used here, and before this feature starts, one random token gets selected to be the expanding one. These expansion-symbol-created wins pay in addition to complimentary free spin prizes.

That out of the way, the main attraction here is the progressive jackpot reward, which you can win through a wheel spin. To earn this honor, to spin the jackpot wheel, you must gather trigger coins. When you get your chance, four jackpots are in play here. The mega one has a two million seed, and the major one starts at $10,000.