Wild Turkey Megaways Slot Review

16/08/2023 | Categories: NetEnt Slots | Published by: Joe | Last updated: 05/01/2024

In the past few months, it has been pretty silent on the NetEnt news front, with the globally famous brand primarily focusing on releasing high-quality games. They have unleashed around three spinners a month for the past year. And in July 2023, the company enriched its title arsenal with Crab Trap, Jack and the Beanstalk – Remastered, and Wild Turkey Megaways, bringing its product count almost to the four hundred milestone. The latter-mentioned release, Wild Turkey Megaways, made its debut in the digital gaming sphere on July 20th, and it almost instantly made its way into the top fifty ranking in the UK before falling out of the top two hundred and making a comeback in the one hundred most-played spinners by British online gamblers. The game’s rate of success varies drastically, with it doing well in the Scandinavian region, South Africa, and so-so everywhere else.

Theme & Design

It caught us by surprise, but there are eighteen Turkey-themed slots. Naturally, this one is the most famous of the batch, with the seventeen others being products from lesser-known brands like Genii, Octavian, KA, Mobilots, and Dragon Gaming. As you likely know, turkeys are sizeable birds native to North America that famously tie into one of America’s most beloved holidays, Thanksgiving. A few fun facts about these birds are that they roost in trees at night to get protection from predators, they vary dramatically in size based on their breed, and the wild ones are far more agile than those bred in captivity.

The turkeys in Wild Turkey Megaways wear headdresses inspired by the Mayan, Aztec civilizations. Without argument, this slot looks pretty nice, as you should expect from a NetEnt creation. The ornamented reels of Wild Turkey Megaways spin in front of a turkey village boasting jungle foliage and waterfalls. The background is somewhat static, with shoddy animations of running water trying to add some movement to the scene. Overall, the visuals here, while colorful, the painterly images have a bit-by-the-numbers feel from this provider. That is often a criticism we have of Pragmatic Play games since they are different in motif, but most boast a similar style. That is become true for NetEnt, as well. Do not get us wrong, presentation-wise, we would give this more than a passing grade. We just crave something more each time we open a slot from such a premium developer.

The betting panel found here is the new NetEnt one. You have the spin and Bonus Buy feature right off the reel grid and the betting button configuration below it, with the auto-spin function, the wager modifier, and the settings icon.

Wild Turkey Megaways

Specs & Gameplay

You probably know what a Megaways game is, but if you don’t, it is a slot where the symbols per reel change on every spin. On top of this, Wild Turkey Megaways also implements the cascading mechanic, meaning winning tokens disappear, giving up their positions for new ones to fall in their place, creating new prize opportunities on the same spin. In this game, two wilds exist, a scatter wild and a turkey one. The latter appears upon the trigger of the Wild Turkey feature. Wilds show up on all the reels except the first one, and the scatter ones substitute pay symbols. Three of these will gain you entry in the free spins mode, where a stack of scatter wilds on a reel provides two extra on-the-house reel rotations.

The pay tokens here divide into low-paying card royals and premium turkeys. Six-of-a-kind high-pay turkey combos yield wins of x0.8 to x3. The max reward this game can supply is one of x7,200 (some sources say x10,500) your stake. Its RTP stands at a default of 96.05%, and the variance has gotten set at medium-high. You can place bets as low as $0.1 and ones as high on this six-reel slot with 117,649 betways at most.

Bonus Features

We already explained the wilds. So, let us move to the Wild Turkey round, activated randomly, on the second, third, fourth, and fifth reel in the base game or the free spins mode. It transforms high-pay turkeys into wild ones that substitute all other tokens but the scatter wilds.

You need to hit three scatter wilds to activate the free spins mode here, and as we touched above, landing stacks of scatters that cover a reel gives you two more spins. In this round, without question, the Wild Turkey feature is more likely to trigger, so remember this.

Wild Turkey Megaways

GOSU Verdict

What we like about this reel spinner is that it blends the Megaways engine with the cascading mechanic. Plus, it has two wild symbols. The original Wild Turkey slot made its way onto casino lobbies everywhere in 2013, and here is the Megaways version a decade later. We must say that NetEnt has not gone too far out in building a super diverse successor. Its presentation could have more of a wow factor, and we would have liked to see another bonus mode, perhaps.

Still, we cannot knock this game, as it is pretty decent. It has a high max win, acceptable specs, and a different number of symbols per reel on every spin paired with cascades, avalanches, tumbles, or whatever you choose to call them. So, we must give it props for its pros. And on that note, we would say test Wild Turkey Megaway if you see it at your crypto casino. It is unlikely to become a favorite, but it should offer a pleasant session.