Megaways slots

Megaways is a reel mechanic licensed from Big Time Gaming. Instead of a fixed grid, each reel shows a variable number of symbols on every spin, and the number of ways a combination can be made is the product of those counts. Big Time Gaming's own six-reel games are described as offering up to 117,649 ways to win — that is seven symbols on each of six reels. The same game on the next spin might offer four hundred.

That variability is the whole mechanic. A fixed twenty-five-payline game gives the same twenty-five chances to connect on every spin. A Megaways game gives a different number each time, and the studio balances the mathematics so that the average across millions of spins produces the return-to-player figure it publishes. The ways-count moving around does not make a game more or less generous — it changes where the returns sit. Games with a very high ways-count ceiling tend to be higher volatility: results are spread more widely, with longer stretches between features.

Most Megaways games pair the mechanic with cascading reels, where symbols in a winning combination are removed and new ones drop into the gap, so a single spin can produce several consecutive connections. Many add a multiplier that steps up with each cascade during the feature.

Because Big Time Gaming licenses the mechanic rather than keeping it in-house, Megaways games come from 33 different studios — and the licence requires the word in the title, which is why every game on this page has it. That makes the set unusually easy to define completely.

This page lists every Megaways title in our catalogue: all 239 of them, sortable by RTP, maximum win, volatility or release date.

RTP is a theoretical figure calculated over millions of spins. It does not predict any individual session.