Eastern Emeralds Megaways Slot Review

Eastern Emeralds Megaways Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Eastern Emeralds Megaways slot is played with 5 reels and up to 16,807 Megaways/ways to win. Using Big Time Gaming’s Megaways engine, each reel can contain up to 7 symbols randomly. The more symbols per reel, the more ways to win. Winning combinations consists of 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols on successive reels, beginning from reel 1.

Bet options vary between 20p and £100 a spin. Like with all Quickspin slots, click on the Coins icons in the bottom right-hand corner to adjust accordingly. You will see a screen with 16 stake options. For non UK players, you have a couple more playing options. First there’s an Autoplay facility which allows up to 1,000 auto spins with single win and loss limits. Then there is a Turbo Mode button for faster spin speed.

The Eastern Emeralds Megaways RTP is 96.04%. Above the 96% average for an online slots game, 70.98% of the RTP will come in the base game. The remaining 25.06% is for the free spins. Volatility wise, it’s very high (5/5). There is no information on the hit frequency rate.

Finally, you can win 17,421.6 x your total bet per spin or free spin. The bigger wins will come from the multipliers. Winning 100 x your total bet or higher will happen every 924 spins on average.

Theme – get ready for an adventure in the Asian wilderness

With an ancient Asian theme, the Eastern Emeralds Megaways slot takes you on another adventure in the Asian wilderness. The Megaways version of Eastern Emeralds, the visuals are almost identical. With a break-taking mountain range in the backdrop, the soundtrack is very relaxing and spiritual.

The reels are set inside a traditional pagoda, you’ll see A, K, Q, J and 10 royals. The better paying symbols include cymbals, gold ingots, turtles, fish and gold dragons. The gold dragon is the best paying symbol with 1, 2 or 3 x your total bet awarded for 3, 4 or 5 in combination.

Like in the original slot, there’s a green Emerald Wild symbol that substitutes for all symbols bar the Phoenix Bonus scatter. It appears on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 and comes with multiplier values (more details below).

Symbol	Payouts/Info
10	3, 4 or 5 = 0.05, 0.1 or 0.2 x bet
J	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.2 or 0.35 x bet
Q	3, 4 or 5 = 0.15, 0.25 or 0.5 x bet
K	3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 0.4 or 0.6 x bet
A	3, 4 or 5 = 0.25, 0.5 or 0.75 x bet
Cymbals	3, 4 or 5 = 0.4, 0.75 or 0.9 x bet
Golden Ingot	3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 0.9 or 1 x bet
Turtle	3, 4 or 5 = 0.6, 1 or 1.5 x bet
Fish	3, 4 or 5 = 0.75, 1.5 or 2 x bet
Gold Dragon	3, 4 or 5 = 1, 2 or 3 x bet
Emerald Wild	Substitutes for all symbols above + contains multipliers
Phoenix Bonus Scatter	3+ triggers Free Spins Bonus feature

Eastern Emeralds Megaways Mobile

Eastern Emeralds Megaways was released in October 2022 and has been created using HTML5 technology. This allows for play on mobile, laptop, PC and tablet devices. Despite offering up to 16,807 ways to win, playing on a smartphone is suitable. It’s compatible with iOS, Android and Windows devices.

Eastern Emeralds Megaways Bonus Features

The Eastern Emeralds Megaways slot has 4 bonus features. Wild Multipliers can combine up to 120x in the base game. In the free spins, you can choose from 4 options. You can get more free spins with smaller Wild Multipliers or vice versa. This can lead to 60 free spins or 1,680x multipliers if you pick wisely.

Eastern Wild Multipliers feature

The Emerald Wild symbol comes with multipliers and appears on all reels bar reel 1. Substituting for all paying symbols, the Wild Multiplier symbols contain the same multiplier value as the reel they land on. For example, a Multiplier Wild landing on reel 5 will have a 5x multiplier.

When 2 or more Wild Multipliers are part of the same win, the Eastern Wild Multiplier feature will be activated. The corresponding multipliers are then multiplied. For example, a 3x multiplier on reel 4 and 5x multiplier on reel 5 will lead to a 15x multiplier. A Wild Multiplier on reel 2, 3, 4 and 5 will give you a 120x multiplier overall.

Free Spins Bonus feature

The Free Spins Bonus feature is triggered when you land 3 or more Phoenix Bonus scatters anywhere on the reels. A Bonus Picker screen appears which gives you 4 feature options. The more triggering scatters, the more free spins:

So, if you triggered the feature with 5 scatters, you can use the Gamble feature. Here, you can choose to gamble your existing free spins for a chance to win more. There’s a 50/50 of landing 4 scatters when you land 3 or landing 5 when you trigger with 4 scatters.

Now, you can opt for more free spins with lower Wild Multipliers or vice versa. I would always opt for the higher Wild Multiplier values due to win potential. Landing a win with 2+ Wild Multipliers will see the multiplier values multiplied. Here is the maximum multiplier for each option:

Buy feature

For non UK players, there is a Buy feature. Only activated in the base game, you can gain access to the Free Spins Bonus feature for 90 x your total bet. 3 Phoenix Bonus scatters will then land which you can them gamble if you like to win more free spins. Finally, the RTP increases up to 96.29%.

Eastern Emeralds Megaways Review Summary – slightly better than the original

The Eastern Emeralds Megaways slot is very similar to the original game. Visually, it’s almost identical using the same symbols and backdrops. Clint Andersson, Head of Producers at Quickspin stated that this game was a “no-brainer” as the original slot is 1 of their best performing slots so it made perfect sense.

Quickspin has already released Big Bad Wolf Megaways which is the Megaways version of Big Bad Wolf.  The slot provider kept the essence of the original game and has done this again in Eastern Emeralds Megaways. In terms of the gameplay, there are Wild Multipliers which can combine up to 120x in the base game (this remains the same).

The subtle difference is in the Free Spins Bonus feature. For starters, landing 4 or 5 scatters will reward you with more free spins. In the original, you could only choose from 6, 9, 12 or 15 free spins. In the Megaways version, you could choose from 24, 36, 48 or 60 free spins. That’s 4 times are high.

The Wild Multiplier values are the same meaning a potential multiplier of 1,680x. For this, you would need to choose less free spins. That said, the max win is higher at 17,421.6 x bet vs 16,003.7 x bet from the original. It’s not significantly higher though.

Whilst Eastern Emeralds Megaways offers bigger wins than the original, it also has more ways to win, more free spins potentially and the Gamble feature. How does it compare to popular slots that have been given the Megaways treatment? Here’s a table highlighting some of these games:

In summary, Eastern Emeralds Megaways has kept true to the original slot but has slightly higher wins and can give you more free spins. To take this game to the next level, higher multipliers, significantly higher max wins and a couple of extra bonus features would have been nice.