Dragon Queen Megaways

Dragon Queen Megaways Overview

Dragon Queen Megaways is a BGaming slot running the Megaways engine on six reels of variable height plus a horizontal tracker reel above them, with over 200,000 ways at full extension. It carries a 96.75% RTP, high volatility and a maximum win of 6,000x the bet, and it was released on 24 June 2025.

All the figures below were read from demo play. The base bet was 7.00 FUN, raised to 10.50 when the Chance x2 side bet was switched on.

Theme and Graphics

The reels are set into the face of a stone keep, with carved dragon-head gargoyles on the upper corners and stone columns framing the screen. In the base game a pine forest stands behind it in daylight; the free spins move indoors, to a dark hall with arched windows.

The premium symbols are a crowned queen, a red dragon, a golden chalice, an hourglass and a harp. Below them sit six coloured gems – purple, red, yellow, pink, blue and green – cut as squares, hearts and teardrops.

The ways counter sits in a red banner at the top right of the frame and changes on every spin. The captures catch it at 1,728, 4,536, 6,720 and 8,100 WAYS.

What the Symbols Pay

The pay table is quoted at the 7.00 bet and runs from six matches down to three. The queen pays 70.00 for six, 35.00 for five, 14.00 for four and 7.00 for three.

That top figure is exactly 10x the bet for a full six-symbol line of the best symbol in the game. It is a very low ceiling for a premium, and it tells you immediately that this is a game where the ways count does the work, not the pay table.

The dragon pays 35.00 for six (5x), the chalice 21.00 (3x), the hourglass 14.00 (2x) and the harp 7.00 – the stake back.

The gems split into two tiers. Purple, red and yellow each pay 5.60 for six; pink, blue and green each pay 3.50, which is half the bet. Every one of the six gems pays 0.70 for three.

So the entire low end of the table is worth between a tenth and four fifths of a stake, and the best symbol is worth ten. On a 6,720-way board the same symbol is counted many times over – that multiplication, not the individual prices, is where the money comes from.

The Chance x2 Side Bet

A panel on the left of the reels offers CHANCE x2, marked ACTIVE in the base-game captures, with +3.50 FUN printed beside it.

That is half the base stake on top of it: 7.00 becomes 10.50 a spin, a 50% surcharge, in exchange for doubling the chance of reaching the free spins. It does not change what anything pays – only how often the round arrives.

Both base-game captures were taken with it on, at the 10.50 total bet, and both produced ordinary wins: 25.20 and 14.00, with the running total reaching 39.20 FUN.

The Buy Bonus

The other button on that panel is BUY BONUS, priced at 630.00 FUN against a 7.00 bet. The purchase screen is a purple banner headed BUY FREE SPINS, with a bet stepper and NO and YES buttons.

At 630.00 for a 7.00 stake the round costs 90x the bet. That is at the expensive end for a Megaways buy, and against a 6,000x ceiling it means the feature has to return more than ninety times the stake just to break even.

The Multiplier Wheel

Before the round starts you get a dial, and it sets two things at once. A red dragon holds a semicircular wheel with two rings: an outer ring marked MULTIPLIER reading x2, x5 and x20, and an inner ring marked FREE SPINS reading 6, 10 and 14.

The two are drawn together, so a long round and a big multiplier are separate outcomes. In the captured session the wheel came up x2 with 10 free spins – the middle of both rings.

Once the round begins, the multiplier sits beside the reels as a burning golden dragon egg marked x2, and it stays there for the whole round. The free-spins counter runs in the bottom bar: the captures show 1/10 and 4/10.

What the Bonus Produced

This is the part worth reading closely, because the captures follow one bought round from start to finish.

The balance was 169.10 FUN after the 630.00 purchase. The round opened with three golden dragon-egg SCATTER symbols on an 8,100-way board paying 35.00, then built through 5.60, 14.00 and 42.00 with the running total reaching 51.80, then 65.80, then 93.80 FUN.

It finished at 124.60 FUN, and the balance ended at 293.70. A 630.00 purchase returned 124.60 – under a fifth of the price, or 17.8x the stake against a 90x cost.

One round proves nothing about the maths, but it is a useful illustration of what a 90x buy on a high-volatility game feels like when the wheel lands on x2 rather than x20.

The Wild and the Tracker Reel

The horizontal reel above the main grid is where the extra symbols land, and one free-spins capture catches a WILD sitting on it on a 6,720-way board.

That placement matters on a Megaways layout. A wild on the tracker reel is in line with every column beneath it, so it feeds into far more ways than the same symbol landing low on a single reel.

The Interface

BGaming keeps the bottom bar clean: balance on the left, Total bet with a stepper, Win and Total win in the centre, and an autoplay button beside the spin control. The free-spins counter appears in the same bar during the round.

A prompt reads Hold spin for quick spins, and the pay table opens as a full-screen overlay with all eleven symbols and their four price points on a single page.

Who Should Play It

Dragon Queen Megaways suits players who know what they are getting into with a high-volatility Megaways title. The artwork is strong, the ways counter swings widely enough to keep every spin interesting, and a 96.75% RTP is above average for the format.

The two paid extras deserve care. The Chance x2 adds 50% to every spin for frequency alone, and the buy costs 90x on a game whose best symbol pays 10x a line. The 6,000x ceiling is real, but reaching it needs the wheel to land on x20 and the reels to cooperate for the whole round.

Where to Play Dragon Queen Megaways

You can try this game on AztecParadise Online Casino. There’s a unique casino bonus offer of 300% up to £2000 for a limited time.

Dragon Queen Megaways was listed in the AztecParadise game library under BGaming when we checked on 21 September 2026.