Play With The Devil Megaways

Play With The Devil Megaways Overview

Play With The Devil Megaways is a Red Tiger slot running the Megaways engine up to 117,649 ways, and it contains one of the neatest pieces of design in the format: a prize that is literally equal to the ways count.

Collect ten Mega Chips and the game pays the number printed in the Megaways counter, in cash. The demo confirms it seven separate times.

Theme and Graphics

The setting is a volcanic underworld: red rock, a lava sky, and drifts of gold coins banked along the bottom of the screen. A fat red devil in a gold crown sits on a rock to the right of the reels with a cauldron between his knees, and a horned face leers over the top rail.

The reel frame is carved black stone. When symbols clear, the positions they leave behind fill with fire rather than simply going blank – which on a cascading game makes the chain genuinely easy to follow.

The symbols are a pot of gold, a scroll, a red love-potion heart, a green jade ring and a trident, with card letters beneath them. Gold chips carrying multiplier values land among them. All figures below come from demo play at a £10.00 bet.

The art is broad comedy rather than horror, which suits a game about bargaining with the devil. He is drawn as a gold-crowned businessman running a small operation out of a cauldron, and the fire filling cleared positions reads as a joke about the setting rather than a threat.

The Ways Counter Is the Prize

This is the part worth setting out carefully, because it is unusual enough that it looks like a coincidence until you check it repeatedly.

A panel on the left carries two plates: 10 MEGA CHIPS and 7 MEGA CHIPS, each with a cash value. Those values change every spin, and they change with the Megaways count.

Across the captures: 15,876 ways → £15,876 and £1,587.60. 12,348 ways → £12,348 and £1,234.80. 10,500 ways → £10,500 and £1,050. 6,615 ways → £6,615 and £661.50. 5,400 ways → £5,400 and £540. 3,375 ways → £3,375 and £337.50. 2,304 ways → £2,304 and £230.40.

Seven spins, seven different ways counts, and in every one the ten-chip prize is the ways count expressed in pounds and the seven-chip prize is exactly a tenth of it.

Against the £10.00 stake that means ten chips on the sparsest board in the session would have paid 230x, and on the fullest, 1,587x. The same collection, on the same game, worth nearly seven times as much depending on a number the player can see before the reels stop.

The seven-chip tier being exactly a tenth of the ten-chip tier is worth noting alongside it. Three more chips multiply the prize by ten – which makes the step from seven to ten the single most valuable three symbols anywhere in the game.

What That Changes

Most Megaways games treat the ways count as flavour: a bigger number means more chances, and that is the end of it. Here it is a live price tag on the feature.

It gives a player something to watch that no other slot offers. A board showing 15,876 ways is not merely a busier board – it is a board where the chip collection is worth seven times what it would be at 2,304, and the counter is printed at the top right of the screen throughout.

Two smaller plates sit beneath the chip prizes: MINOR at 15x and MINI at 5x the bet. Those are fixed, and they are there to catch the collections that fall short.

The contrast between those and the chip tiers is stark. A Mini at 5x is worth the same as six of the best symbol on the paytable; the ten-chip prize on a busy board is worth three hundred times that. Everything on this game lives at one end or the other, with nothing in between.

A Paytable Measured in Fractions

The symbol table is quoted in multiples of the bet, and the numbers are very small – as they must be on a game with six figures of ways.

The pot of gold leads at 5x for six of a kind, 2.5x for five, 1x for four and 0.5x for three. The scroll follows at 2.5x / 1.25x / 0.5x / 0.3x, the heart at 1.5x / 0.5x / 0.35x / 0.2x, and the ring and the trident sit below half the stake even at six of a kind.

The card letters finish it: the ace and king at 0.25x for six, the queen, jack and ten at 0.2x. Three of a kind of any letter pays 0.05x – one twentieth of the stake.

So a six-symbol run of the best symbol in the game returns five times the bet, and a six-symbol run of the most common returns a quarter of it. The paytable is not where this game keeps anything.

The Multiplier Chips

Gold chips land on the grid carrying values, and the demo shows 0.5x, 1x, 2x and 2.5x among them. One board holds seven at once – two 2.5x, two 1x, two 2x and a 0.5x – for a result of £130.00, or thirteen times the stake.

Those chips are both the multiplier and the collection: each one counts towards the seven and ten needed for the plates on the left. So a board full of chips is worth something twice over, once as a multiplier on the spin and once as progress towards a prize worth a four-figure multiple.

The demo’s ordinary results sit well below that: £55.00, £55.00, £75.00, £80.00 and £130.00, or 5.5x, 5.5x, 7.5x, 8x and 13x the bet.

Those are respectable figures for a Megaways base game, and they come almost entirely from the chips rather than from the symbol combinations underneath them. A board with no chips on it, on this paytable, is barely worth reading.

RTP, Volatility and Max Win

The RTP is 94.09%, volatility is rated High, and the maximum win is 14,444x the bet – an oddly specific figure that fits the theme.

The return needs flagging. At 94.09% this sits roughly two points below the modern standard, which over any real number of spins is a materially worse deal. Red Tiger titles are widely distributed and the figure on the data sheet is the one to check against the game’s own information panel wherever you play it.

High is a fair rating and probably an understatement. A paytable where the best symbol pays 5x and the commonest pays 0.25x produces almost nothing on its own; the money is entirely in chip collections whose value swings seven-fold with the ways count.

Set the ceiling against the mechanic and it closes neatly. The theoretical maximum of 117,649 ways would make a ten-chip collection worth £117,649 on a £10 stake – a little over 11,700x – and a multiplier chip or two on the same board covers the rest of the distance to 14,444x.

It is a clever game let down by its return figure. Tying the feature prize to the ways count is the best idea anyone has had with Megaways in some time, and it deserves a better number than 94.09% underneath it.

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