5 Lions Megaways Slot Review – Demo, RTP & Features

Pragmatic Play launched the original 5 Lions years ago and has ever since made several instalments to the series, 5 Lions Megaways being the fourth and last one.

This, as suggested by the title, is a Megaways edition, where you’ll be able to enjoy up to 117,649 ways to win, as opposed to a normal paylines engine. The slot comes with 6 reels that can hold 2 to 7 rows to allow for the maximum number of ways to win.

Theme-wise, it is an Asian-themed slot, presenting the oriental motif to the point. The gold-framed grid, at the centre of the screen, is placed against a navy-blue background.

The symbols on the grid are all inspired by the culture, so you have frogs, phoenixes, turtles, fish and the highest-paying dragon, giving you up to 25x the stake for the top combo. The low-pays are the Asian-style playing card Royals, of course.

The Yin Yang is the Scatter, while the Golden Lion, naturally, the Wild.

You can play the game with a base bet that goes from $0.20 to $100, or you can use the Ante Bet feature and play it for bets from $0.25 to $125, in case you wish to improve your chances of triggering the bonus feature right away.

The slot is highly volatile and offers an excellent RTP of 96.50%. The max you could win playing it is 5,000x the stake, which is a pretty standard Pragmatic Play payout, so if you’re ready, let’s go over the features to find out how to get to that payout.

Game Features

The Tumble feature is the star in the slot. Like in all Megaways titles, it allows you to make consecutive wins since all winning symbols are removed on a single winning spin, and new ones land in their place to offer new opportunities to win big in the next Tumble.

Should the winning combo have a Wild in it to substitute for a symbol, the Wild Multiplier will increase on each Tumble from 2x to 40x!

Land 3 to 6 Scatters, and you’ll trigger the bonus round. You’ll first get a payout for the Scatters you landed, from 3x to 100x the stake, respectively, and then you’ll get 7 Free Spins options to choose from. You could choose from:

• A Mystery number of Free Spins and Multiplier. 
• 25 FSs with Wild Multipliers of 5x, 3x and 2x.
• 20 FSs with Wild Multipliers of 8x, 5x and 3x.
• 15 FSs with Wild Multipliers of 10x, 8x and 5x.
• 13 FSs with Wild Multipliers of 30x, 10x and 8x.
• 10 FSs with Wild Multipliers of 30x, 15x and 10x.
• 6 FSs with Wild Multipliers of 40x, 30x and 15x.

During the bonus round, when you form a winning combo with a Wild, it will take a random value of the three possible for the chosen Free Spins round.

What’s more, you can re-trigger the Free Spins feature, getting the exact same number and Multiplier values as the Free Spins round you first chose.