8 Tigers Gold Megaways

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When it comes to themed slot games, you will see the most common flavours are Irish folklore, Ancient Egyptians (like Cat Wilde and the Lost Chapter) and movie characters. These slots are all well and good, (we have some favourites in these categories) but it’s also great to see a company taking a fresh spin on things, and Skywind has achieved that with their 8 Tigers Gold Megaways slot game.

The theme for this game is an Asian tiger-crazy one! It’s a great-looking theme. Those tigers roar out of your screen, it had me falling off my chair after the first spin.

Look and Feel 

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This game is big on tigers with an overall Chinese theme with plenty of red and gold (the lucky colours out east). This game is certainly brighter than Wanted Dead or a Wild, that’s for sure.

The lower paying symbols in the game are the standard card symbols: 9, 10, J, Q, K and A, payout between 10 times and 20 times your stake for a six-of-a-kind combination, but they will pay out in groups of three too.

Moving up the food chain, the other symbols pay out increasingly more.  Lai See packets (the red envelopes you stuff full of cash at Chinese New Year), a green-backed Turtle, a blue-backed Carp, a red-backed Dragon, and a purple-backed Bird.

There is also a wild symbol in this game, the golden Tiger face which can appear on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 during the main game. This symbol substitutes for any symbol except the Scatter and can help you put together some great combinations.

The Scatter symbol is the Yin-Yang symbol, which in Chinese culture represents the idea of duality; opposites can exist and interconnect in harmony. Oh, and it’s pretty handy for triggering free spins.

8 Tigers Gold Megaways Game Play

The gameplay is very smooth in this game which is played out on an 6×5 grid that changes into 6×4, 6×6 and even 6×7. The Ways to Win vary with the grid and are shown bottom left. The max win is 20,000 times your bet. That’s not as high as the Tombstone RIP slot but still, it’s up there with the big games.

There are a vast amount of bonus features in this game, which we will dive deeper into below. With the game being a Megaways slot, there are up to 262,144 Ways to Win on which to land winning combinations. All wins pay out from left to right.  So far so good!

Bonus Features 

Let’s start with the features that are built into the base game. There are a few in this game that can be randomly triggered, and some that you can pay to trigger (in certain counties).

The first of these is the Extra Chance feature, from which you can choose Double or Triple Chance, which will set you back five credits multiplied by the coin bet or ten credits multiplied by the coin bet respectively.

Double Chance increases the chance of landing the 8 Tigers feature by two times, and Triple does the same for a three times increase of chance.

The Bonus Buy Choice feature costs either 100x or 328x the base bet, both of which guarantee the bonus you purchase will happen on your next spin. For 100x the base bet, you can guarantee that your next spin will trigger the 8 Tigers feature.

For 328x the base bet, you will guarantee that the next spin will trigger the 8 Tigers Gold Mystery feature, which awards either 15, 20 or 25 free spins with a multiplier starting at 10x, 13x or 25x.

The two randomly triggered features in this game are the Fa Fa Fa Superways feature and the Tiger Multiplier feature.

The first one will cause between one and six reels to expand to eight symbols high. The Tiger Multiplier feature can change any winning Wild into a multiplier from 2x and 25x.

The Scatter symbol, when landed on three or more reels, will trigger the 8 Tigers bonus round in which you are given eight choices.

Each of these choices rewards you with an amount of spins and a multiplier.

These choices are Mystery, 5 with x25, 8 with x13, 10 with x10, 12 with x7, 15 with x5, 20 with x3 and 25 with x2.

Make your choice wisely! The multipliers are an increasing factor, meaning the assigned multiplier is the one you start on. 

Conclusion 

Overall, the 8 Tigers Gold Megaways slot from Skywind is an entertaining game that offers the promise of big rewards not only on the base game but on all of the different bonus features too.

The game itself is very smooth and has the potential for some decent wins if you can land the right symbols. The bonus features can also prove very generous if you happen to be lucky enough to trigger one (or more) of them during your game.

Wombat Score: 4.5/5