Madame Destiny Megaway's match report

Madame Destiny Megaways is an updated version of Pragmatic's original fortune teller pokie with 6 reels and up to 200,704 ways to win. You still get 2x wild wins with a multiplier, and the bonus round has a fixed multiplier of up to 25x. You can win a maximum of 5,000x your bet here, and the volatility is high.

It is the long-awaited return of the clairvoyant gypsy in the new Megaways version of the original Madame Destiny pokie from Pragmatic Play. An interesting decision by the developer, as the original version of this pokie was a flop. Maybe the "magic" Megaways engine will help this pokie, but even that is no guarantee of success for this pokie. The suspiciously small available jackpot of this pokie will immediately put off most players.

Visually, this pokie has been significantly refined, and you can benefit from the horizontal reels over the 4 middle ones. However, the main game looks rather boring, but players can avoid wasting time on it and immediately buy the bonus round (not available for UK players). This pokie has an ante bet feature that doubles your chances of activating the free spins bonus round, but the bonus itself is more of a gamble even before it starts. If you get the smallest available multiplier of x2 on the bonus wheel, you will be in a world of hurt even before you see the amount of your winnings from the bonus.

Features of the Madame Destiny Megaways pokie.

Any of your wins will trigger the "Falling" feature (also called cascading reels or avalanche wins), which means that all winning symbols will be removed from the reels. The empty positions are then filled with a new stack of symbols that fall from the top. This process is repeated as long as you win, which can lead to a larger winning streak for the price of a single spin.

As with the original version of the pokie, the Madame Destiny wild doubles the amounts of all wins in which it is involved. It can also substitute for all regular payout symbols to help you form winning combinations. The scatter in this pokie is a crystal ball, and if you hit 3, 4, 5 or 6 balls anywhere on the reels, you will receive a win worth x5, x10, x20 and x100 of your existing bet respectively.

To trigger the free spins bonus round, you need to hit at least 3 scatter symbols, then the bonus wheel will appear on your screen. You spin the wheel to determine the number of your free spins from 5 to 12, as well as your multiplier from 2x to 25x. Note that this is not the cumulative multiplier you are used to from many other pokies based on the Megaways engine.

You can restart the bonus round if you get at least 3 scatters in a free spin (you can restart this bonus as many times as you want). When you trigger this bonus round, the bonus wheel will appear on the screen again. When you spin the wheel, the number of free spins and the multiplier will increase. You can buy the bonus round for one hundredth of your previous bet (not available for UK players), which also slightly increases your payout percentage (RTP) from 96.56% to 96.67%.

Finally, you can also take advantage of the Ante Bet feature. Activating this feature doubles your chances of activating the free spins bonus round, which is a great feature of other real money pokies online nz pokies. However, it will cost you 25% more per spin, but that is not a high price to pay if the free spins bonus round option is not available in your country.

Impressions after 200 spins of the Madame Destiny Megaways pokie.

We played a few rounds in the main game, and that was enough to get some nice "cascade" wins, one of which also included a wild with a x2 multiplier.

Nevertheless, we decided to go for the bonus round in the end, and you can see what it led to after 1 minute of video highlights below. We can tell you right now that we had a x15 multiplier in the bonus round, but you'll have to click the "Play" button if you want to know how much you can win.

Review Summary

Pragmatic Play is clearly trying to "revive" a pokie that proved to be a failure in its original form. However, they have made some rather strange decisions in regards to the Madame Destiny Megaways pokie. If you want to refine the pokie, you should add something else besides the Megaways engine.

The available jackpot worth 5000 of your effective bet is lower than most other pokies based on the Megaways engine, and the main game looks boring. A rare win with a wild that has a x2 multiplier won't be enough to "keep you afloat", especially considering the free spins bonus round, which, even if you manage to activate it, is more of a "gamble". You do get a x2 multiplier on the bonus wheel, but it doesn't increase after each win like in similar pokies from the competition. You will not find any good reason that makes this pokie more attractive than other alternatives

Advantages of

• The amounts of all wins, some of which are the wild ones, are doubled
• Bonus round, before which you can get up to 12 free spins and the value of your multiplier can be up to x25
• The volatility in this pokie is high and the maximum winnings available in this pokie are x5000 of your existing bet

Disadvantages

• In most other pokies based on the Megaways system, the available jackpot is at least twice as high
• The multiplier in the free spins bonus round is not incremental.