Beware The Deep Megaways (Pragmatic Play) – Review & Demo Play

Beware The Deep Megaways - Slot Theme And Storyline

Sunlight filters through the kelp in Beware The Deep Megaways, giving a vibrant subsea world without losing the lurking-shark tension. I’m spinning on a suspended Megaways frame while fish waft past coral and sea grass, and the soundtrack keeps a playful pulse with a hint of menace. It’s not pitch-black abyssal stuff, but the mood works, you always feel a great white could slide into view on that bottom row. It sets up the maths-led action cleanly and keeps sessions readable.

Beware The Deep Megaways RTP, Volatility, And Max Win

Beware The Deep Megaways runs hot on variance, a 5/5 bite, and the figures back that up. The top-tier RTP reaches 97.47%, though some lobbies use 96.54% or 95.49%. Stakes span 0.20 to 240, and the cap sits at 10,000x, with the max realised roughly once in 24,691,358 spins. Hit rate in base hovers at about a quarter. It’s the kind of profile I play in bursts, chasing multipliers rather than line hits, with patience the main edge.

Beware The Deep Megaways Rules And Gameplay

The game uses six vertical reels plus a four-position horizontal reel beneath, generating up to 117,649 ways per spin. Wins pay left to right on adjacent reels, usually 3+ symbols, with the top caution sign paying from 2. Bets sit between 0.20 and 240. After any hit, winning tiles are removed and new ones tumble, including the lower track which slides right-to-left. I find the pace crisp, chains can run long, and that’s where the engine starts to earn its keep.

Wild sharks only appear on the bottom row of reels 2, 3, 4, and 5. Each wild lands with a random multiplier in the base, from x2 up to x25, which feeds a total multiplier applied to the spin’s wins; in free spins, wild multipliers can hit up to x100. Weed symbols act as mystery symbols, flipping into one random pay symbol across all instances. The mix gives base play teeth without drowning the grid in features, and it sets up the bonus nicely.

Symbols And Paytable in Beware The Deep Megaways

Paytable highlights in Beware The Deep Megaways are clear. Six-of-a-kind top symbol, the shark warning sign, pays 5x; the treasure chest pays 3x; the anchor 2x; the bottle 1x. The ship’s bell and A both top out at 0.75x for six. Royals fill the rest: K and Q pay 0.6x, J and 10 pay 0.5x for six of a kind. Most picture symbols need 3+, while the top sign pays from 2, helping those early-reel connects.

The shark cage is the scatter; landing 4 or more in one sequence brings the feature choice screen. The shark wild substitutes for all pays and only lands on the lower reel across the middle four columns. All values scale with stake, and wins are calculated across ways from the leftmost reel. The layout makes it easy to skim the paytable and focus on cascades, since most value comes once multipliers kick in rather than from single-line hits.

Beware The Deep Megaways Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	6	x5
	5	x2.5
	4	x1.5
	3	x1
	2	x0.5
	6	x3
	5	x1.5
	4	x0.75
	3	x0.5
	6	x2
	5	x1
	4	x0.75
	3	x0.25
	6	x1
	5	x0.75
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.25
	6	x0.75
	5	x0.5
	4	x0.3
	3	x0.2
	6	x0.75
	5	x0.5
	4	x0.3
	3	x0.2
	6	x0.6
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.25
	3	x0.15
	6	x0.6
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.25
	3	x0.15
	6	x0.5
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	6	x0.5
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	Scatter
	Wild

Beware The Deep Megaways Bonuses And Special Features

The Deep Free Spins is the familiar route. Four, five, six, or seven scatters start you on 10, 12, 14, or 16 spins, with a gamble wheel that can raise or cut the count between 6 and 16. A total multiplier sits to the left and climbs by +1 per tumble, while any wild multiplier also feeds it. If a scatter lands directly above a wild, that wild locks for 1 to 3 tumbles and rolls a fresh multiplier each time. Retriggers add +2, +4, +6, +8, or +10.

Even Deeper Free Spins flips the script. Instead of a spin count target, the round ends when the total multiplier hits a guaranteed threshold of x15, x20, x25, or x30 from 4 to 7 scatters. You can gamble that threshold unless you’ve already got x30, with the wheel able to drop it as low as x6. Wild multipliers still add to the total, sticky wilds under scatters still hold for up to three tumbles, and each scatter nudges the guaranteed value up by +1.

There’s an Ante Bet that adds more scatters for 25% extra per spin, doubling the average bonus rate from 1 in 357 to about 1 in 179, but it’s not available in the UK. The buy menu offers 4 to 5 scatters for 100x or 6 to 7 scatters for 250x, again not UK, with RTP shown per option around 96.51% to 96.55%. I’ve had best returns letting the feature land, then deciding between the two modes on how the base has been tumbling.

Review Summary And Verdict on Beware The Deep Megaways

I rate Beware The Deep Megaways as a tidy Megaways build with a couple of neat wrinkles. Wilds feeding a global multiplier gives the base game bite, and the choice between fixed spins and a multiplier chase keeps the bonus fresh. Even Deeper can end briskly if the threshold is low, so I pick it when the gamble looks kind. The 10,000x cap and high RTP version make it worth a punt, though the presentation leans a touch streamlined.