Razor Ways (Push Gaming) – Review & Demo Play

Razor Ways Overview

I’ve followed the Razor series since 2019, so Razor Ways felt familiar yet fresh. Push Gaming shifts from paylines to ways, starting at 729 and rising when rows open as cascades land. The 6-reel frame has three active rows at launch and three locked above, with a cartoon sea-bed look and a tense, underwater score. Volatility sits around medium‑high, RTP peaks at 96.36%, and the studio drops the old Nudge and Reveal while packing in reworked features, Push Bet, and bonus buys.

Slot Details – Razor Ways

Razor Ways pays for matching symbols on adjacent reels from the leftmost side. Wins trigger cascades; winning icons are removed, fresh ones fall, and further hits can chain. Each cascade or Instant Prize win opens one extra row, up to a 6x6 layout and 46,656 ways. At the start of a new paid spin the top rows close again, so momentum matters when the grid is expanded. Wilds sub in for regular pays, with a gold‑toothed shark as the wild icon.

Bets run from 10p to £100 in supported markets, with options to quicken spins outside the UK. Push Bet can tilt the base game: pay 1.4x to raise scatter odds, 3x to guarantee two Mystery symbols on open rows, or 4x to combine those two effects. I found the ways engine does the heavy lifting, but the Push Bet toggles are handy when you want extra board coverage or a tilt toward the bonus.

Theme, Audio + Symbols in Razor Ways

The art feels clean and modern, with a rattling metal frame around the reels and sharks cruising behind the grid. The soundtrack has that murky spy‑film pulse that fits the deeper depths. On the pays, starfish colours are the lows at 0.10, 0.20, 0.30, 0.50x for 3–6 of a kind. Compass, flippers, and the diving helmet sit mid at 0.20, 0.40, 0.60, 1.00x. Sharks lead the highs, topped by the orange at 0.50, 1.00, 2.50, 5.00x.

Blue and green sharks pay 0.40, 0.80, 1.50, 2.50x, the purple at 0.50, 1.00, 2.00, 3.00x. The wild substitutes for all regular pays but not Mystery, scatter, or Instant Prize symbols. Mystery can reveal pay symbols, wilds, Expanding Wilds, a Converter into Wild, or Golden Sharks that start Razor Reveal. During Razor Reveal you can see Instant Prizes up to 5,000x and multiplier chips up to x10 that power up values in view.

Razor Ways Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	6	x5
	5	x2.5
	4	x1
	3	x0.5
	6	x3
	5	x2
	4	x1
	3	x0.5
	6	x2.5
	5	x1.5
	4	x0.8
	3	x0.4
	6	x0.5
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	6	x0.5
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	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

Bonus Features in Razor Ways

Cascades clear winning icons and drop new ones, and each cascade or Instant Prize win grows the grid by one row for that round. Expanding Wilds land or appear via Mystery; in the base game they cover the open portion of the reel, while in free spins they stretch to the full reel and can carry x2–x5. The Converter into Wild spins through present pay symbols on open rows and turns all instances of the picked symbol, plus itself, into wilds.

Razor Reveal begins when Mystery hits on at least three consecutive reels or at random. Those positions flip to Golden Sharks and each spot spins for one outcome: Instant Prize values, multipliers that scale Instant Prize and Collector icons by x2 to x10, a Collector that tots up values and holds while empty spots respin, or a Converter that changes all instances of a chosen pay symbol into Golden Sharks so the feature carries on.

Free spins land from three to six scatters. You start on a 3x6 to 6x6 board with an opening multiplier of x1, x3, x5, or x10. Glowing Mystery icons fill a meter in sets of five, stepping the total multiplier from x1 to x3 to x5 to x10 and widening the grid, with +4, +3, then +2 spins on the climb. Bonus buys range from Razor Reveal setups to free spins at set multipliers, plus a one‑off Converter into Wild buy.

RTP, Volatility & Max Win in Razor Ways

On the best setting I’ve seen 96.36% RTP, with some sites running 94.32%. Variance feels medium‑high; the base can chip away, then features swing it. The cap sits at 25,000x the bet, not the wildest in the series, though the combo of ways, expanding rows, multipliers, and Instant Prizes means there’s proper headroom for sessions to turn. I bank my bigger hits from free spins when multipliers rise and Expanding Wilds join the party.

Expert Verdict on Razor Ways

I was wary about losing Nudge and Reveal, but the rework clicked fast. Ways pay fits the series, cascades can snowball the board size, and Razor Reveal still carries that hit of suspense. The level‑up in free spins is tidy to track and the Expanding Wilds with multipliers give clean, readable spikes. I didn’t miss the old stacks once the machine started rolling. Mystery drops kept the base lively, with the Converter into Wild throwing in neat set‑ups when it picked helmets or sharks.

Push Bet and the buy panel give plenty of control, though the prices can bite, so I used them sparingly. The gameplay loop feels busy without being messy, and the presentation sells the deep‑sea theme without blaring at you. For me, Razor Ways earns its spot next to the earlier titles: plenty to chew on for series loyalists, yet easy enough for a new player to get stuck in. The 25,000x ceiling is fine for sustained play and suits the volatility tweak.