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cats megaways slot theme, stakes, pays & symbols

The cats that feature in this game aren’t of the regular old pets variety! No, these are some of the most aggressive and vicious animals found anywhere in the world – think lions, tigers, and leopards, and you will be on the right track. This makes quite a nice change because ever since cats were labelled as the internet’s ‘spirit animal’, they have been downgraded to an almost comedy-like status within many areas of popular culture. It’s easy to see this in effect when looking at the slot libraries of the most popular online casinos – Cats of the Caribbean, for example, or Phat Cats Megaways. There’s nothing wrong with those games, but, as Steve Irwin always said, it’s sometimes better to observe these animals in their natural habitat!

My first real issue with this game arose once I began checking out its paytable – a black panther is the highest-paying symbol of the bunch, but it’s still only worth 50x the total bet for a full payway of 14-of-a-kind! Considering that a typical Megaways game will pay you 50x your stake for hitting a regular old payway of six symbols, I struggle to understand why iSoftBet would allocate the available RTP in this manner. I guess that the best payout possible for a maximum pay way doesn’t change no matter how many symbols it comprises. The lion is worth 30x for all 14 possible symbols, followed by the leopard, tiger, and jaguar at 20x each. There are five more low-paying royals, but you’ll only need six of those to capture their top payouts – that’s 0.75x for the aces and kings or 0.5x for the queens, jacks, and tens. 

iSoftBet likes to use coin sizes to control the amount of each bet in their games, but it’s completely irrelevant to how a payways-based game is played. The same screen that lets you choose a coin value also shows the total bet amount, which is all that matters, the limits of which are set at €0.20 and €20.00 per spin, respectively.

base game & modifiers

The standard Megaways layout, as used here, is based on a six-reel design. The ‘top tracker’ displayed above reels two through five are explained separately in the paytable, but if you think of those symbols as being part of reels two through five, then it simply balances things out so that all six columns can include up to seven symbols each.

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cats megaways slot bonus features

The bonus scatter symbols included in Cats are represented by paws which can appear as single and double symbols. Nevertheless, you’ll still need at least six paws to trigger the bonus round with a minimum of six free spins. Hitting more paws will boost the number of spins awarded to 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, or even 20 for a 12-scatter combination.

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