Wings of Ra Megaways

Theme & presentation

Another trip down the Nile, then. Red Tiger took its 2020 hit Wings of Ra, bolted the Megaways engine onto it, and shipped it in December 2024. If you’ve seen one Egyptian slot you’ve seen the set: golden scarabs, a hovering falcon-god, sandstone reels, royals dressed up in hieroglyph paint. It’s clean, it’s competent, and it’s about as surprising as a pyramid. The falcon animation when Ra spreads his wings is genuinely nice, and the audio does that low ceremonial hum that every Egypt slot is contractually obliged to include. Presentation is a solid B — polished, but I’ve reviewed this exact mood board fifty times.

How it plays

Standard Megaways architecture: six reels, 2 to 7 symbols each, up to 117,649 ways when the reels stack out. Wins trigger Chain Reactions — the cascading/avalanche mechanic — where winning symbols vanish, new ones drop in, and the sequence keeps rolling until nothing new connects. No win multiplier ladder on the base cascades, which is a slightly conservative choice for a modern Megaways title and one reason base play can feel a touch flat between features.

The one clever wrinkle is the Mystery Coin. Coins land, get collected on a progress bar, and each filled threshold strips the lowest-paying royal off the reels for the rest of the round — thinning the deck so higher-value symbols hit more often. In the base game it’s a slow tease; it’s really built for the bonus.

The feature

The main event is the Free Spins round, triggered by 3 or 4 scatters on reels 2 through 5 for 10 or 15 spins respectively. This is where the Mystery Coins earn their keep: coins collected across the round progressively remove the lowest-paying royals, with a fresh symbol stripped out for roughly every 15 coins banked, so a long bonus can gut the low-payers entirely and leave you spinning a reel full of premiums. When it clicks, it clicks hard. When the coins don’t show, it’s a damp squib and over quickly. There’s also a Feature Buy — 100x for 10 spins or 200x for 15 — if you’d rather skip the wait and pay for the privilege.

The numbers, straight

• Max win: 20,000x stake (confirmed across SlotCatalog, Fruity Slots, AboutSlots and Evolution’s own game page; note BigWinBoard’s review lists a low 784x, but that’s the figure printed on the in-game help page, which its own author flags as suspect after seeing bigger hits during testing — it is not the real cap)
• RTP: Tiered — top rate around 95.68–95.72%, with operator-configurable lower rungs reported at 94.71%, 92.67%, 92.19% and 90.67%. The exact ladder varies by source, but the takeaway holds: check the rate at your casino before you spin, because the gap is real money
• Volatility: High (one source calls it medium-to-high — treat it as high)
• Reels / ways: 6 reels, 2–7 rows, up to 117,649 ways
• Hit rhythm: Chain-reaction dribbles in the base game, feast-or-famine in the bonus depending on coin flow

Verdict

It’s a perfectly decent Megaways slot that does nothing to embarrass itself and little to distinguish itself. The Mystery Coin symbol-removal mechanic is the reason to bother — it gives the free spins genuine top-end teeth and that 20,000x is a real target — but the base game is workmanlike and the theme is well past its sell-by date. The tiered RTP is the sting in the tail: land on a low table around 90.67% or 92.xx% and you’re playing a meaningfully worse game than the ~95.7% version, for identical spins. Solid, not special.

SlotWhizz rating: 3.6/5. A better-than-average Egyptian Megaways with a smart bonus, but the house edge is baked in and, on the lower RTP tiers, it bites harder than the average slot.

18+. Demo for fun, not profit. Free-play results don’t reflect real-money outcomes; the house keeps an edge. Play responsibly.