Fever Spin Megaways: Slot Overview

Much of the time in this life of ours, a fever is perceived as a negative thing, defined in a Google search as 'an abnormally high body temperature, usually accompanied by shivering, headache, and in severe instances, delirium.' Not nice. However, there is another use of the word often associated with disco, which is far more favourable. It is this positive side of the word 'fever' that is alluded to in the online slot Fever Spin Megaways from software developer iSoftBet which follows (almost exactly) on from Hot Spin Megaways, meaning players get a return of Bonus Wheel modifiers, lashings of fruit and two new bonus buy options hosted in a funky booty-shaking environment.

However, Fever Spin Megaways arguably isn't a funky disco slot as such. Its backing track, surely one of the game's draws, is chiller than disco, close in spirit to games like Euphoria or Euphoria Megaways, as well, but trancier if anything. Like a gentle early morning tune designed to help partygoers ease into the next day when the birds start chirping after a big night out. It's a nice track, in other words, to slink back to and take in Fever Spin Megaways' delights. The view has a retro feel to it, linking even further back to Hot Spin and Hot Spin Deluxe. Yep, the wheel is back, on the left-hand side, constantly rotating to show its prizes, while a fruit-covered game grid sits just off-centre in the middling part of the screen. It's all a bit old, a bit new, a bit the same, but so far so good.

If you haven't been lulled into a cosy somnambulist state by the warm Oodie tunes, then you might want to engage in stake selection where the options are 20 c to $/€20 per spin. The game's RTP in standard play is 95.99%, though it can noticeably increase when buying features while the volatility is high. A 6-reel Megaways grid is where the gaming occurs, where each reel can land 2 to 7 symbols, providing up to 117,649 ways to win. Winning combinations start from the leftmost side of the grid, and matching symbols must land on consecutive reels.

Starting from the lowest valuable symbols, Fever Spin Megaways has cherries, lemons, plums, watermelons, bells, stars, sevens, and diamonds. Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, huh? Values come in at 1 to 50 times the bet for landing a 6 OAK winning combination. Wilds substitute for all symbols except the scatter symbol and land on reels 2, 3, 4, and 5. The symbols in winning combinations are removed from the reels, dropping symbols down to replace them. Cascading wins continue like this until no new win appears.

Fever Spin Megaways: Slot Features

Bonus Wheels are the name of the game in Fever Spin Megaways, with one available in the base game and another in free spins. In addition, two feature buy options are up for grabs.

Bonus Wheel

The Bonus Wheel can activate on any spin, where 1 of 10 modifiers become active for a single spin:

• Wild & Super Wild – awards 5 to 8 random wilds to the reels. Super Wild awards 8 to 12 wilds.
• In Sync & Super In Sync – up to 3 reels spin in sync, landing the same amount of the same symbols. Super In Sync awards up to 6 synced reels.
• Wild Reels & Super Wild Reels – turns 2, 3, or 4 reels wild. Super Wild Reels may have a multiplier of x2, x3, or x5 attached.
• Mystery Symbols & Super Mystery Symbols – 6 to 10 mystery symbols are placed on the reels, transforming into one of the regular paying symbols. Super Mystery Symbols adds 6 to 16 mystery symbols.
• Max Megaways – all 6 reels land the maximum amount of symbols to award the max number of ways.
• Bonus Trigger – awards the free spins round.

Free Spins Bonus

Landing 4 scatter symbols in the base game triggers the free spins round. Players choose whether they would like 15 free spins with an x1 starting multiplier, 10 free spins with an x3 starting multiplier, 5 free spins with an x5 starting multiplier, or a random combination of free spins (5-15) and starting multiplier (x1-x5). An unlimited multiplier is active in free spins. After every cascading win, the multiplier increases by +1. A different Bonus Wheel is used in the round, offering these modifiers for a single spin:

• Random Wilds – 5 to 12 wilds are awarded to the reels.
• Max Megaways - all 6 reels land the maximum number of symbols to award the maximum number of ways.
• Mystery Symbols – awards 6 to 15 mystery symbols, revealing one of the regular paying symbols.
• Multiplier Boost – awards a multiplier boost of x3 to the current multiplier level.
• Symbols Removed – removes all of the low-paying fruit symbols for 1 spin.

During the round, hitting 2 scatter symbols awards +3 extra free spins, while landing 3 scatter symbols awards +5 extra free spins.

Bonus & Feature Buy

From here, players can buy a single spin with the Bonus Wheel active for 20x the bet (RTP 96.99%) or the free spins round for 100x the bet (96.52%).

Fever Spin Megaways: Slot Verdict

Forget cloning, copying, or reskinning. For Fever Spin Megaways, iSoftBet has changed the name of Hot Spin Megaways to Fever Spin Megaways (added bonus buys) and fired it out the door to see how it would fare in the world. Fever Spin Megaways fares just as well as a re-release of Hot Spin Megaways would. It mixes retro with modern as well as before and keeps the Bonus Wheel feature alive and ticking from Hot Spin Megaways as well as Hot Spin and Hot Spin Deluxe, another couple of earlier related iSoftBet releases.

The Bonus Wheels aren't bad either, as they can plant a wide range of modifiers onto the reels. Since the reels are of the Megaways variety, having a stack of extra wilds, wild reels, multipliers, and so on is no bad thing. Like Hot Spin Megaways, Fever Spin Megaways comes with an advertised winning potential of 50,000 times the bet. Some might say that figure is overly optimistic, but hey, that's the figure iSoftBet is going with (expressed as 1,000,000 coins), so there you go. The key technical change around here is the addition of two feature buys. Not only can players buy the free spins round, but they can also, for a lesser fee, buy a spin with an active Bonus Wheel. That might be reason enough right there for bonus-buying fans of the Hot Spin range to give Fever Spin Megaways a go.

In some ways, like Facebook changing its name to Meta, some Fever Spin Megaways users are unlikely to see much difference between this and the last one. However, that doesn't stop Fever Spin Megaways from being an enjoyable retro yet modern, funky yet trancy slot with a load of features to experience.