Megaways Jack Frost Slot Review

10/01/2024 | Categories: Bitcoin Slots Reviews, Iron Dog Studio Slots | Published by: Joe | Last updated: 13/01/2024

It shocked us to learn that we have only reviewed one Iron Dog Studios game, Rainin’ Money, which we analyzed in August 2023. We do not understand how this happened, as this 1×2 brand has been around since 2017 and has over one hundred and thirty slots to its name. It started distributing Megaways Jack Frost on November 30th as its sole release for that month. We have been seeing this holiday spinner about at loads of casinos, and it seems to be doing decently in markets like Finland, Canada, Ireland, and Denmark, so we chose to give it a go and see how it plays. Our scan of it gets presented below.

Theme & Design

According to the Internet, Jack Frost originates from Norse and Anglo-Saxon winter customs, and he has an equivalent called Pakkasukko in the Finish 19th century poetry compilation named Kalevala. There is also a Swedish equivalent from that country’s 17th-century folklore named King Bore. And there is a Russian one going by Ded Moroz or Grandfather Frost. You can find many other nations also having a character similar to the ones rattled off above. For us, Jack Forst is a Michael Keaton Christmas movie from 1998. There is also one from the year prior, which is pretty bad but has a cool tagline – he’s chillin’ and killin’.

We did a short dive and found two other Jack Frost spinners, one from Rival Gaming and another from PG Soft – Jack Frost’s Winter. Without question, this is the best and most advanced one from this trio. However, we are unsure if we can name it among the top holiday 2023 releases.

The reel-spinning fun in Megaways Jack Frost takes place in a mountain somewhere, with the reels spinning inside a fancy frame that hovers in the foreground while snow-covered nature fills the background. We assume the house there with smoke coming out of its chimney is the abode of the boy character in this game. We do not have much to say about the presentation here. The graphics are painterly and a bit blurry, and the folklore and cinematic soundtrack more than does its job of setting up a magical mood of sorts. All in all, this game looks and sounds Okay. It is nothing too out of the ordinary or impressive. It is average in its presentation.

You will find all the game buttons at the bottom of the screen, with the spin functions and the bet adjuster resting in the bottom right corner. It disappointed us to see that this slot only allows you to select the number of automated spins from five to ninety-nine, not permitting you to include any other auto-play options.

Specs & Gameplay

The reel setup of Megaways Jack Frost gets comprised of six reels, with the number of symbols per column moving from two to seven, per the Megaways mechanic, with the number of paylines/win-ways going up to 117,649. Megaways Jack Frost is available in three RTP variants. The least desirable one has a return-to-player percentage of 88%. The medium version has an RTP of 94%, and the most user-friendly one sits at 96.14%. The max exposure of this Iron Dog title is x25,000, hittable, in theory, once in every twenty-five million spins. The variance here is high, and the bet sizes move from $0.10 to $20, playing ten fixed coins pre-reel rotations.

In Megaways Jack Frost, only the highest win on a winway gets paid out, and multiple hit win-way combos get added together. The tumble mechanic is in play here, which means that prize-producing symbols get destroyed, allowing new tokens to tumble in their place, unlocking potential for novel winning combos. The low-pay symbols in this slot are 10-A royals. The premiums are images. They are a snowflake, a frozen apple hanging from a branch, a cute bird, a reindeer, and a red-haired boy. These pay up to x25 for six-of-a-kind groups, and the most their low-pay counterparts can yield is a reward of x1 for six matching tokens dropping on a winning spin.

You have wilds here, which only do not pop in on the first and sixth reels in the base game. In the free spins, they only miss the initial one and do show up on the last layout column. As you would assume, the job of the wilds is to substitute any of the pay symbols. The scatter here is an icy god of some sort.

Bonus Features

Megaways Jack Frost, aside from the tumble mechanic, has multiple bonus features that give the gameplay here a certain level of dynamism. The special Jack Frost symbol drops, activating multiple features that spice things up here. In the standard gameplay, this token shows up only on the second reel and guarantees a win-line of wilds, high-pay, or low-pay symbols. If a wild stemming from a Jack Forts lands on an existing wild, it adds value, boosting it to an x2 one.

The symbol in this free spin mode can activate a random feature from the following list when it lands. It can give you an additional on-the-house spin. An extra multiplier, supply one more locked reel, add an extra reel for the Jack Frost symbol, and move left to right from reels 2 to 5. It can also bestow high-pay tokens on the grid, replace low-pay ones with high-pay symbols, and, after the feature is active, any remaining special Jack Frosts on the up to 6×7 layout into wilds.

You need four scatters popping up on the second, third, fourth, and fifth reels, one per layout column. When this round starts, it randomly determines how many multipliers, spins, locked reels, and the Jack Frost frequency it will feature. Know that getting four consecutive tumbles awards gives you two complimentary reel rotations, with each tumble boosting multipliers by +1.

There are three bonus buy options in Megaways Jack Frost. For a cost of x100, you get an arbitrary number of locked reels, multipliers, spins, and random Jack Frost frequency. For a price of x160, you get eight on-the-house spins. And for x200, the game adds at least an x4 multiplier with at least eight complimentary reel rotations and locked reels.