Milky Ways

Travel into deep space for an interstellar reel voyage on the slot from Nolimit City. Milky Ways lets you ease through the galaxy with multiplier wilds and a free spins round with an expanded game window and locked win respins that can lead to wins of up to 5,664 times your bet.

Slot Details

Milky Ways is a video slot with five reels, three rows and 243 ways to win in the base game. It will increase to a 5×5 format with 3,125 ways in the bonus feature. You can travel into deep space on desktop or mobile from 0.20 to 100 credits per spin. The game has medium to high volatility (8+/10) with a default RTP of 96.14%. Alternatively, it can be offered with a secondary setting called DX1 sporting a value of 94.24%. Make sure to read the help files to find out which version you will be playing.

A frameless, translucent game window is opening up a view of a deep-space scene with a solar eclipse dominating the dark infinity. In stark contrast, brightly coloured gems and card royals dominate on the reels which seem to be floating in space among various meteor rock pieces. An echoing space soundtrack complements the reel noises for a suspenseful atmosphere.

The pay symbols start at the low end with the card royals from J to A, awarding 0.5x to 0.6x your bet for a single five of a kind. They are complemented with a range of four gems in blue, green, yellow and red colours. Hit five across the reels to win 0.75x to 2.5x your stake. Solar Wilds can land on three centre reels only just as the Milky Ways scatters. The former substitutes for any regular pay symbol.

Milky Ways Slot Features

After releasing with Punk Rocker, Barbarian Fury and Deadwood some truly intense and highly volatile games at the beginning of 2020, Nolimit City has been toning it down a little for a gentler gaming breeze for the summer months. The preceding slot to Milky Ways called Bonus Bunnies was foreshadowing the trend although this creation is not necessarily boringly low variance but neither does it have the 10+ rating attributed to Deadwood.

For starters, we get a standard 5×3 layout with 243 ways to win in the base game which won’t be a nailbiter unless Multiplier Wilds land on the three centre reels. Any Solar Wild hitting on a spin will display an x1, x2 or x3 multiplier whereas more than one will be multiplied by each other, giving you a maximum x27 for the current spin. Badly needed, I might add, as the line pays look excruciatingly low.

Hitting three scatters anywhere on reels two, three and four in one spin will trigger 3 Milky Ways Spins (not a typo), which cannot be retriggered. Before the start of the feature, the game window expands to a 5×5 size with 3,125 ways to win. On every free spin, two wilds are randomly placed on the three centre reels. Fusion Spins is a respin feature that is triggered the soon you hit a win on a free spin. All winning symbols and the two wilds are locked in place and the other position respin as long as more matching symbols or new winning combos land on a respin or the screen is filled with symbols. The win evaluation is done once the respins end.

In need for extra speed on your space voyage? Then press the Nolimit Bonus button to buy a Milky Ways Spins feature for 32x your base bet. It will spin the reels to land three scatters on the centre reels that will lead you then directly into the bonus round. The option is restricted in some countries.

Final Verdict

After playing Milky Ways for three hours, I left with the impression that it is a good middle-of-road game that is neither highly volatile but nor fully capable of delivering intergalactic wins. It is though rather fast-paced with no needless interruptions from modifiers or random features other than the multiplier wilds, which will appeal to certain types of players. The test results also showed that wins in the 100x to 250x range are quite frequent with rare outliers going higher. However, the bonus feature will deliver often below 25x bet, so hitting the bonus buy button should be done with some caution.

Last Update: 13th October 2020

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