Gems Inferno Megaways Slot by Red Tiger 🎰 Free Demo and Review

Gems Inferno Megaways Review

Red Tiger has a knack for doing strange things once in a while, and Gems Inferno Megaways is a perfect example of that. It’s a gemstone mining slot of sorts, but the mining theme is kept to a minimum and the visual presentation is pretty generic overall. You get Chain Reaction wins in the base game, which can lead to lengthy winning streaks, but the symbol values are too low for it to truly make an impact most of the time.

The Gem Sack symbol can appear on the top reel only, same as the wild, and it provides up to 3 cash prize gem symbols. This can help you trigger the Gemmed! hold and win style bonus round, where cash prize symbols up to 2,000x your stake can land. This is the sole feature in this game, and the 2,553x potential will hardly impress anyone in this day and age. Gems Inferno Megaways is overall an underwhelming release, and we can only wish Red Tiger better luck next time.

Gems Inferno Megaways Slot - Reels Screen

Gems Inferno Megaways Slot Features

The premium symbols pay between 0.8 and 1.5 x your stake for 6 of a kind wins, and the Wild symbol steps in for pay symbols to help complete and/or improve wins. The wild symbol only appears on the top sliding reel though, and the Chain Reactions mechanic removes all winning symbols from the grid. The gaps are filled by new and/or existing symbols dropping down from above, and this process repeats for as long as you keep winning.

The Magic Gem symbol comes with cash prize values between 1 and 100 x your stake, and Diamond symbols pay 10x your stake. Red Diamonds pay 50x the stake, while Pink Diamonds are worth 250x your stake. The Blue Diamond is the most valuable symbol, clocking in at a solid 2,000x your stake. You can land only one Pink and Blue Diamond on the same spin, and the magic gems come with a monetary value while the other prize symbols come with a bet multiplier.

You can land the Gem Sack scatter on the top horizontal sliding reel, and this gives you up to 3 gem scatter prize symbols placed on the main grid. And just to be clear, none of the above-mentioned gem and diamond symbols pay anything in the base game. You need to trigger the bonus round described below for that.

The Gemmed! Feature triggers when you land 6+ gem prize symbols of any kind in view, and this is a hold and win style bonus round. You start with 3 respins in the tally, with the triggering gems sticky on an otherwise cleared grid. The grid is similar to the triggering grid in terms of how many positions you get per reel, and any new gem prize symbols that land become sticky as the respins tally resets.

You can also land Gem Sack symbols during the feature, which award extra gems, but the Gem Sack symbol does not become sticky on the top sliding reel. The Gemmed! Bonus Round ends when you either run out of respins, or if you manage to fill the whole grid with gem prize symbols. Either way, all gem prize values are summed up and paid as the feature ends.

The Bonus Buy feature is available in some jurisdictions, but not in the UK for sure. If eligible, you can purchase the Gemmed! Bonus Round for 80x your stake, and this gives you an increased RTP of 95.73 %.

The 200 Spins Gems Inferno Megaways Slot Experience

You get a brief glimpse of the base game, before we purchase the Gemmed! Bonus Round at 0:35 into the 2:36-minute highlights video. We landed the minimum of 6 triggering gem prize symbols, and you can see for yourself how it all played out by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

Somewhat ironically, Gems Inferno Megaways looks like something Big Time Gaming could’ve cooked together on a bad day, but they would hardly go with such a weak math model. The game is light in the feature department as well, and more so than most Megaways releases. Red Tiger is back in their experimental mode with this release it seems, but it’s not very convincing. The mining theme is pretty generic, although the way the symbols explode off the grid is somewhat satisfying to behold.

Theoretically, because of the 117,649 ways to win, you can land solid payouts also in the base game, but how often have you seen a full grid maxed out Megaways win? The pay symbol values are pretty low overall, and cascading wins of a decent length will hardly even top you up most of the time. The hold and wins style Gemmed! Bonus Round comes with nothing extra, and the top-tier 2,000x symbol isn’t very impressive in this day and age. The same can be said about the 2,553x potential, and it’s hard to understand what Red Tiger has been thinking with this release.