Mr Vegas Casino and Videoslots have both already added the new Apex Predator series slot from iSoftBet called Tyrant King Megaways slot, which, as the title suggests, is a prehistoric dinosaur-themed machine.

The main high paying character Hugo looks like the explorer found in slots such as Book of Ra Deluxe and Book of Dead, but that is where the similarities end as this is an entirely different beast of a machine.

The Apex Predator series will be an entire series of slots that sees the main character Hugo (Explorer) take on all kinds of visually immersive adventures providing a graphically intense and visually enhanced story to each new slot.

That's iSoftBet's plan, at least, and we look forward to seeing how this intrepid explorer fares in future releases.

Indeed, the level of graphical polish is apparent in this release, with an animated wildlife background, with prehistoric raptors and insects wandering across the lush cartoon styled background. Don't rush to mute this slot either, as the thudding sound effects and screen shaking help to build immersion when the special features are close to triggering!

Tyrant King Megaways Slot - Base Gameplay

On loading Tyrant King up for the first time, you are treated to an impressive graphical intro screen, showcasing this slots special features. The base mechanics, of course, rely heavily on the Megaways system.

The addition of a second tracker (horizontal reel) in the bonus round means the standard 117,649 ways are increased further to 200,704 in the bonus round.

However, the critical new addition that sets this slot apart from Megaways rivals is the innovative Tyrant King Respins mode triggered with wild symbols on the middle reels, awarding a 3 respins style sticky wild feature that is triggerable in both the base game and bonus round!

Aside from this, the base is a reasonably standard Megways release, with cascading wins, rising multipliers and the usually hard to bonus features! But this unique respin feature, given the right set-up, can produce some massive base game hits.

Tyrant King is being pitched as a super high variance machine, with maximum wins capped to 50,000x stake, making this a true beast of a machine and one to approach with extreme caution in terms of bet size!

The bonus round requires 4 of the Egg Scatter symbols to trigger, and this is where the slot can truly shine!

Landing 4 of these special Wild symbols on reels 2-5 will trigger the Wild Tyrant Respins feature. This feature can occur in the base game of free spins!

On triggering this feature, you are awarded three respins with all regular symbols removed except the wild symbols left in play on the reel strips.

The Wild Tyrant Respins are only played on middle reels (2-5 ). Reels 1, 6 and top/bottom trackers will be locked until this feature completes. Any new wild symbols that land in view resets the repin counter back to 3, and the process continues until you run out of spins or fill at the reels!

The crucial part of this feature is that if you manage to fill up a reel completely with wilds, it will get transformed into a Wild multiplier reel.

The value of these Wild reel multipliers is equal to the amount of Wilds landed on the reel,  given its a Megaways slot can vary hugely.

But, once all the respins are used up, the triggering symbols that formed these Multiplier reels will re-appear with this value multiplier attached.

Not forgetting that in the bonus round, the rising multiplier value is also applied to any wins that are formed on the reels, which is where this slots huge volatility and insane potential lies.

Free Spins Bonus Round

The free spins round is triggered by landing 4 of the Egg Scatter symbols anywhere on the reels and award a starting ten free spins,

An additional horizontal tracker reel is added to the bottom of the regular reels during the free spins. The extra tracker raises the maximum number of winning ways to up to 200,704.

However, the key to the most significant wins is from the Wild Tyrant Respins feature during the bonus round, especially if you already got a large multiplier from the bonus round. The combined effect of these two features can produce some staggering wins.

There are quite a few things required for the perfect setup, but even a few multipliers and converting a reel into multiplier wilds can transform a win.

The free spins play out like a regular Megaways slot with an unlimited win multiplier, starting at 1x, increasing with every cascading win by 1x each time.

Whilst there is no full bonus re-trigger on offer on this slot, extra spins are awarded for each Egg Scatter symbol if they land during the free spins, awarding +1 Extra Spins each time.

Tyrant King Extra Spin Symbol

Paytable

The Paytable below for Tyrant King Megaways shows the premium symbol awards based on a 4 euro stake size. The premium Hugo (Explorer) symbol awards a maximum win of 50x stake for a 6 of a kind win.

This, of course does not include any rising multipliers from the bonus round or any multipliers from the Tyrant Respins feature either.