Gimme the Honey Megaways

Gimme the Honey Megaways: Slot Overview

One of online slots' cute as a button creatures buzzes in for players' enjoyment in developer iSoftBet's game Gimme the Honey Megaways. The name should be more than enough of a clue to alert readers to the fact the stars of this show are nature's honey producers, bees, who spend their days flitting from flower to flower in the endless production of the dripping golden stuff. When looking for facts for the review, here's one generated by AI that popped up at the top of an Internet search - 'Bees make a lot of honey.' Fair dues and iSoftBet has made a few Megaways slots by now, too, more than enough to give them certain expertise in the area and generate a wonder about how they've gone about mixing in bees.

One way they've done so is by making Gimme the Honey Megaways an ultra-charming slot to behold. The game is held in a rich rural environment of grass, flowers, mushrooms, swiftly moving clouds, and a quaint human structure in the background. A warm golden light bathes the scene while a delightful tune bounces away at all times. The effect is similar in tone to Print Studios' Royal Potato 2 and makes the task of settling back for a spin or two to see what Gimme the Honey Megaways can do easy to accomplish.

Gimme the Honey Megaways is played on 6 vertically spinning reels, with a horizontal tracker reel holding 4 symbols sitting below reels 2-5. The amount of symbols on the main reels varies from spin to spin, changing the number of available ways to win up to a maximum of 117,649. Running everything is Gimme the Honey Megaways' medium-high volatile math model, generating a return to player value of 95.98%. This seems to apply when buying either of the two feature options or plain old wagering 20 c to $/€40 per spin.

Winning symbols create a reaction, where they are removed and replaced by symbols from above on the main reels or symbols from the side on the tracker reel. A sequence of cascading wins ends when no more wins appear on the reels. Winning combinations need the same pay symbol type to land from the leftmost side of the grid across at least 3 adjacent reels. As lows, we find 9 to A card royals, worth 0.4 to 0.8 times the bet for a 6 symbol win, and for highs, there are 2 different flowers, an unusual metallic device, and a jar of honey, worth 1 to 7.5 times the bet for 6 OAK. Gimme the Honey Megaways has both a normal wild and a Queen Bee stacked Wild, both substituting for any normal pay symbol.

Gimme the Honey Megaways: Slot Features

For features, the bees pile on mystery symbols, Queen Bee Wilds, free spins with an increasing multiplier, and bonus buys.

Mystery Symbols

When mystery symbols land, they reveal any matching pay symbol, so not wilds, Queen Bees, or scatters.

Queen Bee Wilds

Golden Hive symbols are present on the tracker reel. When one hits, it spawns a Queen Bee Wild, which covers all of the positions above it on the main reel. The multiplier on the Queen Bee Wild reflects the size of the reel it spawned on. The Queen Bee wild stays in view, respinning the reels and increasing the win multiplier until it forms a win. More than one Queen Bee can be on the reels at the same time, and if a Golden Hive lands below an already stacked wild, the wild increases by +1.

Free Spins

Getting 3, 4, 5, or 6 scatters anywhere on the reels awards 6, 8, 10, or 12 free spins, respectively. In free spins, Queen Bees remain in view until they are used in a win, and any respins that result do not get deducted from the free spins remaining. Should 3 scatters land, +4 free spins are awarded. An unlimited multiplier is activated during Queen Bee Wild respins. After every losing spin during a Queen Bee Respin, the multiplier increases by +1 and does not reset. If the round ends and the win is below 10x the bet, +4 free spins are awarded due to the free spins guarantee. This can only happen once.

Bonus Buy

At the bonus buy menu, players can get free spins triggered by 3 or more scatters for 75x the bet or free spins triggered by 4 or more scatters guaranteed to trigger the Queen Bee Wild on the first spin for 150x the bet.

Gimme the Honey Megaways: Slot Verdict

Gimme the Honey Megaways was, overall, a delightful bee slot from start to finish. It piles on a warm kingdom of the bees atmosphere, inviting you in, then layers on lashings of honeyed antics. The result is a Megaways game with a pleasant flow, a relatively high number of cascading wins, and enough feature innovation to make seeing how it all fits together interesting. Gimme the Honey Megaways didn't blow minds, but it's also difficult not to like. Perhaps a lot has to do with the cuteness factor of anthropomorphized bees in general.

However, iSoftBet hasn't just chucked in a couple of charismatic insects and expected them to do all the work. The studio's execution of the bee world has been nicely done, what with the golden-hued visuals and upbeat music. The mechanics might not tie to the theme as nicely as a game like Honey Rush, but they fit well enough, though things like Queen Bee Wilds can be few and far between in the base game. Quite well thought out, such as the way Queen Bee Wilds trigger respins till used in a win, increasing win multipliers as it does so. However, Queen Bees would mostly be used when they first appeared, meaning they wouldn't contribute to the win multiplier a lot, but you never know, it might stack if you're lucky. There can be a lot of cascades, boosted by the Max Megaways feature, which was not mentioned in the game docs, but this effect is offset by the relatively low symbol values and the fact the win multiplier in free spins does not increase following a win, but following a losing Queen Bee respin. As such, this method can be frustrating.

It's hard to say exactly how effective this particular feature combination is, either, since max win was not available. But, some of the last few Megaways slots from iSoftBet (Masks of Fortune Megaways, Olympus Raging Megaways, and Cash Lab Megaways) have been in the 10-25,000x range, meaning Gimme the Honey Megaways may offer similar numbers, providing the icing on the cake of an enjoyably bee-filled experience.