Mayhem - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Introduction

Mayhem is a Red Tiger slot that promises ‘chaos and insane wins’. That might be setting the bar a bit high, but the welcome page is certainly very striking. It’s part of a sub-genre of online casino slots featuring belligerent fighters in cartoon war zones, like Blueprint Gaming’s Worms Reloaded. 

Red Tiger have established a strong reputation with their online slots, which tend to be relatively simple but graphically inventive. Whatever mobile casino you visit, you’re likely to come across examples of their work.

Mayhem is an online casino slot with 20 fixed paylines. The minimum bet size is 0.20 and the maximum is 1000. There are 9 regular symbols: a Golden Dollar Sign, a Helmet, a Grenade, Bright Red Lips and the 5 highest-playing cards. The wild is the Cash Queen, our armed heroine, and the scatter is renamed as an Anarchy Spins symbol

Theme, graphics and soundtrack

A Mayhem slot review has to start by acknowledging the game’s debt to the influence of the cartoon artwork of Jamie Hewlett, the creator of Tank Girl and co-founder of the virtual band Gorillaz. The desert wasteland with shell casings and arrows scattered around while the occasional tumbleweed and the redundant signs nailed to a post are hints that life on this earth is not what it once was. 

The anarchy symbol appears in the game’s title, as if we needed any further evidence that we’re in a post-apocalyptic world. The graphics generally are original and the Cash Queen herself adds both humour and menace with her maniacal laughter and trigger-happy gun-toting. The soundtrack is a kind of heavy metal-lite.

Mayhem RTP and variance

Mayhem has an RTP of 95.75 per cent and its variance is medium to high. The RTP is slightly below average for online slots.

How to play Mayhem

1. Set your bet by calling up the betting options. Click on Stake and pick your bet level out of a choice ranging from 0.20 to 100.00.
2. There are no autoplay or turbo play options.
3. The prize value from one payline is equal to the total stake divided by the number of paylines, then multiplied by the symbol multiplier shown in the paytable. Where multiple wins occur on separate win lines, the total win values are added together. If more than one win occurs on the same payline, the largest win is paid. Each individual payline can pay only once per spin.
4. Your credit balance is displayed throughout the game at the top left of the screen.
5. The wild substitutes for all paying symbols. Land the wild with winning symbols to trigger respins.
6. Spin the reels using the Spin button or the space bar. On a mobile device, just tap Spin. 
7. It’s important to us that you enjoy online slots, and we support initiatives like BeGambleAware. You can play most games as free slots at virtually any online casino, which allows you to try them out before you spend any money. If you do choose to bet, never wager more than you can afford. To regulate your gambling, please use the timeout and self-exclusion functions in your online casino gaming account. As soon as the game stops being fun, you should stop playing.

Bet sizes and paytable wins

The bet size ranges from 0.20 to 100. The maximum payout is 1,200x

The paytable values run from 3x to 5x and the highest paying multiplier values for each symbol are as follows:

Golden Dollar

5 = 150

Helmet

5 = 100

Grenade

5 = 60

Red Lips

5 = 50
        
Ace

5 = 30

King

5 = 24

Queen

5 = 20

Jack

5 = 16

10 

5 = 12

Mayhem bonus features

Cash Queen

This is a 1x3 Wild Super Symbol that can land on the middle reel and substitutes for all paying symbols. It is always fully visible when it lands. When it participates in a win line, it locks together with the winning symbols. A respin is awarded, and if more symbols of the locked type land in the next spin, these will lock as well and award another respin.

Anarchy Spins

If you land 3 Anarchy Spins symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5, you win 10 free spins. At the start of the anarchy round, the Cash Queen locks on the middle reel for the duration of the bonus round.

The Cash Queen feature is the same as in the base game, but after the first cycle of respins in which she participates, a 2x multiplier is added to the Cash Queen. At the end of every subsequent cycle of respins, the multiplier increases by 1.

The multiplier is applied to all winning lines during the bonus round and can increase to 10x. The multiplier is available only during the Anarchy Spins round and is reset at the end of the bonus round.

Mayhem review: our verdict

Online slots set in dystopian environments are nothing new, and Mayhem may not have as many bonus features as some free slots, but it looks so good that we wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it.
 

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