Providers / BGaming / Aztec Magic Megaways
Aztec Magic Megaways
BGaming · 6 reels, variable rows · Megaways · RTP 96.96% · Max win 12,960x · Released 27 January 2022
Figures from BGaming's published game data. Confirm in the game's info screen before playing.
- Provider
- BGaming
- RTP
- 96.96%
- Volatility
- Very high
- Maximum win
- 12,960x
- Layout
- Megaways
- Released
- 27 January 2022
This is the highest-ceiling game BGaming publishes among its ten most-played titles here, and it also carries one of the highest returns — 96.96%, second only to Fruit Million and Book of Cats. That combination is unusual enough to be worth examining, because high RTP and a high ceiling normally trade against each other.
The catch is volatility
BGaming classifies this as very high. That is the price of the combination above.
Return, ceiling and volatility are three views of one distribution. If a game returns 96.96% and can pay 12,960x, the money to fund that tail has to come from somewhere, and it comes from the frequency and size of ordinary wins. The higher the ceiling relative to the return, the emptier the middle of the distribution.
In practice: long stretches where nothing much happens, and a small number of results that determine whether the session was good. Both the excellent return and the huge ceiling are real, and neither will be visible in a hundred spins.
What Megaways does here
Six reels with a variable number of symbols per reel each spin, producing a shifting number of ways to win. That is the standard Big Time Gaming-licensed engine.
BGaming's implementation adds:
- 2x and 3x multiplier wilds in the base game
- Sticky wilds in free spins — the wilds hold position for the remainder of the round
- 8 to 16 free spins depending on scatter count
Sticky multiplier wilds are the mechanic that matters. A 3x wild locked in place for twelve spins compounds against every winning combination that crosses it, and that compounding is how a Megaways game reaches five figures.
Two games, one theme
Aztec Magic Bonanza shares the name and the artwork. It shares nothing else:
| Megaways | Bonanza | |
|---|---|---|
| Grid | 6 reels, variable rows | 6x5 fixed |
| Pay system | Megaways | Pays anywhere |
| RTP | 96.96% | 96.11% |
| Volatility | Very high | High |
| Max win | 12,960x | 10,200x |
Different engines, different maths, different sessions. Familiarity with one tells you nothing useful about the other beyond the visual style.
The optional features
Buy and chance options are available where permitted. The reasoning is the same as on any high-volatility game: a purchase does not change the expected return, it converts a long uncertain process into one short uncertain outcome. On a very high volatility title that conversion is at its most extreme — a single bought feature on this game can resolve a session's entire bankroll in under a minute.
Who it suits
A player who genuinely wants the tail — who is playing for the possibility of a large multiple and accepts that the overwhelmingly likely outcome of any given session is a slow decline. The 96.96% return means that over a very long horizon this is among the better-priced games in the studio's catalogue.
It suits nobody playing a short session on a small budget. The distribution is too empty in the middle for that to be a good experience.
Also on this site
- Aztec Magic Bonanza — same theme, unrelated maths
- Book of Cats — BGaming's other very-high-volatility, high-RTP title
- Megaways titles from Big Time Gaming, who license the engine
Source: BGaming's published game data. Reviewed 29 August 2026. BGaming's published "hit rate" figure is omitted here pending a definition of the metric.
Verify the return figure in the game's own information screen. Operators deploy different certified builds of the same game, and the figure shown to you is the one that applies. Set a deposit limit first.
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