Power of Thor Megaways Demo & review

Power of Thor Megaways is a six-reel Megaways game built around two ideas: a hammer on the top row that turns the reels beneath it wild, and free spins whose multiplier rises with every tumble and never goes back down. Pragmatic Play released it in April 2021. It suits players who want a bonus that gets better the longer it runs, and buyers who like a choice to make before the round starts.

Power of Thor Megaways at $1 before our first spin: six reels plus the top row over reels 2 to 5, and 24,500 ways on this layout. FluxPlays demo test, 28 October 2026.

How Power of Thor Megaways works

Wins pay for matching symbols on adjacent reels from the leftmost reel, and the number of ways changes every spin. Reels 1 and 6 show up to seven symbols, and reels 2 to 5 show up to six plus one more on a top row that runs right to left, for up to 117,649 ways. Winning symbols clear, the gaps refill, and tumbles continue until nothing new pays.

The ways count is the reel heights multiplied together. On our spin 41 the six reels held 3, 4, 5, 3, 3 and 4 symbols, top row included, which makes 2,160 ways, the figure the counter showed.

Thor is the only symbol that also pays for two of a kind, and below the two dwarves the card royals pay small amounts even across six reels.

Base spin 41 of 100 at $1: 2,160 ways and a single winning combination for $10.00, our best base spin. FluxPlays demo test, 28 October 2026.

Reel modifiers: the hammer and the top-row wild

The hammer

The hammer is the game's base-game swing. It pays nothing itself, always takes two neighbouring spots on the top row of reels 2 to 5, and acts only when both halves are fully on screen. Then every symbol on the two reels below it turns wild.

It works after tumbles too: if a tumble moves the hammer to a new spot on the top row, the reels below its new position turn wild as well. In practice, two full wild reels in the middle of the grid connect almost any symbol that lands on both sides of them. The hammer is also active in free spins, where those wins meet the multiplier.

The wild

The ordinary wild appears only on the top row of reels 2 to 5. It replaces any symbol other than the THOR scatters and the hammer.

Rules page 2 in our demo session: the tumble, the hammer feature, the max win and the buy. FluxPlays demo test, 28 October 2026.

Free spins: how they trigger

Four or more scatters anywhere start free spins. They spell T, H, O and R, and each extra scatter shows a +4:

The round's multiplier starts at 1x and goes up by one with every tumble. It never resets during the round, and each tumble's win is multiplied by the value at that moment. By the rules, a tumble worth $1.00 at a 5x multiplier pays five times as much. The next tumble already counts at 6x. During the round, three scatters bring four extra spins.

The gamble for more spins

With 10 to 18 free spins won, a wheel offers four more before the round starts. A win moves you up a step, a loss ends the round with nothing, and the ladder stops at 22:

Because the multiplier never resets, extra spins are worth more than their number suggests: the last spins of a long round run at the highest multipliers.

The gamble screen after our buy: collect 10 free spins, or gamble for 14 at the risk of none. FluxPlays demo test, 28 October 2026.

Power of Thor Megaways bonus buy

The buy costs 100x the bet and lands a random number of scatters, worth 10 to 22 free spins, with the same gamble on offer afterwards. Its RTP by the rules is 96.97%, higher than the standard game's, so buying costs nothing in theory. There is no ante bet.

RTP, volatility and max win

The standard game's RTP is 96.55%. The casino you play at may run a lower setting, which its game information shows. Pragmatic labels the game medium volatility, though several review sites list it as high, and this page follows the rules. The cap is 5,000x the bet. Free spins stop the moment a round's total gets there, and the win is paid.

Our Power of Thor Megaways demo test

The bought round showed the never-resetting multiplier doing its job. We collected rather than gamble, and the first two spins paid nothing. Then the tumbles started stacking up: by the end the multiplier had reached 14x, and the late spins, at 9x and above, paid steadily. The best of the round was still free spin 3, at $16.20.

The base game was the opposite. A third of the spins paid, mostly small amounts, only five had more than one winning tumble, and the best was a single combination on spin 41. The hammer never confirmed a full landing, the gamble went untried and no natural trigger came, so all three are described from the rules. A hundred spins and one bonus describe a session, not the game's long-run return.

Free spin 9 of our bought round: the multiplier at 10x with two spins to go, and still climbing. FluxPlays demo test, 28 October 2026.

The bought round's result screen: $54.90 in 10 free spins, with the multiplier at 14x when it ended. FluxPlays demo test, 28 October 2026.

Is Power of Thor Megaways worth playing?

Yes, if you are there for the free spins. The multiplier that never resets makes this one of the clearer bonus rounds to follow: every tumble lifts the rest of the round, so length matters, and the gamble lets you trade safety for length before it starts. The buy carries a higher RTP than spinning, which for us settles how to play it.

The base game asks for patience. Without a full hammer, most spins are small ways wins.

In the demo, buy once and try the first gamble step. The 62.81% step is the cheapest way to feel what four extra spins at a climbing multiplier are worth to you.