Megaways Slots in Malaysia: Which Studios Make Them and Where to Play

Last Updated: August 26, 2026

Megaways slots are available on Pirate777 from three studios: Pragmatic Play, Playtech and Microgaming. Between them they account for 73 Megaways titles in our library as of 5 August 2026 — Pragmatic Play 57, Playtech 8, Microgaming 8 — at published RTPs of 94–97%, and every one of them runs in your browser with no app to install. Megaways is a licensed mechanic invented by Big Time Gaming, which is why you only ever find it on studios that have paid for the licence — not on every slot maker.

If you have been looking for Megaways games and were not sure which platforms actually carry them, this page answers that first, then explains what the mechanic does.

Which studios on Pirate777 make Megaways games

Megaways is not something a studio can simply build. It belongs to Big Time Gaming, an Australian developer that created it in 2015, and other studios have to license it. That licence is the reason the list of Megaways makers is short and stable.

Three of the studios in our library hold that licence:

• Pragmatic Play — by far the largest Megaways range on the platform, covering most of the well-known titles.
• Playtech — a smaller set, including Megaways versions of its long-running Age of the Gods and Fire Blaze series.
• Microgaming — a smaller set again, including Megaways versions of older Microgaming favourites.

Added together that comes to 73 Megaways titles (5 August 2026). You can find them by searching for “Megaways” in the game lobby, since the licence requires the word to appear in the title.

Title counts and RTPs from our game-library export of 5 August 2026. We update this table when the library changes.

Every Megaways title on Pirate777

The full list as of 5 August 2026 — 73 titles. RTP is the long-run figure the studio publishes, as shown in each game’s info panel.

What Megaways actually does

On an ordinary slot, each reel shows a fixed number of symbols every spin. On a Megaways slot, the number of symbols on each reel changes from spin to spin. A reel might show two symbols on one spin and seven on the next.

Because the reels keep changing shape, the number of possible winning combinations changes too — anywhere from a few hundred up to 117,649 on the most common six-reel setup. That number is usually displayed on screen and moves as you play.

This is why Megaways games feel unpredictable in a way that fixed-line slots do not. One spin gives you a tall, crowded grid with enormous connectivity; the next gives you a thin one.

How Megaways compares to the other modern mechanics

Megaways is one of four common ways a modern slot can pay. It helps to see them side by side.

Tumbling reels: the feature that often comes with them

Tumbling reels — also called cascading reels — are a separate feature that many Megaways and cluster games include. After a win, the winning symbols disappear and new ones drop in to fill the gaps. If the new arrangement wins as well, it pays again, all within the same spin you already paid for.

Many tumbling games add a multiplier that climbs with each chained win. That is where their big swings come from: most spins end after one tumble, but occasionally a chain keeps going.

Do these mechanics change your odds?

No. A game’s return to player and its volatility are set by the maths the studio built and had tested, whatever mechanic sits on top. Megaways does not pay better than fixed lines, and 117,649 ways does not mean a better chance of winning — it means the same expected return, spread differently.

Across the 73 titles the published RTPs run from 94% to 97%. Most sit at 96%; Beware The Deep Megaways (Pragmatic Play) is the one title at 97%, and Playtech’s two Cash Collect Megaways titles (Leprechaun’s Luck: Cash Collect: Megaways and Sahara Riches MegaWays: Cash Collect) sit at 94%. The full list above shows each title’s figure, so you can pick by return rather than by name.

What the mechanic does change is the texture of a session: how often wins arrive and how big they are when they do. Megaways games tend to be high volatility, which means longer dry spells and bigger occasional hits. If you are playing a small budget, that is worth knowing before you start rather than after.

Trying one before you deposit

Each game in our lobby has a Try Free button that opens the game in practice mode with play money. Whether that button is active varies from game to game, so the reliable way to find out is to open the title you are interested in and look. There is more detail on how practice mode works in our guide to demo play.

Every Megaways title runs in your browser. There is no app to download and nothing to install, which is covered in full in our guide to browser play versus APK downloads, and our list of which studios need no app covers every studio on the platform.

All three of these studios hold a gambling software licence you can look up yourself on the UK Gambling Commission’s public register: Pragmatic Play (account 56015), Playtech (38516), and Games Global (58841), the company behind the Microgaming titles. That is a regulator’s own record of who is licensed to make the software — not a badge printed on a website.

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How this page was verified

• Titles, studios and RTPs: our game-library export of 5 August 2026, checked against the live lobby (search “Megaways”).
• Studio licences: the UK Gambling Commission’s public register, accounts 56015, 38516 and 58841 (links above).

— Pirate777 Team. We verify our observations against each studio’s own published game data and, where a studio holds one, its licence record on the regulator’s public register.