MexoMax!

Yggdrasil Gaming set MexoMax! in a dense Mayan and Aztec jungle when it launched the slot on 27 July 2022, the first entry in its MultiMax family to pair cluster-pay wins with reel-based multipliers. Thick foliage, exotic flowers and a snake working its way through the undergrowth fill the background, while the soundtrack leans into a sense of menace rather than a purely tropical mood.

Play takes place across a 6-reel, 6-row grid holding 36 symbols per drop, with wins forming whenever five or more matching symbols connect vertically or horizontally. The paytable splits its eight regular symbols into a lower tier of four carved stone icons and a higher tier of four symbols depicting faces: five connected symbols return 0.25x to 1.5x the stake, rising to 4x-9.25x for clusters of 14 or more. A pulsing heart wild substitutes for any paying symbol, and a Chest symbol lands randomly to award a cash prize, extra wilds, or free spins outright.

Every win triggers a Dropdown, clearing the winning symbols and letting the remaining ones fall to fill the gaps; a wild drops into one of the empty spaces first, and the reel multiplier sitting above it rises by one point. Any reel multiplier applies to that reel's future wins, and clusters spanning several boosted reels multiply those values together instead of adding them, with everything clearing again once a spin doesn't pay. Stakes carry an optional Golden Bet, trading a 25% stake increase for extra scatters landing on the grid and pushing the odds toward triggering the round.

The scatter count decides the payout here too: three triggers a 7-spin round, a fourth scatter pushes it to 9, and a fifth locks in the maximum 11. Rather than starting immediately, players are offered a gamble on a wheel that can push the total as high as 18 spins or wipe it out entirely if it fails. Reel multipliers stop resetting for the whole free spins round once it begins. A direct buy-in is available too: 75x the stake for at least three scatters, or 125x to guarantee five scatters and the full 11 free spins.

MexoMax! is rated high volatility and pays out at up to 96% RTP, with 94%, 90.5% and 86% configurations also in circulation, a hit frequency of 21.28% at its top RTP, a maximum win of 10,000x the stake, and bets ranging from 0.20 to 100.