Paylines
178 Connected Ways
Mega Heist is Relax Gaming doing what Relax Gaming does best, which is taking a bonus round and stuffing it with so many moving parts that you spend the first ten spins just trying to read the screen. Released May 9, 2023, it riffs on the prison-break heist trope with a moonlit yard, watchtowers, yellow industrial lamps, and a bald grinning inmate who looks way too pleased with his life choices.
The grid is 5 reels by 4 rows with 178 connected ways. That's Relax's hybrid mechanic sitting somewhere between standard ways-pays and full cluster pays. Each next symbol in your win has to be in the same row, one row up, or one row down from the previous column. Stacked symbols on a single reel multiply the payout, so the more copies land on one reel, the heavier the hit. RTP is 96.19% base, 96.50% if you Buy. Volatility is a flat 5 out of 5. Bets run 0.10 to 50 EUR and the game-wide cap sits at 16,591x.
Two Bonus symbols trigger the Escape Bonus, a small side feature where up to four robbers spawn in column one carrying multiplier prizes and shuffle right one column per round while up to four policemen drop in to catch them. Robbers who reach column five bank their prize. Get lucky and one of them carries an extra Bonus symbol, and the whole thing upgrades into the main feature.
Three or more Bonus symbols launches Mega Heist Bonus, which runs three sequential locations. Gas Station opens with a bank counter at 150x and limited power-ups. Club bumps it to 1,500x and unlocks the Bus and Signal Distractor plus extra robbers. Bank pushes the counter to 15,000x with everything unlocked. Power-ups range from 2x-10x multipliers to Police Disguise, Motorcycle, Bus (clears up to 8 robbers in a row), and Signal Distractor. Every robber's prize is deducted from the bank counter, and when it hits zero the level ends and any remaining multipliers turn into Police Disguises.
If Money Train is the obvious cousin here, Mega Heist is the more chaotic relative. It's not a clone, the structure is genuinely its own thing, but the bonus-collection DNA is unmistakable. Honest critique? The feature takes a few sessions to actually understand. There's a lot happening, and the base game can feel quiet between triggers. The Buy Bonus at 150x is there for the impatient, which, given how dry the base game gets, you'll probably consider sooner than you'd like to admit.