[Slot review] Soju Power Maxways — Microgaming

Overview

Soju Power Maxways is a slot Microgaming released on 7 October 2026, the latest release date among the 142 MG slots this site covers. The studio tags it Asian and Food, and on the cover a soju bottle sits right beside the main character.

Five values are published: a 95.95% RTP, High volatility, a 10,000x max win, bets of 0.10 to 20.00, and the release date. Having all five filled in is a genuine plus, but the one thing that defines a slot's skeleton — its reel layout — appears in none of them.

Layout and rules

Elsewhere in the MG catalogue the format field usually holds reel and line or ways counts, along the lines of '5 reels · 20 Lines'. Here it holds a single feature name, 'Wild Multiplier'. How many reels, how many rows and how many ways the game evaluates are all unpublished.

Whatever that feature name brings to mind, the catalogue says nothing about when it triggers or how large the multiplier can get, and this review won't derive rules from a label. The 'Maxways' in the title is in the same position: the catalogue never states in numbers what reel arrangement the word refers to.

Bets run from 0.10 to 20.00. Among the 51 MG slots that publish a bet range, 0.10 is the most common minimum, used by 17 of them, and 10 share the same 20.00 ceiling. Taken on its own, the range sits squarely in the ordinary part of the catalogue.

The three Maxways titles side by side

Three games in this catalogue carry Maxways in their name: Merlin's Secret Maxways, Queen of Cairo: Royal Maxways, and this one. The other two list their format only as 'Maxways slot' and 'Royal Maxways slot', so none of the three publishes its reel arrangement in numbers — and since those two also have no release date, the catalogue can't establish which came first.

The figures diverge noticeably. Against Merlin's 96.04% and Royal Queen of Cairo's 96.59%, Soju's 95.95% is the lowest of the three, 0.64 points below Royal Queen of Cairo. Both siblings are graded Very high; this is the only one at High. Its 10,000x max win matches Royal Queen of Cairo, while Merlin's 40,000x is four times that.

The bet range sits lowest of the three as well. Both siblings start at 0.20 and top out at 40.00 (Merlin) and 50.00 (Royal Queen of Cairo); Soju starts at 0.10 and stops at 20.00. Lined up together, the three show that the Maxways label does not fix a numerical template.

Reading the numbers

The median published RTP across the 90 MG slots that list one is 96.12%, and 95.95% sits 0.17 points under it; 14 of those 90 publish a lower figure. Narrow it to the six 2026 releases and only K-POP Hunter Zeus, at 95.91%, comes in lower.

Of the 142 MG slots, 22 publish a max win, and 10,000x is the most frequent value among them, shared by nine titles. Five publish a higher cap. A cap is a ceiling set by the rules; how often anything lands near it is a separate matter, and that distribution isn't published.

An RTP gap of 0.17 points only shows up across calculations running into the millions of rounds. A few dozen demo spins can neither confirm nor contradict it.

Presentation

The cover belongs to a golden frog in a sleeveless top with a yin-yang emblem, a foaming green soju bottle in one hand and a microphone in the other. Behind him runs an alley of Hangul neon signs, and the logo stacks three tiers: pink SOJU, green POWER, and a gold MAXWAYS plate.

Neon lettering and the character fill the frame, but no reels or symbols appear on the cover. A demo is available, so the reel arrangement the spec sheet omits, and how 'Wild Multiplier' actually works, are best checked on the demo's help screen.