Egyptian Pays Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Egyptian Pays Review

Once again we travel to the land of the Nile, a road we have travelled so many times we should get a frequent traveller discount. Jokes aside, Egyptian Pays might come with a familiar and overused theme, but Inspired has managed to breathe some freshness into their creation with a crisp visual presentation and a somewhat unusual bons round. The game does require a healthy dose of patience though, but you can be rewarded handsomely for your virtue if the ancient pyramid gods are smiling your way.

The fully transparent reels are set against a desert background, with the pyramids of Giza towering over some mountain chains in the background. A neat little touch we haven’t seen much before is the blacking out of all non-winning symbols. This makes the winning combo stick out very clearly, and it’s small little details like this that adds up to a somewhat different gaming experience. It all plays out on 5 reels, 3 rows and 243 ways to win, and you can place bets between 20p and £20 per spin across all platforms and devices.

The base game is kind of a grind, as it many times is with highly volatile games, but here you have literally no features or modifiers to keep you going except a wild. What makes the game stick out however, is the so-called Re-Life bonus round. This is where you can win up to 12,500x your stake, and you do this by increasing a progressive win multiplier. The bonus round can go on forever, at least in theory, and you can find out how it went for us further down in the review.

What are the bonus features?

This game is really all about the Re-life free spins feature, which is the bonus round here, but you will also benefit from a sphinx wild symbol in the base game. This is the only base game feature really, and it’s just an ordinary wild that will step in for all regular symbols to help you form winning combinations. It cannot step in for the bonus symbol, and it does not have any value of its own. Also, the wild will only land on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5, and thus cannot land on the first reel.

The game also comes with a Spin Chance feature, and this one is triggered automatically when your bankroll is decreased below your current bet level.

The free spins bonus round is called Re-life spins in this game, and there is a good reason for that, as we shall see. You need to land at least 3 scatters anywhere on the same spin to trigger the Re-life round, and the starting multiplier you get will depend on how many scatters you triggered the feature with:

• 3 scatters gives you a 2x starting multiplier
• 4 scatters gives you a 4x starting multiplier
• 5 scatters gives you a 5x starting multiplier

You will start with 3 lives in the meter to the left-hand side of the reels, and the progessive multiplier can be seen on the right-hand side. The multiplier has 11 levels: 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 7x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 30x and 50x. You increase one level up the multiplier ladder for every win, and your Re-Life spins are reset to 3 again every time you win also.

You lose 1 life for every losing spin, but the multiplier level remains the same. When only 1 life remains in your tally you will be given a so-called “Life Saver Spin”. This means that a fully stacked wild will land on the third and middle reel, and the rest of the reels spin as normal. This wild reel naturally increases your winning chances, and therefore your chance of prolonging the “unlimited” free spins feature.

How to play

When it comes to how to play Egyptian Pays slot, it’s pretty straight forward really. If you have played some online slots before, there is really no mystery here.

The game interface is pretty minimalistic, and you basically have a spin button, a coin stacks stake button and a gear icon that takes you into the settings and info section of the game. We’ll start with the latter. You can turn on/off the sounds, but there is no way to keep the game sounds and turn off the background music, or vice versa.

This is also where you can turn on the turbo mode, which will increase the game pace significantly. You can also turn on left-hand play which moves the spin button to the left-hand side, and check out your game history. The game info icon opens up the paytable for you, and you will see the symbol values on the very first slide.

The premium symbols are classic egyptian gods and scarab statues, and they range from 20x to 2x in value for 5 on a payline. All the 4 low value royals are worth only 1x for 5 on a payline in this game.

You can then move on to click the coin stacks icon to set your total stake from a bet range between 20p and £20 per spin. If you want to set up the autoplay feature, you need to hold down the spin button for a few seconds. You can set between 5 and 100 autospins, and you must also set a loss limit to be able to autoplay. A win limit can also be set, or you can simply spin the reels manually if you prefer that.

Where to play Egyptian Pays?

Inspired is quite a popular developer, and you should have no trouble finding a casino to play any new games from them. We always provide you with an up-to-date overview of where to play Egyptian Pays slot right here on this page, and below we’ll present you with your best options for how to proceed from here.

This is not really a very complicated game at all, and you might already have a sense that this is a game you will enjoy. If that’s the case, you can go right ahead and start with real money play without further delay. You can also read the rest of the review below, of course, if you feel like it.

Not all players are comfortable jumping right into the deep end like that, and this is very understandable. We also prefer to test the free demo version of games up front, before we make any final decisions. This is the best way to learn the gameplay, and see if this is something you want to pursue further. You can check out the Egyptian Pays demo game for free at the very top of this page. Simply follow the link up there, and get started immediately.

The 200 Spins Egyptian Pays Experience

We immediately liked the transparent reels where you can see the mighty pyramids from a distance in the background. We decided to go with the highest possible bet level of £20 per spin, and we felt good and ready to see what goodies Egypt had to offer this time.

The volatility of this game is not really disclosed, but we’ll go out on a limb and say it’s probably pretty high. A glance at the max win is enough to give you that impression, and we certainly also got that idea reinforced in our 200 spins test session. You can check out the highlights in the brief video, and read all about how it went here.

Truth be told, our session was largely uneventful, so there is not that much to talk about except the bonus round we finally managed to trigger. As you can see in the video, we had plenty of dead spins and some smaller base game wins here and there. You will often land 1 or 2 bonus symbols with a teasing effect, but at least the pace of the game is very good with the turbo switched on.

This means you don’t have to wait too long to burn through enough spins to get to the all-important Re-Life Spins feature. We got it towards the end of our session, and the 3 scatters we landed gave us the 2x multiplier to start with. We certainly flocked around the computer screen in anticipation as this somewhat unusual bonus round played out.

We started out with a 4.8x win, and it’s kind of nerve-wrecking seeing your lives removed on the left for each loss. This makes you jump up and down for even smaller wins, as anything counts as long as it helps prolong the feature. A few dead spins later we won 10.8x, and once again we felt relaxed with a full meter giving us a 3 lives buffer.

The life saver feature then saved our behind with a 17.6x win, and the multiplier was now up to 5x. We had only one more 10x win, and then the life saving stacked wild in the middle could not do anything to save us this time. We ended up with an okay 43.2x our stake in total, and we can only hope “Egypt pays” you a lot more than we got.

Review Summary

Egyptian Pays is visually quite pleasing, and the soundtrack is not too shabby either. The base game doesn’t really offer much excitement though, except for the bonus round teasers. Theoretically, you can win up to 4,860x in the base game, but in our experience you will get mostly dead spins and smaller wins. This is clearly a highly volatile game, where everything is concentrated into the Re-Life Spins bonus round.

This is an exciting feature when you finally trigger it, but it can also be frustrating those times it is over almost before it has started. The 3 lives are drained fast when you’re unlucky, and the life saver wild reel will not always be enough to keep you going. Of course, the opposite is true when you’re on a roll, and the feature goes on and on to build up massive multiplier action where payouts up to 12,500x your stake is possible. Keep in mind though, that the max win is capped at £250,000 and the RTP is a bit below average here.

Pros

• 3 lives “unlimited” free spins with progressive multiplier up to 50x
• Live saver stacked wild on last life free spin
• High volatility and 12,500x max win potential

Cons

• Max win capped at £250,000
• RTP of 95.58 % is a bit low
• No bonus features in the base game

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Viking Pays - was released by Inspired at the same time as the game at hand, and it’s basically the same game with a new skin. The viking theme is well-done here, and the soundtrack is also solid. It all boils down to what you prefer, norse warrior action or ancient egypt inspired gameplay.

Vault of Anubis - is a nice looking grid slot from Red Tiger, and it comes with mega symbols and wilds in the base game. The bonus round comes with an unlimited progressive multiplier, and wins up to 5,496x your stake is possible from this highly volatile egyptian inspired title.

Legacy Of Egypt - is all about the free spins bonus round, just like the game at hand is. The bonus wheel will decide your number of spins, and you can get unlimited extra spins here also. Wins up to 5,000x your stake is possible via the progressive multiplier that goes up to 10x in this game.

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