Egyptian Heroes is a 20-payline video slot running on the NetEnt software platform. The game possesses an expanding wild card in the form of a Pyramid and a scatter featuring the Golden Pharaoh Tomb. Players are welcome to try this slot on this page for free or play the game for real money in any of the featured NetEnt casinos.
To explore the fantastic side of Ancient Egypt, players need to select their bet first. "Level" chooses the bet level and “Lines” alters the number of active paylines. The coin value, ranging from 0.01 to 0.5, can be set by moving the "Coin Value" selector. Players need to push “Spin” to start the game and “Max Bet” should be selected if they wish to spin the reels at the maximum wager. To play the game multiple times without interruption, players need to click “Autoplay”.
This game has a Golden Bet Line, which increases one’s chance of winning as every spin can win on this payline. The Golden Bet Line wins pay the payline win amount multiplied by the Golden Bet Line multiplier, which ranges from x2 to x5.
3 or more scatters will activate the Free Spin feature. 3 scatters trigger 10 Free Spins, 4 Pharaoh Tombs lead to 15 Free Spins and 5 scatters will reward players with 20 Free Spins. During the Free Spin round, a sticky expanding wild covers the middle reel, increasing the possibility of one’s winning. If 3 or more scatters appear during the Free Spins, additional Free Spins will be awarded. Also, wild symbols on reels 2 and 4 expand when completing winning paylines.
Game Play
Level: Pick the bet level.
Lines: Adjust the number of active paylines.
Coin Value: Adjust the coin size.
Spin: Spin the reels at the chosen bet.
Max Bet: Play the game at the maximum bet.
Auto Play: Play the game for a number of times without interruption.
Game designers seem to like creating games out of mythical tales and creatures. Yes, these old folk tales can be very intriguing and fascinating indeed - full of charms, mystical powers and mysterious humanoids. Whether true or not it doesn't really matter, but good use of them can certainly be very beneficial, especially with slot games. Egyptian Heroes is yet another one of these numerous games. It's quite and old game, so the graphics are contemporary for its time, but looking rather dull by today's standards. Still, don't let the looks fool you!
Very briefly, the best part of this game lies in the Free Spins game, whereby each free spin gets one Wild Reel on reel 3, and with the possibility of getting 2 more Wild Reels on reels 2 and 4. Games that can offer 3 Wild Reels often produce huge good wins exceeding 1000x the total bet amount, and Egyptian Heroes is no exception. This becomes possible because the win values of the high symbols are sufficiently big enough, even though the free spins actually play without any multiplier, except if won on the random Golden Line, which can multiply the wins from 2x up to 5x. In fact, this Golden Line feature is the only multiplier in the game, without which, Egyptian Heroes would be just another mediocre game.
However, not all things are nice and juicy in the game. The Pyramid, the Expanding Wild in both the base game and during the free spins, does not pay anything for itself, nor does it double any wins with it, and only appears on reels 2, 3 and 4. So there isn't any 4 or 5 Wild Reels possibility, which would have made this game even more exceptional! The Sphinx is the Scatter symbol, which usually has a win value with it, is now also a non-paying symbol, so I don't like these two omissions at all. Getting 3, 4 or 5 Scatters don't pay anything, argh, except to award 10, 15 or 20 free spins without any multiplier. However, more free spins can be retriggered, so at least that's a consolation for getting more wins.
I have played this game so many times over the years but I have forgotten what my best win on it was. On my most recent play, I could only get a small 67x win, but that was without getting any 3 Wild Reels during the free spins. With 3 Wild Reels, the wins would usually be more than 200x the total bet win, which I have gotten before, so my best win must have been at least 200x my bet amount. Anyway, this isn't that important. What matters most is that this game can play very well at the right time, but can be like a very hungry lion at the wrong time, so you can either be having a feast, or be the feast itself! Hahaha.