Rise of Dead Slot

At first I thought this Rise Of Dead game is a book kind of game but I was wrong. It plays with 5 reels and 3 rows as usual but with 20 paylines, so the minimum starting bet is 0.20 per spin. Would have liked it to be just 0.10 though – can play for a longer period of time and get double the number of spins. In the base game, there’s a random Gift Of Gods feature whereby reels 1, 3 and 5 will get full reels of one same symbol, giving a good chance of getting a win, but a win doesn’t always happen though. It’s an interesting rare feature indeed but doesn’t really create any good big wins, unless you happen to get any one of the 3 Pharaoh symbols with Wild symbols on reels 2 and 4. That could pay up to 500x!

The paytable isn’t that good actually, because Scatter symbols are non-paying, whilst getting 5 Wilds would pay only 125x the bet. The other symbols pay from 25x down to 0.5x for 5-of-a-kind win, so that’s not really big enough. However, the Wilds are stacked either 6 or 7 symbols high on each reel, whilst the others are stacked 8 symbols high, so getting an all same symbols win become possible, just as in a Book game, and with the same 5000x maximum possible too.

Wait a minute! If all 15 of the top Pharaoh symbol can pay only 500x (25x20 lines) the bet, so how and where can a 5000x win come from? Certainly not in the base game, and certainly not from just 10 free spins either, because there aren’t any win multipliers at all to boost up the wins. However, it could be achieved by getting 10 times of 500x wins, which is undoubtedly impossible to get, so the only way to get that maximum 5000x is to get many big wins from many more additional free spins, needing possibly 50 or even more extra free spins from the initial 10. Otherwise, it means that PlaynGo is simply pulling a fast one here, knowing damn well that it would be impossible to achieve!

Having said all that, my few plays on this Rise Of Dead game were nothing less than disappointing. The several Gift Of Gods random features didn’t give any big win, neither could the free spins feature games, despite getting many more extra free spins. The best win I could get? A measly 50x win. Yeah, not joking at all! Couldn’t even get any 100x or bigger wins playing the game in fun mode either, so that should tell the sort of game this is!

Rise of Dead is powered by Play ‘N Go and has 5 reels and 20 paylines. This is Play n Go latest release and is a copy of Gold King Slot. You remember Gold King, don’t you? That highly volatile, forever taking to trigger bonus slot from them that was released last year. Yeah that one the balance eater, well this one is no exception.


Rise of dead comes with 3 bonus features that reward you with stacks of symbols, unlimited free spins with expanding pharaoh symbols and stacks of wilds as well as a random feature where reels 1, 3 and 5 show the same symbol.


Visually, Rise of Dead has excellent graphics with an ancient Egyptian theme and has a dark and sinister feel. Symbols on the reels include A, K, Q, J and 10 royals as well as 3 high value pharaohs symbols. Each 1 of them will reward you with 25 times, 30 or x50 your total bet for 5 across a payline. The scarab beetle is the wild symbol and substitutes for all symbols but the scatter – it’s also the highest paying symbol giving you 125 times your total bet for 5 on a payline.


The game benefits from the Mega Stacks feature – On each base game spin, 1 symbol is randomly selected which then fills 12 consecutive spaces on every reel. This increases your chances of forming the biggest possible winning combination with that symbol.


In the base game, the Gift of Gods feature may randomly be triggered – Reels 1, 3 and 5 will be filled with the chosen mega stack symbol. This increases your chances of filling the reels with the mega stack symbol for bigger pay-outs. If it’s a high value symbol, it could lead to pay-outs of 500 times your total bet.


The main attraction is the Ancient free spins feature. You activate this feature when you get 3 scroll scatters on reels 1, 3 and 5. Beginning with 10 free spins, 1, 2 or 3 scrolls on the reels during a free spin will reward you with 2, 4 or 10 additional free spins. The game has unlimited free spins.


On every free spin, either the A, K, Q, J or 10 symbols will appear stacked filling 8 consecutive spaces on every reel – more importantly, the wild symbol also appears stacked on the reels by taking up 6 or 7 consecutive spaces. The high paying symbol will expand on the reels should at least 1 symbol land per reels consecutively. Think of It as book of dead, but with the falcon huntress play set in place, without the needing of symbols on a pay line, do I make sense? Probably not, but you get the idea?


I am not a fan of this slot, neither was I of Gold King. However I was surprise to trigger free spins in less than 20 spins and got a nice x250 winner out of it.