ImmorTails of Egypt Slot Review
Torch flames gutter against sandstone steps, hieroglyphs climb walls lit by shafts of blue-violet light, and a golden chest with a glowing eye watches the reels from its ledge. Egypt, painted the lush, theatrical way Play’n GO paint it.
What makes this one unusual is that the size of a win matters less than its length. Everything the game pays out is priced in tumbles: the longer a single winning chain survives, the more cats wake up as wilds, and that’s where the real money lives. It runs on a 5×3 grid with connecting paylines and cascades, at 96.2% RTP and mid-to-high volatility.
It shares its riverside ruins with Book Of Dead, Doom of Egypt and Rise of Dead, and it treats those ruins very differently to any of them. The cats are awake. The question is how long you can keep them that way.
Cascading Reels and Connecting Paylines
ImmorTails of Egypt is a five-reel cascading slot. Winning combinations pay left to right on connecting paylines, the winning symbols clear away, and new symbols tumble down to fill the gaps. The cascade keeps running until no new winning combination can be created, so a single spin can pay several times over if the wins keep coming.
A round plays out in a fixed order:
- You set your bet in the menu and start the round
- The reels stop and the symbols displayed determine your prize according to the paytable
- Winning combinations are paid out at the end of the game round
- Winning symbols clear and new symbols tumble in, with any new wins paying again
- The cascade stops the moment no new winning combination can be created
The payout rules are the ones that govern every round:
- All wins pay left to right, beginning with the left-most reel
- Symbol wins pay for any winning payline combination without gaps
- Only the highest win is paid per active win line
- Wins on multiple paylines in a single round are added together
- Feature, bonus and scatter wins are added to payline wins
- The bet can’t be changed during a running round
Because tumbles are part of the same round, a chain of cascades builds its total one drop at a time. That matters here more than in most cascading slots, because the tumble counter is what drives the wild system.
The scatter is the eye-shaped bonus icon, and three of them anywhere on the reels trigger the free spins. It’s the only symbol the wilds won’t stand in for.
Cat God Wilds
The wild system is the game’s core mechanic, and it’s tied directly to the tumble counter. Successive winning tumbles awaken the cats one at a time, on fixed steps:
- First winning tumble – Bastet transforms into a Cat God Wild
- Third winning tumble – Mafdet transforms
- Sixth winning tumble – Sekhmet transforms
Cat God Wilds substitute for all other symbols except the scatter. There’s a second layer too: when a Cat God Wild lands next to an Apep symbol, the Apep symbol turns wild as well. Land all three cat gods in one tumble sequence and the board is suddenly very generous with wilds.
Tumbles reset with every new spin, so each awakening starts from zero. A chain that breaks at the second tumble leaves Mafdet and Sekhmet asleep, and the next spin begins with ordinary cats on the reels. The long chains that reach the sixth step are what the whole game is built around.
The Apep Symbol
Apep is the one symbol that only matters through the cats. On its own it does nothing special; when a Cat God Wild lands on a neighbouring position, it converts to a wild as well. Because the conversion happens on position rather than on the tumble counter, an Apep sitting next to an awakened cat is effectively a wild in waiting.
That gives chains two things to chase at once. Every tumble can wake another cat, and every awakened cat can convert anything Apep-shaped beside it. A chain that keeps winning keeps compounding both.
Free Spins
Three scatters trigger the free spins round, and the grid changes shape for it. The reels expand by an extra row, from 5×3 to 5×4, for the duration. The round plays with the same bet and the same number of selected lines as the spin that triggered it.
Three systems run at once during the round:
- Expanded reels – an extra row on every spin, from 5×3 to 5×4
- Selected reels – reels are chosen at random on each spin, and any wild landing on one expands to fill the whole reel
- Win multiplier – increases after every third successive winning tumble and resets on the next spin
The cat transformations still run on the tumble counter inside the round, so a good free spin stacks all three systems on top of the wilds the base game already builds. A full wild reel on the expanded grid, with several cats awake behind it, is where the round’s biggest results come from.
Each spin of the round is its own small drama. The selected reels change every time, so a spin that looks empty on the drop can still land a wild somewhere useful and see it stretch the full height of four rows. And because the extra row is in play on every spin, there’s simply more room for the symbols to land.
The Win Multiplier
The multiplier only moves during free spins, and only through tumbles. It increases after every third successive winning tumble within a single spin, then resets when the next spin starts. That makes it a reward for long single-spin chains rather than for patient accumulation across the round.
In practice it gives the round a second thing to watch besides the wilds. A tumble sequence that survives past the third drop raises the multiplier, feeds the cat counter, and can drop expanding wilds onto selected reels at the same time – all three systems feeding one cascade.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.7/10
Most of the time, ImmorTails of Egypt is a pretty, mid-paced tumble slot in a beautiful temple. Then a chain survives to the sixth drop, Sekhmet wakes, and for a few seconds it’s a different game entirely. That moment is the reason to play it, and the build towards it is the experience: every tumble carrying a little more weight than the last, the cats the only ones who know how close you are.
The free spins are the better half, because three systems pull the same direction at once and a full wild reel on the expanded grid pays like the volatility promises. The weakness is how easily everything is undone: the multiplier dies at the start of every spin, the cats go back to sleep, and long chains are rare enough that stretches of play are just pleasant tumbles going nowhere.
This is a game for players who like waiting for a build and who enjoy that build as much as the payoff. Players who want big features early will find the temple quiet. Those who stay will find the cats worth waking.
ImmorTails of Egypt FAQs
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How do the Cat God Wilds work in ImmorTails of Egypt?
The three cat symbols, Bastet, Mafdet and Sekhmet, transform into Cat God Wilds after the first, third and sixth successive winning tumbles respectively. Cat God Wilds substitute for all symbols except the scatter, and they turn any Apep symbol on a neighbouring position wild as well. -
What triggers the free spins in ImmorTails of Egypt?
Landing three scatter symbols triggers the free spins round. During the round the reels expand by an extra row, from 5×3 to 5×4. -
What does the win multiplier do during free spins?
The win multiplier increases after every third successive winning tumble during free spins, and it resets at the start of each new spin. It rewards long tumble chains within a single spin. -
Do wilds expand in ImmorTails of Egypt?
Yes. During free spins, reels are randomly selected on each spin, and any wild landing on a selected reel expands to fill the entire reel. -
What does the Apep symbol do?
On its own, nothing beyond its paytable value. When a Cat God Wild lands on a neighbouring position, the Apep symbol turns wild as well. -
What is the RTP of ImmorTails of Egypt?
The RTP is 96.2%. -
Is ImmorTails of Egypt high volatility?
It’s a mid-to-high volatility slot, so wins can run dry between the bigger tumble chains. -
How do the cascades in ImmorTails of Egypt work?
Winning symbols clear away after a win and new symbols tumble down to fill the gaps. The game continues to cascade until no new winning combination can be created, and all winning combinations are paid out at the end of the round.
