Nights Of Egypt Expanded Edition

Nights Of Egypt Expanded Edition Slot Review

A purple night sky hangs over the pyramids, sandstone glows violet at the edges, and heavy gold filigree frames the reels beneath a winged title plaque. Nights Of Egypt Expanded Edition takes slots’ most familiar setting and renders it after dark, and that switch is more than decoration: this is a game that puts almost everything it has into two collection rounds, a meter-filling Bonus Game and a wide-ranging Free Spins award, while the base game barely does more than move you between them.

Spinomenal have built this one on a 5×3 grid with 25 paylines and a 96% RTP. The game’s real business happens in its collection rounds: a Free Spins feature awarding 10 to 40 spins, and a Bonus Game that fills a payout meter one cell at a time. It sits in a busy corner of the studio’s catalogue, alongside Age Of Pirates Expanded Edition, Queen Of Fire Expanded Edition and Times Of Egypt.

The Base Game

Wins pay across 25 fixed lines on a 5×3 grid, matched left to right. It’s plain line-slot business: spin, match, collect. The reel set mixes card royals with Egyptian staples, and the tall red-and-gold banners running down the outer edges keep the theme in view on every spin.

The paying symbols fall into two familiar camps. The royals do the steady, low-value work, while the theme symbols carry the character and the bigger end of the pays:

• Royals – J, Q, K, A and 10 make up the low end of the paytable
• Cat – one of the Egyptian picture symbols
• Scarab – another of the theme’s higher-tier icons
• Snake – completes the picture-symbol set

The Wild is a Cleopatra figure that substitutes for other symbols to complete line wins. It doesn’t stand in for the scatters, which have jobs of their own, and those jobs are where the game stops being a standard line slot.

Three special symbols drive everything beyond the base game:

• Free Spins symbol – a scattered medallion that triggers the Free Spins round
• Bonus symbol – a scattered scroll that triggers the Bonus Game
• +1 Spins symbol – collected during the Bonus Game to extend the round

All of the real interest sits in those two bonus rounds and the routes into them. Everything between them is the 25-line machinery doing its steady work.

Free Spins

Scattered FREE SPINS symbols trigger the round, which awards between 10 and 40 free spins. The spread is wide. One trigger can land you a quick taster or a substantial run, and there’s no way to know which until the award lands.

The award range is the round’s whole character. A ten-spin trigger passes quickly; a forty-spin run gives the 25-line machinery real room to work, and the difference between the two is the difference between a footnote and a proper feature.

The round carries no extra rule set of its own, so what you get is the base game’s 25-line machinery on the house. There’s no multiplier ladder attached and no symbol upgrade waiting inside it, which puts the weight entirely on how generous the initial award turns out to be.

For players who’d rather not wait on the scatters, the Buy Feature opens a direct route into this round, covered below.

The Bonus Game

The BONUS symbol starts the second round, and it’s the more involved of the two. You begin with three spins on the same 5×3 layout of hieroglyph tiles, with a payout meter running alongside the reels. From there, the round runs to a fixed set of steps:

• Collect scattered winning symbols as they land
• Every five winning symbols collected fills one cell in the meter
• Each filled cell increases your winnings
• Scattered +1 Spins symbols add extra spins to the round
• When all spins are complete, you’re paid according to the last filled cell on the meter

The meter’s ladder runs from x6 at the bottom to x500 at the top, so the gap between a part-filled and a well-filled run is considerable. The last-filled-cell rule matters too: you’re paid for where the run finishes, not for each cell along the way.

Between spins, the round keeps its own scoreboard. The hieroglyph tiles fill the grid, a counter tracks the spins you have left, and the running win total sits beside the meter so the cost of stopping short is visible at all times.

Those +1 Spins symbols carry a lot of weight. Three starting spins is a short window for a ladder that rewards sustained collecting, so every extension symbol that lands stretches the round’s ceiling that little bit further.

The Buy Feature

Pressing the Buy Feature button opens a purchase window. There you can modify the bet you’ll play the free spins round with, and the purchase price adjusts according to that bet. Clicking BUY pays the price and triggers the round immediately, awarding the same 10 to 40 free spins as a natural trigger.

Because the price scales with your chosen bet, the feature is open to most budgets rather than pegged at a fixed cost. There’s no pick screen and no second decision once you’re in the window: you set the bet, you see the price, and the round either happens or it doesn’t.

What the purchased round then does is identical to a landed one. Same scatter machinery, same 10 to 40 spin award, same absence of extra rules inside the round itself, which makes the buy a shortcut and nothing more.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7/10

Playing this is mostly a waiting game under a very pretty night sky: 25 lines turn over, and the whole appeal is the pull of the next scatter. The reason to pick it up at all is the after-dark dressing, which this game wears better than most of its sun-baked cousins.

The Bonus Game is the best thing here, because the three-spin window and the last-filled-cell rule give every +1 Spins symbol a real job, and the ladder makes the final spins matter. The Free Spins round is the flat note: a generous headline range, but the round underneath it changes nothing, so a big award just means more of what the base game already does.

It suits anyone after a collect-and-climb round wrapped in a handsome theme, and it will more than satisfy that appetite. Anyone hoping the free spins would reinvent the wheel should keep looking; the pyramids at night are lovely, but only one of the two rounds is actually lit up.

Nights Of Egypt Expanded Edition FAQs

• What is the RTP of Nights Of Egypt Expanded Edition?

  Nights Of Egypt Expanded Edition runs at an RTP of 96%.
• How many paylines does Nights Of Egypt Expanded Edition have?

  The game has 25 fixed paylines across its 5×3 grid.
• How does the Bonus Game work in Nights Of Egypt Expanded Edition?

  The round starts with three spins. You collect scattered winning symbols, and every five collected fills one cell in the payout meter, increasing your winnings. Scattered +1 Spins symbols add extra spins, and when the round ends you’re paid according to the last filled cell of the meter.
• How many free spins can you win in Nights Of Egypt Expanded Edition?

  The Free Spins round awards between 10 and 40 free spins, triggered by scattered FREE SPINS symbols. The size of the award is decided when the round triggers.
• Can you retrigger the Bonus Game in Nights Of Egypt Expanded Edition?

  Yes, in a sense. Collecting scattered +1 Spins symbols during the Bonus Game rewards additional spins, extending the round and giving you more chances to fill the payout meter.
• Can you buy the bonus on Nights Of Egypt Expanded Edition?

  Yes. The Buy Feature lets you purchase and immediately trigger a Free Spins round of 10 to 40 spins. The price is set according to the bet you choose for the round.
• What is the highest payout on the Bonus Game meter?

  The Bonus Game meter ladder runs from x6 at the bottom to x500 at the top, and you’re paid according to the last cell you manage to fill before the spins run out.
• Who makes Nights Of Egypt Expanded Edition?

  Spinomenal are the studio behind this one, which was released on 2 July 2020.