Pharaoh S Gaze DoubleMax Slot Review
Two carved pharaoh heads the size of monuments flank a torchlit tomb hall, sandstone glowing gold against a purple haze, and the setting couldn’t be more familiar. The game underneath it is stricter than it looks. Bang Bang Games have built a slot where the multiplier collapses the instant a chain breaks and only persistence – three gems at a time, fed to the five pharaohs above the reels – keeps wilds coming, so patience isn’t a mood here, it’s the whole mechanic. The result feels less like a museum piece than it looks.
Pharaoh S Gaze DoubleMax runs on a 5×4 grid with an RTP of 96.0% and high volatility, capped at a 15,000x win inside free spins. It’s built on the studio’s DoubleMax cascade system, the same one powering Angry Tiki DoubleMax and The Runemakers DoubleMax, with a wild-collection mechanic that sets it apart from both. The pharaoh’s gaze turns out to be worth meeting.
Dropdown Wins and DoubleMax
Wins here work as cascades. Any winning combination disappears from the reels, the remaining symbols drop down, and new ones fall in to fill the gaps. Before the refill, a wild is added to one of the positions the winners vacated, so every successful cascade improves the board it just paid from. The wild substitutes in the usual way, and only the highest combination per line is paid.
The DoubleMax multiplier sits on top of that. Every dropdown win doubles the total multiplier: x1 after the first cascade, x2 after the second, x4 after the third, and so on for as long as the chain keeps paying. The running total sits along the left edge of the reels, ticking up with each step of the chain.
In the base game, though, one losing spin or losing dropdown wipes the multiplier back to nothing. Long chains are where the money lives, and short ones are just noise.
Payline wins are multiplied by the total bet and pay from the leftmost reel, with three, four or five identical symbols in a row needed to register. It’s a conventional payline setup under an unconventional multiplier, which is the quiet point of the whole design.
Pharaoh’s Gaze Wilds
Along the top of the reel frame sit the five pharaoh heads, and they’re not decoration. One per reel, and each one is collecting.
- Any symbol that lands during a spin or a dropdown can arrive carrying a mini gem
- That gem goes to the pharaoh above its reel
- Three gems activate a pharaoh, and its reel lights up for the next three consecutive game results, spins or cascades alike
- While active, that pharaoh bestows between one and three wilds on its reel on each spin or dropdown
- Gems can’t land on reels that are already activated, so an active pharaoh can’t stockpile towards its own next run
- Gem collections are stored separately for each bet level, so changing your stake means each pharaoh’s meter holds what that level collected, nothing else
That’s a serious amount of extra ammunition when a DoubleMax chain is already running, and the two restrictions keep the collecting honest rather than letting it run away with itself.
Scarab Free Spins
Three or more BONUS symbols award 7 Scarab Free Spins at the end of the game round. That’s a flat number, and retriggers aren’t possible, so what you start with is everything you get. The round’s value comes entirely from how the base game’s systems behave once the reset is taken away.
The big change: in free spins, the DoubleMax multiplier never resets. It holds across every spin for the whole session, so an early cascade chain keeps its gains and the next chain starts from there.
That’s the engine the 15,000x cap exists to serve; if a win exceeds it in free spins, the round ends and the full 15,000x is awarded.
The gem meters travel with you. Collected gems carry over into free spins, and the bonus opens with 6 gems awarded at random across the pharaohs, though meters that are already full can’t receive extras. Reels that were activated when the bonus triggered start the round activated and can be topped up by that initial award.
Anything left in the meters at the end carries back into the base game, so an unlucky round at least leaves something behind. Free spins play at the lines and bet of the triggering spin, and all wins are added to any win from the round that triggered them.
Bonus Boost and Buy Into Free Spins
There are two ways to pay your way past the scatter wait, and both are simple to state.
- Bonus Boost – an extra 25% on the total bet, and while it’s active it doubles the chance of winning free spins
- Buy Into Free Spins – 100x your chosen bet, awarding the 7-spin round directly, opening with the same 6 random gems
The buy-in carries one extra wrinkle: a gamble ladder before the round starts. You can gamble the 7 spins up to 10, then the 10 up to 13, each gamble a straight 50-50. Every step is optional, so you can start the round at 7, stop at 10, or push for the full 13. Losing a gamble drops you back down, so the ladder rewards conviction and punishes greed in equal measure.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.7/10
Playing Pharaoh S Gaze DoubleMax is mostly watching meters fill. That’s not a criticism; it’s the one reason to choose it over the studio’s other DoubleMax games – the collecting actually matters, because gems you don’t use in the bonus come home with you. Very few slots let a bad round pay anything forward.
The strength is the free-spins round, where the multiplier stops resetting and every chain compounds the last. Seven spins sounds mean next to that ceiling, and honestly it is: the base game resets so readily that long stretches pass with nothing to show, and everything depends on the bonus arriving while your meters are worth carrying in.
For players who like a build, this tomb rewards the stay. Casual spinners after frequent wins will find the pharaohs miserly. Bring a bankroll for the dry stretches and the gaze is worth sitting under.
Pharaoh S Gaze DoubleMax FAQs
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What is the RTP of Pharaoh S Gaze DoubleMax?
The overall theoretical return to player is 96.0%. -
Is Pharaoh S Gaze DoubleMax high volatility?
Yes. Pharaoh S Gaze DoubleMax is a high volatility slot, so wins tend to be less frequent but with the potential for larger payouts. -
What is the grid size of Pharaoh S Gaze DoubleMax?
The game plays on a 5×4 grid, with five reels and four rows, and wins pay across paylines from the leftmost reel. -
How does the DoubleMax multiplier work?
Every dropdown win doubles the total multiplier. In the base game the multiplier resets after any losing spin or dropdown, but in free spins it does not reset until the round ends. -
How do you trigger free spins in Pharaoh S Gaze DoubleMax?
Three or more Bonus symbols award 7 Scarab Free Spins. Retriggers are not possible, but collected gems carry into the round and 6 extra gems are awarded at random at the start. -
What do the gems do in Pharaoh S Gaze DoubleMax?
Any symbol can land with a mini gem, which is collected by the pharaoh head above its reel. Once a pharaoh collects three gems it activates for the next three game results, bestowing between one and three wilds on its reel on each spin or dropdown. -
Can you buy the bonus on Pharaoh S Gaze DoubleMax?
Yes. You can pay 100x your bet to buy into Free Spins, with the option to gamble from 7 spins up to 10 and then to 13, each gamble a 50-50 chance. There’s also a Bonus Boost costing an extra 25% on the total bet that doubles the chance of triggering free spins. -
What is the maximum win on Pharaoh S Gaze DoubleMax?
The maximum win is 15,000x your bet. If a win in free spins exceeds that amount, the round ends and the full 15,000x is awarded.
