Story Of Egypt Christmas Edition Slot Review
Gold reindeer stand at the corners of a dim temple, candy canes poke in beside the winged-sun title banner and snow-dusted evergreen wraps the reel frame: Story Of Egypt Christmas Edition dresses its tomb for the season with more commitment than most festive reskins bother with. The dressing isn’t the point, though. This is a game that stakes everything on one idea, that a bonus round is more interesting when it grows while you’re inside it, and the base game exists mostly to carry you there.
Spinomenal runs it on a 6×4 grid with 30 paylines at an RTP of 96.3%. Three random base game modifiers feed a free spins round built around a wheel that keeps dealing in new features the longer it runs, a system the Story Of Egypt line has used before. The biggest stated prize is the wild’s 1,000x line payout, with no ceiling quoted beyond it.
Base Game and Random Modifiers
Wins pay across 30 fixed lines on the six-reel, four-row grid, evaluated left to right. The wild stands in for every symbol except the Bonus, and when it lands it’s picked out with a glow against the warm backdrop. Behind the grid, faint carved hieroglyph-style walls and stone columns fade into the dark, so the reels sit in a space that reads as a temple interior rather than a flat backdrop.
A full line of six wilds pays bet per line x1000, which is the largest single figure the game commits to anywhere. It’s also a remote one, needing wilds on all six reels of a single winning line. The more routine wild work is substitution, filling gaps in lines of themed symbols and royals alike.
Two medium symbols lead the table, and on a six-reel grid they pay at four, five and six of a kind rather than the familiar three:
- Priestess/Queen (headdress figure): 80 for four, 300 for five, 1,000 for six on a line
- Anubis/Jackal figure: 80 for four, 250 for five, 750 for six on a line
Beyond those two sit the card royals, A, K, Q, J and 10, which fill out most of the reel space and pay the smaller line wins. The ladder is a conventional one. The interest sits in what happens to these symbols while the reels are still moving.
While the reels spin, one of three modifiers can arrive at random. Each has three levels of its own, and the level decides how much of the grid it touches. There’s no skill to any of it and nothing to anticipate, just a mid-spin flourish that changes what a single round is worth.
Win Multiplier is the simplest. Any win in that round gets scaled up according to the level drawn:
- Level 1: win x2
- Level 2: win x3
- Level 3: win x4
Synced Reels locks adjacent reels into identical copies. The level drawn decides how many reels join in:
- Level 1: reels 3-4 synced
- Level 2: reels 3-5 synced
- Level 3: reels 2-5 synced
On synced reels, medium symbols appear as colossus symbols. A full sync can lay the same tall symbol across most of the grid, and with reels two through five matching, several winning lines tend to land at once. It’s the modifier that changes the geometry of the grid rather than just its payouts.
Power Spin strips low-value card symbols from the reels for a single round. With the cards gone, only the themed symbols remain in play for that spin, which is where the mid-tier wins live.
- Level 1: 10 and J removed
- Level 2: 10, J, Q and K removed
- Level 3: 10, J, Q, K and A removed
At its top level the grid is cleared of every royal, which makes it the modifier most likely to produce a cluster of themed-symbol lines in one go. Between the three of them, the modifiers give the base game a texture that plain line-payers don’t have, even if none of them lasts longer than the round they arrive in.
Free Spins and the Wheel of Features
One Bonus symbol on the first reel and one on the sixth triggers 10 free spins, played at the same bet per line as the triggering round. Nothing else in the base game pays that way, so the two Bonus symbols are the only things on the reels worth watching for across a session.
Before the round begins, the wheel of features comes out. Each wheel spin decides which of the three modifiers, Win Multiplier, Synced Reels or Power Spin, will be active for the spins that follow, and that choice holds rather than re-rolling every spin. That’s the engine of the bonus: the base game’s random features become chosen and persistent rather than occasional.
The round can retrigger. Doing so awards +2 free spins plus another turn of the wheel, and that turn either stacks a second feature alongside the one already running or pushes the existing feature up a level.
A round that opens with a x2 multiplier can finish multiplying and syncing at once, and because the features compound rather than replace each other, the fifth spin of the wheel is the one worth waiting for. There’s a limit all the same. The wheel can be spun at most five times in a round, and once the fifth attempt is used, the Bonus symbol disappears from the reels for the rest of the free spins. After that, the round plays out with whatever stack of features the wheel has assembled, running to its finish without further additions.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
Sitting down at this one means enjoying the wait. The base game ambles, the modifiers arrive without warning, and the whole point of the session is the bonus round, where a wheel keeps dealing in new features the longer you stay. That assembling is the reason to choose it over plainer seasonal fare, and the tomb, tinsel and all, looks good while you wait for it.
The retrigger system is the best thing here. Every wheel turn adds or upgrades a feature, up to five of them, so a round that starts plain can finish stacked, and each retrigger genuinely changes what you’re looking at.
The weakness is that nothing is quantified. The wild’s 1,000x line prize is the only figure the game commits to, and it’s a remote one. So this is one for players who like a bonus that grows in the playing rather than a number promised up front. The lamps are lit, the evergreen’s up, and patience is the price of entry.
Story Of Egypt Christmas Edition FAQs
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What is the RTP of Story Of Egypt Christmas Edition?
The RTP is 96.3%. -
How do you trigger free spins in Story Of Egypt Christmas Edition?
You need one Bonus symbol on the first reel, counting from the left, and one Bonus symbol on the sixth reel. That combination awards 10 free spins at the same bet per line as the triggering round. -
What does the Wheel of Features do?
When free spins begin, you spin a wheel that decides which modifier (Win Multiplier, Synced Reels or Power Spin) will be active for the round’s spins. Retriggers can combine features or upgrade the one already running. -
Can free spins retrigger?
Yes. A retrigger awards +2 free spins and another spin on the wheel, which either combines a new feature with the current one or upgrades it. The wheel can be spun a maximum of five times, after which the Bonus symbol is removed from the reels for the rest of the round. -
What does the wild symbol do?
The wild counts as any symbol except the Bonus symbol. Six wilds on a winning line pay bet per line x1000, the largest stated prize in the game. -
What does Synced Reels do?
Synced Reels makes specified reels identical to one another. Level one syncs reels 3-4, level two syncs reels 3-5 and level three syncs reels 2-5. Medium symbols on synced reels appear as colossus symbols. -
What does Power Spin remove from the reels?
Power Spin removes low-value card symbols from the reels for one round. Level one removes 10 and J, level two removes 10, J, Q and K, and level three removes all five royals, leaving only themed symbols in play. -
Who makes Story Of Egypt Christmas Edition and when was it released?
It’s a Spinomenal title. Its release date is 30 November 2021.
