If you try out Treasure of Pharaohs, you will not be surprised by the theme you will find inside, the title gives it away quite easily. Top Game is the developer that decided that the world needs yet another Egyptian themed slot machine, but they didn’t stop at just one title unfortunately. They’ve created four games with this title, as they often do, and one of them is the modern 5 reel version you can read about below. The other three titles are classics, with 1 to 5 lines and 3 reels. The competition gives you a lot of options with a similar theme, and they typically look a lot better than Treasure of Pharaohs, so the developers didn’t exactly aim for the stars with this title.
The only modern game of the series, it brings you 15 paylines and 5 reels. You also have more features, adding to the wild a scatter, free spins and a bonus game. It pays up to $10,000.
Features of Treasure Of Pharaohs
The Scarab Hunt bonus game, a wild symbol and a scatter that can give you an obscene amount of free spins, these are the major features that the game incorporates. I’m quite satisfied with it on this front, even though I’ve not been happy with other aspects.
A Hand-Carved Coin symbol will be the slot’s wild feature, the only symbol you can rely on to get new combinations going even when the matching symbols on a line aren’t enough to get you to that point. If the wild is positioned correctly, on the payline where it is needed, it can substitute for one of those symbols and complete the combination. You will not get its help when the scatter or the bonus symbols are concerned, but it works in every other situation.
Free Games Feature
My absolute favorite feature of this game, the free spins round has the advantage that it offers you as many as 100 spins for free. You do need all five scatter symbols on the screen to get that kind of freebie from the game. The symbol with the scatter ability is the one with a Snake Charmer on it, and you can also get free spins when you have three (10 spins) or four of these icons (20 free spins).
Scarab Hunt Bonus Game
The Scarab Amulet is the third and final special feature symbol, capable of activating a bonus game, with payouts of up to 200 bonus points. You will see this particular symbol on three reels, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th, and all three need to be on an active line in order for Scarab Hunt to begin.
You are taken to a maze made out of yellow blocks of stone, where you control a black scarab that’s trying to catch red scarabs. Each red scarab you get has a value that adds to the prize. Three of them have the maximum prize, and if you get the right ones you have a bigger prize.
Betting options and jackpots
Depending on how many lines are activated and on the denomination of the coins used, you can end up spending up to $75 per spin. The range for the line bet is $0.01 to $5, one coin being used at all times.
The slot’s biggest payout is awarded through the Pharaoh symbol, and it’s the equivalent of 2,000 coins ($10,000).
Design and symbols
I’d say that the design is the weakest part of the game, created in a sort of cartoon style, but also accompanied by playing cards made out of stone and with hieroglyphs sculpted into them. The yellow of the pyramid’s walls is used as the background picture. If you look at the more important symbols, they’re not that bad, but the overall design is almost childish looking, and it’s not attractive enough to keep you playing.
Symbols: Snake Charmer (scatter), Hand-Carved Coin (wild), Scarab Amulet (bonus), Pharaoh (2,000 coins), Egyptian Queen (750 coins), Egyptian Boat (500 coins), Bracelet (300 coins), Ace (200 coins), King (150 coins), Jack (100 coins) and 10 (80 coins).
Is It Worth Playing?
It’s hard to recommend a game like this one, with such a common theme and so many better looking alternatives out there. Feature wise it’s not bad, but the payouts are not quite high enough. The classic variants are better options in their own class, than this title is in the modern category.
This Treasure Of Pharaohs slot is offered by all online casinos with Top Game software, playable either in practice or in real money mode.
