Eye of Horus Gold Spins Megaways Slot Review

Ancient Egypt one more time, which by now is less a theme than a habit for Blueprint. The one new idea is that the bonus no longer stops when the free games run out.

Six reels stand at uneven heights, two to five carved tablets on each, and the Megaways count is rebuilt every spin: 900 on one, 3,600 on the next, with 15,625 sitting at the far end if all six reels ever come in full. Three temple scatters open 12 free games, where every Horus Wild expands and then permanently promotes the lowest-paying symbol still in play. Golden versions of that wild bank a Gold Spin, and those fire only once the free games are completely done, on a reel set cut back to the high pays.

Two numbers to sit with. The ceiling is 10,100x, a hair above what the series has offered before. The RTP on this build is 94%, a full point under every other Eye of Horus in the catalogue. That is the trade being asked: a point of return in exchange for one extra bonus phase.

Six sandstone columns of unequal height in a dim chamber, everything washed warm orange, with the outline of pillars and a lit doorway somewhere behind the grid. Symbols are carved tablets: a scarab in bright blue enamel, twin red-tipped ankhs, a pair of lotus fans in green and turquoise, a black Anubis lying flat on a gold plinth, a Horus falcon striped in teal, red and gold. The premium is the amulet itself, a blue eye on a gold plate that glows against all that plain stone.

Royals are painted straight into the sandstone with no frame around them at all: blue J, green Q, red K, gold A. That is a smart bit of hierarchy, because the picture symbols pop and you know instantly whether a spin is worth watching. A banner above the reels counts the ways. Off to the left, the Power Play button sits in rainbow-edged gold, the loudest thing in the frame and obviously meant to be.

The Egyptian art is a faithful reproduction of the original rather than a restyle, and after this many entries it looks it. Warm, clean, and about a decade behind what the theme looks like elsewhere now.

The base game is where this one tests patience. Wins land often enough on paper, about one spin in eleven, but the royals pay 0.1x to 0.4x and nothing whatsoever happens between spins. No multiplier, no modifier, no random anything. Just the ways counter ticking up and down over a long run of small returns that do not cover the stake.

And the bonus sits a long way off. Roughly one round every 120 spins, which at any normal pace is a serious stretch of empty reels. That is exactly what the glowing button on the left is for, and it is an uncomfortable temptation, because 5x a spin empties a balance quickly.

When the free games do land, the game finds a shape. The tension is all in the wild count: one is fine, four is a windfall, and every one that arrives does something permanent to the symbol set for the rest of the round. Then the Gold Spins run on a board that cannot miss, which is a good way to end. Getting there just takes longer than a lot of players will sit through.

Gold Spins is a decent idea. Holding a few spins back, stripping the board to high pays and guaranteeing a win on each one gives the bonus a finish rather than letting it simply run out, and carrying the upgrades across makes the two phases read as one round instead of two bolted together.

Everything around it is the Eye of Horus already on the shelf. Same chamber, same falcon, same free-games-with-upgrades engine the series has run since the beginning, now on its sixth outing. Set against Tablets of Destiny Megaways, the nearest thing in the range, the difference is Gold Spins and little else, since 10,100x against 10,000x is a rounding error.

For my money the extra phase is not quite enough to carry the rest, and the base game asks a lot of quiet spins in return. Nobody already tired of this franchise is going to be converted by it.