Sun of Egypt Slot – Free Demo

Booongo’s sun, badged by 3 Oaks

Booongo has elected to construct one of their Egyptian slots around a hold and win bonus round, the kind of thing that has been circulating for years now, and the word 'new' in this instance is a subjective term, since the client labels the game as a 3 Oaks release rather than a Booongo one. I ran 390 spins through it at 1.50 a spin and finished on 1,207.90 from a 1,000.00 start. Outside this bonus round the extras are sparse, statistics included, but sufficient to merit a glance, so let's inspect it.

Suns with a price printed on them

Fairly ordinary, the backdrop is exactly what the game promises, painting a scene full of sun, sand and blue skies — a vista that was well-known before and just as well-known now. Some studios go all out to produce a visual eruption when doing slots Egypt. Booongo hasn't set their sights so high. Sun of Egypt is agreeable enough to behold, though. Where the presentation actually does something is the Bonus Game, which prints a cash value on the face of every sun symbol that lands. At a 1.50 bet those printed values run 3.00, 4.50, 6.00, 10.50 and 12.00.

Wilds arrive from reel two onward

Sun of Egypt is playable on any device, and the Egypting occurs on a 5x3, 25 fixed bet line game grid. The paytable is dynamic, so the figures it shows redraw against whatever bet is set. The math model isn't especially daring. Across those 390 spins I staked 585.00 and took 792.90 back, a session return of 135.5%. It produced a win on 29% of the 390 spins I ran through it.

Winning in Sun of Egypt occurs when matching symbols land on successive reels beginning from the left-hand side. Wins that land on separate paylines on the same spin are added together and paid out together. Only the largest win is counted per line, scatter wins are added on top of the line wins, and wilds land on reels 2-5.

The counter that stayed on three

The game isn't exactly bulging at the seams with extras. That makes the bonus round the entire experience, and as well as the wilds there are free spins and the Bonus Game. The Bonus Game runs as a hold and win sequence: suns land and hold on the grid, a respin counter runs beside them, and the round closes when the counter empties. It is the hold and win round the title screen promotes. The same Hold and Win engine runs in the two sequels, Sun of Egypt 2 and Sun of Egypt 3.

The free spins are run on the same 25 lines and at the triggering bet, they can be retriggered, and the Bonus Game is run at the triggering bet as well. It can also trigger inside the free spins. A Bonus Game that starts inside the free spins is played at the bet that triggered those free spins.

A respin meter ticks on screen during the Bonus Game. In the frames it reads "3 respins remaining", and it was still reading 3 after further suns had landed on the grid. It shows how many respins are left, and perched above the reels are three jackpots - Grand, Major and Mini - worth 1,000x, 150x and 30x the bet, which at my 1.50 stake amounted to 1,500.00, 225.00 and 45.00. A side panel counts down toward the top prize as the grid fills, reading "9 more to Grand Jackpot", then 8, then 7.

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The bonus did 45% of the work

The Bonus Game is where the game truly lives, and over 390 spins it triggered seven times and paid 354.90 of the 792.90 I won. That is 45% of everything the session generated. The spacing was uneven: the first came on spin 9, the second not until spin 205, and the third five spins after that.

The base game, meanwhile, achieves very little, and of the 113 paying spins, 61 paid less than the stake back. The balance never dropped far, bottoming out at 941.80. The longest dry stretch was 13 spins. It ended on spin 312, four spins before the session peak of 1,258.15. The largest single hit was 81x on spin 202. That spin paid 121.50 with no feature attached to it. The best the Bonus Game mustered was 64x on spin 205, a long way short of the Grand at 1,000x the bet.

Minty Slots Verdict: Seven Bonus Game rounds in 390 spins put 354.90 into a 792.90 return, and the largest of them was 64x the stake against a Grand posted at 1,000x.

What the sparse half costs it

The hold and win round is welcome, to summarize, and it is the one lively part of the game, an extra that props up a base game which does feel a little sparse. The smallest of the seven bonuses paid 9.90, 6.6x the stake, on spin 347. Sun of Egypt ends up being something like a capable hold and win slot rather than a memorable one, since everything else has essentially remained conventional.