Eye of Horus Megaways Jackpot King Slot – Free Demo

Reel Time Gaming Returns to the Tablets

Eye of Horus Megaways Jackpot King from software supplier Reel Time Gaming appeared in October 2019. The session logged here ran 295 spins at a stake of 4.00. The studio will likely have been wishing to reproduce the triumph it found with Eye of Horus itself, and the original was a charming slot constructed around expanding wilds and a Free Spins round. The Megaways engine the sequel runs on is licensed from Big Time Gaming. The Free Spins round is back, the expanding Horus Wild, too, as are one or two tweaks to how the game works.

There was a hunch I was heading into a plain Megaways copy of the original, after an initial glance at Eye of Horus Megaways Jackpot King. But no. Three progressive pots ride above the base game: Jackpot King, Regal Pot and Royal Pot. After a few spins and bonus rounds, this is not so much a reskin as much as one which merely carries the tablets and the Horus Wild into a much larger game with the Jackpot King pots fastened on top.

Scatters, Wilds and the 3600-Megaways Grid

Eye of Horus Megaways Jackpot King's base game and bonus round could scarcely be more distinct from each other, and in the base game the highly volatile play happens on a 6-reel grid, each reel displaying up to 5 symbols. Payouts are multiplied by the stake, which was 4.00 on every spin I played. This is in combination with up to 15,625 Megaways supplied for counting wins along. That ceiling needs all six reels showing five symbols at the same time. A win is 3 to 6 matching successive symbols from the leftmost reel, at any height. Across the 295 spins the wins came to 4,202.40 against 1,180.00 wagered. All winning combinations are added together. The longest run I had without a win of any kind was 13 spins, ending on spin 68. On the recorded spins the on-screen count displayed 3600 Megaways, and bets from 0.10 per spin may be chosen. That count sits a long way short of the stated ceiling. The bonus can be purchased, and the theoretical RTP is 95.00%.

Landing 3 or more Bonus Scatters anywhere in view sets off the Free Spins. In my 295 spins that happened once, on spin 10. These grant 12 free spins. That round did not retrigger, so it ran to its twelve spins and paid out. The Wild stands in for other symbols on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 only, the Horus Wild expands to blanket all positions on its reel and stands in the same way, and no Wild stands in for scatter or bonus symbols.

Twelve Free Spins and the Tablet Upgrades

The player's task in the bonus round is to land Horus Wilds, and each one advances the tablets in sequence, displayed along the top of the screen. The single round I saw paid 1,828.00 across its twelve spins. One, two, three or four Horus Wilds also grant 1, 3, 5 or 7 additional spins respectively; when the spins run out, the round pays out its collected winnings.

Minty Slots Verdict: One free spins round carried 43% of everything the session won, and the remaining 294 spins had to find the rest between them; 60 of those paid anything at all, 27 of them less than the stake.

Jackpot King Deluxe and the Wheel King Pots

6 Jackpot King Deluxe overlay symbols landing across reels 1 to 6 may trigger Jackpot King Deluxe randomly on any spin. It is available at any stake, on any game plugged into the Jackpot King Deluxe system. Inside it, Crown symbols pile up and shift the player up a win ladder; after each spin the player chooses an icon uncovering Spin, which spins again and adds any new Crowns, Collect, which halts the feature and collects a Total Bet multiplier from the ladder, or Wheel King, which jumps straight to the wheel. The choice comes after every spin, so the feature lasts as long as the player keeps turning up Spin. Fifteen or more Crowns likewise enters Wheel King. Crowns are the only thing that moves the ladder. Wheel King is a Tombola-style wheel of Big Win Multiplier segments and Progressive pot segments, and the three pots — Jackpot King, Regal Pot, Royal Pot — can only be won there; a won pot returns to its Reserve and climbs again. The pots are funded by contributions from player stakes, with the operator paying the initial seeds. The odds of winning increase as a pot's value increases, and the Royal and Regal pots are guaranteed to be won by their 'Must Be Won By' value.

295 Spins at 4.00 a Turn

The original Eye of Horus was one of those games that rushed in like a gulp of fresh air on a dusty, smoggy day — the utter delight of watching a Horus Wild spread out over an entire reel, upgrading tablet after tablet along the top of the screen until the round levelled itself up with additional spins. As a sequel, Eye of Horus Megaways Jackpot King isn't as dazzlingly new. Beyond the Megaways grid, what it adds is the Jackpot King Deluxe pot system. That's expected. But all of the other acclaim piled on part 1 now smoothly carries over to it as well.

Not only do players get another opportunity to tunnel deeper into Eye of Horus's world, but this game provides several new extras which improve the experience as a whole, and the first is the Megaways grid itself. The shape of the grid changes from spin to spin rather than holding still. There, six reels of up to five symbols each open up to 15,625 ways instead of a static group of lines. Across 295 spins at a stake of 4.00 the session ended at 356.1% of everything wagered. The balance finished at 3,122.40 from a 100.00 start. Only 60 spins paid at all, though, and 27 of those paid less than the stake, so there are no guarantees. That leaves 235 spins that returned nothing. The Free Spins proved extremely lucrative. The round on spin 10 converted a balance of 65.20 into 1,889.20 for 457.0x the stake, and it accounted for 43% of everything won. Only two spins in the whole session paid more than 100x the stake. Jackpot King Deluxe is likely to be a less common event than the free spins — it never triggered in my session — but it has the makings of a fierce ride when it does.

Last but not least is potential, where I discover a max win of 50,000x the bet. The three pots can only be taken on the Wheel King wheel, which sits behind a bonus that triggers at random. The best base spin I witnessed was nowhere near the pots. After it, the next-best paying spin was 270, at 68.00 or 17.0x the stake. Spin 123 paid 1,960.00 for 490.0x the stake, but it was enough to peak the balance at 3,516.40.