Badge of Ra Hold and Win Slot Review & Free Play

Badge of Ra Hold and Win: Spin Reels of Gold and Fill Up Treasure Chests for Jackpots

Badge of Ra Hold and Win by Game Time Tec transports us inside an untouched Ancient Egyptian crypt covered in gold and jackpots. Alongside expanding wilds, free spins and five jackpots rising up to 1,000x your bet, the bonus changes the usual respin formula by locking two reels from the very start. Let's see what the game plays like below.

The game uses a 5x3 grid with 25 paylines, with regular symbol payouts ranging between 0.20x and 8x your bet. Wilds appeared every 3 to 4 spins throughout my session and were almost mandatory for building decent line wins across multiple paylines. Even then, getting symbols to line up felt like a Herculean task, often taking six spins or more just to see returns between 0.20x and 0.80x, with only a handful of wins managing to creep above the 1x mark.

Eventually I landed enough Badge symbols to trigger the Hold and Win feature. It follows the familiar three-respin formula but throws in a small change by spinning the first and fifth reels only once at the very beginning, locking whatever values land there while the three middle reels continue spinning. Every new coin resets the respin counter, with cash prizes reaching up to 16x your bet alongside the Mini, Minor, Major, Mega and Grand jackpots.

I actually liked that little change to the formula since it made the feature feel a bit different from the dozens of Hold and Win games already out there. What I didn't enjoy were the coin values themselves, which stayed stubbornly low throughout the feature. By the time the respins ended, the entire bonus had only produced a 40x win, which felt underwhelming considering how long it took to trigger.

To be fair to Badge of Ra Hold and Win, the presentation is excellent. The 3D symbol models and animations give the game a theatrical feel that stands out from many other Egyptian slots. Unfortunately, the gameplay never quite matched the visuals. Without one of the five jackpots showing up, the bonus feels rather tame, and with a maximum win capped at just 2,500x your bet, there are stronger bonus slots out there.