Tuts Legacy Slot Review & Free Play

Tut's Legacy: Unlock the Pharaoh's Extra Rows and Collect Jackpots Worth Up to 15,000x Your Line Bet

Many of us have a soft spot for Egyptian slots, so when Tut's Legacy by Platipus Gaming loaded up with pyramids along the Nile and a pharaoh staring me down from reel three, I was ready to give it a proper go. Five reels, five rows, 30 paylines, and a 96.27% RTP on high volatility. Let’s go!

During the base game, Royals dominated almost every spin, and when I say dominated, I mean J, K, Q, and A took turns paying me x0.3 to x0.4, exclusively. The cat and the scarab share the top of the paytable but barely showed, and when they did, they came in pairs, never threes.

The Pharaoh Wild landed twice for two hits that, just for a second, gave me some hope. Once he stacked across reel three and connected with ankhs for 5.3x, and once he spread across reels two through five for 3x my bet. You can see where I’m going with this, but that’s just not enough.

After those, the real test for my patience was the Bonus coins. Gold discs with values of 90, 135, and even 270 kept landing, but the Collect symbol that grabs their prizes never showed on reels one or five, where it needs to be.

Free Spins need both a Collect and a Bonus with a free spin value on the same spin. Once inside, the grid expands with five extra locked rows that Key symbols unlock one lock at a time. 

Sticky symbols double in value each time Collect hits, and at x16, they turn into a random Jackpot, Grand being 15,000x your line bet. There’s a little bit of everything, but in my case, it was a little bit of nothing.

After watching my balance drain without a single feature going off beyond the base Wild, I can say Tut's Legacy asks for serious patience. The mechanics are layered, but high volatility with no way into the bonus for 100 straight spins is a tough sell.