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Pragmatic Play takes their dueling-gods concept to ancient Egypt, and this time, the wilds can walk.
If you played Zeus vs Hades, you already know the basic setup here. Pragmatic Play has moved that two-god formula to Egypt for Ra vs Osiris. It’s a 5×5 grid with 15 paylines, high volatility, and a massive top prize of 25,000x your bet. The RTP (Return to Player) is 96.53% playing as Ra and 96.54% as Osiris, so the side you pick costs you nothing. But the big upgrade this time around? The wild symbols actually move across the screen.
Here is everything you need to know before you spin.
Choose Your God: The Two Profiles
Before you even see the reels, the game makes you choose a side. Pick Ra, and the game glows with fiery orange. Pick Osiris, and you get a spooky, underworld green.
But this isn’t just a cosmetic choice; it actually changes how the game plays. Both sides have the exact same symbols and payouts, but the free spins work differently:
- Ra Mode: Free spins trigger more often, but the average payouts are smaller.
- Osiris Mode: Free spins are much harder to trigger, but they have the potential for massive payouts.
Don’t stress too much about the choice, though. The selector stays on your screen, so you can easily switch gods between spins whenever you want.
(Note: If you want to buy the free spins bonus outright, Osiris costs double what Ra costs, which gives you a good idea of how much more volatile the green side is!)
The Real Stars: Expanding Wilds That Add Up
Everything in this game revolves around the wild symbol. When a wild lands, the game checks to see if expanding it will create a win. If it does, the wild stretches to cover the whole reel and grabs a random multiplier, anywhere from 2x all the way up to a massive 1,000x. If expanding wouldn’t create a win, it just stays a normal, single wild.
Here is the most important rule in the game: If you get two wilds in the same winning combo, their multipliers add together. They don’t multiply each other. So, if you get a 10x wild and a 6x wild, they add up to a 16x multiplier for that win. Because they only add, you’re really just crossing your fingers for one of those massive 500x or 1,000x multipliers to drop.
Free Spins & A Very Risky Gamble
If you land three, four, or five scatter symbols, you get six free spins. Landing more scatters doesn’t give you more spins, but it does raise the minimum multiplier you’ll get on your wilds during the bonus round.
During free spins, every expanding wild becomes a “walking wild.” Once it lands and reveals its multiplier, it awards a free respin and takes one step to the left. The respins keep coming until the wild walks completely off the screen.
But beware the gamble wheel! Before your free spins start, the game lets you gamble to try and increase your minimum wild multiplier. It’s basically a coin toss (about a 50/50 chance). If you win, your multipliers get better. If you lose, you don’t just lose the upgrade, you lose the entire free spins feature. Proceed with caution!
Bonus Buys and a Weird Catch
If you don’t want to wait for scatters, you can buy the bonus round. As Ra, it costs 100x your bet (or 250x for a boosted version). As Osiris, it costs 200x (or 500x for the boosted version). We bought the basic 100x Ra bonus for $200, played it safe by skipping the gamble wheel, and won back $78.
There’s also a menu for “Special Bets” where you can pay a high premium on every spin to guarantee an expanding wild. Here is the catch: As these special bets get more expensive, your maximum win limit actually shrinks. If you play the most expensive Osiris special bet (which costs a crazy 2,000x your base bet per spin), the absolute most you can win is 13 times what you paid for that spin. These modes are just for hitting wilds frequently, not for chasing the 25,000x jackpot.
Base Game Payouts: Don’t Expect Much
To put it bluntly, the regular symbols in this game pay peanuts. The absolute best five-of-a-kind combination only pays 20x your bet.
The developers did this on purpose: they put all the game’s mathematical weight into those massive wild multipliers. You’ll hit small wins fairly often (about once every seven spins) to keep you afloat, but any spin without a wild is basically just pocket change.
As for the artwork, it’s typical Pragmatic Play: it looks expensive, polished, and just like every other Egyptian slot you’ve ever played.
What We Liked, and What We Didn’t
What Works:
- Massive Wilds: Expanding wilds can hit a 1,000x multiplier and add together, which is a huge upgrade from Zeus vs Hades.
- Walking Wilds: Getting a wild during free spins is thrilling because it triggers a chain of free respins as it walks across the screen.
- Fair Bonus Buys: Every buy and every special bet lands between 96.51% and 96.58%, so nothing here is priced by shaving the return.
- Meaningful Scatters: Landing five scatters instead of three actually guarantees bigger multipliers during your bonus round.
What Doesn’t:
- Short Bonus Rounds: Six free spins go by in a flash. If you don’t land a walking wild quickly, the feature is over before it begins.
- Brutal Gamble Feature: Losing a coin flip and having your entire bonus round deleted hurts.
- Sneaky Win Caps: The high-roller “Special Bets” secretly cap your max win potential, which feels a bit misleading.
- Weak Standard Wins: The base paytable is incredibly low; you are entirely reliant on wilds to make any real money.
The Final Verdict
Everything in Ra vs Osiris hinges on landing expanding wilds. You’ll likely sit through a lot of dead spins and small-change wins just waiting for that one glorious moment where a huge wild drops in.
However, what it does well, it does really well. The walking wilds are a massive improvement over the stationary wilds in Zeus vs Hades, and the potential for a 1,000x multiplier keeps the base game exciting. If you like high-risk, high-reward slots and don’t mind enduring some dry spells to chase a giant multiplier, this one is definitely worth a spin.