Flame of Ra

Flame of Ra Overview

Flame of Ra is an Egyptian slot on five reels and four rows with 40 fixed paylines, and in a catalogue full of coin collectors, jackpot ladders and three-tier booster menus it stands out by doing almost none of that. There are no jackpots, no bonus game, no collection mechanic. There is a wild, a scatter and a free spins round, and that is the entire feature list.

What makes it work is that the wild is also the best-paying symbol on the reels – and it arrives in stacks.

Theme and Graphics

The base game is set in daylight beside the Nile: sand, palms, a pyramid on the left horizon and a columned temple on the right, under a pale blue sky. The reel frame is gold and hieroglyph-carved, the reels themselves a deep plum red.

When the free spins begin the scene changes to night – a full moon, a dark blue sky, the same buildings now in silhouette. It is a simple device and an effective one; you always know which mode you are in without reading a counter.

The symbol set is more interesting than it first appears. Above the line sit a golden pharaoh mask, a scarab, a cobra, an amphora, the Eye of Horus and an ankh. Below the line, instead of the usual card royals, Evoplay has used the four card suits – spade, heart, diamond and club – rendered as coloured gemstones.

Reels, Paylines and Stacked Wilds

Forty fixed lines across a 5x4 grid, paying from the leftmost reel rightwards. All figures below come from demo play at a 2.00 EUR bet, where ordinary results landed at 2.40, 3.20 and 5.60 – 1.2x, 1.6x and 2.8x the stake.

The wild is the flaming head of Ra, it substitutes for everything except the scatter, and unusually for this studio there is no reel restriction on it whatsoever – several recent Evoplay titles confine the wild to reels 2 to 5, but here it can land anywhere, including the first reel where every winning combination has to begin.

It also arrives stacked. The screenshots show three wilds filling the first reel in the base game, and in the free spins two complete columns of wilds standing side by side. On a forty-line grid, a fully wild reel touches every single payline at once.

Symbols and Paytable

The wild leads the table at x50 for five, x5 for four and x1 for three. Nothing else comes close: the pharaoh mask and the scarab share second place at x10 / x2 / x0.5, the cobra and the amphora pay x6 / x1.5 / x0.5, and the Eye of Horus and the ankh manage x4 / x1 / x0.2. The four card suits sit at the bottom together, worth x2.5 for five, x0.5 for four and x0.1 for three.

That is a five-fold gap between the wild and the best ordinary symbol, and a twenty-fold gap down to the suits. Since the wild both pays the most and substitutes for everything, a stacked wild reel does two jobs on the same spin – it completes other combinations and forms its own. It also explains why the four-of-a-kind rung is so much lower than the five: at x5 against x50, the wild's value is concentrated almost entirely in the full line.

Free Spins

Scatters pay from anywhere on the grid regardless of position, and the awards are generous: 3 scatters give 10 free spins, 4 give 20 and 5 give 30. Scatters land in the free spins as well, and three or more retrigger the round with the same amounts again.

Note what the round does not add. There are no extra multipliers, no expanding symbols, no upgraded reels – the free spins are simply free spins, played at the triggering stake. The value comes from volume and from the wild stacks appearing on a grid you are not paying for. With 30 spins available from five scatters and a retrigger on the same terms, a round that starts well can run a long way before it ends.

The Buy Menu: Linear Pricing

Three purchases are offered: 10 free spins for 21x the total bet, 20 for 42x and 30 for 63x. At the 2.00 stake the demo prices them at 42.00, 84.00 and 126.00 EUR.

Work out the cost per spin and it is 2.1x the bet at every tier, exactly. No discount for buying in bulk, and no premium either. That is worth pointing out because it is genuinely rare – most buy menus either reward the larger package or, as in Evoplay's own Joker Jane, charge progressively more for it. Here the arithmetic is honest and the choice is purely about how much you want to spend.

RTP, Volatility and Max Win

The RTP is 95.54% and the game ships with RTP ranges, meaning the operator selects which version to run; the figure on any particular casino may differ from the one quoted here, so the in-game info screen is the one to check.

Volatility is rated Low-Medium – the mildest rating in this batch of Evoplay releases – and the maximum win is 1,451x the bet. That ceiling is modest, and it is honest about what the game is: forty lines, frequent small returns, and a free spins round that accumulates rather than explodes. With no jackpot to chase and no collection grid to fill, the best session Flame of Ra can give you is a long free spins round with the reels full of wilds.

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