Gems of the Nile Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Gems of the Nile Review

What comes to your mind when you think of Ancient Egypt-themed video slots. That’s right: pyramids, tombs, pantheons of gods, and hidden treasures. However, the Live 5 provider decided to relocate players from dark tombs to the bright and mysterious Nile. Compared to other slots from Live 5, this game has much more pleasing graphics with a calming animation of the river flow. Gems of the Nile looks super colourful, so it’s not easy to keep attention just on one thing. The 5x10 reel set sounds impressive, but in practice, it takes just 50% of the whole screen. The rest of the screen is dedicated to background details where you can see the brick wall with hieroglyphs that protects you from the river flow, as well as two ornamented statues of Anubis, who earned fame as a god of death and afterlife.

You’ll be playing with 100 betways with stacked symbols which appears promising. To the right of the grid, there is a working panel with the autospin option (10-100), the Spin button, and the betting option. You can bet from £0.10 to £20 per spin, which is disappointing news for highrollers. Amazingly, you have the potential to win up to 7,000x your stake thanks to free spins and wild multipliers, but the Return to Player of 95.67% is below average. The Gems of the Nile slot works on a mathematical model with a medium to high volatility, therefore, we advise you to regulate your stakes while waiting for the free spins bonus round.

Gems of the Nile Slot Features

It’s not surprising to see symbols of gods in the Ancient Egypt-themed game. What's really amazing these days is to see some companies finally replacing the typical card rank icons with their own unique symbols. Here, Live 5 actually managed to bring their individuality into symbols’ life!

The standard symbols consist of 6 low-pays and 5 high-pays. Even though they are often stacked, you still need to form a combination of at least 3 identical symbols that starts from the leftmost reel. The low-valuable symbols appear in colourful forms of Egyptian drawings and hieroglyphs and pay from 0.80x to 1.60x for five-of-a-kind. The premium symbols basically depict the famous gods like Thoth, Horus, Sobek, Maat, and Amun. These are worth 2.40-5x your stake for 5 symbols on a payline.

The special symbols are wilds and scatters. In this game, wilds are literally and metaphorically gems as they not only substitute for other symbols (except scatters) but also have their own value (5x per the full combo of 5 symbols) and come with attached multipliers.

When you manage to land those 3 scatters, the two wonderful things will happen. First, you activate the bonus round with 10 free spins by default, and second, the floodgates open, causing wilds constantly fall on the reels.

During the bonus round, you’ll be playing with the very stake that you’ve played with before the activation of the free spins. The bonus round grants you a chance to land more scatters to retrigger additional free spins. Thus, 2 scatters give you 5 extra spins, and 3 scatters lead to 10 extra spins.

Review Summary

Even though this game genre is nothing we haven’t seen plenty of times before, the provider has truly surprised us with some unique touches. No dark and dusty tombs, instead - the sunny day on the Nile in hopes to get more gems/wilds. They did a great job with symbols presentation and attention to background details, though it may distract you from the main actions on the playing field.

Since the game has no gamble feature or any other bonuses, you’ll just have to wait and pray for the free bonus round where all the great things happen. The potential to win up to 7,000x sounds delicious, but you shouldn’t forget the merciless variance and the below-average RTP percent.

Pros

• Rich graphics and symbols presentation
• Different wilds come with 2x and 3x multipliers
• The FS feature that can be retriggered
• Medium to high volatility and 7,000x max win potential

Cons

• RTP of 95.67% is below average
• No gamble feature and no jackpots
• The max bet option is only £20 per spin which may not suit highrollers