Legacy of Dead Slot Review

Released in January 2020, this game can be played at online casinos such as Casumo, Mr Green or Rizk.

Theme and general information

Play’n GO is at it again with their Egyptian slots. This time, we get Legacy of Dead. Is it any different than their previous games such as Book of Dead or Rise of Dead? Hardly.

The slot is well drawn. The details are lovely and there’s much to discover. You can’t deny that. It looks good. We’re inside a burial chamber, fires are sizzling in the background, the music fits nicely with the theme. But the symbols have been cloned directly from other Egyptian themed slots that Play’n GO has developed in the past, including Book of Dead and Rise of Dead.

So, this game is anything but original, which is a shame, because Play’n GO has delivered Egyptian themed slots with a lot of original features and an original look before.

Be that as it may, the burial chamber symbol is the scatter and the wild. It pays out 500x our stake for 5 on a payline. The mummified pharaoh is worth the same. Anubis still pays out 160x our stake for such a win. And the golden pharaoh pays out 60x our stake for 5 of his kind, which is also the case for the Horus symbol.

We also get some generic looking playing card symbols from 10 to A.

You can play this game from 0.10 to 100.00 per spin.

An all too familiar free spin feature

In the base game, nothing much happens. We’re spinning the reels, hoping to see some wild scatters here and there or some 5-of-a-kind wins. Only when we get three or more scatters on the reels, will things get more interesting.

Now we get 10 free spins and a coin prize, which is up to 200x our stake, if we get 5 scatters. Then a scroll open up to reveal which reel symbol has been chosen to serve as an expanding symbol when it lands three or more times on the reels. If it is one of the high value symbols, they will expand if we only get two of them on the reels.

Above the reels, a row with all the symbols is visible and the one currently set to expand is highlighted in colour. Should we manage to retrigger the free spins, which is indeed a possibility, further expanding symbols would be added to the game and shown here.

Of course, besides the regular wins, we will now also get the scatter wins for the expanding symbols that pay out anywhere on the reels. Wins of up to 5,000x our stake are possible, and we could get all 9 reel symbols as expanding symbols, if we manage to retrigger the free spins often enough.

Verdict: Another clone that is barely worth your time

The theoretical RTP (Return to Player) for Legacy of Dead is 96.58%, which is well above average and excellent. Needless to say, this is a highly volatile slot and the base game can become a real drain on your budget, if you are not careful or unlucky enough to have to wait for the free spins too long.

Beyond that, the game is a visual clone of the slots already mentioned, which means nothing new is added here. And the game play is a direct clone of Rise of Merlin, which in itself is only a variation of Book of Dead.

So, we can’t really give you a good enough reason to play this game on its own merits because it doesn’t really have any. It’s a good slot, if you look at it on its own. But since it doesn’t stand on its own, it’s also utterly forgettable among all the other Egyptian themed slots from Play’n GO.