Every wild in Cleocatra lands with a 2x or 3x on it, and 2 wilds in the same win add their values together rather than multiplying them. That one rule shapes the whole slot. Between features the wild passes through reels 2 to 5 and is gone on the next spin. In free spins it stays where it landed, keeps its number for the round, and the 5×4 board with 40 lines fills in around it. Pragmatic Play released the game on 26 May 2022, with the court of ancient Egypt recast as cats. The demo runs at a 96.20% RTP.
The pyramid wild substitutes for everything except the scatter, and it only appears on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5. Each time it lands, the game gives it a random 2x or 3x, shown on the symbol, and that multiplier applies to every win the wild is part of. When 2 or more wilds sit in one winning line, the game adds their multipliers. So, a 2x and a 3x on one line make 5x, and three 3x wilds make 9x.
Reel 1 never holds a wild, so every line still needs a real symbol to start from. The wild has no line pay of its own either; the paytable shows only its multiplier rule, with no cash value listed.
Whenever a full stack of 4 identical cat symbols fills reel 1, the game can trigger a respin. The rules say every cat of that type on the screen and every wild stay in place, and every other position spins again until at least one line pays with the stacked cat in it. The wording is “can trigger”, so a stack gives a chance of a respin rather than a certainty, and only the 4 cat symbols qualify. The card symbols, the ankh and the crook and flail do nothing on reel 1 beyond their own line pays.
The gold paw scatter lands on every reel and pays in any position. Three, 4 or 5 of them pay 5x the stake and start 8, 12 or 16 free spins.
Inside the round, every wild that lands on reels 2 to 5 stays on screen through the last spin of the round, and the 2x or 3x it arrived with holds for the whole feature. Because multipliers add across a line, a 3x wild on reel 2 with a 2x on reel 3 and a 3x on reel 4 turns a Cleopatra line into an 8x line, and all three are still there for the next spin. A full cat stack on reel 1 during the feature adds 2 free spins, the one extension the rules list.
Special reels are in play during the free spins feature. Each round is capped at 5,000x the bet. If the total win reaches this limit, the round ends immediately and any remaining features are forfeited.
The purple tablet beside the reels reads Buy Free Spins $200, 100x the bet, and it redraws with the stake, so it reads $20 at $0.20 and $24,000 at the $240.00 top.
A bought round lands 3, 4 or 5 scatters at random, so the spin count is 8, 12 or 16 as it would be from a natural trigger. The RTP of the game when using BUY FREE SPINS is 96.20%, the same figure as the base reels. Cleocatra has no ante bet.
Cleocatra is listed in our site’s Cleopatra series hub. Elsewhere on the site, another Egyptian-themed game from the studio, John Hunter and the Book of Tut, uses an expanding symbol during free spins, while Cleocatra uses a multiplier wild.
Cleocatra’s 40 lines are fixed, so the bet menu changes one figure, the total stake, and every line stays in play on every spin. The line map shows the 40 lines as small grids across the 4 rows. A win requires 3 matching symbols from reel 1 on adjacent reels. The game pays only the highest win on any one line, and it adds the line wins together. Since the wild never lands on reel 1, the leftmost reel is the one to read first. A cat or an ankh there starts a line, and a wild on reels 2 to 5 fills it and marks it with 2x or 3x.
The info screen covers the paytable, wild mechanics, scatter, respin and free spins features, win cap and 100x buy-in. It also explains the interface, settings and bet menus, including autoplay’s skip screens option.
The bet runs from $0.20 to $240.00. The RTP row in the table below lists every version of the game, not only this demo’s. The listed volatility is Medium; but this review rates it High, in line with a 5,000x cap and a bonus round whose value sits almost entirely in sticky multiplier wilds.
| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| Bet range | $0.20 to $240.00 |
| RTP | 96.20% in the demo and for Buy Free Spins; 95.50% and 94.50% versions also exist for operators |
| Volatility | High |
| Max win | 5,000x |
The paytable lists cash at the $2.00 stake, and the first three columns here convert each figure to a multiple of that whole stake rather than a line bet. Five Cleopatra cats pay 20x, $40 in cash, and the 10, J and Q share the lowest ladder.
| Symbol | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 in cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleopatra cat | 1.5x | 5x | 20x | $40.00 |
| Pharaoh cat | 1.25x | 3.75x | 12.5x | $25.00 |
| Sphynx cat | 0.75x | 2x | 7.5x | $15.00 |
| Bob-cut cat | 0.5x | 1.25x | 5x | $10.00 |
| Ankh | 0.35x | 0.75x | 3.75x | $7.50 |
| Crook and flail | 0.25x | 0.5x | 2.5x | $5.00 |
| A, K | 0.15x | 0.3x | 1.5x | $3.00 |
| Q, J, 10 | 0.1x | 0.25x | 1x | $2.00 |
| Paw scatter (any position) | 5x | 5x | 5x | $10.00 |
The wild has no pay of its own. Its value is the 2x or 3x it carries into a line, so 4 Cleopatra cats and a 3x wild on one line pay 60x rather than 20x, and 2 wilds at 3x in the same line take it to 120x. The scatter pays the same 5x for 3, 4 or 5 and is the only symbol that ignores the lines.
Cleocatra puts its value in free spins, where every 2x or 3x wild on reels 2 to 5 sticks for the round and multipliers on a shared line add up rather than multiply. The demo runs at 96.20% with a 5,000x cap and a 100x buy. Standard play is slow, because the wild never lands on reel 1 and the low symbols pay from 0.1x, so long stretches can pass without a win.
A 3x wild on reel 4 beside a 2x on reel 5 with no line through either is a common sight, 5x in multipliers waiting on a start that reels 1 and 2 never give. The multipliers turn up more often than the lines that would use them.
The board is bright and quick. Blue stone reels sit under a gold frame, two Anubis cats stand guard either side, pyramids fill the background, and the wild’s multiplier badge is the only animation that asks for attention.
The free spins have to carry a 96.20% return well enough to justify a High rating with a 5,000x cap, and the sticky wilds do it. Every wild in the round holds its 2x or 3x until the end, and the game adds multipliers on a shared line rather than multiplying them, so the round builds in a straight line. Four wilds on reels 2 to 5 at 3x each make 12x on any line they share, and they share it for every spin that remains. The additive rule keeps the top end honest, and it is why 5,000x is a cap the game can reach rather than a headline it never touches. The counterweight is the rest of the game. With no wild on reel 1 and a 40-line board that pays 0.1x for three 10s, money moves slowly between features, and a run of blank screens is the normal price of waiting.
The respin on reel 1 is the feature the rules undersell. A full stack of one cat locks it and respins everything else until a line pays, and inside the feature the same stack adds 2 spins, so the leftmost reel does the work the wild can’t. Pragmatic Play used the same sticky multiplier wild idea in The Dog House, and the two demos are the fair comparison for anyone deciding which round to chase in free play.
Cleocatra is a 3.5 out of 5 slot. The demo runs at 96.20%, and the round it lets you buy for 100x has a clear build to it. The wait between rounds is the price, and the demo shows it within a handful of spins.
| Game | RTP | Max win | Volatility |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleocatra | 96.2% | 5,000x | High |
| Cleopatra | 95.02% | 10,000x | Medium |
| Cleopatra Plus | 96.50% | 600,000 | Medium |
| Cleopatra Keno | 95% | 2,000x | Low |
