Pyramyth

Pyramyth: Slot Overview

Thunderkick is a creative bunch, no arguments there. They've come up with subjects as diverse as pink elephants, vampires, and all manner of mythical beasts to give their games colour. Pyramyth is another mythologically inspired game, yet instead of packing your archaeology kit to head back in time, the game goes in the opposite direction – the future. Futuristic Ancient Egypt might sound odd, but it works well, counterbalancing the features and format, which are more traditional. Here you'll come across wild multiplier symbols and sticky respins in a free spins bonus game.

Played using 5 reels and 15 fixed paylines, as you might have gathered from the game's name, this is Ancient Egypt of the future. It's as if the civilisation hadn't petered out but powered on into the 21st century and beyond. Modern-day Cairo, as represented in the game, looks like one of those uber-modern Emirati cities full of towering high rise buildings that glint in the Gulf sun. In Pyramyth, it's not hard to imagine a benign species coming down to help advance the civilisation, like an episode of Stargate SG1.

Pyramyth is playable on desktop, mobile, or tablets, providing stakes from 10 p/c to $/€100 per spin. The game is highly volatile, generating a theoretical return value of 96.17%. To score wins, players need to hit three or more matching symbols from the left side of the grid while having several features in the base and bonus game to boost winning potential.

Asf or the paytable, Thunderkick has split it into three segments – lows, mids and high-value symbols. Low pays are 9-A card tiles, while mids are Egyptian style hounds, crocodiles, and eagles. The lone high paying symbol is a high priestess, who fires off a win worth 75 times the stake if a full line of her lands across the grid. Wilds play a more central role in Pyramyth than usual so let's cover them next.

Pyramyth: Slot Features

Scarab beetles were important in Ancient Egyptian culture, associated as they were with the sun god Ra, and are pretty important in Pyramyth as well. In the game, scarabs are depicted on the wild symbols, which appear on every reel, substituting all other symbols except the scatter. In addition, wins including a wild symbol apply a multiplier based on the number of wilds on the pay line. Having 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 wilds in a pay line grants a multiplier of x2, x4, x8, x16, or x32.

The other critical symbols in Pyramyth are the sun scatters, also appearing on any reel. When at least 3 are in view in the base game, free spins are triggered. The number awarded is 10, 15, or 20 free spins when 3, 4, or 5 scatters are in view. During free spins, every pay line win activates a sticky respin feature. Here, winning symbols are locked in place while all others respin. If new winners land, they are locked too, and respins continue – ending when no additional winning symbols land or if all positions on the reels are locked.

As well as respins, free spins also do fun things with wilds. When wild symbols land in the bonus round, they become Roaming Wilds that stay on the reels for the remainder of the round. Keep in mind that wilds on pay lines multiply wins as they do in the base game. Before each new spin, all Roaming Wilds shift to another position on the game grid. This applies to sticky respins as well, so before each respin, wilds move to a new unlocked position unless they are included in a win. In the bonus game, it is possible to have up to 5 awarded wilds roaming around. Lastly, should a total of 3 scatters symbols land on a free spin, including a sticky respin sequence, +5 additional free spins are awarded.

Pyramyth: Slot Verdict

Much like Thunderkick's Beat the Beast range, Pyramyth is a slot that doesn't try to go against the grain but gets on with the job of delivering straightforward gaming, which is uncomplicated yet effective. It also looks a lot like the Beat the Beast series as well due to a similar graphic quality to its reels and background imagery. Speaking of imagery, setting Ancient Egypt in the future is a pretty cool idea which makes you wonder – what would the world be like if the mysticism of Ancient Egypt had carried on down to the present day to be blended with science and technology?

The features aren't quite as original as the theme. It's not to say they are bad in any way, though, all being proven performers that crop up repeatedly, for good reason. Wild multipliers always go down a treat and help keep the base game interesting, for one. When free spins trigger, players not only get sticky respins to build wins, there's the added bonus of having up to five roaming wilds helping to connect more symbols. It's not a feature combo you really see, and when wound up, the system can work to excellent effect as well. When Pyramyth is firing the game can produce wins of up to 10,000 times the stake. It's probably capable of doing more than this, but the 10k is a win cap Thunderkick has whacked on, and game rounds terminate when hitting this level.

When we've received a Thunderkick game recently, it's typically gone in one of two directions. The studio is either pounding out playable 6x4, 4,096 ways games, or they're doing something with a distinctly similar feel to Pyramyth on a reduced grid with fixed paylines. The studio is adept at both approaches, and Pyramyth is another well-designed slot that uses reliable features to supply equally reliable gaming.