Nefertiti’s Nile

Overview Nefertiti’s Nile

Nefertiti or as she is sometimes referred to Neferneferuaten-Nefertiti was a queen of Egypt who lived in the 14th century. She is considered one of the most influential queens to have ever ruled the north African nation. Her prosperous reign is the thematic inspiration for this game and one that lends itself to an enticing visual narrative.

The designers at GameArt have created Nefertiti’s Nile with the twin ambitions of blowing players away with an Egyptian theme unlike any that they have seen before and with creating a risky but highly rewarding game that will have players desperate to have a spin. They have accomplished this with a stunning visual display and by including a few key range features that can assist in rewarding players up to 12,500x their stake per spin. Features include a free spins round, cascading reels and multipliers which can reach an incredibly high 50x!

Theme and Symbols

For Nefertiti’s Nile, players are carried away to the distant land of Pharaohs and Pyramids, where the powerful queen Nefertiti rules over the Nile and its adjacent lands. The background for this slot is quite sublime and a key feature that anchors the theme effectively. Indeed, it is quite a piece of art. To the right of the game window is a soaring pyramid illustrated in beautiful detail. To the left is the outskirts of an ancient civilisation, accentuated by a smattering of impressive monuments.

The board has been decorated to resemble the golden columns, typical of ancient Egyptian palaces. This is achieved by incorporating a clever filigree into the top edge of the board which also houses the game’s logo.

The low-paying symbols for this game are a standard set of card royals (10, J, Q, K, and A) styled in a way as to emulate the ancient Egyptian script seen on the tombs and building of significance at the time. High paying symbols on the other hand are portrayed as a collection of Egyptian gods. These include Sobek, Horus, Bastet and Anubis. The wild symbol for this game is a depiction of the Nefertiti herself wearing an ornate black and blue headdress. Finally, the scatter is illustrated as a pyramid decorated emblazoned with the eye of Horus.

Game Play

The game of Nefertiti’s Nile is played on a 5-reel, 3-row board with 25 pay lines. The wild acts as it usually does in online slots, substituting for any symbol apart from the scatter to help you score more wins. The wild can also trigger the special Stacked Walking Wild Respins feature, which is much more exciting. This game also has a cascading reels dynamic which helps you score more wins by offering players a chain reaction of wins within a single spin. You form wins in this game by matching symbols across pay lines from the left to the right.

The betting range for Nefertiti’s Nile is 25p to £25 per spin. Changing your stake is easy. All you need to do is use the menu tools located underneath the game window. This same menu will give you the option of setting up auto-spins too. The return to player percentage is exactly the industry standard at 96.08%. Nefertiti’s Nile’s variance is high, meaning that although you might get fewer wins per spin, the wins that you do achieve will come with bigger payouts. The maximum win that a player can take home on one spin is an astronomical 12,500x your bet.

Features

There are three main features at play for Nefertiti’s Nile. The first feature that players will notice is the aforementioned cascading reels feature. This means that every time you win a combination, the symbols which were part of that win are dissolved and immediately replaced with a new set that tumbles from the top of the reels. Unlike some games, however, GameArt has spiced this feature up with an attached multiplier. For every consecutive cascade that you land, the attached multiplier to your win grows. The multiplier grows as follows: 1x to 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 7x, 10x, 15x, 20x, and eventually to 50x. The cascade feature will continue until the new set of symbols does not form a win.

The next feature is the Stacked Walking Wild Respins Feature. This feature involves the wild symbol, which is for Nefertiti’s Nile, the queen herself. In addition to its normal role of substituting in for other symbols to form wins, the Nefertiti symbol has another ability. If you land the wild symbol on reel 5, it will transform into a stacked wild which is impervious to cascades. If the stacked wild ends up on the middle reels, the game will also grant you a re-spin. As this is a walking wild feature, the stacked wild will move from right to left in the base game, helping to score more wins. However, in the Free Spins round, it can move anywhere.
When the walking wild is in play, the reels freeze in place. Thanks to the cascading reels multiplier feature, for every win that the wild helps to trigger, the win multiplier will also grow.

The final feature and the one that players should mainly be aiming to trigger, is the game’s free spins round. To trigger this bonus, players need to land 5 of the special pyramid scatters on the reels. Doing this will earn you 15 free spins with an attached 5x multiplier. If you manage to land a subsequent five scatters once within the free spins game, you’ll receive an additional 5 free spins. The walking wild feature is also at play in the free spins round.

Conclusion

Egyptian themed slots with feature-heavy gameplay are nothing new to the industry. This being said, GameArt studios have done an excellent job in both the visual presentation and elaborate gameplay. These factors plus the high pay-outs, put Nefertiti’s Nile at the top-end of this genre. The only thing players may want to consider before placing a few bets, is that the variance is very high, so you might have to wade through quite a few spins before you get a decent payout.