The visuals in Eye of Horus are pretty basic. The setting is the inside of a pyramid. On the reels you’ll see A to J royal values plus a range of Egyptian hieroglyphs. They include fans, ankh crosses, scarab beetles, the sun god Ra and the dog god Anubis.
The best of the standard symbols is the all-seeing eye of Horus. Land 3, 4 or 5 of these on the same payline and you’ll receive an award of 10, 25 or 50 times your stake. The bird god Horus is the game’s wild. It replaces all other symbols apart from the scatter. Whenever Horus hits, it expands and turns the whole of that reel wild.
The pyramid door is the scatter. Find 3, 4 or 5 of these anywhere on the reels on the same spin and you’ll pocket an award of 20, 200 or 500 coins. You’ll also trigger the Free Games feature. On offer here are 12 free spins. Hope to see plenty of the Horus wild - whenever it hits, it upgrades 1 of the hieroglyphs into the next most valuable symbol. The wild also adds extra free spins to your total. You’ll receive 1, 3 or 5 extra free spins if you land 1, 2 or 3 wilds.
The design is rather basic but the hieroglyph symbols are nicely drawn. The generic bangs and bleeps soundtrack gives the game and old school feel too. The gameplay is similarly straightforward. The expanding wilds help move things along but it’s the Free Games feature where things can spring into life thanks to the symbol upgrades.
Many Blueprint Gaming slot games are overloaded with features. They’re really stripped things back here. If you’re after the usual collection of bonus rounds, then Eye of Horus will likely leave you a little disappointed. If you fancy some simple Egyptian-themed action, that’s exactly what you’ll find here. Saying that, there are lots of better games to play with the same thing such as Quickspin’s Ark of Mystery.