There’s a glossy feel to the design in Wild Scarabs - with pyramids, palm trees and clear blue skies in the background, you’ll see and assortment of gemstones and golden hieroglyph symbols spinning around the reels. They include the eye of Ra, an Ankh cross, the jackal god Anubis and the bird god Horus. As you’d expect given the game’s title, the scarab beetle is the game’s wild. It replaces all other symbols apart from the scatter. The game comes with 2 extras.
Wild Deal feature - this is triggered if you land a wild on reel 3 but you don’t hit a winner. Up to 4 extra wilds can be added at random to create a guaranteed winning combination.
Free Spins feature - landing 3 or more scatters on the same spin triggers the main bonus offering. You can then look forward to 10 free spins with the Stashed Wilds feature. Any wild that doesn’t form part of a winning line is collected in a meter.
Once you have 3 of these, they are randomly dropped onto the reels to create a new combination that’s guaranteed to be a winner. Now, if you have stashed wilds and have no more free spins, you will get more free spins until all stashed wilds have been used.
For all its high-end visuals Wild Scarabs is in fact a pretty straightforward game. The 2 features are fairly basic and deliver a steady stream of action. Don’t expect too many explosive swings here - this isn’t a volatile slot game as the variance is low. You should get plenty of play for your investment. Saying that, you can win up to 1,733 times your stake on each spin.
The ancient Egyptian theme is one of the most enduringly popular in the online slots world. Wild Scarabs is certainly one of the best of them when it comes to design. We didn’t think the gameplay quite matched the visuals though. It’s a perfectly solid game but if you want a bit more in the way of volatile action, you’ll find better alternatives elsewhere – like Book of Ra Deluxe from Novomatic.