You won’t see many better designed slot games than Mercy of the Gods. The visuals here are superbly done. A lavish palace is the setting. You’ll see ornate columns, swaying palm trees and a pair of cat god statues guarding the reels. There you’ll find A to J royal values plus a Pharaoh, the scarab beetle and a bird god Horus. The best paying symbol is the female treasure hunter who awards 80 times your stake if you land 5 across a payline. There’s a good offering of extras in Mercy of the Gods.
Gift of Life Re-Spins feature – this is triggered by landing a wild symbol. The reels spin again and the wild drops down 1 position. The re-spins keep on coming until all of the wilds have dropped off the reels.
Gift of Double Wilds feature - if a wilds drops down onto another wild during the re-spins, the whole of that reel will turn wild.
Free Spins feature - land 3, 4 or 5 scatters on the same spin and you’ll be awarded 5, 8 or 12 free spins. Any wild that lands during this feature expands to fill the whole of the reel. It also triggers the Gift of Life Re-Spins feature for even more re-spins.
Gift of Wealth Jackpot feature - each bonus symbol that lands is collected in a meter. Collecting 3 on a single spin or set of re-spins triggers this round. You’ll be awarded 3 spins on a new set of reels. These reels are filled with blanks or bonuses worth between 10 and 200 times your stake. If a bonus symbol lands, the spins resets to 3.
Fill 1 row with bonus symbols to win the Minor Jackpot of 20 times your stake (as well as winnings from the bonus symbols). Fill 2 rows to win the Major Jackpot of 100 times your stake (as well as other payouts from the bonus symbol). Fill all 3 rows to land the Mega Jackpot – this is a progressive jackpot!
There’s a seemingly endless appetite for Ancient Egyptian-themed slot games. With releases like Mercy of the Gods, it’s easy to see why. The visuals here are superb and the haunting soundtrack is an ideal match. There’s a cracking variety of extras on offer here too.
Put all that together and Mercy of the Gods becomes a very playable slot game and well worth discovering if you enjoy the Classical era theme. Medium to high variance, the bigger wins will come from the progressive jackpot but you can still pocket 1,600 times your stake on each spin/re-spin/free spin if you fill the reels with the female treasure hunter (and wilds). If you want to summon gods though, Blueprint Gaming’s Journey of the Gods is recommended – it’s also highly volatile.