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Cleo's Wish is one of those NextGen Gaming releases from 2017 (now flying under the Light & Wonder banner) that quietly does a lot more than its sun-drenched Cleopatra dressing suggests. The grid is a clean 5×4 running 1024 ways to win, the background is a warm sunset over the Nile with pyramids and a Sphinx on the horizon, and a stylised young Cleo stands beside the reels like she's hosting the whole thing. Symbols lean into the theme: glowing blue logo, a green winged scarab, gold ankh, a jewelled scepter and an Egyptian drum, with cartoon card royals filling out the low end. The purple pyramid is your scatter.
Bets stretch from $0.01 to $30, the max win caps at 6,666x, and volatility sits in that medium-high pocket. The RTP is 95.15%, which, let's be honest, is a touch below modern norms. Not a dealbreaker, but worth knowing before you sit down for a long session.
Base spins run on a feature umbrella called Wish Upon a Wild. No trigger needed. At random, one of three things can fire: whole reels lock into Guaranteed Wild Reels from the left, stray wilds get sprinkled across the grid, or the logo, scarab, bracelet and ankh symbols all morph into one matching icon. That last one is where the fat 1024-ways hits live.
Three purple pyramids on reels 1, 3 and 5 launch Free Games, and here's the catch: you're randomly tossed into one of two modes. No choice. Cleo's Parade parks a stack of wilds on reel 5 and marches it one column left every spin, leaving a wild trail behind it. Three more scatters drop a fresh stack on reel 5 to extend the parade. Run ends when the last stack hits reel 1.
Eternal Riches plays differently. You get 5 to 10 standard spins; each wild bumps a Super Spins multiplier (up to 20x), each scatter adds to the spin meter. When the regular spins end, the Super Spins fire at whatever multiplier you've stacked. That's where the real ceiling sits.
The randomness of bonus assignment is a bit divisive. Is it frustrating? Sometimes. But it also keeps every trigger feeling fresh.