Paylines
25 paylines (player-selectable 1-25)
Genii dropped The Last Pharaoh into the crowded Egyptian-slot pile and somehow made it feel like its own thing. The reels sit inside a carved temple pediment, flanked by cobra-engraved columns. A golden sphinx peers in from the left. Three pyramids loiter on the right against a flat blue sky. It's playful rather than ominous, closer to a Saturday-morning Indiana Jones cartoon than the brooding tomb-raid vibe most pharaoh slots chase.
The base setup is a familiar 5×3 grid with 25 paylines, and you can dial those lines down to one if you like punishing yourself. Bets stretch from a single penny up to $31.25, which is generous on both ends. Default sits at $3.75 with three coins per line.
Symbols split into the usual two camps. Egyptian icons up top (a hooded cobra, a curved khopesh dagger, a young attendant, the pharaoh himself) and gothic-enamel card values 9 through A in punchy orange, pink, and purple. The Pharaoh symbol is the high-pay anchor at 1,000 coins for five-of-a-kind. The Wild lives only in the base game, pays its own combos, and doubles every win it joins. That x2 is sneaky-powerful since it stacks across multi-line hits.
Now, the features. The Pick a Prize bonus is the clever bit. Three Feature scatters get you one pick from three urns. Four scatters? Two picks from four. Five gives you three from five. The audio cues suggest snakes slithering out of urns to reveal coins, which is a nicer touch than the usual silent box-tap. Prizes scale with your triggering bet.
Free Spins work differently than you'd expect. Three, four, or five Scatter symbols award 10, 15, or 20 spins. The standard Wild vanishes entirely during the round, replaced by an Expanding Wild on reels 2 and 4 that fills the whole column when it lands. Retriggers are possible, though the FS scatter only appears on reels 1, 3, and 5 during the bonus, so chasing more spins gets fiddly.
One gripe: Genii doesn't publish the RTP anywhere, which is annoying in 2026. The mechanic mix (Wild x2, expanding reels, variable picks, optional Gamble) hints at medium-high volatility. After every win you can risk it on card color for x2 or suit for x4, classic 50/50 or 1-in-4 stuff. Headline payout tops out around 17,440 coins on the paytable. Not a max-win monster, but a steady cycler with character.