Sand & Ashes Demo Play Free Demo Slot

Slot Overview

Sand and Ashes is Hacksaw Gaming’s latest venture into Ancient Egypt (finally, an Egyptian-themed slot; haven’t seen that before!), and the game’s played on a 5×5 grid with Sticky Wild Respins, Storm Modifiers, Wild Multipliers worth up to 999x, and a maximum win potential of 10,000x. On the surface, it looks very Hacksaw, but is it any good? Let’s find out.

Gameplay & Bonus Features

Sand and Ashes is played on a 5×5 grid, and there are 19 fixed paylines in play at all times. The game boasts a dead-on-average RTP of 97%, and you can bet between €0.10 and €100 per spin.

The game’s central symbol is the Wild Scarab Multiplier, which substitutes for all paying symbols and carries a built-in multiplier value. If the Wild helps to form part of a win, it is then applied against that win, and Multipliers can land as 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 10x, 25x, 50x, 100x, or 200x. Plus, if more than one Wild Scarab Multiplier appears on the same winning payline, those values are added together before being applied to the win, too.

Now, whenever a Wild Scarab Multiplier lands, it triggers a Respin, too. On the Respin, the Wild remains locked in its original position while new symbols spin in around it. Any additional Wild Scarab Multiplier that lands during a respin resets the counter and triggers another, so this is basically a respin-until-no-more-wilds-land feature.

During any respin, one of two storm events can randomly trigger, too. Firestorm adds a random multiplier value of up to 100x to all Wild Scarab Multipliers on the screen, while Sandstorm nudges all Wild Scarab Multipliers one reel to the left.

Landing 3 of the FS symbols triggers the Desert Fury bonus, awarding you with 8 free games and an increased chance of Wild Scarab Multipliers landing. Landing 4 FS symbols triggers the Storming Sphinx bonus, and this awards you 10 free games.

During the Storming Sphinx Bonus, Wild Scarab Multipliers no longer trigger respins when they land. Instead, Firestorms and Sandstorms can activate on every free spin, and all Wilds that land lock in place and stay locked for the duration of the feature.

FeatureSpins / Bonus Buy

Like all Hacksaw Gaming slots today, Sand and Ashes contains a few bonus buy/feature spins options:

• BonusHunt FeatureSpins: Costs 3x and makes each spin 5x more likely to trigger a bonus.
• Pharaoh Phrenzy FeatureSpins: Costs 50x and each spin guarantees at least 2 wild scarab multipliers land.
• Desert Fury: Costs 100x to buy 8 free spins.
• Storming Sphinx: Costs 200x to buy 10 free spins.

Theme & Design

Sand and Ashes takes a pretty notable detour from what Hacksaw Gaming usually produces, and for us, here at Demoslot, that’s a definite good thing. Finally, the studio has produced something that doesn’t, at least, look like another re-skin of games we’ve seen tens of times before, and the game has some decent design work, all themed around Egyptian archaeological mystery.

That said, like we said earlier, Egypt is one of the most thoroughly overdone slot themes in the history of the universe, and while it looks good, Sand and Ashes probably doesn’t do quite enough to really separate itself from the likes of Hand of Anubis or Book of Dead.