The Cursed King (Backseat Gaming) Slot Demo & Review

If you’re an experienced slots player, you’ll already know there are countless slots with a similar Ancient Egyptian theme to that used on The Cursed King. It’s an especially popular theme in the ‘Book of’ slot genre, which has spawned some of the most popular slots of all time, such as Novomatic’s Book of Ra and the Book of Dead slot from Play’n Go. Other alternatives worth looking at are Ankh of Anubis from Hacksaw Gaming, whilst the Gonzo’s Quest demo slot is another title that remains popular here on our site.

There are not any payouts I’d classify as spectacular, but as you’ll find out later, the winning potential brought by Cursed King expanding wild multipliers that can deliver up to 100x is probably a reason for this. Regular Wilds, which substitute for all standard symbols and the Egyptian God Ra, share the top step with 5-symbol payouts of 10x the stake. Next in line is the Purple Artefact, which can deliver up to 8x, while the Scarab rewards 6x for five across a line and the Scorpion and Snake each pay up to 4x. The best of the low pays is the 1.5x offered up for a full line of Aces, the King and Queen share 1.2x, and the same goes for the Jack and Ten, with both offering returns of up to 1x.

Looking at the staking options, all players should be able to find the perfect wager between the supported minimum and maximum bets of €0.10 and €100.00.

The Cursed King slot functions on a 5-reel, 5-row, and 25-position grid, offering 19 paylines. Triggering a payout will require a minimum of three matching symbols to land across one of those paylines starting from the leftmost reel.

Wild Reels

Thanks to the Cursed King Wild Reels feature, there’s more to the base game than hoping matching symbols line up across the ways to win. If the Pharaoh symbol appears in any position on a winning spin, it will expand into a full reel wild multiplier symbol holding 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, or 100x. It substitutes for all regular symbols when it can create a winning combo and will apply its multiplier value to the standard combination payout.

The Cursed King has just a single bonus game, but it can prove quite lucrative thanks to the Cursed King WIld Reel multipliers of up to 100x. To trigger this bonus, you’ll need three or more scatter symbols to land anywhere in view during the base game.

Free Spins Feature

You receive 3, 4, or 5 free spins depending on whether there were 3, 4, or 5 triggering scatter symbols – which, on the face of it, doesn’t sound too promising. However, you should consider these as lives more than spins, as you’ll receive free continual respins as long as there is at least one Expanded Cursed King symbol on the reels. Those symbols will move one position left or right at the start of every respin until they inevitably fall off the first or last reel. If two Cursed Kings walk into each other, they merge into one, and their multipliers of up to 100x are combined.

Bonus Buy

The Cursed King is a bonus buy slot, and anyone looking for faster access to the main feature can consider the three options available in the Bonus Buy.

• BonusHunt FeatureSpins: For 2x your current bet, you have 3 times more chance to trigger the free spins bonus.

• Cursed Kings FeatureSpins: For 50x, you’re guaranteed to land a Pharaoh symbol and receive free respins until it falls off the reels.

• Bonus Game: 125x will get you the full free spins bonus, offering 3, 4, or 5 free spins with persistent Cursed King symbols.