Return of the Dead Slot - Review for Canadians, Demo Play & Payout Info

Introduction

Return of the Dead is an online slot with a familiar format, offering players 10 paylines with free spins featuring stacked symbols. While it’s not the most imaginative game, it has some very impressive winning potential with a payout percentage of 96.71%.  

Theme and Graphics

Return of the Dead takes us on an adventure through Ancient Egyptian mythology, featuring symbols like scarabs, Horus and King Tut’s tomb. The game stars an explorer that looks a whole lot like John Hunter – but, he remains unnamed, so this isn’t necessarily part of the same series that contains Tomb of the Scarab Queen and Book of Tut.  

The graphics are designed in a sort of photorealistic style which is interesting to look at – while the lower-paying symbols are bright and a bit cartoony. It’s a mish-mash of styles that keeps you entertained as you spin the reels.

RTP and Variance

The RTP (return to player) of Return of Dead is 96.71%. This is much higher than the average online slot nowadays, tend to have payout percentages ranging from 96% to 96.5%.

It’s also a high variance slot. So, its top prize of 5000x isn’t very impressive. Usually, higher volatility games tend to have much more generous payouts – normally, in excess of 10,000x.

How to Play Return of the Dead Slot

It’s easy to get playing Return of the Dead quickly:

1. Once the game has loaded, click on the i to review the paytable and the bonus features.
2. Adjust your bet size. You can wager between .10 coins and 250 coins per spin.
3. Take a look at the autoplay options. Here, you can set loss and win limits, but there is no turbo spin function.
4. Clicking on the area of the screen that displays the bet and credits, you can toggle between cash view and coin view.
5. Hit the spin button and have fun!

How to Win

Landing three or more matching symbols on any of the game’s 10 paylines will provide you with prizes. The book is the both the scatter and the wild, and it offers different payouts depending on which role is takes one – for example, as a scatter its top prize is 100x and as a wild its top prize is 500x.

Max-win 5,000x

Volatility High

RTP 96.71%

Free Spins and Bonuses

When you land three or more scatters, you’ll trigger the free spins round. Before this bonus begins, one symbol is randomly selected to appear in stacks. Then, when you enter the bonus round, this symbol will always expand when it appears.

This is very much the same bonus that you’ll trigger in Book of Dead and Book of Tut. So, if this all sounds a bit familiar, that’s why.

While it’s not a hugely creative bonus feature, it does have the potential to be very generous. If you get a lower paying stacked symbol, you’re going to land wins a lot more often. However, if you get a higher paying stacked symbol, you probably won’t land a big win easily but you can be sure it’ll be a doozy.

Overall Review

It’s very interesting that Pragmatic Play would basically recreate this very standard slot format – 10 paylines featuring free spins with expanding symbols. It’s not the most innovative or interesting format, but it is a crowd-pleaser, so we can’t really fault the developer.

There really isn’t much setting Return of the Dead from other similar games aside from the fact that it has quite a high RTP. Most of the games that you’ll find with this particular format max out at payout percentages of 96.5%, so there is a significant increase with Return of Dead’s 96.71%.

As a result, it seems like Return of the Dead actually pays out a little bit more often than you would expect a high volatility slot. It also lends itself to some very generous bonus wins. Of course, the bonus round is very difficult to trigger, so you will have to wait a while for this feature.

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