Cleo's Wish

When you open the game, you get to visit Egypt and meet Cleo in person. She is animated in 3D where she stands to the left of the reels and she is also featured as wild on the reels. The background shows a slightly more modernised version of Egypt and on the reels golden jewels are spinning. The game is colorful to say the least. NextGen usually does not save on the colors on the palette when creating their slots, but here they have taken in a little extra properly.

As I said, NextGen mixes quite fresh among the themes. The basic idea is that we get acquainted with the ancient Cleopatra. At the same time, she is more modern than the classic image of her. In addition, the background music is a modern story. You may not directly hear any mysterious oriental sounds in the game. Instead, you get to enjoy many different loops of jazz music, several of which have clear elements of Christmas music!

Stakes and winnings

Cleo's Wish is a fairly simple five-wheeler with 25 paylines across three rows. When you play, you choose the total bet right away. All lines are always in play and you choose coin value between 10 cents – 10$. Good to note is that you always play with some kind of feature bet on one sixth of the base bet. If you choose to play for$ 1 per line, you will not pay$ 25 per spin, but$30.

This slot can give you a win of up to 200,000 coins on a board, this in free spins bonuses with the mighty multipliers (see below). In the base game, you can win 10,000 coins at most on a single spin. The symbol that pays the best is the Wild symbol representing Cleopatra.

Good to know is that Cleo's Wish is a slot with a relatively high volatility. NextGen itself believes that it is between ”medium” and ”high”. The payback, in this context, is quite a modest 95.15% over time.

Symbols

A slot with the beautiful Cleo in the lead role should of course have the mythical queen as the best paying icon. It is the Joker who carries Cleo's beauty. The second special symbol is a scatter and it represents three pyramids.

The logo symbol as well as the three jeweled objects (a Scarab, a bracelet and a ankh ) also pays relatively well. Finally, there are more low-paying playing card symbols all the way from A to 9.

Functions

NextGen never forgets to include free spins in their games. Not infrequently you will also find a wild function of some kind. In Cleo's Wish, the developers have taken in a little extra. Namely, there is a whole range of different functions to activate.

Wilds

It is always wise to start by telling us about the Wild features. In Cleo's Wish, Cleo himself is a joker. She also pays generous pennies on her own.

In the base game, you may also be lucky enough to activate the feature guaranteed wild reels . This feature means that in random spins you get one or more reels with guaranteed one or more wilds.

Another wild feature in the base game is called wild additions . Also this random feature gives you extra jokers on the reels.

Sand of happiness

The sand of happiness is the name of a feature based on the idea of secret symbols. The feature can be activated randomly at any time in the base game. What happens is that all the high win symbols on the screen (the logo, The Scarab and the bracelet and ankh symbols respectively) all turn into one and the same symbol.

Two different free spins bonuses

The scatter symbol, which depicts the three pyramids of Giza, pays a penny on its own. However, its primary role is to give you free spins. Three scatters on the screen give you access to either Eternal riches or Cleos parade . Which of these rounds of Free Spins is played, you get to choose for yourself. Both bonuses have their advantages and disadvantages.

If you activate the free spins round Eternal riches, you will receive at least 5 and at most 10 free spins. Each scatter that lands on the reels will give you between 1-3 extra free spins in it Super Spins - mode that follows after your "regular" free spins. Each wild that appears will instead give you 3x on a multiplier. When all the usual spins are completed, you play super spins with multipliers of the higher kind. The maximum multiplier is 20x.

If you choose Cleo's Parade, you also get between 5-10 free spins. Here you get to play with walking wilds (stacked!) that moves from right to left (much like in Jack and the Beanstalk). Should you get three more scatters, the feature is reactivated.

Summary

Cleo's Wish is a unique slot in many ways. The theme, graphics and sound are quite odd, and you might wonder how the game developers thought when they sketched the theme. Maybe they just wanted to create a slot on the theme of Egypt without having to stuff mummies, pyramids, burial chambers and piles of gold? This slot is really very different from ”ordinary” machines with the classic Egyptian attributes!

The best thing about Cleo's Wish, in our opinion, is that the features can bring incomparable profits. A real super hit in the bonus round with Super Spins can bring you huge winnings even with relatively small bets. It's just a shame that the payback on average over time (RTP) is so modest.