Eye of Horus - Rise of Egypt

By Matthew Kennedy | Updated 9 July 2026

Eye of Horus Rise of Egypt is Blueprint Gaming‘s 2023 addition to what might be the most milked franchise in online slots. The original Eye of Horus has been spun, stretched and sequelled so many times you’d be forgiven for assuming there’s nothing left to squeeze. Rise of Egypt takes the familiar Egyptian template and bolts on a 50,000x max win – enough reason to pay attention, even if the maths underneath should give you pause.

Strip away the branding and you’ve got a 5-reel, 10-payline slot: high volatility, free spins built around expanding wilds and symbol upgrades, and an RTP sitting well below the industry average. Whether that works for you comes down to what you want – grinding sessions or swinging for a life-changing hit on a single bonus round.

Quick Facts

Technical Features

The grid is a standard 5×3 with 10 fixed paylines. No Megaways, no cascades, no cluster pays. It’s a traditional payline slot with modern bonus mechanics bolted on, which keeps it easy to follow even if you’ve never played an Eye of Horus game before.

Then there’s the RTP. The version most commonly found at UK casinos returns 93% – well below the industry average of around 96%. Higher variants exist: a 94.50% build and a rarely deployed 96.31% version. Don’t assume your casino is running the generous one. At 93%, the house edge is nearly double what you’d face on a typical slot. If you’re playing through a welcome offer or working with a fixed budget, that gap compounds fast. It’s not a footnote. It’s the most important number on this page.

High volatility on top of that low RTP is a rough combination. Long dry spells are baked in, and when wins do land, the return is below average to begin with. The 50,000x max win is real, but hitting anything near it is vanishingly rare. Most bonus rounds won’t come close. Budget accordingly.

Bets run from 10p to £100 per spin. Mobile plays fine, as you’d expect from a 2023 Blueprint release.

Design and Theme

Ancient Egypt, golden sandstone, hieroglyphics on everything. You’ve seen it. Rise of Egypt doesn’t reinvent the franchise’s look – it just polishes it. Temple pillars and warm amber tones frame the reels, carved stonework surrounds them, and the symbols pull from the usual pool: scarabs, falcons, pharaohs, the Eye of Horus itself.

It looks competent rather than spectacular. Blueprint kept the palette muted enough to dodge the gaudy neon trap that catches a lot of Egyptian slots, and the expanding wild animations are clean without being overdone. The sound design runs on atmospheric pads with the occasional dramatic swell when features hit. Nothing that’ll have you reaching for the mute button after twenty minutes – which is more than plenty of slots can say.

Bonus Features

Three or more Tomb Scatter symbols trigger free spins, awarding 12 spins. This is where Rise of Egypt earns its keep, and where the 50,000x ceiling lives.

The Eye of Horus symbol is wild. During free spins, landing three or more wilds on a single spin causes them to expand and fill their entire reel. A grid suddenly stacked with full wild reels can flip a dead spin into something worth watching.

Symbol upgrades are where the real escalation happens. When the Eye of Horus wild lands on reel 5 during free spins, the lowest-value symbol on the grid gets promoted one tier up. This can chain multiple times across the bonus, gradually pushing cheap symbols out and inflating the value of every win that follows. By the end of a long round, even modest hits pay properly.

Collect four scatters during the bonus and you get four extra spins plus wild multipliers of 2x, 3x, or 5x. That’s where things get genuinely dangerous: multipliers stacking on expanded wilds on upgraded symbols. Landing three or more scatters at any point during free spins retriggers the round with another 12 spins on top.

There’s no bonus buy. You trigger the feature the old-fashioned way or not at all – and given the volatility, plenty of sessions will end with not at all.

How to Play

Where to Play

Eye of Horus Rise of Egypt is widely available at UK-licensed casinos. Blueprint Gaming holds a UKGC licence, so most major operators carry it. Visit our Blueprint Gaming hub for a full list of their slots, and check Slotfruit’s casino reviews for current welcome offers that might suit your bankroll.

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