Lucky Scarabs Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Lucky Scarabs Review

Lucky Scarabs is yet another slot to take players on an adventure to North Africa, namely Ancient Egpyt. With traditional approach to the design, the developer, Booming Games, offers players to dive into familiar setting once more to discover hidden treasures and win a top prize of 1,000x of the bet. Though, let Shane Cotter, Director of Product at Booming Games, speak for the game:

This game promises to be a wild ride; as scarab beetle after scarab beetle pour onto the reels creating wild wins everywhere you look. And it gets even wilder in Free Spins, with the addition of Sticky Scarab Wilds making for some huge wins.Shane CotterDirector Of Product, Booming Games

Lucky Scarabs - Outlook

The developers stuck to the common approach and Lucky Scarabs as traditional in terms of the design as possible. The slot welcomes you with a pretty eye-catching sight, where you can see the iconic Sphinx pyramid on the left, and the river Nile with the rest of the pyramids in the rear. Even though the theme is obviously not that unique and is nothing but cliche in the slot industry, Lucky Scarabs manages to stick out from the niche thanks to the remarkable graphics for sure. It feels nice and modern for Booming Games have taken a meticulous approach to the design, depicting everything in detail. Adding a final touch to the general ambiance is the classical Egyptian music that plays whilst you spin the reels. It also picks up the tempo when you hit bonus features to become suspenseful and add some dramatic vibes.

Lucky Scarabs Reel Screen

Lucky Scarab plays out on a 5x3 sized grid with 9 ways to play, requiring at least 3 symbols on a line to score a win, and 5 instances of the same symbol on a payline to achieve a full combo. Playable from 0.09$ to 450$ per spin, it's powered by a high volatile math model, so it will demand manifesting some patience while waiting for nice wins to occur. Making the task of landing decent wins harder is the RTP of 95.39%, which is way lower than the average level. The maximum payout also leaves much to be desired for all you can hope for is 1,000x of the bet.

As we head over to the paytable we see a bunch of rather recognizable symbols, including a collection of A-10 royals on the low side alongside other notable elements of Ancient Egypt slots in the high end.

The premiums here involve gold pots, Anubis, pharaoh mask, and a lady expeditor in charge, literally female Indiana Jones. Helping you to form winning combos are two kinds of Wild symbols, each one acting as a substitute for any regular ones and being the most valuable among regulars, awarding 111.11x of the bet for a 5-of-a-kind combo. Meanwhile, the low-pays award from 4x to 9.3x for matching 5 symbols on a line, and premiums are worth from 13.3 to 33.3 times the stake.

Lucky Scarabs - Bonus Features

As Shane Cotter from Booming Games said, Lucky Scarabs is a wild fiesta, which is focused around Wild symbols. As alluded to earlier, there are two kinds of Wild symbols, with the first one being able to appear in both the base and the bonus game, while the second one being available only during the Free Spins round. Let's review them in order.

True to the title, scarabs are the key to the success here, and it's actually true since Wilds here are represented by those little creatures. Though, Wild symbols in Lucky Scarab can't just simply land onto the reels as such symbols do in most of the other slots. It's hard not to spot a large winged gold scarab on the right side of the screen, and on any spin at random scarabs can rush onto the reels, turning respective positions into Wild. Up to 15 scarabs may drop onto the grid to entirely fill it with Wild symbols on the same spin.

Should 3 Scatter chest symbols appear on reels 1, 3, and 5 on the same spin, the Free Spins feature will be triggered.

Players will then proceed to the bonus game with 8 spins, and unfortunately, the feature cannot be extended. Once in the bonus round, another kind of Wilds is added to the reels, namely Sticky Wilds. They pounce onto the reels at random on any spin just like the Random ones, though, they remain frozen in place for the duration of the feature. Up to 10 Sticky scarabs can appear on a single spin.

Lucky Scarabs - Verdict

With that being said, Lucky Scarabs is an ambitious slot, however, the math model remains the main issue that fails to impress the same as the game does in terms of the design and features. It's the Achilles' heel here, which struggles to offer neither decent return to player percentage nor decent payouts to hope for. 1,000x of the bet is obviously not what you expect from a high volatile slot to boats, and the poor RTP rate only throws oil in the fire.

When it comes to the design, Lucky Scarabs gives a wonderful first impression, though, as soon as you take a look at the key stats, you are more likely to skip this title beforehand without risking to burn your cash.

On the other hand, if you're into such a theme and OK with the relatively low potential, you may love it actually even despite it having the above-mentioned issues. Anyway, it's all limited to your gameplay preferences, and Lucky Scarabs is absolutely awesome when it comes to it.