The theme of the slot for Cat Wilde and the Doom of the Dead is one that takes us deep into the realms of ancient Egypt. Many of you will be familiar with this series of slots from Play'n Go where the trusty hero has been Rich Wilde for some time. Well he's now passed the gauntlet on to his daughter, so be ready to see more tombs, treasures and artefacts throughout your play.

Moving over to the payable we see that the lower value symbols on the game are made up of the royal card symbols 10 through to the ace, where pays will vary from 0.2x, up to 3x when winning combinations are made through them. Premium paying symbols are the scarab beetle, Anubis, Tut's Mask and Cat Wilde, with a 5 of a kind win paying 7.5x, 10x, 25x and 100x respectively. 

Starting your Egyptian adventure can take place for as little as €0.10 a spin, whilst the top bet on the game comes in at a jaw dropping €100 a play. There is plenty of scope with regards to playing stakes and impressively there are 7 bets sizes ranging from €2 down to the minimum stake.

We all love a wild symbol and Cat Wilde and the Doom of the Dead have some special wilds that can help to create bigger and better wins. When one of these wild symbols land on the reels, they will transform into one of the less pleasant looking characters from within the game and expand to turn the reel fully wild.

To enter the free spin bonus on Cat Wilde and the Doom of the Dead you will to land a scatter symbol on reels 1, 3 and 5. These are the only reels that the scatters will appear on and triggering the bonus will award you with 10 free spins. 

Before the action gets under way you will first be taken to the symbol wheel. The pointer will spin and randomly stop on a symbol from the payable. This will be your expanding symbol for the duration of the free spin bonus.

If you've played an expanding symbol slot before then you will be more than aware of how this bonus plays out. For those of you who are new to this style of game then this is what you can expect to happen during the free spins.

The main aim is for your selected symbol to land on as many of the reels as possible. If this takes place then your symbol will expand to cover the reel completely and pay you 2, 3, 4, or 5 of a kind over 10 paylines.

For the symbols to expand you will need to land one on at least 3 of the reels if you have a lower value symbol. If you were awarded with a premium paying symbol then you will only require 2 symbols to land for them to expand and pay you a win.

Slightly different to most slots that fall within this genre, the wild symbols can also act substitute for your selected symbol during the bonus. So if like in our example above you land 3 symbols and 2 wilds, all of them will expand to pay you as a 5 of a kind win over 10 paylines.

Play'n Go have certainly established themselves as the king of the expanding symbol slot, with plenty of titles falling into that category since releasing their debut and iconic slot within that niche Book of Dead. So how does Cat Wilde fair up against the competition in the expanding symbol slot world?

The game is very tidy and graphically sound, which you would expect from Play'n Go, but other than that we always think it is down to personal preference when it comes to games within this genre of slot. Yes the expanding wild is nice and it's good that it helps out in the bonus, but we've seen a version of this in Big Time Gaming's Book of Gods, so it's far from being ground breaking or original.

Overall though Cat Wilde and the Doom of the Dead is a good addition to Play'n Go's growing catalogue and we look forward to seeing where her adventures take her in the big slotting universe.

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