3 Tiny Gods slot offers a jackpot of 5,000x your bet

The Egyptian slot game genre has been done to death over recent years with a number of titles based on this theme. So it will have to be a pretty spectacular game that uses this as the basis for a slot and then still stands out from the crowd, but Foxium Gaming may well have just achieved that with their new 3 Tiny Gods slot.

Released today, 25^th August, the game is a 5x4 reel slot that has a raft of bonus features in both the base game and even during the Free Spins bonus round. There are also three big jackpots to play for and a choice of game modes, and for some customers, the chance to buy the Free Spins bonus game outright for 75x your standard bet.

With medium variance and a jackpot of 5,000x your bet, is this one slot that will rise to the top of the pyramid? Let's see what we sphinx when you take a look at our review below.

Overview

• Game: 3 Tiny Gods
• Developer: Foxium for Microgaming
• Reels: 5x4
• Pay Lines: 30 (non-selectable)
• Minimum Bet: 0.20 (0.30 with Foxify Mode on)
• Maximum Bet: 25.00 (37.50 with Foxify Mode on)
• Jackpot: 5,000x
• Free Spins Bonus: Yes
• Other Bonuses: Yes
• Progressive: No
• Volatility: Medium

Presentation

The presentation of the 3 Tiny Gods slot has been very nicely done. It is set in an Egyptian themed style and the backdrop is the great Pyramid and the reels are superimposed over that backdrop in between two large obelisks. The graphics are clean and crisp and have some nice animations of fire burning in two cauldrons at the bottom of each obelisk. Add to that a nice drumbeat soundtrack and it is an atmospheric game even before you click the reels.

There are a couple of other options available to you in the base game beyond the standard bet price selection and game controls. One is the Foxify Mode which when activated increases your chances of triggering two of the bonus rounds in the slot, although this comes at an additional 50% cost to your standard bet.

Another option is the chance to purchase the Free Spins game mode for 75x your standard bet size. This will give you 8 Free Spins when selected.

One disappointing thing to note is that for some customers, such as those based in the UK, the option to buy the Free Spins bonus game for 75x the standard bet is not available to these players, although you can use the Foxify Mode in the base game. Unfortunately, this has happened on a number of recent Microgaming releases and it is down to new legislation in the UK.

What is on the reels?

There are a total of nine standard symbols on the reels and these offer an extensive range of wins. The four lower value symbols are the four playing card suits, which in order of increasing value are the diamonds, clubs, spades and hearts. Wins range from 0.6x your bet up to 4.5x your bet on these symbols.

There are five higher value symbols on the reels and these include the three Tiny Gods themselves, plus the Queen and the Pharoah. Bastet is the lowest value of the three gods, with Anubis next and Horus the most valuable of the three dieties. Wins range from 1.4x your bet up to 20x your bet.

The Queen and the Pharoah are the highest paying symbols offering wins ranging from 2.3x your bet up to 50x your bet in the base game. There is are a number of additional symbols on the reels in the base game that link to a number of features of the slot which we will explore below starting with the Wild symbol.

Wild features

The Wild is the highest value symbol on the reels in the standard game and it can not only be used as a substitute symbol to help you land bigger value wins, but you can also land three, four or five Wilds across the reels in order to land some of the largest prizes in the game starting at 3x your bet but increasing massively if you can hit four or five symbols on the reels.

The Mystery of Horus is a randomly triggering bonus which can occur on any spin. When it does, the God Horus will conjure up Eye of Horus symbols to fill two or three adjacent reels. The Eye of Horus symbol will then be replaced by a random game symbol to see if it triggers a win with the other symbols on the reels.

On any non-winning spin, you could also trigger the Gift of Bastet bonus, which will see the God Bastet shuffle the reels for you to create a winning combination out of the symbols that land following the shuffle.

Free Spins features

There are Scatter symbols on the first, third and fifth reels in the game and if you can land all three on the reels at once (or you select the Free Spins bonus option for 75x your stake, if it is available) then you will launch the Free Spins bonus round.

Here you get 8 Free Spins and the Mystery of Horus feature as outlined in the section above is in play on every Free Spin to help you land a win. However, during Free Spins you can also trigger the Free Spin: Wrath of Anubis bonus which can trigger at random to increase your chances of a higher value win. Here you receive 3 extra spins and the lowest value symbols is removed from the reels. You can trigger this bonus up to four times during Free Spins.

There is one other bonus in the game and that is the Jackpot Bonus. There are three jackpots in the game, Mini, Midi and Maxi and to land a chance of winning one of them you need to collect the coins that appear on the reels. Once triggered you will see three scratchboxes align with the three jackpot columns. If a coin appears in one of the columns boxes, you can scratch that box off to reveal part of the column, when all parts of that column are revealed you will win the jackpot prize.

Best feature of the 3 Tiny Gods slot

There is a lot to like with the 3 Tiny Gods slot. The game is nicely presented, has excellent music and sound effects and the idea has been executed with a high degree of professionalism. What really makes the game though is the large amount of bonus features, which allied with a relatively medium variance, makes this a very playable and appealing slot. It will take you a while to enjoy all the features of the game but for me the Free Spins bonus, together with its randomly triggered bonus feature, is the crown jewel for this game.

Conclusion

3 Tiny Gods is another excellent game from Foxium, who are developing a fine reputation of developers of cracking games for Microgaming. The theme may be one that has been done to death in the slots industry as a whole, but Foxium have made it different enough to all the other games to make it stand out enough. Add to that some massive bonus features and a clever Foxify Game mode, and you have the ingredients for a first class slot game. It is just a pity that not all of us can access the buy in bonus option.