Heart of Cleopatra Slot Review

Heart of Cleopatra Slot Overview

When I first loaded Heart of Cleopatra, I immediately saw Pragmatic Play had taken its marked spots idea in a new direction. The slot runs on a 7x7 cluster pays grid, set in a treasure-stuffed Egyptian chamber with golden bird statues and blazing braziers. Wins land from clusters of five or more matching symbols, which suits the tumbling mechanic and keeps the screen active even on shorter sessions.

Heart of Cleopatra is a high volatility video slot with a default RTP of 96.48%, though some sites use 95.50% or 94.50%, so I always check the info panel. Stakes run from 0.20 to 240 per spin, and the hit frequency sits around one in three spins. The max win is capped at 10,000x the bet, with the top potential realistically coming from money spots in free spins.

Theme and Gameplay in Heart of Cleopatra

Heart of Cleopatra drops you into a darkened, burning brazier lit room, where a 7x7 board framed in golden trim dominates the scene. Golden birds flank the reels, blue pillars and hieroglyphs sit in the background, and piles of coins scatter across the floor. Cleopatra herself barely appears in the artwork, outside the wild, yet the overall presentation captures that classic ancient Egypt slot feel.

Gameplay in Heart of Cleopatra revolves around cluster wins and tumbles. Any time five or more matching symbols connect horizontally or vertically, they pay, explode and new icons drop from above, giving extra shots at hitting more clusters on the same paid spin. The Cleopatra wild substitutes for all pay symbols and is central to the money spots mechanic, while pyramid scatters handle access to the free spins bonus round.

Heart of Cleopatra Symbols and Paytable

Heart of Cleopatra uses seven regular pay symbols tied closely to Egyptian imagery. At the low end you get the golden ankh, lotus flower, eye symbol and dog or jackal icons, paying from 0.2x to 0.5x the stake for five of a kind in a cluster, and up to 20x to 40x for 15 or more. Premiums are the cat, bird and scarab, which can reach 60x, 100x and 150x the bet.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	Scatter
	15+	x150
	14	x75
	13	x35
	7	x1.75
	6	x1.5
	5	x1
	15+	x100
	14	x60
	13	x30
	7	x1.25
	6	x1
	5	x0.75
	15+	x60
	14	x40
	13	x20
	7	x1
	6	x0.75
	5	x0.5
	15+	x40
	14	x20
	13	x10
	7	x0.75
	6	x0.5
	5	x0.4
	15+	x30
	14	x15
	13	x8
	7	x0.5
	6	x0.4
	5	x0.3
	15+	x25
	14	x12
	13	x6
	7	x0.4
	6	x0.3
	5	x0.25
	15+	x20
	14	x10
	13	x5
	7	x0.3
	6	x0.25
	5	x0.2
	Wild

Bonus Features in Heart of Cleopatra

When I tested Heart of Cleopatra, the tumble feature did most of the heavy lifting between bonuses. Every win clears its symbols and lets fresh ones fall, which plays straight into the money spots mechanic. Whenever a winning cluster contains at least one wild, random positions from that cluster are marked as money spots, starting at x1 or x2 on the wild’s own cell, then doubling each time another cluster lands on them.

Those spot multipliers can grow fast, hitting up to x1,024 in a single sequence if you keep chaining wins through the same cells. At the end of the tumble run, each marked position gets a random cash value from 0.1x to 10x the total bet, which is multiplied by that spot’s current multiplier. In the base game, all money spots then disappear, so every spin starts with a clean grid.

Free spins in Heart of Cleopatra trigger when three to seven pyramid scatters land in one paid spin with its tumbles, giving 10, 12, 15, 20 or 30 spins. During the feature, money spots and their multipliers stay on the grid until the end, and more scatters can retrigger the same amounts. Once the session finishes, all marked spots pay their random cash values. You can also buy free spins for 100x stake, guaranteeing 3–7 scatters.

RTP, Volatility and Wins in Heart of Cleopatra

From a stats angle, Heart of Cleopatra plays exactly how I expect a high volatility cluster slot to behave. Official RTP starts at 96.48%, though the long-run simulation data I saw put practical returns just over 97% on one setup. The hit rate is roughly one in 3.5 spins, with bonuses around one in 320 to 360, and the biggest win I have seen was a bit over 1,200x stake.

Heart of Cleopatra Slot Verdict

For me, Heart of Cleopatra sits in that bracket of grid slots that can feel quiet for stretches, then suddenly explode when money spots line up during free spins. I like how the game builds anticipation across a sequence, especially when a handful of cells reach big multipliers. At the same time, needing a wild inside the cluster to mark spots means base game teases can sometimes fizzle out more often than I’d like.

Theme wise, this is far from the freshest Egyptian slot I have played, yet the money spots twist gives it enough bite that I still fire it up when I fancy a high variance grid game. The mix of cluster pays, sticky spots in the bonus, and a realistic path to four figure wins keeps me engaged, and the 100x bonus buy is handy when I do not want to grind for scatters.

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