Pilgrim of Dead Slot Review

Pilgrim of Dead Slot Overview

Pilgrim of Dead is a five-reel, three-row slot from Play'n GO that sticks close to the classic book-style formula while adding a sticky twist. The setting is a shadowy Egyptian tomb, with towering jackal statues framing a blue stone grid and a brooding soundtrack. The story follows a lone pilgrim hunting the Book of Life, and the gameplay centres on 10 fixed paylines and one chosen expanding symbol in free spins.

I find the tone darker than many Egyptian slots from the same studio, yet it still feels familiar if you enjoy book-style games. Pilgrim of Dead runs as a high volatility release, so the base game can feel swingy while you wait for tomb scatters. The atmosphere carries a lot of that weight, combining sharp symbol art and punchy win sounds to keep those quieter stretches engaging enough.

Pilgrim of Dead Slot Information

The paytable in Pilgrim of Dead sticks to a familiar line-up. Low pays are 10, J, Q, K and A, paying roughly four to six times your bet for five of a kind. Premiums are a scarab, scales, an Anubis statue and the pilgrim, paying from about twelve and a half up to one hundred times the stake. The golden tomb symbol matches the top premium across all line lengths.

Behind those symbol values, Pilgrim of Dead runs on a 5x3 grid with 10 fixed paylines and a flexible staking system. Depending on the version, you are looking at stakes from around 10p up to 100 in your chosen currency, often using coins per line. Default RTP sits around 96.2%, yet some sites run lower models, down near 94.2% or 91.2%, so I always check the game info screen first.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	Scatter, Wild
	5	x100
	4	x20
	3	x5
	2	x0.5
	5	x100
	4	x20
	3	x5
	2	x0.5
	5	x25
	4	x10
	3	x3
	2	x0.5
	5	x12.5
	4	x5
	3	x1.5
	2	x0.5
	5	x12.5
	4	x5
	3	x1.5
	2	x0.5
	5	x6
	4	x2.5
	3	x1
	5	x6
	4	x2.5
	3	x1
	5	x4
	4	x1.5
	3	x0.5
	5	x4
	4	x1.5
	3	x0.5
	5	x4
	4	x1.5
	3	x0.5

Pilgrim of Dead Slot Features

The tomb symbol in Pilgrim of Dead acts as both wild and scatter. As a wild it substitutes for all regular symbols apart from the special expander in the bonus. It also carries the same payout as the pilgrim, with wins from just two of a kind scaling up to one thousand times the line bet for five. Hitting three or more tombs anywhere drops you straight into the free spins round.

Free spins in Pilgrim of Dead start with just five spins, but that small bundle hides plenty of potential. A regular pay symbol is picked at random to become the special expanding symbol and you can reject the first choice once. During the feature, landing enough of that symbol makes it expand to cover its reels and pay on all lines from any spot, and extra tombs can retrigger up to thirty spins.

The clever part is how those expanders turn sticky in Pilgrim of Dead. The first time your chosen symbol lands on a reel in free spins, it expands, pays, then shrinks back to a single cell and locks there. On every remaining spin it can expand again if another win is possible. After any win you may use the gamble card step to guess colour or suit and try to multiply the prize.

Pilgrim of Dead Slot Verdict

For me, Pilgrim of Dead hits that sweet spot between comfort and tension that book-style fans chase. The base game can drag when scatters refuse to show, and symbol values in the paytable are toned down compared with some older titles. Yet the sticky expanding mechanic more than makes up for it when things line up, turning a short five-spin feature into a streaky, edge-of-the-seat chase for full-screen hits.

100 Spin Test in Pilgrim of Dead

I like putting new high volatility slots through a quick hundred-spin session, and Pilgrim of Dead was no different. Playing at a mid-range stake, I triggered free spins within the first thirty or so spins, landing three tombs and a mid-tier symbol as the expander. Sticky expansions dropped early on two reels, and that bonus paid around one hundred and sixty times my bet, which is a very handy start.

Over the full sample, I logged forty-odd winning spins from that hundred, with a few more bonus teases where two tombs landed and missed the third. That is not a prediction of how your own run will look, as RTP figures play out over huge numbers of spins. It does show how lively Pilgrim of Dead can feel when sticky symbols appear early instead of hiding right at the end.

Pilgrim of Dead Expert Review

Taking everything together, I rate Pilgrim of Dead as one of the stronger modern book-style releases from this studio. The mix of short, punchy bonuses, sticky expanders and a headline win cap of ten thousand times stake gives it real punch, but the high volatility and variable RTP settings demand some discipline. I prefer to play it on higher RTP versions, with a set budget and realistic expectations around bonus frequency.

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