Legacy of Dead is Play’n GO’s follow-up to Book of Dead, released in January 2020: an Egyptian tomb, five reels, ten lines and a tomb symbol that is both wild and scatter. In the free spins one random symbol expands to fill its reel, and every retrigger adds another, until all nine regular symbols can be special. It returns 96.58% with a 5,000x top win. Play the official Legacy of Dead demo below free.
Legacy of Dead runs on five reels and three rows with 10 lines that pay left to right, and most sources say the lines can be set from one to ten. Coins go from 1 cent to $2 with one to five per line, so a full spin usually costs 10 cents to $100. The four premium symbols pay from two of a kind and the royals from three. The default RTP is 96.58%, but casinos can choose 94.51%, 91.51%, 87.56% or 84.55% builds instead, and Play’n GO’s game page quotes no figure. Volatility is high in most sources and very high in two, and no source gives a hit frequency. The top win is 5,000x the total bet, or 250,000 coins in Play’n GO’s terms, which is $500,000 at the $100 maximum.
Legacy of Dead Pokies Characteristics
Wins count from the leftmost reel. The royals, 10 to A, sit at the bottom of the paytable; above them are four premium symbols whose names vary by source: a golden king, then Anubis, then Horus and a pharaoh on equal pays. The tomb is the only special symbol: it substitutes for everything as a wild, and three or more anywhere pay as a scatter and start the free spins.
There are no multipliers, cascades, respins, jackpots or bonus buy. Beyond line and scatter wins, everything comes from the free spins and an optional card gamble, so the base game is mostly a wait for three tombs.
Values are multiples of the total bet at 10 lines, for two, three, four and five of a kind; multiply by ten for line-bet multiples.
The tomb pays 2x, 20x and 200x the total bet for three, four and five anywhere, on top of starting the free spins. Five kings on a line pay 500x the total bet, and a screen full of them is the 5,000x maximum. Against Book of Dead, the king pays the same, but every other five of a kind pays 20% less and four-of-a-kind pays are 20% to 25% lower, which is how the game funds its extra expanding symbols.
Three or more tombs start the free spins. First a scroll unrolls and picks one regular symbol at random as the Special Expanding Symbol for the whole round. After normal line wins are paid, it expands to cover every reel it lands on and pays on all active lines, even on reels that are not next to each other. One review says three or more must be showing for that. A full screen of an expanded Q, J or 10 pays 80x the total bet, A or K 120x, Horus or the pharaoh 600x, Anubis 1,600x and the king 5,000x.
Retriggers are where the game parts ways with Book of Dead: three or more tombs during the round add spins and another random special symbol, up to all nine, so several can expand on one spin and a round that opened with a low royal can still pick up Anubis or the king. Published rule summaries disagree on the spins per trigger, eight in some and ten in others, and Play’n GO does not settle it: its game page gives no count and calls the potential for free spins unlimited, while a 2023 Play’n GO article mentions up to 72. The in-game paytable is the place to check.
After a win there is an optional card gamble: guess the colour of a card to double the win or its suit to quadruple it, and lose it on a wrong guess. Sources differ on whether it is offered after free-spin wins. One review caps it at five gambles in a row and 500x the total bet, and another says the deck is infinite with no house edge.
The Legacy of Dead RTP of 96.58% means the game keeps about 3.4 cents of every dollar bet over the long run. The lower builds look identical and cost more: 84.55% keeps about 15.5 cents. High volatility means long quiet stretches between features, no source publishes how often the free spins land, and the symbol picks make two rounds very different.
At 50 cents a spin, or 5 cents a line, $50 covers 100 spins at a long-run cost of about $1.70 at 96.58% or $7.70 at 84.55%, though one session can land far from either figure. If Anubis is the pick and fills the screen, that spin pays $800; a full screen of 10s pays $40. No trick changes the odds on the Legacy of Dead game: what matters is the RTP setting. Expansions pay only on active lines, so these examples assume all ten are in play.
No source lists a sequel, Megaways or Deluxe version of Legacy of Dead; its family is Play’n GO’s Dead series. Book of Dead (14 January 2016) is the direct predecessor, with the same grid, lines, scatter pays, gamble and 5,000x top, but ten free spins with one expanding symbol and a 96.21% default RTP. Our Book of Dead review covers it.
Play’n GO’s 2023 list of the series adds Rise of Dead, Pilgrim of Dead, Secret of Dead, Ghost of Dead, Scroll of Dead, Rich Wilde and the Amulet of Dead, Scales of Dead (September 2023) and two Cat Wilde games, the Doom of Dead and the Pyramids of Dead. Banquet of Dead followed in 2024 and Rich Wilde and the Tome of Dead in April 2025, on a 5×5 cascading cluster-pays grid. Legacy of Egypt, despite the name, is not part of the series.
The setting is a pharaoh’s tomb, and Play’n GO’s story is of a king obsessed with wealth, trapped in the hieroglyphs of the Book of the Dead until the book is opened. The reels sit in a temple lit by torches and oil lamps, inside a gilded frame. The symbols are almost the same as Book of Dead’s, but the mood is darker and more sinister, with a cinematic soundtrack that one review finds more intense than the original’s. It runs in HTML5 on desktop, tablet and phone, iOS and Android included.
Legacy of Dead is not on Australian club, pub or casino floors: Play’n GO is an online studio whose only land-based placements found are in the UK. Its game page shows licences from Great Britain, Malta and Gibraltar and no Australian entry. Online it is widely carried at offshore casinos that accept Australians: one slot database found it at 104 of the 161 casinos it scanned for Australia. The same database lists the return at many of them as unknown, so before playing Legacy of Dead for real money the paytable is the only way to tell 96.58% from 84.55%. We could not confirm it in the lobbies we checked, so a title search in the lobby is the quickest test. Play’n GO publishes an official Legacy of Dead demo in practice mode on its own site.
Legacy of Dead suits players who like Book of Dead’s free spins but want more from them: a round can collect several expanding symbols instead of living or dying on one pick. It does not suit anyone after steady small wins, a bonus buy or a busy base game. At 96.58% it returns a little more than its predecessor; at 84.55% it is an expensive game that looks identical, so the one thing to check at any Legacy of Dead casino is the RTP in the paytable.
96.58% by default. Casinos can also run 94.51%, 91.51%, 87.56% or 84.55% versions, and the paytable shows which one is live.
Land three or more tombs anywhere. They pay 2x, 20x or 200x the total bet and start the free spins; published rule summaries give either eight or ten spins.
5,000x the total bet on one spin, from a screen full of the golden king, which is $500,000 at the $100 maximum stake. One review says a whole free-spins round can pay up to 25,000x; no other source confirms it.
One is picked before the free spins start and each retrigger adds another, up to all nine regular symbols, so several can expand on the same spin.
Not in pubs or clubs: it is an online-only Play’n GO game. One database found it at 104 of the 161 online casinos it scanned for Australia.
It keeps the layout, scatter pays, gamble and 5,000x top, but drops Rich Wilde, adds an expanding symbol with each retrigger, pays less below the top symbol and has a higher default RTP, 96.58% against 96.21%.
