Legacy of Ra Megaways (Blueprint Gaming): Review

Yet another Megaways title lands, this time wrapped in an ancient Egypt theme and offering a massive top prize of 50,000 times your stake. With 6 reels and up to 15,625 ways to win, Legacy of Ra Megaways lets you enjoy a blend of classic book-slot action and Megaways mechanics. This is a high variance monster where the real focus is the free spins. When you trigger them, you can begin with up to 50 free spins and have the potential to retrigger free spins without limit.

Blueprint Gaming might be releasing Megaways slots faster than ever, but Legacy of Ra is far from a standard Bonanza copy. Available on all devices with stakes ranging from 0.10 to 100 Eur per spin, the free spins mode lifts the expanding special symbol idea from Book of Ra (Novomatic) and pairs it with Big Time Gaming’s Megaways mechanics. As far as we can tell, this particular combination hasn’t really been done before, and since we’re big fans of both book slots and Megaways games, Blueprint had our attention immediately. The question is whether it delivers, so let’s dig in.

On the visuals front, Legacy of Egypt doesn’t break new ground. The artwork hits the expected notes: Egyptian pillars framing the reels, plus pyramids and camels in the background. It’s perfectly fine, just somewhat familiar. That said, the emphasis here is clearly on the gambling side of things, so the priorities make sense.

As for symbols, the reels feature the royal set A, K, Q, J, 10 and 9, alongside the usual scarabs, Anubis and Horus icons. The highest-paying symbol is the female explorer, awarding 25 times your stake for 6 of a kind. The wild is a scroll with a pyramid motif and it substitutes for all symbols except the scatter.

Legacy of Ra Megaways (Blueprint Gaming): Features

Taking cues from classic book slots, Blueprint Gaming keeps things straightforward here, opting not to add the base game features they often include in many of their other releases. We can’t confirm how the RTP is split between the base game and bonus, nor do we know the exact max win cap, but with extreme luck you can probably hit somewhere around 2000 times your stake (Blueprint, feel free to correct us if that’s wildly inaccurate).

If you’re chasing the truly big hits, the free spins are where you’ll want to be. Landing 3, 4, 5 or 6 scatter symbols anywhere on the reels triggers the bonus and awards 10, 15, 25 or 50 free spins respectively. Before the feature starts, one regular symbol is randomly selected as the special symbol. When enough of these special symbols land, they expand to fill the entire reel—and the best part is they don’t need to begin on reel 1 or even land on consecutive reels. On top of that, there’s no cap on how many times you can retrigger the free spins.

If you don’t want to wait for the bonus to arrive naturally, you can jump straight in using the Bonus Bet feature. The 10 free spins option will set you back 100 times your total stake.

Legacy of Ra Megaways (Blueprint Gaming): Conclusion

Mashing up Book of Ra-style gameplay with Megaways is bound to attract plenty of players, from casual punters to seasoned slot fans. Big Time Gaming attempted something along these lines with Book of Gods, but instead of using their Megaways engine they went with a 243-ways format. It never really caught on with the online slot crowd, and looking back, it probably would have benefited from Megaways.

Fortunately, Blueprint has addressed that gap, producing a slot that feels like what Book of Gods should have been. In the end, Legacy of Ra Megaways comes out on top, arguably beating Big Time Gaming at their own game.