Cleo’s Book

Cleo’s Book from Belatra runs a 5 reels by 5 rows grid with 3,125 ways to win, which immediately tells me it is chasing volume rather than precision. The Book symbol does double duty as Wild and Scatter, and the headline cast is pure Egypt: Cleopatra, Anubis, and the Pharaoh. RTP is 96.01%, volatility is high, and the stated max win is 50,000x.

That headline spec sheet is bold, and I like that it is honest about the risk profile. High volatility plus 50,000x is catnip for punchy sessions, but it also means you will feel the droughts. The Book as both Wild and Scatter is efficient design, yet it can make the base game feel dependent on one symbol doing all the heavy lifting. Release date is October 25th, 2022, and it plays like a modern take on a familiar formula.

The game ditches fixed paylines and pays on adjacent reel matches from the left, which suits the 5x5 layout and keeps results coming. Visually it leans hard into gold tones, torches, and hieroglyphs, and I will give it this: it commits to the atmosphere. Still, the core loop is straightforward, and despite talk of a Nudge Feature and expanding symbols, this falls short of feeling genuinely surprising between bonus moments.

Free spins trigger with three or more Book Scatters anywhere, and the feature immediately picks a random regular symbol as the Super Symbol. When that chosen icon lands on two or more reels, it expands vertically to fill entire columns, which is the classic Book-of mechanic done on a 5x5 scale. Extra Scatters add more spins, so the feature can stretch when you are already in rhythm.

This is where the slot shines because the expanding columns can turn ordinary hits into screen-filling wins quickly. The flip side is that randomness: if the Super Symbol lands poorly for your session, the feature can feel like it is teasing rather than delivering. It is a strong, proven blueprint, just not a very nuanced one, and it makes the base game feel like a waiting room.

Alongside free spins, Cleo’s Book pushes a Wheel of Fortune style jackpot wheel that fills via points: you collect towards 1,000 points, then the wheel triggers. Spins can award prizes like multipliers or access to a Mega Wheel with the biggest prizes and progressive jackpots. It is undeniably a crowd-pleaser, but the point grind is the price of entry, and I do not pretend it is “free” excitement.