Play Cat Wilde and the Doom Of Dead Demo
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Cat Wilde and the Doom of Dead is an Egyptian tomb-raiding slot from Play'n GO, released in June 2020 and starring Cat Wilde, daughter of the studio's long-running explorer Rich Wilde. It belongs to the same "of Dead" family as Book of Dead and keeps that lean design: a compact grid, few paylines, expanding wilds and one bonus round carrying most of the win potential. The appeal is that it wastes no time: no wheel to unlock, no meter to fill, no gamble round.
How Cat Wilde and the Doom of Dead plays
The reels sit five wide and three high with 10 fixed paylines, all paying left to right from reel one. Card ranks fill the lower end of the paytable, while scarabs, Anubis, the Sphinx and Cat Wilde herself pay the most. Stakes run from 10p to £100 a spin.
Wilds do the heavy lifting between bonuses. They arrive as five long-dead Egyptian rulers, can land on any of the five reels, and each expands to cover its reel in full, so on a 10-line grid one wild often completes several lines at once.
Three golden compass scatters, which appear on reels one, three and five, open the free spins round. Before it starts the compass spins and picks a single paying symbol, high or low, to act as a special expanding symbol. Whenever that symbol lands as part of a win it stretches across all three positions on its reel and pays every line it completes. Scatters landing mid-round extend the feature, with no ceiling on how often that can happen. Which symbol the compass settles on changes everything: a premium expanding across several reels is where the big scores live, while a low card symbol usually produces something modest.
Cat Wilde and the Doom of Dead RTP, volatility and max win
Play'n GO sets the default return to player at 96.29% and rates the game high volatility. The win is capped at 5,000 times your total stake, a ceiling reached by the expanding symbol filling reel after reel during a long free spins run rather than by anything the base game can do. Worth knowing: Play'n GO ships this title in several RTP builds, the reduced ones running at 94.22%, 91.21% and lower, and the casino chooses which version it hosts. The percentage that applies to you is printed in the game's own information screen, so open it before you spin.
High volatility across 10 lines with a single feature means an uneven ride. Long runs of blanks and tiny returns are normal, the compass keeps no schedule, and the gap between a session that fizzles and one that pays comes down to one bonus round and the symbol it picked. Anyone after steady small wins will find this stingy. The ceiling is the trade-off.
Playing Cat Wilde and the Doom of Dead
Play'n GO content is close to standard issue in UK casino lobbies, so the game is widely stocked, and it runs in a browser on desktop and mobile with no download. Try the free demo on this page first: no account, no deposit, the same maths and features as the real version, only the balance is fake.
The casinos listed further down this page all carry the game. Where a site attaches free spins to it, those spins arrive with conditions: wagering requirements, expiry dates, game restrictions and a cap on what can be withdrawn. Read the terms before opting in, since they decide what any winnings are actually worth.
Is Cat Wilde and the Doom of Dead worth playing?
This is a well-made familiar slot rather than an original one. If you have played the Book of Dead line you already know the rhythm, and the improvement is in the base game, where expanding wilds give you something to watch instead of dead reels between bonuses. It suits players who like simple maths, few moving parts and a bonus round with real reach. Anyone drawn to cascading grids, climbing multipliers or a lobby full of feature buys will find it plain.
A game that pays this rarely is easy to misread. A long dry run does not mean the bonus is owed, and raising the stake to make the wait feel worthwhile is how a quiet session quietly turns expensive. If watching the reels has stopped being the fun part, or you catch yourself betting bigger to get back level, our responsible gambling page sets out deposit limits, timeouts, self-exclusion and the free support services available in the UK.
Frequently Asked Questions
Play'n GO's default build returns 96.29%. The studio also supplies lower versions at 94.22%, 91.21% and below, and the casino decides which one it hosts, so check the game's information screen at the site you are playing on rather than trusting a figure quoted elsewhere.
The win is capped at 5,000 times your total stake. Getting anywhere near it needs the free spins round, with the chosen expanding symbol covering several reels at once across a long run of spins.
Land three golden compass scatters, which appear on reels one, three and five. The compass then spins to select one high or low paying symbol as the special expanding symbol for the round. Landing the scatters again during the feature extends it, and there is no limit on how many times that can happen.
Yes. The demo on this page runs in your browser using play money, so no account, registration or deposit is needed. It uses the same maths and features as the real-money version.
No, they are separate games, although both come from Play'n GO and share the expanding-symbol free spins structure. This one stars Cat Wilde rather than her father Rich Wilde, and its wilds expand to fill a whole reel in the base game.
Play'n GO rates it high volatility. Expect long stretches where little happens, broken up by the occasional free spins round that supplies almost all of the game's win potential. It is not built for frequent small payouts.