Rich Wilde and the Tome of Dead, released by Play’n GO on 24 April 2025, brings Rich Wilde back to Book of Dead’s Egyptian setting but rebuilds the mechanics around the studio’s newer Tome-series cluster engine rather than reusing Book of Dead’s original 5×3 payline structure. It plays on a 5-reel, 5-row grid where groups of four or more matching symbols connected horizontally and/or vertically form a win, clearing for new symbols to cascade in.
Its distinguishing feature is a “Ritual” meter that charges as winning symbol combinations land during play; once filled, it unlocks escalating bonus effects on the reels before culminating in a Banishment Free Spins round, in which the accumulated ritual effects remain active and compound the round’s payout potential.
Rich Wilde and the Tome of Dead runs at a 96.21% default RTP (with 94.20%, 91.20%, 87.20% and 84.20% variants also available), is rated medium volatility, and has a maximum win of 5,000x the stake. Despite the shared Egyptian imagery and character, it is a mechanically distinct game from Book of Dead — a cluster-pays cascading slot built on Play’n GO’s Tome-series engine, not a rebrand of the 2016 original.
