Cleocatra (Pragmatic Play) RTP review: 96.20% (configurable)
Cats, respins, and value-bearing wilds
Cleocatra (2022) plays its Egyptian theme for comedy — the pharaoh is a cat, the hieroglyphs have paws — but the machine underneath is serious sticky-wild business on a 5×4, 40-line board. Cat wilds land bearing multiplier values, and respins keep the board alive while new wilds join; in the free spins (8, 12 or 16 from 3, 4 or 5 scatters — the scaling trigger is a nice touch), the accumulating cat-wilds compound across the 40 lines toward the 5,000x cap. The scaling scatter award matters more than it looks: five-scatter triggers start a materially longer feature, giving this game a jackpot-adjacent second lottery most rivals lack. Volatility: 5/5.
Correcting the record: this is Pragmatic Play
Cleocatra is chronically mislabelled a Play'n GO title across aggregator sites — an error worth correcting with evidence. The certification structure is the tell: Pragmatic's characteristic three-tier ladder of 96.20% / 95.50% / 94.50%, where Play'n GO ships five-tier structures. The 96.20% default is slightly under Pragmatic's usual shelf, and the 100x bonus buy — blocked in the UK as ever — retains full RTP parity with the base game, which is itself worth knowing: buying here doesn't cost you certified return. The info screen names your build. Stakes 0.20–100.
How it sits among the sticky-wild school
Against Wild West Gold and The Hand of Midas, Cleocatra's distinguishing features are the respin connective tissue (wild arrivals extend board activity outside the bonus proper), the scaling trigger, and the buy-at-parity. Midas keeps the better default (96.54%) and its guarantee; Cleocatra counters with feature-length upside and the friendliest buy maths of the three. Players who enjoy the school's compounding but want more variance in feature shape — short cheap bonuses versus long five-scatter epics — will find that spread here.
Bankroll notes for the feature spread
The scaling trigger deserves a line of practical arithmetic: because most bonuses arrive from three scatters, the median feature is the short 8-spin variety, and cat-wilds need several arrivals before compounding shows teeth — so expect the typical bonus to resolve modestly, with the 12- and 16-spin epics carrying the distribution's real weight. Budget on 5/5 terms accordingly: enough spins to see multiple triggers, since any single short feature proving quiet is the norm here rather than bad luck.
Litter box or treasure chest
Treasure
- Scaling 8/12/16-spin triggers — five scatters start an epic
- Bonus buy retains full RTP parity, rare and welcome
- Respins extend wild activity beyond the feature
Litter
- 96.20% default is under the Pragmatic shelf norm
- Chronic Play'n GO mislabelling causes data confusion downstream
- 94.50% build circulates
Other dynasties
Comparable games at provider defaults.
| Slot | Provider | RTP | Volatility | Max win |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleocatra (this slot) | Pragmatic Play | 96.20% | High | 5,000x |
| Sweet Bonanza | Pragmatic Play | 96.51% | Med-High | 21,100x |
| Gates of Olympus | Pragmatic Play | 96.50% | High | 5,000x |
| Big Bass Bonanza | Pragmatic Play | 96.71% | High | 2,100x |
| Sugar Rush | Pragmatic Play | 96.50% | High | 5,000x |
The cat's verdict
Skip if: the 96.20% default versus Midas' 96.54% decides it for you — fair enough
Cleocatra is better than its data trail: routinely misattributed to the wrong studio and quoted at half-checked figures, it's actually a thoughtfully built Pragmatic sticky-wild game whose scaling triggers give features real range and whose buy — unusually — sacrifices no certified return. The 96.20% default concedes a third of a point to the genre's best, which the feature-length lottery partly repays. Verify build and studio attribution both, and the cat earns her throne.