Eye of Horus The Golden Tablet is Blueprint Gaming's first direct sequel to its long-running Eye of Horus franchise, released in October 2021. It keeps the same 5-reel, 10-payline Egyptian setup as the original but rebuilds the free spins round around a new sequential symbol-upgrade mechanic — the "tablets" of the title — and pairs it with extra spins awarded for wilds landing during the bonus. It's a high-volatility game built for players who already know the base Eye of Horus and want a sharper, more feature-dense follow-up rather than a reinvention.
Table of Contents
- The Story
- Theme, Gameplay & Symbols
- Presentation & Sound
- How to Play
- Features & Mechanics
- Volatility & Win Potential
- Pros & Cons
- Final Verdict
The Story
Blueprint didn't attach a new narrative framing to this release — it's presented as a direct continuation of the original Eye of Horus rather than a new setting. In its announcement, Blueprint's Director of Marketing and Relationships, Jo Purvis, described the release as giving players an "upgraded and enhanced Eye of Horus adventure," framing the Golden Tablet mechanic as a way of "making it easier for players to activate the top paying symbol in the bonus round by providing the iconic eye with even greater powers." In other words: same temple, same gods, sharper bonus round.
Theme, Gameplay & Symbols
Visually, The Golden Tablet sticks closely to the established Eye of Horus look — sandstone temple columns frame a 5x3 grid, with card royals (10 through A) making up the low-value symbols and a run of Egyptian iconography — scarab, ankh, falcon-headed Horus figure and the Eye of Horus symbol itself — carrying the higher payouts. The reel symbols include stone "tablet" icons sitting between the mid-tier and top-tier payouts; these are the ones the bonus round upgrades, and they give the release its name.
The Horus wild is the game's centrepiece symbol. It can land on reels 2, 3 and 4, and expands to fill the whole reel when it does, in exactly the way the original Eye of Horus works. What changes is what happens once you're inside the bonus round — covered below.
Presentation & Sound
Presentation-wise this is a tidy, conservative update rather than a visual overhaul. The temple backdrop, gold-and-red UI, and glowing sun-disc animation behind the Horus symbol are all carried over from the wider franchise's house style, and the game runs at the smooth, understated pace Blueprint's Reel Time Gaming games are known for — no protracted win animations slowing down the base game, with the spectacle saved for the free spins upgrade reveals. It won't win points for originality against Blueprint's more elaborate recent releases, but it's a clean, legible reskin that plays fast on both desktop and mobile.
How to Play
- Set your stake using the bet selector — total bet ranges from £0.10 to £100 across the game's 10 fixed paylines.
- Press spin to spin the 5x3 reel set — autoplay isn’t offered to UK players, in line with UKGC rules.
- Watch for the Horus wild landing on reels 2, 3 or 4 — it expands to cover the full reel and substitutes for all symbols except the scatter.
- Land three or more Bonus Scatter symbols anywhere in view to trigger the Free Games round, which awards 12 free spins.
- During free spins, any Horus wild that appears upgrades the next available tablet symbol into the top-paying Eye of Horus symbol, and awards extra spins depending on how many wilds land in that spin.
- The Free Games round can retrigger if you land another 3+ scatters within it.
Features & Mechanics
The headline change from the original Eye of Horus is how the free spins round handles symbol upgrades. Rather than converting several mid-value symbols to the top symbol at once, The Golden Tablet upgrades one tablet at a time: each Horus wild that appears converts the next available highest-paying tablet symbol on the board into the Eye of Horus top symbol. Land enough wilds across the round and, in principle, every tablet in view gets upgraded before the spins run out.
The other addition is extra spins tied directly to how many wilds land on a single spin during the bonus: a single Horus wild adds one extra spin, two wilds on the same spin add three extra spins, and three wilds add five extra spins. Combined with the Free Games round's ability to retrigger on 3+ scatters, a well-timed free spins round can run considerably longer than the initial 12 games — and Blueprint's own announcement was explicit that this pairing of frequent upgrades with wild-triggered extra spins is what separates this release from the original Eye of Horus, which doesn't offer the same per-wild spin bonus.
Volatility & Win Potential
Eye of Horus The Golden Tablet is rated a high-volatility game. It's built on Blueprint's configurable RTP model, so you may see slightly different figures depending on the operator — Blueprint's published range for this title runs from 86% up to a top build of 95.20%, and 95.20% is the figure Amazon Slots and most UK-facing sites run. Betting is flexible, from £0.10 up to £100 per spin across the 10 fixed lines, though UKGC rules cap online slot stakes at £5 per spin (£2 for 18-24-year-olds), so UK players can't stake anywhere near the top of that range - the game still suits both cautious and higher-stake play within that limit.
We were not able to confirm a single, consistent official max win multiplier or hit frequency for this specific base version — third-party trackers and review sites quote a wide and inconsistent range of figures for it, several of which appear to describe the separate Megaways or Gold Spins variants of the game rather than this one. Rather than repeat an unverified number, we'd point you to the in-game paytable, which displays the current, operator-specific max win and RTP build before you spin.
Pros & Cons
- Pro: A genuinely distinct free spins mechanic versus the original Eye of Horus, with per-wild bonus spins adding extra volatility to the bonus round.
- Pro: Familiar, well-tested base game — expanding Horus wilds and a 12-spin bonus that can retrigger.
- Pro: Wide bet range (£0.10–£100) suits a broad range of budgets.
- Con: High volatility means longer dry spells between meaningful wins in the base game.
- Con: Visually and structurally close to the original Eye of Horus — this is an iteration, not a fresh reinvention.
- Con: Published max win and hit frequency figures for this base version are inconsistent across the industry, so treat any specific multiplier you see quoted elsewhere with caution and check the in-game paytable directly.
Final Verdict
Eye of Horus The Golden Tablet does what a good franchise sequel should: it keeps everything that worked about the original — the expanding Horus wilds, the temple setting, the fast, no-frills base game — and sharpens the one part of the game most players actually come back for, the free spins round. The sequential tablet-upgrade mechanic and per-wild bonus spins give the bonus round noticeably more depth and swing than the original's simpler upgrade system. It's a high-volatility pick best suited to players who already enjoy the Eye of Horus format and want a punchier version of the free spins round, rather than players looking for a first introduction to the series.
