Table of contents
- Book of Dead Return to Player
- Where Book of Dead Prints All Five
- The Five RTP Configurations, and What Each Keeps
- The Cost of the RTP Difference
- Why the Demo Will Not Tell You
- What Two Recorded Sessions Returned
- Two Book of Dead Demo Sessions, 30 September 2026
- How This Compares Across the Catalogue
- Read What Your Casino Publishes
- Key Terms Used on This Page
- What Else Do Readers Ask
Book of Dead Return to Player
The return to player of Book of Dead is not one number but a set of five RTP configurations — 96.21% as the default, then 94.25%, 91.25%, 87.25% and 84.18% — published together by Play'n GO and selected by the operator running the game.
- Game:
- Book of Dead
- Type:
- Video slot game
- RTP as published:
- Play'n GO publishes five RTP configurations for this title and lets the operator pick: 96.21% (default), 94.25%, 91.25%, 87.25% and 84.18%, printed as one table in the studio's own Game Rules and Settings document GRS0595, with the footnote that default values may vary by market.
- Max win:
- The client prints the ceiling in coins — «WIN UP TO 250000 COINS!» — and the multiplier is derived: 250,000 divided by the 50-coin maximum bet gives 5,000x.
Where Book of Dead Prints All Five
Play'n GO prints all five in one table in its Game Rules and Settings document, the one filed as GRS0595, with the default marked and a footnote that default values may vary depending on the market. The same document adds the line that matters: default settings can be changed by the operator.
Three sources inside the studio agree on the set. The 2022 document and its reissue dated . Then the studio's own game record, which lists defaultRtp 96.21 alongside separate fields for the 94, 91, 87 and 84 builds.
The Five RTP Configurations, and What Each Keeps
| Build | Return | House edge | Expected loss on £100 staked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Default | 96.21% | 3.79% | £3.79 |
| Second | 94.25% | 5.75% | £5.75 |
| Third | 91.25% | 8.75% | £8.75 |
| Fourth | 87.25% | 12.75% | £12.75 |
| Floor | 84.18% | 15.82% | £15.82 |
Figures current as of ; the operator's live terms prevail.
The Cost of the RTP Difference
A return is what the game hands back over millions of rounds, so the gap is easiest to read as what the house keeps: 3.79% at the default, 15.82% at the floor.
Put against a stake, £100 wagered through the 96.21% build expects to lose £3.79, and the same £100 through the 84.18% build expects to lose £15.82. Four times as much, same game, same reels, same soundtrack.
One wrinkle worth knowing before you read any figure here: this game counts in coins and your account counts in money. The message bar reports a feature win in coins while the status bar reports the same win in currency, and the published ceiling - 250,000 coins - is a coin figure too.
Why the Demo Will Not Tell You
The client prints a return line only when the deployment carries a jurisdiction code, and then it prints the default. The public demo of this game carries no such code, which is why our sessions in the studio's own client showed no percentage anywhere. One public demo we opened elsewhere did carry a code, and on the five rules screens we read it printed nothing either.
What the client does print is every payout. The paytable runs to three pages, two of them per-line values down to 100 for five of the cheapest card symbol, and not one of them carries a percentage. The first page is the scatter, and it pays from the total bet instead. Full disclosure of what the game pays, none of what it pays back.
So the demo cannot answer the one question it looks like it should. The figure for your session is whichever build your casino's deployment runs. In several markets a licensed operator has to state it in the game information it publishes, and that is how the operator figures elsewhere on this site were read.
What Two Recorded Sessions Returned
Nothing that bears on the published figure, and that is the point of printing them. We recorded two sessions in the studio's own demo on , on play money, at a stake of 1.00 per spin.
Two Book of Dead Demo Sessions, 30 September 2026
| Session | Staked spins | Returned over the session | Feature paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | 46 | 68.5% | 675 coins, or 13.5x the bet |
| Second | 204 | 86.3% | 3,250 coins, or 65x the bet |
The first session landed under every published figure, the second under all but the 84.18% floor, and neither says anything about either. A return is an average over millions of rounds; 250 spins cannot measure one, and we would distrust any site that presented a run of this length as evidence.
There is one honest reading of them. The feature paid 13.5x the bet once and 65x the next time off the same three-scatter trigger, which is the shape of the game rather than its average: long stretches of nothing, settled by one sequence.
How This Compares Across the Catalogue
Publishing the full list is rare and worth crediting. Nolimit City publishes a single return for Book of Shadows, machine-readably, which is checkable but offers nothing to compare. Greentube publishes no return at all for Book of Ra, so the only figures for that family come from casinos, and two of them disagree.
Play'n GO sits at the opposite end: it publishes the whole set and hands the choice to the operator. That is more disclosure and no more protection - the player still cannot tell from the game which build is running.
Read What Your Casino Publishes
Open the game information your casino publishes and read the return it states. In several markets the operator is required to state it, and that is the figure that applies to your session.
If the panel says nothing, treat the silence as the answer rather than defaulting to 96.21%. A game that ships in five builds and shows none of them on screen is a game where the published average means very little.
