Alternatives

Book of the Dead Slot: Which Game You Actually Want

In short: If you searched for a slot, you probably want Book of Dead by Play'n GO — without the article. Book of the Dead, with the article, is the Egyptian funerary text, and no slot in this catalogue is called that.

One word separates a slot machine from an ancient Egyptian funerary text. Book of Dead is the Play'n GO game; Book of the Dead, with the article, is the Egyptian papyrus — and search engines treat them as different things. If you landed here looking for a game to play, this page points you at the right one and explains why the names collide.

Nine Names, and What Each One Actually Is

NameWhat it isWho made itPublished returnHow to tell it apart
Book of DeadThe slot most searches wantPlay'n GOFive builds, 96.21% down to 84.18%No article in the name
Book of the DeadThe ancient Egyptian funerary textNot a gameNoneThe word "the" in the middle
Book of RaThe original slot of the genreGreentubeNone published by the studioNamed for the sun god, not a person
Book of Ra DeluxeThe widely licensed later versionGreentube92.13% and 94.26%, from two casinosThe word Deluxe, and ten paylines as the casinos list it
Book of ShadowsA slot, and also a Wiccan book of ritualsNolimit City96.01%The 30,338x ceiling is unmistakable
Book of OzA slot, and also the L. Frank Baum novelsTriple Edge Studios96.31% base, 96.50% respin, both from a casinoTwo returns, one per mode
Book of Gold: ClassicA slot with no bonus purchasePlaysonNone publishedNo buy button in the client
Book of Gold: MultichanceIts sibling, with a bonus at 100xPlaysonNone publishedThe BUY BONUS button beside the reels
Book of Tut MegawaysA slot filed under a longer namePragmatic Play96.00%Officially John Hunter and the Book of Tut Megaways

Alternatives in Detail

Why look for a replacement:

Book of Shadows

Nolimit City's entry, and the only one here whose studio puts a hit frequency in machine-readable form. If your objection to the genre is that nobody publishes anything, this is the counter-example.

Better than Book of Dead by Play'n GO

  • Publishes four figures machine-readably, including volatility as a number, 15.96, alongside the word it also prints
  • the 30,338x ceiling is six times the 5,000x group and still above Book of Dead's 25,000x German build

Weaker

  • The demo needs a playin.com account, so you cannot open it first
  • the Bonus Buy price is not published

Book of 99

Relax Gaming's take, built around a counter that opens free spins at 99 books. A 1% house edge against the 15.82% of the lowest Book of Dead build is the widest gap on this shelf.

Better than Book of Dead by Play'n GO

  • The highest published return in the genre at 99%, from the studio's own product page
  • no paid features to complicate the arithmetic

Weaker

  • No volatility published at all, and the 5,000x the studio quotes inside its free-spins description is modest next to Book of Shadows

Book of Ra

Greentube's genre-definer, and the one title here nobody documents. The studio keeps its figures behind an operator login, and no casino figure has been confirmed for the original rather than for a named later version. Casinos do document the Deluxe build, and two of them disagree by more than two percentage points.

Better than Book of Dead by Play'n GO

  • Nothing here is better documented than Book of Dead: this card is on the page only because the two names get confused. Book of Ra defined the genre and is the least documented game in this catalogue

Weaker

  • Its maker publishes no return and no rules document, keeps the Key Data table behind an operator login, and issues its demo button to operators rather than readers
  • even the bonus-buy question cannot be answered

Key Terms Used on This Page

Book of the Dead
The ancient Egyptian funerary text, written on papyrus; not a slot, despite the overlapping name.
Book of Dead
The Play'n GO slot, released in January 2016, which most searches for this phrase are looking for.
Near-identical siblings
Games from one studio with almost the same name and different mechanics, such as Book of Gold: Classic and Multichance.
Disambiguation
Separating entities that share a name so a reader lands on the thing they meant.

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