Pyramid Bonanza Demo & review

If you have played Sweet Bonanza, you already know how Pyramid Bonanza plays: its paytable, scatter pays, free spins and multiplier symbols match Sweet Bonanza's rules line for line, moved from candy to Egyptian gold. Pragmatic Play released it in August 2021 with a low volatility label. It suits players who like that pay-anywhere tumble game and want it in a different setting, more than anyone looking for a new mechanic.

The base game before our first spin, with the buy and the ante panel on the left. FluxPlays demo test, 1 November 2026.

How Pyramid Bonanza works

Position does not matter here. When the reels stop, the game counts each symbol across all 30 positions, and eight or more of one kind pay. Several symbols can pay on the same screen. Each win tumbles away, the rest drop, new symbols fall in, and the chain runs with no limit until nothing new pays.

The golden scarab is the top symbol, and the gems fill the bottom half of the paytable:

The pyramid is the scatter. It lands on all six reels and pays wherever it sits, whether or not free spins follow. There is no wild, and nothing in the base game multiplies a win, so a base spin pays only what its tumbles add up to.

Multipliers: what they do and when they pay

The MULTIPLIER symbol is the whole upside of the game, and it lands only in free spins. Each one takes a random value from 2x to 100x and stays on the screen until the tumbling sequence it landed in has ended.

• Adds: all multipliers on the screen at the end of the sequence are added together.
• Pays: the sum multiplies the whole sequence's win, every tumble included.
• Resets: nothing carries to the next free spin. Each spin starts with no multiplier.
• The condition: a multiplier on a spin where nothing wins multiplies zero.

That last rule decides most rounds. A big multiplier only counts if a winning tumble lands with it, and a small gem win under a large sum can pay more than a scarab win with none.

An 8x MULTIPLIER on reel 6 with no spins left and the round total at $8.65. FluxPlays demo test, 1 November 2026.

Free spins: how they trigger

Four or more pyramids anywhere start 10 free spins, and the trigger spin also pays the scatter amounts in the table above. During the round, three or more pyramids add 5 more spins. The round runs on its own special reels. The rules give no limit on those extra spins and no figure for how often the round arrives.

Bonus buy and ante bet: prices and what you get

The buy and the ante cannot run together: switching the ante on greys the buy out.

The ante on at $1.25 a spin, with the buy greyed out. FluxPlays demo test, 1 November 2026.

RTP, volatility and max win

The help screens give the game's RTP as a range, 96.49% at the lowest and 96.6% at the highest, without saying which option sits where, so the table leaves those cells to this line. Volatility is Low, one label for the whole game. The rules set no maximum win, and the figure in our table is the one on the game's own banner, which advertises wins of over 21,100x the bet. Reaching anything like it takes a large multiplier sum on a long winning sequence.

Pyramid Bonanza vs Sweet Bonanza

The two games differ in theme and nothing else we can check. Their help screens give the same amounts for every symbol band, the same scatter pays, the same free spins and extra spins, the same multiplier range and rule, the same buy and ante, the same RTP range and the same banner figure. Both also carry the same Low label.

So pick Sweet Bonanza if you want the original and its later editions around it. Pick Pyramid Bonanza if you like that game and would rather look at scarabs and gold than fruit and candy.

Our demo test: 100 spins at $1

The base game paid little and often, which fits its label. 24 of the 42 winning spins paid less than the stake, and no losing streak ran past six spins. Spin 5 shows the tumble at its best. One chain paid $2.30 and then $0.75. A third win in the same chain, $10.00, made it the session's biggest spin.

Base spin 5 after three tumble wins in one chain. FluxPlays demo test, 1 November 2026.

The bought round showed the multiplier rule at work. Its trigger spin paid the four-pyramid scatter amount plus a small tumble, and only two of the ten free spins won anything, small amounts each time. A natural trigger and a retrigger did not come up, so those parts are described from the help screens. A session this size, with one bought round, is too few spins for any view on returns, but it shows how much a round depends on wins and multipliers landing together.

Our bought round ended at $8.65 over 10 free spins. FluxPlays demo test, 1 November 2026.

Is Pyramid Bonanza worth playing?

For a Sweet Bonanza fan who wants a change of scene, yes. For anyone else, the original does the same job and is the one to learn first. The game itself is sound: a low-volatility base game that pays small amounts often, and free spins where a multiplier sum can lift a whole sequence. What it lacks is any reason of its own to choose it.

For us, the multiplier condition is the part worth understanding before you buy. A round can be full of multipliers and still pay little if the wins do not line up with them, which is why a bought round can come back small.

In the demo, run some base spins with the ante on first, since it doubles the natural trigger chance for a quarter more per spin, and compare that with the buy.