Rise of Maya

Mayan and Aztec imagery run through Rise of Maya, NetEnt's smoke-filled jungle temple release, with serpents worked through the design as a nod to their role as cosmic travellers in Mayan belief. The 5-reel, 3-row grid keeps to 10 fixed paylines, played across transparent reels set against burning fire pits and carved stone.

Low-value 10-through-Ace symbols, carved in matching stone style, need three in a row on a payline to pay, while the five higher-value Mayan ceremonial masks pay from just two matching symbols onward. The top mask pays up to 250x the stake for five of a kind. With the lower requirement on high-value symbols, the game hits a win roughly one spin in four.

A Scatter Nudge can fire randomly on a non-winning spin in either the base game or free spins, nudging a wild or scatter symbol into view rather than leaving the spin empty.

Four separate wild types work the reels: a standard wild, two expanding Serpent Wilds that can grow up or down to cover part or all of a reel, and a Serpent Stack Wild that only appears during free spins on Hot Reels, where it always covers its reel in full. All four substitute for any regular paying symbol.

Landing three or more scatter and wild symbols in any combination triggers 15 free spins, and whichever reels carried the triggering symbols become Hot Reels for the round, clearing space for a complete Serpent Stack Wild to settle across any of them during the bonus. Extra scatters or wilds during the round can add further spins, up to a total of 24.

An optional Bonus Bet doubles the stake in exchange for better odds of landing the scatters and wilds needed to trigger Free Spins and activate Hot Reels. With it active, landing exactly two qualifying symbols respins every other reel for a second chance at completing the trigger, rather than ending the spin short.

Volatility is rated medium to high, with a base RTP of 96.12% that rises to 96.42% when the Bonus Bet is engaged. The maximum win is over 6,000x the stake, hit frequency runs between 23.69% and 24.66%, and bets range from 0.10 to 75 per spin.

Because high-value masks only need two matching symbols to pay, the base game keeps paying out in small, steady amounts between the bigger Serpent Wild hits, and the Hot Reels mechanic means the free spins round plays out differently depending on exactly where the trigger symbols happened to land.