Snake Temple is Valkyrie Studio’s Aztec jungle slot, built around a golden snake that crawls across five reels and leaves wilds behind it. It returns 96.70% in all three bet modes and caps wins at 20,000x the bet, the prize its 2,000x Deathmode spin chases. It suits players who like one strong idea, sticky wilds and very high volatility.
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Following the golden snake
The snake can appear in the base game or the bonus, running across the reels or down them, and every square it crosses turns wild. In the base game it is the only source of wilds, so nearly every big result there starts with it.
Wins pay on 20 fixed lines from the leftmost reel, so the more of the screen the snake turns wild, the more lines it can complete at once. Valkyrie’s sheet lists five reels by three rows and other listings show five by five; one spin of the demo above shows the grid, and its paytable gives each symbol’s value at your stake.
Valkyrie rates the volatility very high; some reviews call it high.
Making the wilds stick in free spins
Three scatters anywhere start Snake Temple Spins: 10 free spins in which every wild the snake leaves stays put until the round ends. The screen fills as the round goes on, so the later spins tend to carry more weight than the first ones.
The rarer Super Snake Temple Spins also opens from three scatters. It is the same 10 spins with the same sticky wilds, but one whole reel starts the round already wild.
Pricing Lucky mode and Deathmode
All three ways to play return 96.70% in the Stake Engine math published with the game (version 12). The price and the shape of the results are what change.
| Mode | Cost | What changes | 20,000x odds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base spin | 1x the bet | Snakes and bonuses at the normal rate | About 1 in 1.8 million |
| Lucky | 4x the bet | More snakes and a better chance of any bonus | About 1 in 492,000 |
| Deathmode | 2,000x the bet | A snake on every reel; one miss ends the spin with no win | About 1 in 10 |
Deathmode is the headline. At £1 a bet it costs £2,000 a spin, and about one spin in ten reaches the cap for £20,000. Over the long run that spin returns about £1,934 of its £2,000, a cost of about £66 a spin. That single outcome carries nearly all of the mode’s 96.70% return, so the other nine spins in ten end with nothing or close to it. In effect it is a ticket that pays ten times its price about one time in ten.
Lucky works the other way round: four times the price for more frequent snakes and bonuses, with the 20,000x cap still a long way off.
Tracking Snake Temple down at Stake
Snake Temple is a Stake Engine game, so it is played for real money only on Stake.com, with a sweepstakes version on Stake.us; across the two it has passed 30 million bets. Valkyrie’s sheet lists bets of $0.10 to $100, while other listings show up to 1,000, and the game’s own bet menu sets the range; a Deathmode spin is always 2,000 times the base bet chosen. This overview of Stake has more on the casino. The demo above is free and needs no sign-up.
Setting it beside Tiki Wiki Wild
Tiki Wiki Wild is Valkyrie’s gentler take on a similar frame: the same 20 lines and 96.70% return, but rated low volatility with a 2,000x cap. Its bonus turns whole symbols wild instead of sending a snake, over 8 free spins, and its only paid option is a 1.5x Bonus Enhancer. For the same 20,000x ceiling with different mechanics, Hel’s Domain multiplies its wilds together on six reels, and Captain Death reaches 100,000x. Our Aztec slots page gathers more temple adventures, and the Valkyrie Studio list has every game of theirs we cover.
FAQ
Yes. Base play, Lucky and Deathmode all return 96.70%.
20,000x the bet. Deathmode reaches it about once in ten spins; a base spin, about once in 1.8 million.
For 2,000x the bet, a snake spawns on every reel, starting from the last. If any snake misses a wild the spin pays nothing, and about one Deathmode spin in ten reaches 20,000x.
Like the regular round it opens from three scatters, and the published descriptions do not say what decides which of the two you get. It gives 10 free spins with one whole reel already wild.
No. The paid options are Lucky at 4x and Deathmode at 2,000x, and neither buys the free spins directly.
Planning a budget around Deathmode
Set the session budget first, and remember that one Deathmode spin costs 2,000 base bets, more than many whole sessions. Lucky mode quadruples the cost of every spin, so the same budget covers a quarter as many spins.
Snake Temple is meant for players aged 18 or over. GamCare answers the National Gambling Helpline on 0808 8020 133, free and in confidence at any time of day.
