Crocodopolis is a slot game from NextGen Gaming that has been made available to Microgaming online casinos like Royal Vegas and All Slots through the Quickfire platform. Crocodopolis would mean the city of crocodiles and this refers to the crocodiles infesting the River Nile. But the reels are set on the desert and not on the river, with creepy creatures crawling across from time to time. The highlight of Crocodopolis is the Slide a Wild feature that differentiates it from other video slots with the ancient Egypt theme.

The main symbol in this slot machine is the crocodile, referred to as Croc. Keeping the theme in mind, it is depicted with a crocodile head on a man's body. Croc is the wild symbol and can expand to cover the entire reel. Online casino players who love win animations will enjoy Croc’s little jig. The other thematic symbols predictably are pyramids, Egyptian deities, scarab, ankh and scroll. The low paying symbols are the usual playing card icons. The deities symbol awards the top line payout of 5,000 coins. The pyramid is the scatter symbol. When it appears scattered on reels 2, 3 and 4 you will be awarded 12 free spins at doubled payouts. The free spins can be retriggered.

The highlight of Crocodopolis is the Slide a Wild feature. You can position the slider above any of the reels that you want to before a spin. The implication is that the wild Croc symbol can appear only on the reel with the slider. To make the feature more challenging, the wild symbol will have different properties on each reel. On the reels to the left where the wild symbol is more likely to help make winning combination its properties are less attractive. As you move the slider to the right Croc becomes more powerful.

On reel 1 the wild symbol has a 2x multiplier property. The multiplier property increases to 3x if you station Croc on reel 2. When the slider is placed on reel 3, Croc will expand to cover the entire reel and payouts are awarded after the expansion. A similar expansion takes place when the slider is placed on reel 4. In this case the payouts are tripled for the winning combinations made with the wild symbol. The feature with the slider on reel 5 has the same effect. The difference is that instead of appearing as an expanding wild, Croc appears stacked on the reel.