Excalibur Unleashed Slot Review
Golden light slants through a forest canopy onto ferns and wildflowers, framing a stone-set grid in the middle of an Arthurian glade, and every spin of Excalibur Unleashed asks the same quiet question: did a wild land on reel one, and did one land on reel five? That’s the whole game. Most slots spread their interest across a scatter, a hold-and-win, a random modifier; this one refuses the spread and bets everything on two edge reels, and it’s a more interesting shape for it.
It’s a Pragmatic Play build on a 5×4 grid with 20 paylines, running at 96.05% RTP with medium volatility and a 5,000x max win. Sister titles Sword of Ares and Gates of Valhalla carry more moving parts. Bets run from 0.20 to 240.00 per spin. The forest, though, is doing most of the talking.
Base Game & Features
The base game is a straightforward twenty-line affair. Symbols pay left to right and right to left on selected paylines, only the highest win counts per line, and multiple line wins add together. It’s a two-way paying setup that quietly doubles the ways a spin can connect.
That suits a medium-volatility game feeding out regular small returns, and it’s the main reason the reels keep ticking over between bonus triggers. All wins are multiplied by the bet per line, with free spins winnings added to the payline win.
The twenty lines are numbered and fixed, so there’s no choosing a subset to cheapen a spin. A five-symbol run can pay in either direction, which means the owl on the leftmost reel is worth exactly as much as the owl on the rightmost.
Paying Symbols
The paytable splits into four fairy-tale characters and objects plus five royals. Values below are multiples of the total bet.
- Owl (purple hat): 1x for three, 2.5x for four, 25x for five
- Mouse (green hood): 0.75x, 2x, 10x
- Crown: 0.75x, 2x, 10x
- Crystal Ball: 0.6x, 1.5x, 5x
- Potion Bottle: 0.6x, 1.5x, 5x
- A: 0.5x, 1.25x, 3x
- K: 0.4x, 1x, 2.5x
- Q: 0.4x, 1x, 2.5x
- J: 0.25x, 0.75x, 2x
- 10: 0.25x, 0.75x, 2x
The owl is the clear premium, worth a quarter of the stake back at the top of the ladder, while the royals trail well behind. Five-of-a-kind owl wins at 25x are the best the base game offers on its own, before any wild multiplier gets involved.
Below the owl the ladder steps down gently: the mouse and crown share a tier, the crystal ball and potion bottle share the next, and the royals fill out the bottom. Even the lowliest five-of-a-kind still pays 2x, so the floor isn’t punishing.
The Expanding Wild
The wild substitutes for all symbols and appears only on reels 1 and 5. Whenever it lands, it expands to fill the whole reel vertically and picks up a random multiplier from a set running from x2 up to x20. That multiplier applies to every winning combination passing through the wild.
The full set of possible multipliers is x2, x3, x4, x5, x6, x7, x8, x9, x10, x12, x15 and x20, so the jumps get wider at the top end. Where both wilds take part in the same win, their multipliers add together rather than multiply. Those two edge reels are where all of the game’s tension sits: a wild on either end can turn a modest line win into something meaningful, and the pair of them together is what the whole bonus round is built around.
Beyond the wilds there’s nothing else in the base game. No scatter, no second screen, no random modifiers. What you see across the twenty lines is the whole of it, which makes the free spins round the only destination worth aiming at.
Excalibur Unleashed Free Spins & Bonus Features
The free spins round triggers when a wild lands on reel 1 and another on reel 5 in the same spin. That’s the only trigger, and with wilds confined to two reels out of five, patience is part of the design.
The round opens with the following:
- 6 free spins to start
- The wild multipliers rolled on the triggering spin carry over
- Both expanded wilds locked on screen for the entire round
- Any wild that forms part of a win has its multiplier increased by one after that spin
- Both wilds in the same winning combination award one additional free spin
- Special reels in play, so the symbol mix differs from the base game
Played out step by step: the triggering spin fixes the two starting multipliers, the wilds lock, and then every winning spin that runs through a wild nudges that wild’s multiplier up by one. A spin that uses both wilds pays the sum of the two and adds a free spin, which extends the round and with it the runway for further climbs.
The multiplier climb is the engine of the round. Because the wilds stay put and tick upward after every winning spin they touch, a round that begins with modest x2 wilds can finish with both ends of the grid sharpened considerably.
Buy Free Spins
The round can also be bought outright from the base game for 85x the current total bet. On the purchased triggering spin the wilds draw their random multipliers from the same set, starting at x1 rather than x2. The buy runs at 96.02% RTP against the standard game’s 96.05%, a negligible difference in practice.
Wins in any round are capped at 5,000x the bet. Reach the cap and the round stops on the spot, the win is paid, and anything still running is forfeited. The ceiling is generous relative to the medium volatility, though hitting it needs the locked wilds climbing in step for a long run.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.6/10
Playing Excalibur Unleashed is mostly waiting in a very pretty forest. The base game is two-way line hits and nothing else, so the reason anybody sits down at this glade is the pair of wilds that have to arrive together to open the round. When they do, the game changes character completely.
The strength is that the bonus round grows instead of just paying. Locked wilds whose multipliers climb after every winning spin mean a round that starts flat can end as the biggest thing the game ever does, and the retrigger extends exactly the rounds worth extending. The weakness is the dead ground around it: between triggers there’s nothing to soften the wait, and two-way paylines only partly help.
It suits players who like one clear moment of payoff and don’t mind quiet reels on the way there. Anyone who wants something happening on every spin will find the glade too still. For patient players, though, the forest hides a genuinely good bonus round.
Excalibur Unleashed FAQs
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What is the RTP of Excalibur Unleashed?
The RTP is 96.05%, dropping marginally to 96.02% when playing via the Buy Free Spins option. -
Is Excalibur Unleashed high volatility?
No. Excalibur Unleashed is a medium volatility game, meaning payouts tend to come steadily with a spread of win sizes from low to very high. -
How do you trigger free spins in Excalibur Unleashed?
Free spins trigger when wild symbols land on both reel 1 and reel 5 in the same spin. The round starts with six free spins and can be extended by one spin whenever both wilds form part of a winning combination together. -
What does the wild symbol do in Excalibur Unleashed?
The wild substitutes for all symbols, appears only on reels 1 and 5, and expands to fill its entire reel whenever it lands. It carries a random multiplier from x2 up to x20, and when both wilds take part in the same win their multipliers add together. -
Can you buy the bonus on Excalibur Unleashed?
Yes. The free spins round can be bought for 85x your current total bet, instantly triggering the feature. The buy option runs at 96.02% RTP. -
What is the maximum win on Excalibur Unleashed?
The maximum win is capped at 5,000x your bet. Reaching the cap ends the round immediately, pays the win and forfeits any remaining features. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on Excalibur Unleashed?
Bets run from 0.20 to 240.00 per spin, with the bet menu letting you adjust coins per line and coin value to set your total stake. -
Do the wild multipliers increase during free spins in Excalibur Unleashed?
Yes. After each free spin, any wild that formed part of a winning combination has its multiplier increased by one until the round ends, so the two locked wilds grow stronger the longer the round runs.
