Golden Knight II Slot Review
A pale stone castle with red-roofed turrets sits on a green hillside, and the reels below it are framed in dark wood with gold trim, as if the whole game were built into the castle gate. Golden Knight II hides most of its money behind that gate. This is High 5 Games‘ armoured follow-up, a 5×4 grid running 40 paylines at a 96.5% RTP, and its paytable is deliberately modest – the prizes that matter ride on a licensed cash-collect icon, not on the Knight and his Queen.
It sits in the same painted, storybook territory as Da Vinci DeluxeWays and Platinum Goddess Ways, though it swaps fantasy glamour for medieval steel. A spin here is really a question about the first reel, which is where the game concentrates its cash values. Everything else – the line wins, the nudges, the free games – orbits that one idea.
Reels, Lines and Symbols
Wins are conventional here. Symbols land left to right on adjacent reels, beginning with the leftmost, and only the highest combination pays on each line. Line wins are multiplied by the bet multiplier, and scatter symbols pay in any position.
A standard wild substitutes for everything except the Free Games symbol and the Scatter Bucks icon. During Free Games its reach widens slightly: it still can’t stand in for the Scatter Bucks icon, but the Free Games exclusion no longer applies to it. It’s also the richest symbol on the board, out-paying even the Knight and Queen.
The reels turn up three character tiers. The Knight and the Queen head the ladder, backed by a Horse and a Dragon, with the card suit symbols A, K, Q, J and the numeral 5 filling out the low end.
Pays are shown in credits at the bet multiplier:
- Wild – 3 pays 50, 4 pays 250, 5 pays 5,000
- Knight or Queen – 3 pays 25, 4 pays 100, 5 pays 500
- Horse or Dragon – 3 pays 20, 4 pays 80, 5 pays 400
- A, K, Q, J or 5 – 3 pays 5, 4 pays 15, 5 pays 80
For a game dressed in castles and dragons, that ladder is modest. The royal pair need five across for 500 credits, and the card symbols trail well behind them. The money that matters arrives through the bonus symbols instead, and one of them is worth more than anything on this list.
Nudging Reels
At random, one selected reel can nudge by up to five symbol positions to bring a winning combination onto a payline. It works in the base game and in Free Games alike. It’s the slot’s quiet rescuer: a near-miss can turn into a win without warning, and there’s no telling which reel will move or how far.
Scatter Bucks
Scatter Bucks is where the game keeps its real money. The red-and-blue icon lands carrying a credit value, and it does three jobs at once: it’s a scatter that pays in any position, a wild that substitutes for other symbols, and a cash symbol whose value is collected at the end of the spin.
The sequence runs like this. Each Scatter Bucks icon arrives with a credit figure already multiplied by the bet multiplier, so the number on screen is the number that counts, and every icon on the same reel carries the same value within a game. Once the spin settles, each row of Scatter Bucks icons draws a random multiplier between 2x and 10x, with the whole row sharing one figure. After those multipliers land, you win the sum of everything displayed. That’s the whole payout routine, and it repeats on every eligible spin.
The values differ sharply by reel:
- Base game, reel 1 – 25 to 10,000 credits
- Base game, reels 2 to 5 – 25 to 1,000 credits
- Free Games, reel 1 – 25 to 2,000 credits
- Free Games, reels 2 to 5 – 25 to 200 credits
Reel 1 is the prize reel. Its values run ten times higher than the others in the base game, and the row multipliers sit on top of that, so a stacked first reel is where the biggest results live.
There’s no maximum win figure for this one. Nothing in the game’s arithmetic caps a spin below a full board of reel 1 icons at the top value with a 10x row multiplier behind them, but no published ceiling exists either, so the practical limit is what the reels can physically hold.
Free Games
Three or four Free Games symbols anywhere on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 start the feature: three award 8 free games and four award 25. The symbol doesn’t appear on reel 1 at all, which is worth knowing when you’re watching the left of the screen for nothing.
Free games run on a different set of reels, at the same lines and bet multiplier as the triggering spin. There’s no retrigger: the round plays out its count and ends when zero remain.
Scatter Bucks keeps paying throughout the feature, though its values are cut back for the duration. Reel 1 icons drop from a 10,000-credit ceiling to 2,000, and the other reels fall from 1,000 to 200. What you get instead is a run of spins on different reels where the cash mechanic stays live throughout, so the feature is less one big payoff and more a sustained stretch of collecting.
The wild behaves differently in here too. The Scatter Bucks icon substitutes for all symbols during the feature, while the plain wild’s only remaining exclusion is the Scatter Bucks icon itself, giving the bonus reels a little more substitution power than the base game.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.5/10
A session here is a series of small line wins you barely notice, punctuated by moments where reel 1 starts filling with cash icons and everything gets interesting. That first reel is the reason to pick this game up at all: nowhere else in a medieval slot does a single column carry that much of the money, and watching it stack up is where the tension genuinely lives.
The row multipliers are the best thing in it. Sharing one random figure across a row means a crowded board can pay anywhere from double to ten times the visible total, and you never know which until the spin settles. The weakness sits right next to it: the Free Games round cuts those same values to a fifth of their base-game ceiling and refuses to retrigger, so the bonus lands as a slower echo of the main game rather than a step up from it.
This suits players who like cash-on-the-reels slots and don’t need an elaborate bonus round to justify a session. Anyone after big set-piece features will find the castle gates fairly plain. For everyone else, it’s sturdy medieval fare with one very sharp sword on reel 1.
Golden Knight II FAQs
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How do you trigger the Free Games feature in Golden Knight II?
Three or four Free Games symbols appearing anywhere on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 start the feature. Three symbols award 8 free games and four award 25 free games. -
Can Free Games retrigger in Golden Knight II?
No. The Free Games feature does not award additional free games; it simply plays out the awarded spins and ends when none remain. -
How does the Scatter Bucks feature work?
The Scatter Bucks symbol lands with a credit value that’s already multiplied by your bet. At the end of each game, every row of Scatter Bucks symbols receives a random multiplier between 2x and 10x, and you win the sum of the displayed values. -
What does the Nudging Reels feature do?
At random, in both the base game and Free Games, one selected reel may nudge by up to five symbol positions to display a winning combination. -
Do Scatter Bucks values change during Free Games?
Yes. During the Free Games feature, reel 1 Scatter Bucks icons carry values of 25 to 2,000 credits and reels 2 to 5 carry 25 to 200, lower than the base game ranges of up to 10,000 and 1,000 credits respectively. -
Do Scatter Bucks symbols all carry the same value?
Within a single game, all Scatter Bucks icons on the same reel carry the same credit value. Values can differ between reels, with reel 1 carrying much higher figures than reels 2 to 5. -
What is the RTP of Golden Knight II?
The theoretical return to player is 96.5%. -
How many paylines does Golden Knight II have?
Golden Knight II has 40 paylines.
