Guardians Of Luxor 2 Slot Review
Dusk settles over the ruins, and a golden winged ornament glints from the corner of a beaded red-and-gold frame. Most slots treat a losing spin as dead air; Red Rake Gaming‘s Guardians Of Luxor 2 puts it to work, banking a slice of every non-winning stake towards the round that ends up mattering most. It runs on a 5×3 grid with 30 lines and a 95.4% RTP, and its free spins can run as long as 50 in total.
It sits in familiar company for the studio, alongside Pots of Tut Rake It In and Triple Jewel Of Egypt, and the pyramids here guard more than sand.
Symbols and Base Play
This is a classic five-reel, three-row machine with 30 fixed lines. Where more than one combination could pay, only the highest counts, at the multiplier configuration that pays most. It’s a straightforward setup, and the interest sits in the symbols rather than the line mechanics.
Three symbols do work beyond the standard pays:
- Anubis appears on reels 2, 3 and 4, and pays an amount equal to the cost of the spin without needing to sit on a winning line
- Silver Pyramid awards a bet multiplier of up to 100x when 3 to 9 land
- Golden Pyramid awards a bet multiplier of up to 200x when 3, 4 or 5 land
Osiris is the wild. It appears on the centre reel only, expands to fill that reel, holds its position and launches a respin on the others. That’s its whole job, and it’s a useful one.
Five separate features hang off the base game, and each has its own way in:
- Power of Horus – the progress bar filling after 100 non-winning spins
- Sacred Scarab – the Beetle landing fully on the centre reel
- Osiris Wild Respin – Osiris appearing on the centre reel
- Wheel Bonus – Wheel symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5 at once
- Free Spins – obtaining three Anubis symbols
The Power of Horus Minigame
Here’s the feature that gives the game its character. Losing spins aren’t wasted here: each one nudges a progress bar along, and a tenth of a percent of that spin’s cost is added to a progressive win amount. After 100 non-winning spins the bar fills, the Power of Horus minigame begins, and everything accumulated on the way in is at stake.
You start with 3 spins and 7 Horus wings symbols carrying the lowest win value, scattered randomly across the reels. Further wing symbols can land during the round; any spin that brings at least one resets the counter back to 3. You click the button for each spin yourself.
After each spin, the symbols merge into whichever combination pays the most in total, and each symbol can only be merged once per spin. The amount shown for a merge is its starting value multiplied by the progressive amount built up on the bar. The round ends when the spins run out or the reels fill completely, at which point every merge is added together. Filling all the reels with symbols awards the GRAND prize.
The Sacred Scarab Feature
The Beetle symbol appears only on the central reel, where it occupies three positions. When it lands fully and covers that reel, it splits into 3 sacred scarabs that lock in place and award 3 free spins.
Each additional scarab that lands also locks in place and resets the counter to 3 spins, so the round keeps extending while the beetles keep arriving. It ends when the spins are used up or every position holds a scarab. When it’s over, all beetle values are added together, and beetles carrying a Minor or Major value pay that award. Fill every position with a beetle and the GRAND is paid instead.
The fixed prize ladder, at a bet of 3.00:
- MINOR – 30
- MAJOR – 120
- GRAND – 900
These are fixed values, unaffected by anything that happened before them, so there’s no progressive drift to track as you play. That separates them from the Power of Horus round, where the banked amount is the whole point.
The Wheel Bonus
Wheel symbols appear on reels 1, 3 and 5, and landing all three earns one turn of the wheel. Whatever the wheel awards multiplies the cost of the line that triggered it, so the value scales with your stake rather than sitting at a fixed amount.
The Free Spins Bonus Feature
Three Anubis symbols launch the free spins. Both the number of spins and the multiplier applied to every win in the round are decided by the result of the minigame that came before it, which ties the whole game together: the Power of Horus round doesn’t just pay, it sets up what follows.
Land three Anubis symbols again during the feature and you’re granted the same number of additional spins as the activating minigame awarded, up to a maximum of 50 free spins in total. All wins are multiplied by the multiplier carried in from that minigame.
The round plays on special reels with no golden Scatter or Wheel symbols, at the same betting level as the spin that set it off. If the game drops mid-bonus, the round is completed at random and the winnings are credited on your next connection, with a full replay available through the betting history.
Win Potential
The RTP is 95.4%, which sits a shade under what most modern releases offer. The largest prize ever recorded across two billion simulated games was 1010.67 times the bet, at odds of one in two billion. That’s the honest shape of the ceiling: real, but not one that will draw variance hunters away from bigger numbers.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.7/10
Playing this is a slow walk through the ruins with something always accumulating in the background. The reason to pick it is that nothing here feels wasted: the lean spells feed the feature, and by the time a bonus lands you feel you’ve been building towards it rather than waiting through it. That’s rare in a 30-line game.
The strength is the way the pieces connect, because the minigame doesn’t just pay out, it decides what the free spins are worth. The weakness is the payout side: a 95.4% RTP and a ceiling around a thousand times the bet mean no single round here changes your week.
This is one for players who enjoy the build, the merging, the sense of a bank slowly growing while the sun sets on the temple. It isn’t one for anyone chasing a life-altering hit. For the patient, though, there’s a lot to like in how deliberately it’s put together, and the ruins reward a longer stay.
Guardians Of Luxor 2 FAQs
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What is the RTP of Guardians Of Luxor 2?
The RTP is 95.4%. That figure comes from a simulation of two billion games. -
Who makes Guardians Of Luxor 2?
Guardians Of Luxor 2 is made by Red Rake Gaming. -
How many paylines does Guardians Of Luxor 2 have?
It’s a 5×3 slot with 30 fixed paylines. -
When is Guardians Of Luxor 2 released?
Guardians Of Luxor 2’s release date is 29 February 2024. -
How does the Power of Horus minigame trigger?
Spins that don’t win fill a progress bar at the top of the screen. Once 100 of them have passed, the bar fills and the minigame launches with the banked amount on the line. -
What does the Sacred Scarab feature do?
A fully landed Beetle on the centre reel splits into 3 locked scarabs and awards 3 free spins. Each new scarab locks in place and resets the counter to 3. When the round ends, all beetle values are added together, and filling every position with a beetle pays the GRAND. -
How many free spins can you win in Guardians Of Luxor 2?
The number of spins and the win multiplier are both set by the minigame that activated the feature, and retriggering with three Anubis symbols adds the same number of spins again, up to a maximum of 50 free spins in total. -
What does the Osiris wild do?
The Osiris symbol appears on the centre reel, expands to fill it entirely as a wild, then stays in place and triggers a respin on the other reels.
