Guardians Of Luxor

Guardians Of Luxor Slot Review

Two dark statues stand watch over a temple chamber at night, gold collars glinting, an open treasure chest at the lower-left and coins spilled across the floor. Guardians Of Luxor is Red Rake Gaming‘s take on all of that, and it’s a game that bets on accumulation rather than explosion: nearly everything worth having here is reached by locking scarabs in place one at a time, not by a single lucky line.

It runs on a 5×4 grid at 95.4% RTP, with the paytable’s richest fixed line a modest 200x and the real prizes held in a scarab feature with a jackpot ladder. The game later earned a sequel, but this first outing sits alongside Million Zeus 2 and Triple Jewel Of Egypt in a catalogue that likes its gold heavy. The guardians guard their treasury one coin at a time.

Symbols and Paylines

Wins pay left to right on adjacent reels, starting from the leftmost reel, and where a line pays more than one win only the highest counts. The Wild substitutes for all symbols except the Golden Pyramid, the Blue Pyramid and the bird symbols. It’s also the richest symbol on the board.

The reels carry fire-toned 7s in three colours, birds and Egyptian iconography, with a mixed-7 and a mixed-bird row softening the gaps at the bottom of the table. The paytable, in multiples of the total bet:

• Wild – 1x for three, 6.6667x for four, 33.3333x for five
• 7 (red/fire) – 0.8333x for three, 8.3333x for four, 16.6667x for five
• 7 (orange/fire) – 0.6667x for three, 2x for four, 8.3333x for five
• 7 (brown/fire) – 0.5x for three, 2x for four, 6.6667x for five
• Pink bird/sun disc – 0.3333x for three, 1.3333x for four, 3.3333x for five
• Red bird/Phoenix – 1x for three, 1x for four, 2x for five
• 7 Any Mixed – 0.3333x for three, 1x for four, 2x for five
• Ankh – 0.1667x for three, 0.6667x for four, 1.6667x for five
• Eye of Horus – 0.1667x for three, 1.6667x for five
• Bird Any Mixed – 0.0667x for three, 1x for five
• Purple bird (Isis-like) – 0.1667x for three, 0.6667x for five

The Pyramid Symbols

Golden Pyramid

The Golden Pyramid is a bet-sized payer rather than a feature trigger. Land them with any bet and they award:

• Five Golden Pyramids – 200x the total bet
• Four Golden Pyramids – 10x the total bet
• Three Golden Pyramids – 2x the total bet

That 200x top line is the biggest fixed number anywhere in the game. It doesn’t trigger anything and doesn’t need to – it’s simply the most valuable single combination on the reels.

Blue Pyramid Scatter Pays

The Blue Pyramid works as a scatter with a sliding scale, and it’s the one place this game pays for volume. All scatter pays land on or within one position of the first payline:

• Any 9 – 100x the total bet
• Any 8 – 50x the total bet
• Any 7 – 25x the total bet
• Any 6 – 10x the total bet
• Any 5 – 5x the total bet
• Any 4 – 2x the total bet
• Any 3 – 1x the total bet

Osiris Wild Respin

Osiris appears on the centre reel only, and when he does he expands to occupy it entirely, becoming a full-reel Wild. He then stays put while the other reels take a respin, giving every line that crosses the middle reel a stacked wild column for one free shot.

It’s a single respin, not a chain. There’s no retrigger to chase and no meter filling – one expansion, one respin, and the game carries on.

Sacred Scarabs

The Scarab symbol in the central reel launches the game’s headline feature. Once it appears, it turns into three sacred scarabs fixed in place, granting three free spins. Every additional scarab that lands also locks in place and resets the counter to three spins.

Each locked scarab is a head start on the next spin rather than a pay in itself. The counter only moves down when a spin passes without a new scarab, so a lucky streak can hold the round open well past its original three spins.

The round ends when the spins run out or when every position on the reels holds a scarab. This is where the Minor, Major and Grand wins live, with the reels showing value tokens instead of normal symbols during the reveal.

The Jackpot Ladder

A ladder of Minor, Major and Grand prizes sits above the reels in the base game. At a bet of 3.00, it reads:

• Minor – 30
• Major – 120
• Grand – 900

Those credit values move with the stake, so it’s the proportions that matter. During the feature’s reveal screen, the ladder markers appear on the reels themselves alongside fixed value tokens ranging from single digits up to 500, and the full grid of scarabs is the round’s finish line.

Free Spins

A separate Free Spins round exists, with Anubis symbols shown as the triggering icons. The round sits alongside the scarab feature rather than inside it, giving the game a fourth way to break up ordinary spins.

The full spin counts, modifiers and retrigger conditions for the round aren’t published, so there’s nothing honest to state beyond the trigger. Anubis is the symbol to watch for beyond the scarab and the Osiris expansion.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7/10

Playing this is an evening in a torch-lit temple where small things keep happening: a wild reel here, a pyramid cluster there, and behind it all the slow business of scarabs locking into place. The reason to choose it is that accumulation – the sense that a round is building towards something rather than waiting for it.

The scarab feature is the best thing here, because the reset counter means every additional scarab is three more spins, not just a sticky symbol. The weakness is the ceiling: the ladder tops out at a Grand that scales with stake, and the paytable’s richest fixed line is 200x, so nothing here rewrites a week. The Free Spins round being undocumented doesn’t help the sense of a game half-explaining itself.

This one’s for players who enjoy a base game with four small systems ticking over and a feature that rewards patience. It isn’t for anyone hunting a life-changing multiplier. For the rest, the temple doors stay open and the chest keeps filling, coin by coin.

Guardians Of Luxor FAQs

• What is the RTP of Guardians Of Luxor?

  Guardians Of Luxor runs at 95.4% RTP. There are no alternative RTP configurations, so that’s the figure wherever you play it.
• What is the grid size of Guardians Of Luxor?

  The game plays on a 5×4 grid – five reels and four rows – with wins paid left to right on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost reel.
• Who makes Guardians Of Luxor?

  Guardians Of Luxor is made by Red Rake Gaming, a studio with a large catalogue of ornate, feature-rich slots including Million Zeus 2 and Triple Jewel Of Egypt.
• When is Guardians Of Luxor released?

  Guardians Of Luxor’s release date is 13 June 2022.
• How does the Sacred Scarabs feature trigger?

  Landing a Scarab symbol on the central reel launches Sacred Scarabs. The scarab turns into three fixed scarabs and awards three spins, and each additional scarab that lands locks in place and resets the counter to three spins.
• Can the Sacred Scarabs feature be retriggered?

  Yes, in effect. Every additional scarab that lands during the feature resets the spin counter to three, so the round keeps extending. It ends only when the spins are used up or every reel position contains a scarab.
• What does the Osiris Wild Respin do?

  When the Osiris symbol appears on the centre reel, it expands to fill that reel entirely as a Wild, then stays in place while the other reels respin once. It’s a single respin, with no further retriggers.
• What do the pyramid symbols pay in Guardians Of Luxor?

  The Golden Pyramid pays 200x the total bet for five, 10x for four and 2x for three. The Blue Pyramid is a scatter paying up to 100x for nine, scaling down to 1x for three, with all scatter pays on or within one position of the first payline.