Knights of Avalon Slot Review
The reels of Knights of Avalon sit inside a carved wooden-and-gold pavilion, teal pennants hanging off the posts and a crimson sword banner flanking the frame, with a twilight pine forest fading into violet sky behind it all. It’s a tournament grandstand, and the tournament spills onto the reels: Red Tiger has built a ways slot where the symbols don’t wait politely to line up, they arrive mid-spin, pick fights and rewrite the board.
That fighting is what sets the game apart. Knights drop in unannounced and turn each other into matching symbols, which gives a 5×4 grid with 1,024 ways to win more life than the plain ways format usually manages. It runs at 95.7% RTP with a 17,729x top prize, a serious ceiling for a studio better known in this format for Dragon’s Fire Megaways and Pirates Plenty. Fans of Bounty Raid will recognise the hand on display here.
How Knights of Avalon Pays
Wins land when matching symbols appear on consecutive reels from the left, anywhere on those reels. There are no paylines to follow; with four rows across five reels, that gives the 1,024 ways. Around 26.24% of spins produce a win, so better than one round in four returns something.
Each win way pays only once, and where a wild is involved it counts as whichever symbol builds the longest combination on that way. Multiple ways win on the same spin, which is how a grid full of low-value shields still produces a respectable return.
Because the symbols pay as multiples of the total bet rather than a line stake, the numbers look small at first glance. A five-of-a-kind of the best knight at 2.5x is a modest return by the standards of a 17,729x game, and the step down through the table is gentle rather than steep.
The wild is a lion crest that substitutes for every paying symbol. Five wilds on their own pay 2.5x the total bet, the same as the top knight, and a way made entirely of wilds pays only that advertised five-wild figure rather than anything more.
All pays are multiples of the total bet, and the table is flat at the top: the richest symbol in the game returns 2.5x for a full line of five. Here is what each symbol pays for three, four and five of a kind.
- Crowned Gold Knight: 1x, 1.5x, 2.5x
- Red-Plumed Knight: 0.8x, 1.2x, 1.6x
- Orange-Plumed Knight: 0.6x, 0.9x, 1.2x
- Silver Knight: 0.5x, 0.7x, 1x
- Gold Crown Shield: 0.2x, 0.4x, 0.8x
- Blue and Gold Shield: 0.2x, 0.3x, 0.6x
- Red Heart Shield: 0.1x, 0.3x, 0.5x
- Blue Diamond Shield: 0.1x, 0.2x, 0.4x
- Green Clover Shield: 0.1x, 0.2x, 0.3x
The shape of the table is a gentle slope. The four knights hold the top four tiers, with the crowned gold knight double the silver knight’s five-of-a-kind, and then the five shields crowd into the bottom half, where three green clovers pay a tenth of the bet.
Bets run from 0.1 to 50 per spin, which keeps the door open for small-stakes sessions without capping the higher rollers too tightly. Four knights and five shields make up the table, and the shields do most of the day-to-day winning.
Knights Drop
Knights Drop is the base game’s random modifier, and it can fire on any spin. Up to six knight symbols of one type are placed anywhere on the reels before they settle.
Once the reels stop, the dropped knight picks a fight. It transforms other random knights on the grid into its own type, which can turn a scattered handful of matching knights into a long, paying way across all five reels.
The placement is anywhere on the reels, so a drop isn’t tied to a position the win needs. What matters is which type arrives: a six-strong arrival of crowned gold knights is suddenly the best possible board, while a spread of the low shields does far less work.
When it lands well, a full row of crowned gold knights is suddenly in play. When it doesn’t, the drop simply adds a few symbols and the spin passes. It’s a simple idea, executed with enough ceremony to make every drop worth watching.
The transformation targets are random, so a drop of one knight type can absorb any of the other three. A board carrying a mix of red, orange and silver knights gives the dropped knight more material to convert, and a conversion chain that reaches four or five reels is where the pays climb above the shield-level change.
Free Spins
The bonus is a scatter round. FREE SPINS symbols can only appear on reels one, three and five, and landing one on each of those reels awards seven free spins.
Inside the bonus, two things change. Knights Drop has a higher chance of triggering, so the transformation mechanic that powers the base game becomes the engine of the round rather than an occasional visitor.
And every knight symbol that appears during free spins can carry a random multiplier of up to 5x. Combined with a board full of transformed, matching knights, that multiplier is where the 17,729x ceiling becomes thinkable rather than decorative.
The round retriggers, too. Any scatter landing during the bonus grants one extra free spin, and with scatters confined to three reels, a lucky spin can extend the round indefinitely.
The Shop and Play Options
The SHOP button opens a menu of play options that work as toggles rather than one-off purchases. Activate an option and its cost is charged from your balance on every spin while it stays on, with the amount shown on the spin button so you always know what a round is costing.
An X icon sits beside the spin button whenever an option is live; press it, or deselect the option in the shop menu, to switch the charge off. Costs are based on your selected bet, so they scale with your stake rather than sitting at a fixed price.
A confirmation pop-up appears the first time you activate an option, explaining that the recurring charge applies on every spin. There’s a don’t-show-again checkbox for players who’d rather skip it, after which toggling options on and off is a one-press affair.
The autoplay settings follow the same pattern of player control. You choose the number of rounds, set a loss limit the autoplay will stop before reaching, and can add a stop-on-win-above amount or a stop-on-bonus-feature switch so automatic play halts the moment something worth your attention happens.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.2/10
Playing this is like watching a tournament where the fighting breaks out between the jousts. Most spins are shields and small change, and then a knight drops in, transforms half the board, and a quiet grid turns into the best thing that happened all session. That interruption is the one reason to pick it: the drops give every spin a stake in what happens next.
The bonus is the strongest part, because boosted drops plus up to 5x knight multipliers can compound a single round into something far beyond the base game’s reach, and retriggers let it run on. The paytable is the let-down: 2.5x for five of the best symbol is thin, so the reels themselves never pay you properly for your patience.
This one suits players who enjoy waiting on a modifier and don’t need the base spins to fund the wait. Anyone who wants a game that pays on its own reels, spin by spin, will find the shields disappointing. For the patient, though, the tournament is worth the entry.
Knights of Avalon FAQs
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How do you trigger free spins in Knights of Avalon?
Land FREE SPINS scatter symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5 at the same time to win seven free spins. Scatters cannot appear on any other reels. -
What does the Knights Drop feature do?
Knights Drop can trigger randomly on any spin. Up to six knight symbols of one type are placed on the reels, and after the reels stop the dropped knight transforms other random knights into its own type, potentially building long winning ways. -
Can free spins retrigger in Knights of Avalon?
Yes. Landing a scatter during the bonus grants one extra free spin, and there is no stated limit on how many times this can happen. -
What does the wild symbol do in Knights of Avalon?
The lion crest wild substitutes for all paying symbols and counts as whichever symbol forms the longest winning combination on a single win way. A way made up entirely of wilds pays the advertised five-wild amount of 2.5x the total bet. -
What is the RTP of Knights of Avalon?
The RTP is 95.7%. -
What is the maximum win on Knights of Avalon?
The maximum win is 17,729x your bet. -
What are the bet limits in Knights of Avalon?
Bets run from 0.1 to 50 per spin, so the game accommodates both small-stakes play and more substantial wagers. -
What do knight symbol multipliers do in free spins?
During free spins, any knight symbol that appears can have a multiplier of up to 5x randomly applied to it, boosting any win way that knight forms. It stacks with the boosted Knights Drop transformations that fill the reels with matching knights. -
How do play options in the shop work?
Play options are toggles rather than one-off buys. Once activated, an option’s cost is charged from your balance on every spin while it stays on, shown on the spin button, and you can switch it off with the X icon beside it or in the shop menu. -
What is the hit frequency of Knights of Avalon?
Roughly 26.24% of spins produce a win, which works out at slightly better than one winning round in four.
