Legendary Excalibur Slot Review
A ruined stone hall stands open to the sky, moss on the carved capitals, vines pressing in from the forest edge, and a dark pool sitting quietly at the lower left. Legendary Excalibur frames all of this in heavy gold with fleur-de-lis finials, like a page from an illuminated manuscript. It’s also one of the few slots where the both-ways paylines genuinely matter: with only 10 lines and a top-heavy paytable, a run read from the right is often the difference between a spin that pays and a spin that doesn’t.
The game itself is built around a single idea: the sword, and what happens when it shows up. Red Tiger haven’t dressed that up with free spins rounds or pick-me games. This is a 5×3 grid with 10 win lines paying both ways, a 95.66% RTP, and a 500x ceiling on what a spin sequence can return.
For players who like their medieval fantasy plain, it sits alongside Red Tiger’s Dragon’s Mirror, Wild Spartans and Golden Temple on the studio’s shelf, and it’s the quietest of the four.
Symbols, Paylines and Wilds
All wins pay when a symbol matches a payline pattern from either the leftmost or the rightmost side of the reels, so every one of the 10 lines effectively works twice. A run of Kings from the left counts, and so does the same run read from the right, which materially changes what counts as a good landing on any given spin.
The game’s hit rate is 22.11%, so roughly one spin in five returns something. With both-ways lines in play, that hit rate carries a little further than it would on a one-way grid, since near-misses from the wrong direction still pay.
The paytable runs from Arthurian royalty down to the card royals. Four themed symbols sit above the royals: the King, the Cup, the Shield and Helmet, and the Rose. The King is the richest symbol at the top, and the drop-off after him is steep.
- King – 5, 15, 50 for three, four and five
- Cup – 3, 7, 20
- Shield/Helmet – 2, 5, 12
- Rose – 1.5, 4, 8
- A – 0.8, 2, 4
- K – 0.7, 1.5, 3.5
- Q – 0.6, 1.2, 3
- J – 0.5, 1, 2.5
- 10 – 0.4, 0.8, 2
The split tells its own story. There are four themed symbols above the royals and five royals beneath them, and the Rose, fourth of the themed group, pays less for five than the King pays for three. That’s a top-heavy table, and it means the themed symbols do almost all of the meaningful winning.
The royals cluster tightly together, too. From the A down to the 10, no royal pays more than 4x for a full line of five, and the 10 returns just 2x for the same run. Any win built on the bottom half of the table is small change, whatever direction it arrives from.
The Wild substitutes for all paying symbols and matches the King’s pays, so five of them across a line return 50x. It’s a straightforward stand-in with no multiplier attached, and there’s no scatter anywhere on the reels: no free spins to trigger, no separate bonus round to reach.
Stakes run from 0.10 up to 50 per spin. That’s a narrow band by modern standards, and it tells you something about how modest this game’s ambitions are: no ante bet, no bonus buy, nothing layered on top of the base reels. What you see across the five reels is the whole game.
Excalibur
There is exactly one feature here, and it’s the sword. Excalibur is a Wild Super Symbol occupying a full 1×3 reel position, and it’s the only thing in the game that changes the rhythm of a session. Everything else is the base reels.
When Excalibur lands in full view, it triggers a respin and adds Wilds to the reels. Those extra Wilds are where the feature builds: if three of them fill a reel, they convert into another full Excalibur symbol and award one more respin.
That’s the whole loop, and it runs in a fixed order:
- Excalibur lands in full view, covering all three rows of a reel
- The game awards a respin and drops additional Wilds onto the grid
- If three Wilds fill a reel, they convert into a new full Excalibur
- The new Excalibur awards one more respin, and the cycle repeats
The new full Excalibur behaves like the first: it stands as a Wild stack, the respin it awards drops more Wilds onto the grid, and any reel that fills with three of them converts again. In principle the chain runs as long as the reels keep supplying full stacks, and with a 500x cap on the game, a long chain is the only route to anything close to it.
The both-ways paylines are active during respins too, so a reel of Wilds in the middle of the grid counts towards lines running in both directions. A single full Excalibur on a centre reel is worth more than the same symbol parked on reel one. Stack two of them side by side and every line crossing both pays from left and right at once, which is where the feature’s best moments come from.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7/10
Playing Legendary Excalibur is mostly waiting in a very pretty courtyard. Spins tick by, small wins drift in from either direction, and then the sword drops and the game holds its breath for a few respins. That moment is the whole reason to be here, and honestly, it’s a good one.
The respin loop is beautifully self-feeding: every Wild it drops is a live threat to become a full stack, and every full stack starts the whole thing again. When two Excalibur reels sit side by side, it’s proper drama. The letdown is the money. A 500x ceiling on a chain that has to work that hard for it feels stingy, and the thin paytable underneath does the feature no favours.
This is a game for players who’d rather master one clean mechanic than keep four bonus rounds straight, and who are happy to take their wins modest and their sword-play scenic. Anyone hunting a four-figure payday should keep walking. For the rest, the hall is quiet, the gold is real, and the sword is worth pulling.
Legendary Excalibur FAQs
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What is the RTP of Legendary Excalibur?
The RTP is 95.66%, which is the total expected return of the game rather than a base-game-only figure. -
What is the hit frequency of Legendary Excalibur?
The game pays out on 22.11% of spins. With all 10 lines paying both ways, runs starting on either side of the grid count, so plenty of those winners come in from the right-hand side as well as the left. -
How many paylines does Legendary Excalibur have?
There are 10 win lines, and all of them pay both ways. A symbol run matching a payline pattern counts whether it starts from the leftmost or the rightmost side of the reels. -
What is the grid size of Legendary Excalibur?
It’s a 5×3 grid with five reels and three rows, which is why the Excalibur symbol fills a reel exactly: it’s a 1×3 stack. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on Legendary Excalibur?
Bets start at 0.10 and go up to 50 per spin, with no ante bet or bonus buy on top of that range. -
When is Legendary Excalibur released?
Legendary Excalibur’s release date is 18 December 2019. -
Who makes Legendary Excalibur?
Red Tiger. It sits among the studio’s large catalogue of medium-sized releases alongside titles like Dragon’s Mirror and Golden Temple. -
What is the maximum win on Legendary Excalibur?
The calculated max multiplier of the game is 500x the bet. The only mechanic that gets close to it is a long Excalibur respin chain, with reels converting to full Wild stacks and paying both ways.
