The Knight King Slot Review
A crowned knight in a plumed silver helm stands watch above the reels, with a pale turreted castle on the cliffs behind him and storybook colour everywhere you look. Here’s the thing about The Knight King, though: the paytable barely matters. Five dragons, the best line win in the game, return 7.5x the stake, and the real money arrives through a randomly chosen symbol that collects cash values instead.
Pragmatic Play built it on a 5×4 grid with 20 paylines at 96.05% RTP, and low volatility means that collecting symbol is doing gentle, frequent work rather than dramatic work. It’s a quieter beast than Gates of Olympus or The Dog House. Whether the court rewards a patient visit is the question.
Base Game & Features
Wins pay left to right across the 20 fixed paylines, starting from the leftmost reel, and only the highest combination on each line counts. Wins on multiple lines add together. It’s a conventional setup, and the 5×4 grid gives it a slightly roomier feel than the usual 5×3.
The cast splits into four themed characters – dragon, knight, woman and horse – above five royals running from Ace down to 10. All values are multiples of the total bet:
- Dragon: 1x for three, 3x for four, 7.5x for five
- Knight: 0.75x / 2.5x / 6x
- Woman: 0.5x / 1.75x / 5x
- Horse: 0.4x, then 1.25x, then 3.5x
- Ace: 0.25x / 1x / 2.5x
- King and Queen: both pay 0.25x, 0.75x and 1.75x
- Jack and 10: the bottom rung, at 0.15x, 0.5x and 1x
The wild is a horse shield that substitutes for everything except the scatter, and it’s the richest symbol on the grid. The scatter is a knight helmet, landing on reels one, three and five in the base game, and three of them pay 3x the total bet on top of triggering the feature.
- Wild (horse shield): 2x for three, 5x for four, 15x for five
- Scatter (knight helmet): 3x the total bet for three
Worth noticing here: five dragons, the best paying symbol, return 7.5x the stake, while the wild doubles that at 15x. A paytable led by its wild is unusual, and it’s the first clue that this game routes its real money through the Special Money mechanic rather than the lines.
The Special Money Symbol
The mechanic that shapes this game can fire on any spin. One of the paying symbols, or the wild, is picked at random and given a cash value, and if that symbol lands during the spin, every instance of it on screen pays its assigned value. The possible values:
- 0.5x the total bet
- 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x and 7x the total bet
- 15x the total bet
- 20x the total bet
A 20x wild landing three deep is the base game’s best moment, and it’s the reason a low volatility game can still produce a round worth talking about. The rest of the time it works as a steady drip of small collections that keep the balance moving.
The selection lasts for a single spin, so there’s no carrying value between spins and nothing to build on in the base game. Each trigger is its own event: the symbol is picked, the value is drawn, and either it lands or it doesn’t. The building happens only in free spins.
The Knight King Free Spins & Bonus Features
Three scatters award seven free spins. Before the round begins, one paying symbol or the wild is chosen as the Special Money symbol for the whole feature, and it starts at a random value drawn from its own set.
- Paying symbol selected: starts at 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x or 7x the bet
- Wild selected: starts at 11x, 12x, 13x, 14x, 15x, 16x, 18x or 20x the bet
Every time the chosen symbol lands, its value is collected and paid. Then it climbs: each collection adds another random amount from the same set, so the symbol gets more valuable as the round goes on. Special reels are in play during the feature, and the scatter moves to reels two and four, where two of them award four more free spins.
The selection matters more than it first appears. A wild pick starts no lower than 11x the bet, but a paying symbol pick can open as low as 1x, which means two otherwise identical rounds can begin worlds apart. Since the chosen symbol is also paying line wins as normal, a high-frequency royal pick collects little but collects often, while a dragon pick collects rarely and well.
The escalation is the whole point. A wild selection that starts at 16x can finish the round paying several times that, and a retrigger late in a climb is where the feature’s real potential sits. If the round’s total reaches the 5,000x cap, it ends immediately with the win awarded and remaining spins forfeited. The free spins win is added to the payline win and paid once the round completes.
Buy Free Spins
The feature can be bought from the base game for 80x the current total bet. The buy runs at 95.97% RTP, fractionally below the standard game’s 96.05%, and it triggers the same round with the same symbol selection and escalation rules. Stakes run from 0.20 to 240.00 per spin either way.
Buying doesn’t change the one gamble the round carries: which symbol gets picked. An 80x outlay can open on a 20x wild or a 1x Jack, and the starting draw does more for the outcome than the purchase price does. That makes the buy a fast-forward rather than an upgrade.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
Playing The Knight King feels like being paid a wage rather than chasing a fortune. Small collections arrive often, the balance barely dips, and the one reason to choose it over a dozen other Pragmatic titles is the free spins climb, where a symbol gets more expensive every time it lands.
That escalation is the game’s real strength, because it gives a low volatility slot a genuine late-round punch: a climbing wild with a retrigger can run well past what the paytable promises. The weakness is everything around it. Seven spins is a short round, most rounds end before the value gets interesting, and the 5,000x ceiling sits far beyond where this game’s rhythm ever takes you.
So it suits the long-session crowd: steady players who like watching a number creep upward more than they like sweating a bonus. Chase-the-max hunters will find it polite. For everyone after a calm evening in a well-drawn kingdom, the knight pays his way.
The Knight King FAQs
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How do you trigger free spins in The Knight King?
Land three scatter symbols (the knight helmet) on reels one, three and five in the base game. That awards seven free spins. -
What does the Special Money symbol do in The Knight King?
At random on any spin, one paying symbol or the wild is assigned a cash value of between 0.5x and 20x the total bet. If it lands, every instance on screen pays that value. During free spins the value increases every time it collects. -
Can you retrigger the free spins in The Knight King?
Yes. Landing two scatter symbols during the round, on reels two and four, awards four additional free spins. -
Which symbol is the best to get in The Knight King’s free spins?
The wild, which can’t start below 11x the bet and opens as high as 20x. A paying symbol pick starts somewhere between 1x and 7x instead, so the draw at the start of the round shapes how much it can climb to. -
Can you buy the bonus on The Knight King?
Yes, for 80x your current stake. The buy option runs at 95.97% RTP and starts the same round with the same rules. -
What is the RTP of The Knight King?
The RTP is 96.05%, dropping slightly to 95.97% when playing through the bonus buy. -
Is The Knight King high volatility?
No. It’s a low volatility game, which means payouts tend to come more often but in smaller amounts. -
What is the maximum win on The Knight King?
The maximum win is capped at 5,000x the bet. If a free spins round reaches that amount, the round ends immediately and any remaining spins are forfeited. -
What does the wild do in The Knight King?
The wild is a horse shield that substitutes for all symbols except the scatter. It’s also the game’s richest symbol, paying up to 15x the total bet for five of a kind. -
What are the bet limits in The Knight King?
Stakes run from 0.20 to 240.00 per spin, on a 5×4 grid with 20 fixed paylines.
