Vault of Anubis Slot Review
Two colossal jackal-headed guardians flank the reels, staffs in hand, their red-brown stone bodies lit orange by fires burning in the pit below. The tomb they’re watching over is built on one conviction: that the biggest wins should be assembled on the board, cluster by cluster, rather than handed over by a bonus round. The 42-position grid, the oversized symbols and the random wilds all serve that single idea, and it’s what separates this from the crowd of Egyptian slots that use the theme as paint.
The game runs on a 7×6 grid with cluster pays, a 95.74% RTP, and a maximum win of 5,469x the stake, with bets from 0.10 to 50 per spin. Red Tiger know this territory well, with Egypt Clusterbuster and Egypt Megaways also in the catalogue. Whether the cluster engine justifies another trip to the tombs is the question.
How Vault of Anubis Pays
There are no paylines here. A symbol counts as part of a cluster when it lands horizontally or vertically adjacent to a matching symbol, and five or more identical symbols in a cluster award a win. Diagonal contact doesn’t count, which is standard for cluster engines but easy to forget when you first read the board.
Winning clusters then disappear, letting the symbols above fall into place, so a single spin can chain several wins together. It’s a cascade setup, and the falling symbols are what make the long clusters possible. Each new fall is another chance to extend a cluster past the size it started at.
The wild substitutes for all paying symbols, which matters more than usual on a cluster grid. One wild can bridge two halves of a near-miss, turning a four-symbol dead end into a paying cluster. Hit frequency sits at 36%.
Nine symbols pay by cluster size, from the Anubis Head at the top down to the Golden Disk:
- Anubis Head: 2x at 5+, 4x at 7+, 8x at 9+, 15x at 12+, 30x at 15+, 90x at 20+, 300x at 25+, 750x at 30+
- Eye: 0.6x at 5+, 1.5x at 7+, 3.5x at 9+, 9x at 12+, 25x at 15+, 65x at 20+, 150x at 25+, 350x at 30+
- Crossed Arrows: 0.5x at 5+, 1.3x at 7+, 3x at 9+, 7.5x at 12+, 20x at 15+, 50x at 20+, 125x at 25+, 300x at 30+
- Scarab: 0.4x at 5+, 1x at 7+, 2.5x at 9+, 6.3x at 12+, 15x at 15+, 37.5x at 20+, 90x at 25+, 225x at 30+
- Red Crest: 0.3x at 5+, 0.8x at 7+, 2x at 9+, 5x at 12+, 12.5x at 15+, 30x at 20+, 75x at 25+, 200x at 30+
- Green Winged Ankh: 0.2x at 5+, 0.6x at 7+, 1.6x at 9+, 4x at 12+, 10x at 15+, 25x at 20+, 62.5x at 25+, 150x at 30+
- Blue Diamond: 0.2x at 5+, 0.5x at 7+, 1.3x at 9+, 3.3x at 12+, 8x at 15+, 20x at 20+, 50x at 25+, 125x at 30+
- Purple Key: 0.1x at 5+, 0.4x at 7+, 1x at 9+, 2.5x at 12+, 6x at 15+, 15x at 20+, 37.5x at 25+, 90x at 30+
- Golden Disk: 0.1x at 5+, 0.3x at 7+, 0.7x at 9+, 1.8x at 12+, 4.5x at 15+, 10x at 20+, 25x at 25+, 60x at 30+
The four symbols at the top of that list are the high-payers, and they’re the only ones that appear as Super Symbols. The five below them are the low set, and they supply most of the small cascade wins that keep a session ticking over between the bigger clusters.
The gaps between tiers are steep. Anubis Head jumps from 30x at fifteen symbols to 90x at twenty and 300x at twenty-five, so cluster size matters far more than which spin produced it. The middle tiers earn their keep too: nine or more Anubis Heads already pays eight times the bet, a figure the low set needs more than thirty symbols to approach.
That’s the whole economic argument for the game’s features: everything on the reels exists to build bigger clusters. The 7×6 grid holds 42 positions, which is what makes the 30+ top tier a real target rather than a decorative number.
Super Symbols
Every high-paying symbol has 2×2 and 3×3 Super Symbol variations that can appear on the reels. More than one Super Symbol can land on the same spin, and each can be a different high-paying symbol type. A 3×3 Anubis Head next to a 2×2 Eye is a legitimate board state.
On a cluster grid this is a big deal. A single 3×3 block is nine matching symbols before anything else lands, which puts a spin two symbols away from a pay tier that normally needs a lucky cascade to reach. The 30+ top tiers exist because Super Symbols make them reachable.
Only the high-payers get these variations. The low set never appears oversized, so the big blocks are always working towards the steep end of the paytable rather than the flat one.
Generous Gods
The two Anubis statues standing either side of the grid aren’t decoration. They can activate at random during play to award multiple wild symbols onto the reels, and when both wake up at once the board can fill with wilds in short order.
Wilds substitute for all paying symbols, so a random shower of them turns every near-cluster on the board into a live one. Combined with the cascade, one activation can pay several times before the board settles.
There’s no pattern to it and no meter filling towards a trigger. The statues fire or they don’t, and a spin that looked dead can turn into the best one of a session the moment they do.
Vault Spins
Vault Spins is the round the game is named after. When it arrives, the Vault Spins banner appears on-screen with symbols falling onto the grid and wins running up while it’s live, in the same cascade style as the base game but concentrated into a sequence.
How the round triggers isn’t stated, so there’s nothing to report on that count. What’s clear is that the falling-symbol action is where the biggest results live, given the ceiling on offer. The base game’s features all point the same way, building clusters that a sustained run of falls can push up the paytable.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7/10
This is a slow burn punctuated by sudden noise. Most spins are small clusters of low symbols trickling away, and then the statues wake up or a 3×3 block lands and the whole board changes shape in a second. That contrast, the quiet tomb waiting for its guardians to stir, is the reason to pick this over prettier Egyptian clones.
Its strength is that every route to a big win runs through the same logic. Oversized symbols, random wilds and cascading falls all build clusters, so nothing here feels bolted on. Its weakness is the low set: five of the nine symbols pay crumbs at the sizes you actually see, which makes the gaps between highlights long.
It’s for players who enjoy watching a board develop and don’t need a bonus round every few minutes. Anyone chasing rapid features and constant noise will find the tombs too quiet. For the patient, Anubis guards a game worth the wait.
Vault of Anubis FAQs
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What is the RTP of Vault of Anubis?
The RTP is 95.74%. -
How do you win in Vault of Anubis?
Five or more identical symbols appearing in a horizontally or vertically connected cluster award a win. Winning clusters disappear and the symbols above fall into place, giving the chance of further wins on the same spin. -
What are Super Symbols in Vault of Anubis?
All high-paying symbols have 2×2 and 3×3 Super Symbol variations. Multiple Super Symbols can appear on the same spin, and each can be from any high-paying symbol type. -
What does the Generous Gods feature do?
The Anubis statues on each side of the slot can randomly activate to award multiple wild symbols on the reels. Wilds substitute for all paying symbols. -
What is the maximum win on Vault of Anubis?
The maximum win is 5,469x your bet. -
What is the grid size of Vault of Anubis?
The game plays on a 7×6 grid using cluster pays rather than paylines. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on Vault of Anubis?
Bets run from 0.10 to 50 per spin. -
What is the hit frequency of Vault of Anubis?
The hit frequency is 36%, meaning just over a third of spins produce a winning cluster.
