Wild Anubis

Wild Anubis Slot Review

Golden pillars climb either side of the screen, their carved rings and palm-leaf capitals catching a warm amber light, while fine glitter drifts through the haze above the reels like dust in a sunbeam. Amatic have made the boldest thing about Wild Anubis its generosity: two full Wild reels on every single Bonus spin, not as a rarity to be earned but as the round’s floor.

This is a 5×4, 25-payline slot running at 97.03% RTP, comfortably above the norm for a classic-styled line game. It shares shelf space with the studio’s Book of Montezuma and Relic Riches, and sits a long way from the loud end of the catalogue occupied by titles like Hot Fruits 5. The richest number on the board is a 5,000x scatter pay for five pyramids, and it doesn’t need a payline to land.

Symbols and Paylines

Wins pay left to right across adjacent reels on 25 fixed lines, with only the highest combination on each line counting. It’s a traditional setup, and the game doesn’t complicate it. The Wild substitutes for every symbol except the Bonus pyramid.

The paytable is expressed as multiples of the line bet, and it steps like this:

• Cleopatra – 5 for two, 50 for three, 250 for four, 1,000 for five
• Snake – 40 for three, 200 for four, 400 for five
• Ring – 25 for three, 100 for four, 200 for five
• Eye / Ankh – 20 for three, 50 for four, 100 for five
• A / K – 5 for three, 40 for four, 75 for five
• Q / J – 5 for three, 25 for four, 50 for five

Cleopatra is the only symbol that pays for a two-of-a-kind start, which tells you where the money in the base game concentrates. The Eye and the Ankh share a pay tier, as do the Ace and King, so six symbol groups cover the whole board.

The gap between tiers is steep rather than gradual. Cleopatra’s five-of-a-kind pays 1,000x the line bet, while the Queen and Jack manage 50x for the same run. That means the middle tiers carry most of the day-to-day work: the Snake’s 400x ceiling and the Ring’s 200x are the numbers that decide whether a session drifts or holds.

Bonus Pyramid Pays

The Bonus symbol is a pyramid icon, and it behaves as a scatter: it counts from any position, and the Wild can’t stand in for it. It carries its own pays on top of the spins it awards.

• 3 Bonus pyramids – 50x plus 5 Bonus Spins
• 4 Bonus pyramids – 500x plus 10 Bonus Spins
• 5 Bonus pyramids – 5,000x plus 20 Bonus Spins

That 5,000x scatter pay for a full set of five is the single richest number in the game, and unlike the line pays it doesn’t need a left-to-right run to count. It just needs five pyramids anywhere on the grid.

The step from three to four is the sharpest in the game. Four pyramids pay ten times what three do, so each extra pyramid in a cluster roughly carries the value of a premium five-of-a-kind line win on its own.

In ordinary play, wins land on a handful of lines at a time and the base game settles into a steady rhythm of small line hits punctuated by the occasional Cleopatra combination. The Bonus pyramids appear among the reels with a pays-plus-spins payload attached whenever three or more arrive.

Bonus Spins and Wild Reels

Bonus Spins

Landing 3, 4 or 5 Bonus symbols anywhere on the grid awards 5, 10 or 20 Bonus Spins respectively, alongside the scatter pays listed above. The round plays out on the same reels and the same 25 lines, so the only things that change are the ones described below.

Random Wild Reels

This is the engine of the whole round. On every Bonus Spins spin, two randomly selected reels turn entirely Wild. No choice, no collection, no build-up – just two full Wild reels landing somewhere on the grid each and every spin.

Two Wild reels out of five means the middle reels are often covered, and adjacent-reel wins pay left to right, so the geometry favours runs through the centre. With Cleopatra worth 1,000x for five, a Wild pair plus a couple of premium symbols is where the round’s real money sits.

It’s a flat structure, not a ladder. The first spin of the round is exactly as Wild as the last, so there’s no escalation to wait for and nothing to lose by a round ending early. What varies is only which two reels get covered, and where the paying symbols sit around them.

Retriggers

During the Bonus, 3 Bonus symbols award 3 additional spins, and the retrigger count is unlimited. There’s no cap on how long a round can run if the pyramids keep landing, which matters more than it sounds in a round where two reels go Wild on every spin.

The retrigger adds the spins rather than a fresh scatter payout, so its value is entirely in the extra Wild-reel spins it buys. Given that each of those spins carries the round’s full firepower, three more of them is a meaningful add rather than a token one.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.7/10

You come to Wild Anubis for one thing, and it’s the Bonus round. Until the pyramids arrive, this is a well-kept but ordinary 25-line game: steady small line wins, an attractive 97.03% RTP, and a lot of waiting between highlights.

The strength is that the round doesn’t ration its best idea. Two full Wild reels on every spin, unlimited retriggers, and a flat structure mean the round is at full power from the first spin to whatever the last one turns out to be. The weakness is everything around it: there is no second feature, no modifier, nothing between Bonus rounds but the paytable itself.

It suits players who like Amatic’s plain-spoken builds and value a Bonus round that pays out its Wilds on arrival rather than promising them eventually. Anyone who wants layered features or escalating mechanics will find the pillars here hold up a fairly bare hall. For everyone else, the gold on the walls is real, and so is the generosity behind it.

Wild Anubis FAQs

• What is the RTP of Wild Anubis?

  Wild Anubis runs at 97.03% RTP, which is comfortably above the average for a classic 25-payline slot.
• How do you trigger Bonus Spins in Wild Anubis?

  Landing 3, 4 or 5 Bonus pyramid symbols anywhere on the grid awards 5, 10 or 20 Bonus Spins respectively. The Bonus symbol acts as a scatter, so it doesn’t need to land on a payline or run left to right.
• What do the Random Wild Reels do during the bonus?

  During Bonus Spins, two randomly selected reels turn entirely Wild on every single spin. This applies to all spins in the round, not just selected ones.
• Can the Bonus Spins round retrigger?

  Yes. During the Bonus, 3 Bonus symbols award 3 additional spins, and there’s no limit to how many times the round can retrigger.
• What does the Wild symbol substitute for in Wild Anubis?

  The Wild stands in for every symbol except the Bonus pyramid, which can’t be replaced and always counts on its own when it lands.
• What is the highest-paying symbol in Wild Anubis?

  Cleopatra is the top-paying symbol, worth 1,000x the line bet for five of a kind. She’s also the only symbol that pays for a two-of-a-kind combination. The richest single prize in the game is the 5,000x scatter pay for five Bonus pyramids.
• Do symbols share pay values in Wild Anubis?

  Yes. The Eye and the Ankh pay the same at every tier, as do A and K, and Q and J. That leaves six symbol groups across the whole paytable.
• How many paylines does Wild Anubis have?

  Wild Anubis has 25 fixed paylines, with line wins paying left to right on adjacent reels.
• What is the grid size of Wild Anubis?

  Wild Anubis plays on a 5×4 grid – five reels and four rows – across its 25 paylines.
• Who makes Wild Anubis?

  Wild Anubis is made by Amatic, the Austrian studio behind titles including Book of Montezuma and Relic Riches. Its release date is 3 March 2022.