King Arthur

There are quite a number of games based on King Arthur, so I couldn't imagine how this version would play and pay, until I tried it out for the first time. It isn't a Microgaming game, but is listed in its list of games, so it's one more of other provider's game within MG's directory of games. But that's not the important thing, as I found out. Upon opening up the game, I instantly recognised the similarities between this King Arthur and House Of Dragons games. Both are identical, having the same paytable, except that the Bonus game plays differently, as expected of course. As for the quality and graphics of the game, both are the same too - acceptable but not nice enough to contemporary standards.

King Arthur is the main Wild symbol, paying 10,000x the line bet for getting 5 of him, and Merlin is the second Wild symbol, paying 5000x the line bet. King Arthur doubles all wins with it, Merlin doesn't. Both substitutes for other symbols except for the other Wild symbol, the Scatter symbol and the Bonus symbol. Excalibur is the Scatter symbol, the sword embedded in the stone, and pays from 2 up to 800 credits for getting 3, 4 or 5 of them. Once again, as in House Of Dragons, there aren't any free spins to be won. Camelot, the Castle, is the Bonus symbol, pays 1600x the line bet for getting 5 of them, and getting 3 or more of the Bonus symbols trigger the Camelot game. The other symbols pay from 300x to 50x the line bet for getting 5 of each kind. Similarly as with House Of Dragon paytable, it's an average one during most of the gameplay.

The Camelot Bonus game plays differently. King Arthur has to choose a path to get into Camelot to win multipliers for the won amount. The first 2 crossroads can be chosen, but from thereon, the path taken by King Arthur is randomly selected, meaning, the outcome of the game is predetermined. And once again too, never be greedy when you have won 2 or 3 times of the multipliers, because the final path will definitely lead to the no-win door!

What I dislike about this King Arthur game are exactly as what I don't like with House Of Dragons game - no Free Spins game and the not-so-good Bonus game, which would eventually pay you nothing if you keep on trying. Generally, all payouts are on the low side, so this is one more game of 'in-it-then-out-of-it for good!

The “King Arthur” slot or as the game says “Sir WinALot” is a game from Ash Gaming casinos. There is here in Ash Gaming a slot that was long time number 1 on my preferences list namely Adventures in Wonderland, and therefore the Ash Gaming games have almost always received from me high marks and good appreciations.

The King Arthur slot is a slot where in my opinion one can lose as easily as one can win enough. It is indeed one of those slots where if you play for real money you can win significantly. But because I am a greedy player I would not adventure like this. I played here in 3 series and although there were times when I was winning consistently, I did not know when to stop and I lost always. But what was good is that every time I lost around about 30 Euro after I had played more than 200 Euros, so the slot was not very stingy (the RTP I got was 85%).

About the game itself, here the story is of course the one of Camelot and Arthur and even if the slot has only 20 paylines, its story recommends the game. Merlin is Wild, the sword stuck in the rock offers an additional multiplier and the Camelot city triggers a bonus, when equally easy you can win 4 times the original amount (8 Euros) or you may lose everything if you are not careful. It even exists in the paytable a payout for the cases when you have no wins on reels, but I was under the impression that these payouts were missing in my game play here.

The peculiarity of the slot is that here the bet is somewhat bigger of 1 Euro/spin and because of this if you are not careful when you have won and you want to win extra in a few other dozens spins you lose everything. The slot is well made, somehow the graphics is full of flourishes in the good medieval English style and when you lose you are not sorry that you have played here.

What bothered me most was when I initially won 8 euro for the bonus game and then in only two attempts I have lost them all and went out from the bonus with no win. The bet of 1 Euro/spin is too big and if you are not lucky in less than 200 spins you lose 30-50 Euro.

I really like to play with games where the history and magic is very hard to divide from each other and fortunately the most of that slots have fitting, rich graphics like here at King Arthur. Who wouldn’t have heard about the famous legend of Camelot, King Arthur, magical sword? This slot grabbed this theme to provide us a very decent interpretation. It has a nice, colourful look with lot beautiful decorations on a well-designed screen. Of course the symbol we can see and play with here are the well-known characters from story like King Arthur, Merlin, golden goblet, Excalibur or Camelot and in my opinion this is the minimal interface that a modern slot should has at least.

No one else than King can fill that position to have the ability to give out the best prize of the base game with a correct 10.000 times of line bet and also acts as the game’s one of the Wild and it can double all wins that completed with it. The other substitute symbol is Merlin but his magic doesn’t have the power to add anything else to the win than the replace function. Here the Scatter has a very important role and really can surprise player in extremely lucky situation if three or more such figures appear on the reels. The symbol illustrate the Excalibur in the stone and after they become visible each symbol has an automatically attempt to pull the sword out of the stone. Every success try gives a higher return and the final result is multiplied by total bet. If 5 of them would arrive on the table and all 5 would be pulled out 800 times of total bet would be instantly credited.

Camelot Bonus is triggered with 3 or more Camelot symbol where on the secondary screen we have to find the best possible winning path to Camelot. There are 8 entries to the castle and each of them containing a visible multiplier value but they’re always changing. Walking on the path we arrive at routers and have to decide which way will be the next direction, left or right. This little ‘choose the right path’ type side game can be played several times one after the other until available credits are displayed but anytime when the player wants it can be closed and the won amount collected. I don’t really like this extra session because once it’s not too high rewarding and secondly very often occurred when the path led me to the entrance with zero multiplier and it wasn’t an entertaining experience.

The prominent missing element at this game is the Free Spin feature. Its lack is a very wrong game decision and in my opinion it influences the whole judgment of the slot. Based on my history with the slot it still a good paying product and the normal game winning are frequently and unlike the other games with the same quality the winnings here sometimes is very acceptable mainly thanks to Wilds and the possible x2 multiplier. But not having free games for me is a closing out reason to rate this slot very good and so it remains in the middle cast with the label average game.