Towering Pays™ Excalibur slot features minimum 5 reels and 15 paylines that is calling upon the legend of King Arthur, and the powerful Excalibur. This slot was created as a joint effort between Games Lab and Yggdrasil, and it is inviting anyone who thinks is worth to come to Camelot and try to pull the sword from the stone. You should be able to find the path to Camelot here for fun or at any Yggdrasil Gaming Casino for real.
How to Play Towering Pays™ Excalibur Slot
Set your bets and let’s see if you can wield the mighty Excalibur.
- Coin Stack button will let you set the bets.
- Spin will get the reels spinning after you choose your bets.
- Autoplay will let you choose the number of automatic spins.
- Quest Bet will trigger the Hold & Spin feature.
- Buy Bonus will let you buy your way into the bonus round for x50 or x80 the bet.
Slot Features
The game comes with a Wild symbol that is King Arthur, and it is able to substitute for all the other symbols in the game to help form win combos. The only symbols that the Wild cannot substitute is the Excalibur, the Shield and the Feature Wheel. In addition to this, the game has a plethora of other features to offer.
Excalibur Magic & Stages
Excalibur can appear on reels 1 through 3 during the base game, Lancelot and Merlin Spins, and on reels 1 through 4 in Arthur and Camelot features, or on all reals in Camelot 5x8 grid size feature. Once Excalibur lands, it will transform into a random symbol of the same kind in order to cover a part or entire reel.
Whenever Excalibur appears in at least one position on each reel that has Excalibur, you will progress to the next stage. Each stage will add 1 row and extra paylines to current grid, and progression will continue until you reach 5x8 grid size. Stages are reset at the end of the Avalon feature.
Avalon
The feature gets triggered when Excalibur appears in at least one position on each of the reel in both 5x8 grid and base game. This is a multi-level Wheel feature where you can win one of the Free Spins rounds, Hold&Spin feature if you’re playing with the Quest Bet, Wheel upgrades or Win spins.
Prize Multipliers
Prize multipliers can happen on any winning spin, and they can be x2, x3, x4, x7 or x10. The multiplier size will be directly proportional to the grid sizes which can be 5x3, 5x4, 5x5, 5x6, 5x7 or 5x8, respectively. Multipliers will apply to the wins from the current spin.
Feature Wheel
When you land Feature Wheel symbol on reels 1, 3 and 5, you will trigger the feature. Starting with the first Wheel, you can win a better Wheel, Lancelot Spins, Win Spins or Hold&Spin if playing at Quest Bet. Second Wheel can also award better Wheel, Wins Spins or Hold&Spin with a difference of awarding Merlin Spins instead of Lancelot. Same applies to the Third Wheel only the spins in play are Arthur Spins, and in the Fourth Wheel you’re left with the Camelot spins.
Win Spins
On each Win Spin, Excalibur will cover the reels 1, 2 and 3, while the reels 4 and 5 will spin. This is going to activate the Excalibur Magic to award guaranteed win per spin.
Free Spins
Free Spins will get awarded after any Excalibur Magic, and you will get awarded with 6 spins. There are 4 different Free Spins options, and they all start at 5x3 grid, and you can win an extra spin each time the Excalibur appears in at least one position.
During Lancelot Free Spins a prize multiplier can occur on any win, but is not guaranteed. In Merlin Spins the multiplier is guaranteed for any win. In Arthur Spins a multiplier can occur on any win but Excalibur can land on reels 1 through 4. And last, but not least are the Camelot Spins where the multiplier can occur on any win, where Excalibur can land on reels 1 through 4, but can happen on all reels if you’re playing 5x8 grid.
Hold & Spin
The feature is triggered when you get 6 or more Shields to appear anywhere from Excalibur Magic, or from the Feature Wheel if you are playing the Quest Bet. Once the round is triggered, you will be awarded with 3 respins with Shields stuck in their triggering positions, and only Shield symbols available in the round.
Triggering more than 6 Shields from Excalibur Magic will increase the respin grid by 1 row for every Shield over the minimum, and will go up to max of 5x8 grid. All additional rows will start with no Shields in place. If new Shields appear during the feature, they will be held and respins will get reset back to 3. Once the round ends, you will be awarded with the combined values displayed on the held Shield symbols, and if you manage to fill the entire grid, you will get awarded x1000 the bet.
Summary
Towering Pays™ Excalibur is packed with features, but the overall gameplay is somewhat convoluted. What we are not particularly fond of in this game, is the fact that even though there truly is a huge number of features added, they essentially all do the same thing and are quite similar, especially if you consider the Free Spins feature. You will get some sense of progression here and there, but reading the features and playing them, are two very different thing, and unfortunately, Towering Pays Excalibur sound way better on paper. Nevertheless, give it a twirl or two, and let us know what you think
