Anubis Rising

Anubis Rising: Slot Overview

Anubis Rising is an Egyptian-themed online slot from a developer that has shown a lot of love for this part of the world for a while now, Blueprint Gaming. The God Anubis played many important roles in Ancient Egyptian belief, from… Look at us, trying to school online gamblers on one of the most enduring topics in the betting biz. Nah, with the frequency Ancient Egypt appears in slots, you don't need us to tell you about Anubis being the guide to the underworld, amongst other things. Instead, let's torch up and join Blueprint Gaming as it explores the distant past again and see how the mix of expanding wilds and the upgradable free spins round fares.

For a comparison, Anubis Rising stands in stark contrast to Hacksaw Gaming's more modernised yet similarly themed slot, Hand of Anubis. Where Hacksaw Gaming's slot bordered on horror show, Anubis Rising is a much simpler, somewhat old-school game of the kind Blueprint Gaming likes to turn out, sharing vibes with the Eye of Horus range. A bit basic, some might say boring, though clean and clear looking. The same goes for the soundtrack, which has a classic Egyptian slot rhythm going on. Nothing amazing, nothing bad, it does the trick, just.

Anubis Rising is played on a 5-reel grid matrix, dropping 3 rows of symbols onto each reel and creating wins along its 10 paylines. Winning combinations must start from the leftmost reel and land over adjacent reels. Like the theme treatment, the RTP is an okay, not great, 95% figure, while the math model has been wound up to a highly volatile setting. Gamblers may stake 10 c to $/€50 per spin, and there is neither ante bet nor feature buy included with the game.

Fancily designed J-A card ranks are Anubis Rising's low pays, while its high pays are stylised representations of a lotus, an Ankh, a scarab, Isis, Anubis/jackal, and the Eye of Horus - a little Easter Egg there, perhaps. Hitting a line of 5 low pays awards 10 times the stake, whereas a full line of matching premiums pays 20 to 50 times the bet. Wilds you'll want to see a lot of. The reason why is that when a wild symbol hits (they appear on reels 2, 3, and 4), they expand to cover the full reel if a winning combination is possible. Wilds substitute for any regular pay symbol.

Anubis Rising: Slot Features

Here's hoping the expanding wild feature is good for a few laughs because that is all of the extras you'll find in Anubis Rising's base game. Once free spins trigger, though, get ready for the potential upgrading to occur.

Pick A Bonus

Hitting 3, 4, or 5 scatters in the base game awards 12 free spins plus a payout of 2x, 20x, or 50x the bet, respectively. Before free spins begin, a Pick a Bonus feature plays out first, where up to 5 upgrades can be added to the round. Players continue to pick until 'Start Free Games' appears. It is possible to have anywhere from 5 to 0 upgrades active. The possible upgrades include:

• Tablet Boost – upgrades the lowest value symbol in the order shown on the meter above the grid to the next one along. This can be revealed more than once.
• Super Wilds – all wilds are converted to Super Wilds. When 1, 2, or 3 Super Wilds hit, players get an extra 2, 6, or 10 free spins, respectively.
• Extra Wilds – extra wilds are added to the reels for the free spins round.
• Gold Anubis Wild – these wilds apply multipliers of x2, x3, x4, x5, or x10 to any wins it helps create. If more than one Gold Anubis is part of a win, their multipliers are added.
• Pyramid – awards 2 to 5 extra free spins.

Free Spins

As well as possibly getting the upgrades already mentioned, when a wild symbol lands on the reels in free spins, it upgrades the symbols on the meter above the grid. Upgraded symbols stay like that for the duration of the feature. In addition, players get +1, +3, or +5 extra free spins for hitting 1, 2, or 3 wilds.

Anubis Rising: Slot Verdict

Blueprint Gaming has stuck pretty closely to what it knows for Anubis Rising. This is a slot that echoes a number of games the studio has released in the past, from the Eye of Horus range with the expanding wilds and symbol upgrade dimension to the pre-feature upgrade picks such as, gosh, which one to choose? How about Crabbin' For Cash Megaways, which comes with a similar Pick A Crustacean phase? Such is Blueprint Gaming's way of grafting together bits and bobs from all over the place to create a 'new' release.

Quotations were used there since Anubis Rising is hardly a 'new' game in many respects. It looks old, delivers samey-samey features, and does nothing clever to stand out from an innovation point of view. However, while innovation junkies might be excluded, therein lies the possible appeal for some gamblers, perhaps, those who like to go into a slot with a solid idea of what to expect. In Anubis Rising's case, that means a pretty dull base game but a free spins bonus, which might turn out to be quite neat, depending in part on how many upgrades you can nab at the start of the feature and how much symbol upgrading you can manage when it's in action. Anubis Rising's features are such that should it play ball, the upgrading, expanding, and multiplier concoction has the power to turn out pretty swell results.

Not massively chonky results, by Blueprint Gaming standards, as the win cap given in the paytable is 5,000x the bet. That's nothing to complain about, though, and it's a pretty sweet target to shoot for if you're an Ancient Egyptian enthusiast who digs Blueprint Gaming's particular retro approach to making them.