Anubis' Moon Slot Review

Anubis' Moon is an Egyptian night-temple slot built around one idea: the scarab scatters stick, and as long as more keep landing, the reels keep respinning. No wilds, no free spins round, no bonus buy. Just 20 fixed paylines and a scatter that either shows up in threes or doesn't show up at all.

Evoplay put the whole payout ceiling into that one symbol. Three scarabs pay 2x the bet, which is nothing, but the scale runs all the way to 5,000x if all twenty positions on the 5x4 grid end up holding one. That is the 5,008x max win, and it needs a perfect board.

Everything else is ordinary. Three goddess portraits top out at 50x and 25x for five of a kind, the stone tablets pay 10x, and the 96% RTP with a stated 10% hit rate means most spins do nothing at all.

Two enormous gold Anubis jackals sit on either side of the reels, ears tipped in green enamel, turquoise-and-gold collars around their necks, and they are the best thing on the board. Behind them is a sandstone temple facade with lotus-carved columns and a triangular frieze, opening onto a deep blue night sky with a faint mountain silhouette and drifting sparks. The reel area itself is almost black-blue, framed by a mosaic border of gold, teal and green tiles.

Symbol work splits sharply. The three goddesses are painted portraits on coloured backing tiles (red, purple, green) and look genuinely nice. The low pays are brown clay slabs scratched with a snake, a bull's head, an ibis and a seated jackal in glowing red, green, blue and yellow outlines, and they carry most of the screen most of the time, which makes the board look dull and repetitive between features. The scarab scatter breaks that up properly: a fat red-and-gold beetle with spread wings on a crimson plaque, easily the loudest thing on the reels.

The Egyptian art direction is warm and hand-painted rather than the cold CGI most of these slots get. Just don't expect any of it to move much.

Sessions here are flat, then briefly not flat. With roughly one in ten spins returning anything and no wild to rescue near-misses, long stretches pass with nothing but clay tablets rearranging themselves. The goddesses land often enough to keep the balance ticking down slowly rather than falling off a cliff, so the medium-high volatility reads more like a slow bleed than violent swings.

Then two scarabs appear and the whole thing wakes up. The tension in Anubis' Moon is not the trigger itself, it's the respin loop afterward, where every single spin is a yes-or-no question and one blank ends the run. That is a good hook, honestly, and Evoplay were smart to make the payout scale so steep that even a fourth or fifth scarab feels like progress toward something.

The problem is what happens either side of it. A respin that dies at four scarabs pays 3x the bet, which after fifty dead spins to get there can feel like being handed change. And because the feature is the only event in the game, dry spells have nothing to distract from them. For my money it plays best in short bursts rather than long grinding sessions.

Anubis' Moon does one thing and does it competently. The sticky scarab respin is a clean, readable mechanic with a genuinely steep payout curve, and the Anubis-flanked temple art is above the standard for a 2021 Egyptian release. Evoplay clearly knew the feature was the whole product.

What holds it back is everything around that feature. Stripping out wilds and free spins left the base game with nothing to do between triggers, and at a 10% hit rate that emptiness gets noticed fast. The 96% RTP is standard and the max win is theoretically large, but the realistic outcome of most respin runs sits in single-digit multiples of the bet.

It works as a straightforward scatter-chase for someone who wants a slot without a manual. Anyone looking for layered features, cascading wins or a bonus round with its own rules should keep walking.