Anubis Rising Slot by Blueprint Gaming

The splash spells out the rules before you ever spin. Three scatter pyramids award 12 free games, wilds award extra free games on top, and a Pick A Bonus screen runs before any free games begin. That last bit is the hook here: when scatters land, you choose your own bonus from a menu that includes Wilds, Super Wild, Cash Prizes and Free Games variants, with a row of Upgrade icons below hinting that picks can be enhanced before they resolve. Player agency in the bonus is rare for Blueprint, and it changes how scatters feel in the base game.

The base reels sit inside a gold-framed cabinet against a sandstone tomb wall, torchlight flickering at the edges. Royals are the usual 10/J/Q/K/A but rendered as carved tablets, and the premium symbols pull from the standard Egyptian kit: a red pyramid, the eye of Horus, an ankh in green and gold, a papyrus fan, and a scarab.

What actually drives the math is the trio of expanding wilds. Anubis, Pharaoh One and Pharaoh Two each land as a tall single icon and stretch to cover the full three rows of whichever reel they hit. Three different wild graphics on a 10-line cabinet is unusual, and on a five-reel grid those reel-tall wilds are how lines stack into anything meaningful, since 10 fixed paylines don't generate the kind of volume cluster grids do.

The free games round is where the variance lives. The splash promise reads "Wilds upgrade symbols on tablets in free games," which means landing a wild during the bonus converts the tablet symbols on its reel into matching premiums, plus each wild that lands extends the spin count. Combine reel-wide wilds with symbol upgrades and a retrigger mechanic and you get the high-volatility ceiling Blueprint built this around.

The Pick A Bonus menu is the real differentiator from the Jackpot King sister title, which layers a progressive on top of the same engine. If you don't want the jackpot tax on RTP, this is the version to play.