Knight’s Life

Merkur Gaming built Knight's Life around a medieval castle setting, though the backdrop stays deliberately blurred behind a standard 5-reel, 3-row grid with 5 fixed paylines. Stakes run from 0.05 to 10 per spin, and the presentation leans toward the simpler end of the studio's catalogue rather than an elaborate theme.

The low pays are the standard J, Q, K, and A, rendered in green, orange, red, and purple respectively, followed by a sword hilt, a knight's helmet, a breastplate, and a castle icon as the mid-tier symbols. Three separate knight portraits sit at the top of the paytable, each paying up to 150x the bet for five of a kind. A wizard acts as the wild, substituting for everything except the scatter and doubling any payout it helps complete — five wizards on a line pays 1,000x the stake. The scatter is a noble steed that pays from any position on the grid, with five landing worth 500x the bet.

Three, four, or five steeds trigger 10, 15, or 30 free spins, and every two or more that land during the bonus itself add an extra spin. Payouts double across spins six through ten, then triple from spin eleven onward. The three knight portraits also turn into wilds one at a time as the round progresses, with an indicator above each reel showing which knight is currently substituting.

Knight's Life runs at 95.84% RTP with high volatility and a maximum win of 2,000x the stake per spin, giving the free spins round — where wilds stack with the escalating multipliers — most of the game's real win potential.