Sanctuary

Big Time Gaming set Sanctuary against a fiery, red-toned stretch of ancient Egyptian desert, backed by a rock-inflected soundtrack, and reserved its biggest visual swing for the free spins round, where the action lifts into orbit and as many as four game grids spin simultaneously above the planet below.

The base game plays out on 6 reels and 4 rows for 4,096 ways to win. Ten pay symbols cover the paytable, topped by a skull-faced pharaoh that pays from just two matching symbols rather than the usual three; an Anubis-style figure, a scarab, and an eye fill out the rest of the high end, while the 9-through-A card ranks make up the low pays. Six-of-a-kind wins run 0.5 to 1.2 times the stake for the cards and 1.5 to 15 times for the top symbols.

Several wild types appear through play, and all of them stand in for any regular symbol. Full reel wilds land across the four middle reels in gold or purple, and every purple wild included in a winning combination multiplies that win by 8x; neither wild type shows up once free spins begin.

Three, four, five or six scatters award seven free spins across one, two, three or four grids respectively, and before the round starts players can gamble on a segmented wheel for extra grids, with a losing spin ending that gamble and simply starting the round as is. Inside the feature, an Ankh symbol landing on reels two through five drops a sticky wild into that position on every active grid, and four sticky wilds gathered on one reel merge into a full-reel wild worth 4x while adding three extra spins, with as many as twelve bonus spins obtainable this way.

A separate Win Exchange option lets players trade a win of 80 times the stake or more for seven free spins outright, or gamble any win between 25x and 80x on a wheel for the same prize.

Sanctuary carries very high volatility and a 96.38% RTP on standard spins, rising fractionally to 96.39% when free spins are bought outright for 80 times the bet. Stakes run from 0.10 to 180 per spin, and the maximum win is capped at 44,070 times the stake, a ceiling that depends heavily on how many of the game's four possible grids get involved in a single round.