Ankh of Anubis Demo & review

Ankh of Anubis turns its free spins into a collection game: every Ankh that lands goes onto a meter, and the fifth brings Anubis in to add wilds to the reels. This is Play'n GO's 2019 original on 576 ways, not the later Ankh of Anubis Awakening, and it has no buy. Bonus chasers who are happy to wait for three pyramids will get more from it than players who want the base game to keep them busy.

The 576-ways board before our first spin. FluxPlays demo test, 2 November 2026.

How Ankh of Anubis works

The reels are three, four, four, four and three symbols tall, and multiplying those heights gives the 576 ways. A way pays when matching symbols sit on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost one, only the best combination per symbol counts, and wins on different ways are added together.

Anubis is the wild and replaces any symbol but the pyramid scatter. The Ankh and the other Egyptian treasures are the high-paying symbols, and the royals A, K, Q and J fill the low end. So the Ankh has two jobs: it pays like any high symbol on a normal spin, and in free spins it is also the thing you collect.

The base game has one feature of its own. On any spin Anubis can add wild symbols while the reels are still turning. It comes at random and does not promise a win, but it is the base game's only lift between scatters.

The paytable page for the Anubis Wilds feature. FluxPlays demo test, 2 November 2026.

Free spins: how they trigger and what the Ankhs do

Three or more pyramid scatters anywhere start the free spins, and the same counts extend a round that is already running:

There is no limit on retriggers, so a round can run well past its starting count.

The Ankh meter

Inside the round every Ankh that lands is collected on a meter above the first reel. The fifth one calls in the Anubis Wilds feature: wild symbols are added at the end of that spin, and the spin is paid with them in place. The collection carries over from spin to spin and resets only when the round ends. The help text does not say whether a meter that has paid out can fill a second time in the same round.

That makes the length of a round count twice. More spins mean more chances at a retrigger, and more Ankhs toward the meter.

Our first round shows it working. By free spin 6 of 10 the meter held five Ankhs, and reels 3 and 4 turned completely wild. The round finished at $34.60.

Free spin 6 of our first round: the meter full and two reels wild, round total 19.50 so far. FluxPlays demo test, 2 November 2026.

RTP versions, volatility and max win

The game's help screens state no RTP, and neither does Play'n GO's game page. Review sites agree on 96.20% for the top version and rate the game High. Casinos can run a lower version, so the figure that applies is the one in the help screen where you play.

Wins top out at 15,000x the bet, and free spins end at once if a round reaches it. There is no buy, so every route to that figure starts with three pyramids landing on their own.

Our Ankh of Anubis demo test

Our two free spins rounds came three spins apart and showed both sides of the meter. The first, from spin 39, filled it halfway through. The second, from spin 41, stopped at three Ankhs and paid $4.10, a reminder that the same ten spins can go very differently depending on the fifth Ankh. (The demo's unlabelled practice credits are counted here as dollars.)

Outside those rounds the base game gave little: 80 spins paid nothing, and the best ordinary spin was $4.80 on spin 79. A session this short says how the round plays, and far too few spins were played to say anything about the return. No retrigger or four-scatter award turned up, and the base-game Anubis Wilds cannot be picked out of our log, so those parts rest on the rules.

Our first free spins round, from spin 39, settled at $34.60. FluxPlays demo test, 2 November 2026.

Is Ankh of Anubis worth playing?

The free spins make it worth playing. The base game, on its own, would not. The round is where the design lives: the meter gives every spin something to add, retriggers are unlimited, and the fifth Ankh can turn whole reels wild. Between rounds you have 576 ways, random wilds and not much else, and nothing can be bought to skip the wait.

Pick Book of Dead if you want Play'n GO's Rich Wilde round, where one symbol is drawn before the free spins and expands across 10 lines, up to 5,000x. Pick Ankh of Anubis for 576 ways, a meter that turns into wilds and a cap three times as high.

In the demo, watch how quickly the meter fills in your first free spins round, since the fifth Ankh is the moment the round can change.

The award screen for our first free spins round. FluxPlays demo test, 2 November 2026.