Hand of Anubis Demo & review

Hand of Anubis gives you two very different bonuses behind one cluster grid: Underworld, where multipliers under the reels count only once a green orb switches them on, and Judgment, a hold-and-collect round of stacking multiplier blocks. Hacksaw Gaming released it in April 2022. It is built for bonus buyers and patient bonus chasers, because the base game exists mostly to deliver scatters.

The base game before our first spin: five reels of six stone and gold symbols. FluxPlays demo test, 31 October 2026.

How Hand of Anubis works

Five or more matching symbols that touch horizontally or vertically pay, anywhere on the five-reel, six-row grid. Winners are removed and new symbols drop in, and the cascade continues until nothing new connects. The paytable has one steep step at 10 symbols, where even a low rune jumps to almost four times its 9-symbol pay:

Our spin 38 landed on that step. A 10-symbol cluster of one rune paid $7.50, and two more cascades took the spin to $8.20.

Soul Orbs: what they multiply

A red and a blue Soul Orb can land on any base-game spin, one, both or neither. Both are wild for every paying symbol, and each carries its own multiplier that grows during the round:

• Red Orb: rises by one step for every symbol in every winning cluster of the spin.
• Blue Orb: rises by one step for every winning cluster.

An Orb's multiplier applies only to a win that the Orb itself is part of. When both connect to the same cluster, their multipliers are multiplied together. Everything resets at the end of the round, and the Orbs never appear in the bonuses. In practice an Orb that sits outside the clusters does nothing at all, however high its count climbs.

How the bonuses trigger

The Free Spins scatter appears only in the base game. Three of them start Underworld, and four start Judgment. Judgment is the rarer and steadier round, and Underworld the wilder one, which the buy menu reflects in its volatility labels.

Underworld

Ten free spins with a multiplier below each reel. A reel's multiplier rises by one for every winning symbol on that reel, and Multiplier Modifier symbols (x2, x3, x4, x5 and x10) boost it further. None of it pays until a green Soul Orb lands on the reel and activates its multiplier. From then on, every activated multiplier is added together and applied to each winning cluster, and each activation also adds three spins. A single reel multiplier can climb as high as 9,999x.

In practice the round needs two things at once: green Orbs to switch reels on, and clusters to keep forming after they do.

Judgment

Three refilling spins on a grid of blocks, with a multiplier above each reel. Skull blocks add 1x to 100x to a reel's multiplier, and Anubis Skull blocks multiply it by x2 to x10. Epic versions of both hit every reel at once. Crushed ice drops Multiplier Blocks worth the reel's current multiplier, and they stack at the bottom. A Crusher Block smashes the blocks in its path and becomes one block worth their total.

Any block that lands resets the spins to three, and three blank spins in a row end the round. The payout is the sum of every Multiplier Block on the grid, times the bet, so the score is always visible as it builds.

The end of our bought Judgment round: the blocks left on the grid summed to 43x the bet. FluxPlays demo test, 31 October 2026.

Bonus buy: prices and what you get

Both bonuses can be bought from the BONUS BUY menu, and there are no FeatureSpins modes.

The volatility labels are the buy menu's own.

The buy menu at our $1 bet, with each bonus's price and volatility label. FluxPlays demo test, 31 October 2026.

RTP, volatility and max win

The game itself returns 96.24% in theory, against a fraction more for Underworld and a fraction less for Judgment. The rules give no volatility label for the base game, and review sites rate it high. The top payout is 10,000x the bet, and the rules publish no odds for reaching it.

Our Hand of Anubis demo test

The base game paid often and small. Forty-one spins won something, but most were cluster pays of a dollar or less, and nothing beyond spin 38 paid more than $3.50. A Soul Orb did show up, yet none became part of a winning cluster, so every win paid its bare paytable value.

The two buys played out the way their labels suggest. Underworld switched on two reels with green Orbs and earned 6 extra spins, and its reel multipliers reached 11x, but clusters stopped forming and sixteen spins paid $2.90. Judgment kept refilling for twenty-eight spins as blocks landed, and one Crusher merged three blocks into one before the stack settled at 43x.

Neither bonus arrived from scatters, and Modifier symbols, Anubis Skulls and Epic blocks were absent, so those parts are described from the rules. One session with a single round of each buy says nothing reliable about what they return.

Our bought Underworld round ended at $2.90 after 16 free spins. FluxPlays demo test, 31 October 2026.

Our bought Judgment round paid $43.00 over 28 refilling spins. FluxPlays demo test, 31 October 2026.

Is Hand of Anubis worth playing?

For a bonus buyer, yes; for a base-game player, no. The grid itself is an ordinary cluster game, and its Soul Orbs pay only when they touch a win. Both bonuses, though, are genuinely different from each other. Judgment is a slow, readable build where every block adds to a total you can see, while Underworld asks for green Orbs and clusters together and can stall even with reels switched on. For us Judgment is the round to buy first.

Pick Le Pharaoh if you want Hacksaw's Egyptian setting at medium volatility with a higher cap. Choose Hand of Anubis when you would rather pick between two bonuses with opposite temperaments and live with a quiet base game.

In the demo, buy Judgment once and watch how each landed block resets the spins to three.