Avalon: The Lost Kingdom in detail
Avalon: The Lost Kingdom was released on 27 February 2020 according to BGaming's official sheet, with several databases preferring 1 March. The theme is Arthurian legend: Avalon, Excalibur, knights and magicians across five reels and three rows, with twenty paylines. It is a previous-generation game and it shows — no cascade mechanic, no collection system, no bonus buy. The Wild substitutes for everything except the Scatter, and that is roughly all the base game offers. The RTP calls for a detailed explanation, because it is the point on which sources diverge most. BGaming shows 94.56% on its product page. The large majority of independent listings state 95%. And SlotCatalog notes that RTP ranges are available for this title. In other words, this is not a copying error but the studio's usual distribution model: the game ships in several versions, the operator chooses which one to install, and the effective rate can therefore vary from casino to casino for a game bearing exactly the same name. We keep the highest documented value, 95%, while flagging that the tier actually running must be checked in the game's info panel at the casino where you play. It is a precaution few competing reviews bother to mention. The maximum win deserves the same treatment, because it perfectly illustrates a widespread error. BGaming publishes 3,812 times the bet. Other sources state 5,000x, and one database even lists 800x. The 5,000x is easily explained: the studio advertises a €250,000 maximum win, and the game's top stake is 50. Two hundred and fifty thousand divided by fifty gives five thousand. Except that the €250,000 is not specific to Avalon: it is a flat cap BGaming reproduces across nearly its entire catalogue, independently of each game's maximum stake. Reconstructing a multiplier by division therefore produces a manufactured figure. The studio's published value, 3,812x, is the only one resting on something other than a rule of three. The frequency figures, by contrast, line up perfectly. BGaming publishes a hit rate of 2.57 — to be read as a win every 2.57 spins — and an independent analysis measures 38.91% of spins paying, which is exactly the inverse of the same number. Free spins frequency is given as one spin in 153, a value also confirmed by a third-party source. A win every two or three spins, a bonus round every hundred and fifty: this is a game that pays small sums often and makes you wait a long time for its real content. Free spins trigger on three or more Scatters and award 10, 12 or 15 rounds depending on whether three, four or five Scatters landed. The round can be retriggered. Two elements save it from banality. The first is a rising random multiplier between x2 and x7, applied to every win in the round rather than a selection: an important difference from many games where only some wins are boosted. The second is the Fateful Wild: before the round begins, the player designates one of the three character symbols, and that symbol then behaves as a Wild whenever it appears, substituting for everything except Scatters. It is a decision with a measurable effect, which remains rare in the genre. The Excalibur feature completes the picture. It triggers at random during free spins and places additional Wilds on the spinning reels. It obeys no known condition and cannot be provoked: it is a bonus within the bonus, pleasant when it lands, impossible to build into a strategy. The bet range runs from 0.20 to 50 per spin. The 0.20 floor matches exactly BGaming's house minimum, applied across most of its catalogue. There is no extra bet option, no buy button, no ante bet mode: on this title the only variable is the amount staked. Finally, volatility is subject to a familiar disagreement — BGaming states "high" on its own sheet while several listings say "medium". We keep the supplier's value, consistent with a rare bonus round and a 3,812x maximum win.
