Knight Rider Slot Review

Knight Rider: Slot Overview

I grew up with Michael Knight on the telly, so firing up Knight Rider felt like sliding straight back into the 80s. NetEnt lift the intro clip and theme music directly from the show, then drop you onto a 5-reel, 26 payline grid parked beside KITT in a desert backdrop. It is a high volatility slot that leans hard on wild mechanics, with classic line wins rather than fancy ways engines.

I usually stake between 20p and a couple of quid, and Knight Rider handles that range well, running from 20p up to 40 per spin. The default RTP sits at 96.07 percent, paired with punchy variance and a headline 7,000x maximum win. On paper it lands squarely in the modern high risk, high reward bracket, but the branded presentation gives it a different flavour to most car-themed slots.

Knight Rider Slot Features

Symbol-wise, Knight Rider keeps things simple. Low pays are 10 through A card icons, worth around 0.5 to 1.5 times your bet for five of a kind. Premiums step up to watches, steering wheels, trucks, KITT's red scanner lights, and Michael Knight himself at the top, paying roughly 2 to 4 times your stake for a full line. You need three to five matching symbols on one of the 26 fixed paylines.

Wild symbols are where the slot earns its stripes. Any wild that lands carries a multiplier equal to the reel it drops on, so reel one is x1 and reel five is x5. Wilds substitute for regular pay symbols and, when more than one joins the same winning line, their multipliers multiply together. Hit a couple across the middle reels and line up a premium and the leap in payouts can be dramatic.

When a multiplier wild takes part in a win, it sticks around and steps one reel along for the next spin, with the multiplier increasing as it travels. This walking behaviour can chain several wins together off a single symbol. Every so often the Turbo Boost feature roars into life in the base game, dropping three or four multiplier wilds onto random positions, which can turn a nothing spin into a serious screen of wilds.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	5	x4
	4	x2
	3	x1
	5	x3
	4	x1.5
	3	x0.75
	5	x2
	4	x1
	3	x0.5
	5	x2
	4	x1
	3	x0.5
	5	x2
	4	x1
	3	x0.5
	5	x1.5
	4	x0.7
	3	x0.35
	5	x1.25
	4	x0.6
	3	x0.3
	5	x1
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.25
	5	x0.75
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.2
	5	x0.5
	4	x0.3
	3	x0.15
	Scatter
	Wild

The 200 Spins Knight Rider Slot Experience

As a tester I like to run at least a couple of hundred spins in one sitting, and Knight Rider can feel quite swingy over that sample. In my first 200 spins I saw plenty of single walking wilds and the odd Turbo Boost, but the bonus only landed once. Playing from the UK, I had to earn those free spins the hard way rather than shortcutting via the buy feature.

Knight Rider: Slot Verdict

From a gameplay point of view, Knight Rider is all about lining up those multipliers in the bonus round. Triggering ten free spins with three logo scatters on the middle reels gives you access to the laser wild mechanic, where a set number of walking multiplier wilds are fired onto the grid before each spin. Collect special Knight symbols to climb through four levels, picking up extra laser wilds and extra spins.

By the time you reach level four you are guaranteed three laser wilds per spin, on top of any regular wilds that land. Because wild multipliers multiply each other, a few of them walking in step can stack up towards the headline 120x line multiplier and push wins into serious territory, up to that 7,000x cap. The full Knight Rider theme blaring away during these spins gives the whole thing a proper adrenaline hit.

Knight Rider Review Summary

I came away feeling that Knight Rider hits its brief as a nostalgic, high volatility wild-fest, but it does have quirks. The base game pace can feel a bit stop-start, and the constant short music stabs between spins grated on me after a while. When the features line up though, especially in the free spins, the walking wild action and chunky multipliers make the grind worthwhile if you enjoy swingy branded slots.

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