Jousting by the numbers: the five sharpest lances in knight-slot RTP
The cinnabar column, read closely; wherein 98.77 unhorses all comers.
Fifty-four knights are entered in this codex and forty-nine of them carry a published return. The column runs from 92.13% at the bottom to 98.77% at the top — a spread of six and a half points, which in this business is enormous. Here are the five sharpest lances, and the reason the top of the table should be read with a raised eyebrow rather than a cheer.
The five highest published returns
Nine Knights: Strikers, from Blitzcrown, struck 2026-03-27 — 98.77% published RTP. Knights Ascent: Light, from Nobles Gaming, struck 2025-10-15 — 98.00%. Knight's Ascent, from Nobles Gaming, struck 2025-10-15 — 98.00%. Book of Knights, from 1spin4win, struck 2023-08-31 — 97.00%. Holy Knight, from Bigpot Gaming, struck 2022-05-10 — 96.60%.
The catch at the top of the table
Three of those five are not video slots. Nine Knights: Strikers is a card-table game, and the two Ascent titles are step-multiplier crash games — a genre that habitually publishes 97 to 99% because the player chooses when to stop, and the maths is built around that choice. Comparing them to a five-reel slot on RTP alone is comparing a sprint to a swim.
That is why the register keeps a reel-games-only page: it separates the crash and card titles instead of quietly counting them. Among actual video slots the sharpest lance is Book of Knights at 97.00%, from 1spin4win, followed by Holy Knight at 96.60% and Book of Knight Hold and Win at 96.58%.
The other end
The lowest published figure in the codex is 92.13%, on a scratch card. Among reel games the floor is 94.00%, shared by several recent releases — which quietly makes the point that new does not mean generous.
Five titles publish nothing at all
Five entries in the register have no return published anywhere we can verify. We print «—» for them. An invented figure that looks authoritative is worse than an obvious gap, and this is the column where invention would be most tempting and most damaging.
How to use the column
Use it to compare games in the same category, not across categories; use volatility to predict the shape of the session; and check the game's own info panel at the house you play in, because many titles ship in several certified settings and the casino chooses one. Our guide to reading RTP works through the rest. The whole column, sorted, is on the RTP page.