Night City Slot – Free Demo

A dragon that grows on reels one to three

Night City is a launch from studio JILI. It arrives with an expanding Special Wild, multipliers and free spins. I played 300 spins at a 2.00 stake, starting from a balance of 2,000.00.

Players get started by choosing wagers from 0.50 to 1,000 credits per spin, and volatility is medium-high. That is what I observe here, piling up wins when it's shooting, and RTP, meanwhile, is respectable, yielding a figure of 97.00%. I finished on 1,801.40, a session return of 66.9%.

Core to the game is the Special Wild. Whenever the dragon settles on reels 1-3, it expands one spot up, down, left and right, and the standard 5x3 sized layout provides 243 win ways. The expansion stays within the visible reel area. Bear in mind that Night City pays left to right, on adjacent reels. My first spin paid 15.60 at the 2.00 stake, lifting the balance to 2,013.60, and it never climbed that high again.

Bottles, microphones, saxophones and signs form the premium pay symbols. They are valued up to 12 times the stake, and completing the base of the paytable are J-A card symbols, valued up to 3x. A base game win of 22.00 on spin 129, 11.0x the stake, was among the five biggest of my session. There's a wild on reels 1-3 too. It stands in for everything except the Scatter and the Special Wild. Both wild symbols are confined to reels 1, 2 and 3, so reels 4 and 5 get no substitutes.

Disco balls on all five reels

Landing 5, 6, or 7 disco ball scatters on the reels, with at least one on each reel, grants 10 free spins. Across my three Free Games, the feature paid 126.00, 31% of everything I won.

A pair of changes happen in the bonus, and a significant one is the progressive multiplier which joins the action. Every free spin win is multiplied by the current multiplier. It begins at x1. It rises by 1 after each spin, win or not - up to x150.

In addition, when 6 scatters trigger the round, the multiplier begins at x2 and rises by 2 instead of 1. 7 scatters begin it at x3 with +3 a spin. My first Free Game, on spin 113, ran 10 spins from x1 and paid 36.00, 18.0x the stake. Getting 5 scatters in the feature gives 10 free spins, up to 50 in total. On spins 278 and 279 I triggered it back to back, both times from 5 Scatters, for 26.0x and then 19.0x, with the second round retriggered once for 10 more.

Minty Slots Verdict: 300 spins at 2.00 handed back 66.9% against the 97% on the label, and all three Free Games opened at x1, so the multiplier ladder that sells this game never got past its first rung at the start of a round.

Twenty-nine times the stake was the ceiling on spin 201

Night City has a medium-high volatility, large payoff pairing, although I'm yet to witness proof of its advertised promise, with my top hit in 300 spins paying 29x the stake. That 58.00 win landed on spin 201 and took the balance to 1,843.80.

Night City delivers wins at a pace that makes it tough to remain motivated. It's paying on only 76 of my 300 spins, 42 of them for less than the stake, and the other motivation to keep spinning is a bonus game which can go berserk when the multiplier rises. My longest run without a win lasted 14 spins, ending on spin 87. Night City's bonus game is not a complex one, though all the better for it, and its free spins are where the 243 ways truly shine in combination with a multiplier. That multiplier can reach x150.