Thor Hammer Time Slot – Free Demo

A hit frequency that did not survive 460 spins

So it's at last time for another high volatility slot from Nolimit City after a few middling launches, and the volatility dial reads 5 of 6. I played 460 spins of it at 10.00 a spin. Not only that - it's a Norse slot built around a single bonus symbol. Nolimit City works the same Norse ground in Warrior Graveyard. The studio itself states that it pays for most of the game.

The game is played using a 5-reel, 3-row grid matrix along with 20 fixed paylines, and is capped at 2,328x the bet. Nolimit City publishes a hit frequency of 33.35%, and I came out at 17%, which is 80 paying spins in 460. Included in the main game are features named Rune Raze and Hammer Time.

Rings, goblets, axes and the hammer that eats them

The 4 high-value symbols are depicted by rings, goblets, axes, and helmets, and rune symbols fill out the remainder of the grid.

Aside from the standard symbols, there is also Thor's Hammer symbol. The god himself gets around: Pragmatic Play's Power of Thor Megaways is the same mythology from a different studio. The Hammer Time feature converts the high payers into it. Wilds are not part of the standard set, and the ones this game has come out of Thor's Lightning Bonus, sticky and either scattered about or filling whole reels. The Thor's Lightning Bonus symbol lands on reel 5 and has a crucial role, while the scatter symbol powers the Scatter Energy Collect.

Thor lands on reel five and the game picks the prize

The Thor's Lightning Bonus symbol can land on reel 5 on any spin. It grants one feature: a multiplier, random sticky Wilds, or sticky Wild Reels. The game picks which of the three, not the player. Thor then nudges down and grants a respin, the feature remains active for as long as Thor is still on the reels, and respins persist until Thor is off the grid.

Two additional things can happen at random on any spin, and Rune Raze converts every rune into one particular rune symbol. My best spin outside a bonus round was 92.00 on spin 144, 9.2x the stake. Hammer Time converts all the high payers into Thor's Hammer symbols.

Asgard Spins came twice in ten spins, after 414 without

The Asgard Spins feature is activated when energy from three Scatters has been collected in Scatter Energy Collect. Mine came on spin 11, and then not again for 414 spins. Scatter Energy Collect itself begins with two or more Scatters on the reels, and the Scatters nudge down one step. Two Scatters start the sequence, then, but do not by themselves buy a bonus. Every reel without a Scatter respins.

The Asgard Spins are played with Thor's Lightning Bonus landing on reel 5 more frequently, and just like in the main game, Thor nudges down and grants a respin. The mode keeps its own books, as the captured frames show: an award screen with the spins granted, a running total part way through, and an end screen with the round's win and the spins played. But there is a major advantage - he supplies an additional feature on each nudge. The best round I had was the third, on spin 435, which paid 830.00, or 83.0x the stake. The features stack for as long as he remains visible, and Thor can also grant +2 spins.

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Each additional Scatter Energy collected contributes +2 spins as well, and in my 460 spins the feature arrived three times. The second and third landed ten spins apart, on 425 and 435, for 16.0x and 83.0x. It granted 14 spins on the first one, which extended to 24 played and paid 58.15x the stake.

Final Minty Score: Three Asgard Spins rounds carried 62% of everything the session won, and 414 spins separate the first of those rounds from the second.

Where 4,600 staked went

This one is not an immediate favorite. I finished 460 spins down 2,056.50, from 10,000.00 to 7,943.50. The main game is very low potential although the Thor's Lightning Bonus is there to keep it a bit more engaging than it would otherwise have been. 47 of my 80 paying spins handed back less than the 10.00 they cost. All the payout is in the bonus, where the 2,328x cap resides. The balance peaked at 10,498.50 on spin 11 and bottomed out at 7,299.50, and the longest I went without a win of any size was 23 spins, ending on spin 167. My three Asgard Spins rounds comprised 62% of everything I won, while the session as a whole returned 55.3% of what I staked, and the bonus symbol functions in the base game too.