Brute Force
Day 30: Brute Force by Nolimit City. A retro action-hero slot with stacked xNudge Wilds that grow their own multipliers, up to a 40,000x max win. I triggered the bonus 5 times in 1000 spins with a best of 300x, but a dead second half left me in a loss. APPROVED, and I’ll be back for the sequel.
Nolimit City · Stake 0.20 · 1,000 fixed spins · RTP 96.08%
Day 30 - Brute Force - Slot Review
n day 30, I took on Brute Force by Nolimit City. If you’re old enough, it will remind you of the good old Atari games. It’s a 5x5 grid game with 21 win lines and a 40,000x max multiplier potential, released in 2024.
There are 21 fixed win lines, and wins pay from the leftmost reel to the right along an activated line. If a line has more than one winning combination, only the highest one is paid.
The star of the show is the xNudge Wild. It lands as a stacked symbol, a tall wild that covers a whole reel, and it always nudges into the grid until it’s fully visible. When it does, it gets a multiplier shown at the bottom of the symbol, and every nudge adds to that multiplier. There are three characters, and they differ in how fast their multiplier grows and how high it can go:
Joshua: each nudge adds +1, up to a max of x8. Jason: each nudge adds +2, up to a max of x21. Hyper: each nudge adds +5, up to a max of x51.
The xNudge Meter then adds up the multipliers on the wilds in your winning symbols, so more xNudge Wilds in one win means a bigger total multiplier.
Landing 3 Scatter symbols triggers 10 Brute Spins. Landing 4 Scatters triggers 10 Super Brute Spins, which is the same feature, but the xNudge Wilds may also become sticky and stay on the grid for the whole round, so their multipliers keep building. That’s where the big wins can come from.
The plan for winning is to get the xNudge Wilds into your winning lines and let their multipliers add up. One Hyper Wild on a good line, or a few of them stacked on the same win, is what this game is built around.
During my 1000 spins, I triggered the Brute Spins 5 times, with one of them paying 300x. The base game was decent too, with some nice 30x and 50x wins along the way.
The first 500 spins were quite generous, but the game balanced things out in the last 500 with a bunch of back to back dead spins, so I ended up losing this session.
If you manage to trigger the Super Brute Spins and the wilds get sticky, this one can get quite juicy. I’ll play its sequel in the coming sessions too.