Shooting Nun
Day 36: A nun with an AK 47 hunts dodging goats, and every goat that escapes leaves a wild multiplier that keeps doubling. The base game is a blast, with a 174.4x hit in my session. The only thing holding it back is how rarely the bonus shows up, as I triggered the regular bonus only once. Still, the core mechanics are worth a look. APPROVED!
Blackout Studios · Stake 0.20 · 1,000 fixed spins · RTP 96.70%
Day 36 - Shooting Nun - Slot Review
Day 36: Shooting Nun by Blackout Studios (library version)
On day 36, I took on Shooting Nun by Blackout Studios, a 6x5 slot with 96.70% RTP and a max win of 40,000x, released recently.
The game is dark and a little twisted. You play a nun with an AK 47, and the goats are her targets. She shoots one shot at a time. Each goat either gets hit or jumps to a free tile, and every goat that manages to escape leaves behind a wild multiplier. This keeps going until the Nun finally shoots the goat.
The multiplier doubles with every shot (2x, 4x, 8x, 16x and so on), and you can follow it on the bullet bar. Wilds substitute for every paying symbol, and if several wilds are part of one win, only the biggest multiplier counts. If the last goat is shot, it can trigger a Last Cry, where a herd of goats crosses the board and leaves even more multipliers behind.
Symbols pay from 3 or more reels in a row, starting from the leftmost reel, anywhere on each reel. The Coin Scatter pays on its own (2x, 5x and 20x for 3, 4 and 5 coins), and it is also your way into the bonuses:
3 coins open the Bonus: 8 free spins, with the multiplier starting at 2x. 4 coins open the Super Bonus: 10 free spins, starting at 4x, with at least one goat on the first spin. 5 coins open the Secret Bonus: 14 free spins, starting at 8x, with at least two goats on the first spin.
Free spins can’t be retriggered. After each free spin, the multiplier steps back two bullets and locks there. It never goes below a locked multiplier, and it is never random. At least one goat lands every 4 free spins, and a goat can dodge up to 10 times, so the round stays alive longer than you’d expect.
Plan for winning: pray to see as many Demonic Goats as possible on the grid, and hope the Nun keeps missing her shots so the multipliers keep climbing. When there are multiple goats on the left side of the grid and the Nun misses, things get so much more fun.
My session was a loss. I had two decent base game wins over 100x, the best one being 174.4x.
I triggered the 3 coin bonus only once, and there were no more bonus triggers after that, so the hit ratio felt very low. That said, I enjoyed the game design, the jumping multiplier mechanic and the music.
Both the base game and the bonus round have real potential, and the bonus hit ratio is the only thing holding the game back for me. I’d love to see the bonus land a bit more often. 1000 Spins APPROVED!