Land of the Free

Theme and Design

Nolimit City’s second game of January 2024 portrays an American family holed-up in their mountain retreat – ‘no trespassing’ – bearing arms and fearing an impending apocalypse. The style is adult cartoon with plenty of stars and stripes, American eagles and dumb hick references. When you hit the free spins round a tsunami washes away the land of the free and submerges our heroes in water!

RTP and Variance

The RTP for Land of the Free is 96.08%. That is about average for an NLC slot. The volatility has been classed by the studio as ‘Extreme’ so it will be a wild ride with the potential to go off on occasion and deliver some crazy win sequences.

The hit frequency is 26.72%. That means roughly one in every 4 spins will produce a win. And the free spins round will drop once in every 218 spins on average.

Maximum Win

The maximum payout in Land of the Free is 57,000x with a 1 in 14 million probability. Following the relatively disappointing max win of just 13,180x in Devil’s Crossroad – small by NLC’s standards – this will please fans of a studio famous for its high max win slots.  Like other NLC games the top win has been given a name, in this case ‘The Pearly Gates’.

Any win from a game round that exceeds the 57,000x is rounded down.

Symbols and Paytable

Land of the Free has 5 reels and 4 rows. The 5^th reel is locked in the base game but will unlock when a scatter lands anywhere on reels 1 to 4.

Premium pay symbols which are represented by the four characters can appear as partial or full stacks. Look out for them landing as full stacks because they will convert into Wild stacks.

As well as the standard pay symbols there are also Wilds which will substitute for any pay symbol to complete a payline. These appear on any reel.

Features and Gameplay

Here’s what you can expect from the game features.

Conveyer Belt - This appears under the main reel set. This is a critical element of the game because it triggers changes on the reels above. Here are the modifiers that appear on the belt:

• Crates – if one bottle is in the crate then a pay symbol on the reel above becomes wild. If two bottles are in the crate then after one pay symbol on the reel above is turned wild, then it splits in two.
• Protein Powder Keg – Any partially stacked symbol on the reel above becomes fully stacked.
• Benzo Bear – appears on the reel above to convert 3 to 8 symbols into Wilds or Scatters.

Mr Split and Chainsaw – Mr Split is a special character that only lands on reel 5 as half stacked in the base game. He triggers every symbol across one row to be split.

He also appears fully stacked in free spins where he will cause ALL symbols below the water line (see below) to be split.

Watch out for the chainsaw which is active when Mr Split is on reel 5. The chainsaw will add extra splits to symbols on its own reel.

Titan Spins – watch out for the submarines that appear in both base game and bonus rounds. They float across the screen and trigger a Titan Spin. Keep your eye on the submarine window. If a president character appears then a one off big win is tiggered at 15,000x, 25,000x or 57,000x!

Of course, on most occasions, the window will remain empty!

Free Spins

There are two available free spins rounds.

Tsunami Spins is triggered by landing 3, 4 or 5 scatters which gets you 12, 15 or 20 spins. To start, the bottom 2 rows will be submerged in water. But the level keeps rising and once 4 rows are submerged, then the round is upgraded to Submerged Spins.

Rubber Ducks – look out for Rubber Ducks during either free spins round. They randomly appear and float across the screen. Each duck gets you 2 more spins AND increases the water level by 1 row.