Punk Toilet

Theme and Design

Whether you enjoy Punk Toilet is a matter of personal taste. It’s as deliberately obnoxious as NLC have been and in that sense, in line with the musical movement that inspired it. Lots of toilet humour (naturally) and iconoclastic imagery persists throughout, from the graffiti-emblazoned walls and cubicle door to the punked-up characters on the paytable.

The game appears to be set in the lavs of the 100 Club circa 1976 when the Pistols were in their prime, though rumour has it the inspiration came from a trip to a pub in East London’s Shadwell. To be honest, it could be either, or any late night park or public transport toilet scene.

Personally I found it a bit hard to stick with this one – the messy artwork makes the action on the reels quite hard to follow at times whilst the relentless muffled live music coming from outside can be a bit grating too. But you may love it!

RTP and Variance

Like most Nolimit City slots, Punk Toilet has more than one RTP setting. There are 2 in this case – 96.09% and 94.13%. It is always better to play at the optimum RTP setting to give yourself the best chance of coming away with a positive result. We have verified the RTP of this game at five of the best slot sites. This is what we found:

• Pub Casino (L and L Europe) – 96.09% RTP
• BacanaPlay (Skill on Net) – 94.13% RTP
• Barz Casino (White Hat Gaming) – 94.13% RTP
• Duelz Casino (SuprPlay) – 94.13% RTP
• Dream Vegas (White Hat Gaming) – 94.13% RTP

From this selection only ONE site offers the game at 96.09% - Pub Casino. It shows many operators are choosing to trim the return to player where possible in the UK. We recommend you choose Pub Casino or any other L and and L Europe site for this slot.

According to Nolimit City themselves, Punk Toilet is another game of with extreme volatility – rated 10/10 on their own website. That means unpredictable payouts, potentially lengthy spells with little or no return, but the chance for things to go crazy when everything comes together in the free spins rounds. If you’ve played other games by this provider then you will understand what that means.

If you like this type of action you should also try games in our list of the best high volatility slots.

Maximum Win

Punk Toilet has a maximum payout of 33,333x. Now, that is big by most standards, but this is NLC we are talking about and in fact it is well below the potential of other games in their catalogue like Tombstone RIP (300,000x), San Quentin xWays (150,000x) or Mental (66,666x) for example. For more like this check out our list of Nolimit City’s highest paying slots.

Symbols and Paytable

As ever, NLC are not shy of breaking the rules with this game. Which is why we love them, right? There are 5 reels, and to start the row layout is 3-3-3-3-1. However, this is never going to stay that way for long as we shall see.

What is important to know is that Punk Toilet is a Win Ways game. That means, wins are triggered by landing 3 or more identical symbols across the reels from left to right, regardless of their row position. So, no standard paylines as such. What it means is that the initial 81 Win Ways can quickly grow as more symbols are added or existing ones are split.

That will become clear throughout the rest of this review.

But let’s go to the paytable first and those symbol values. As we often find with NLC games, the basic values are not great. However, you should always keep in mind that there are plenty of multipliers and extra Win Ways to enhance the value of your payouts.

Low value icons are the cards, 10 through to Ace. These are valued at from 0.15x for 3 10s up to 2x for 5 Aces. Premiums are the characters, which includes Churchill, a chimp, Einstein and Haw-King (a punk Stephen Hawking of course). The values are from 0.3x for 3 up to 5x for 5 Haw-Kings.

There is also a Wild that substitutes in for all other symbols to complete Win Ways.

Features and Gameplay

It has been said that Nolimit City slots, whilst entertaining, can be confusing at times because of the complex interaction of all their features. This is sometimes true, and it certainly took some time to get used to the ones in Punk Toilet. So, let’s go through them one at a time and break down what they mean.

During the base game there are two features that come up again and again. These are the xWays and the Urinals.

Firstly, xWays are symbols that reveal one pay symbols that expands to be anywhere between 2 and 5 symbols high. If more than one xWays symbol lands at the same time, each one reveals the same pay symbol. This is a useful feature because it creates more chances of completing Win Ways.

A bit more complicated is the Urinal. This is a locked cell that exists on the bottom row of reels 2, 3 and 4. To unlock it you’ll need to land a Scatter on the same reel. When it opens, a character symbol expands to 2 or 3 rows high, carrying a beer glass. The beer is the Wild part of this symbol. So, effectively you now have a combination of a character and a wild across the bottom 2 or 3 rows.

Those two features are quite regular in my experience and keep you interested with the occasional small payouts whilst waiting for better things.

The other base game feature to look out for is the Glory Door. The door itself takes up the space where the lower four rows should be on reel 5. Now, in my time spinning this I rarely saw the Glory Door unlock. For that to happen you need to land a Loo symbol on the top row on reel 5, the one above the door.

When you do this, it flies open to reveal one of two symbols:

If it’s the highest paying Haw King then you are in luck – that means ALL character symbols on the reels at that point become Haw Kings. As we know, Haw King is the most valuable icon, so if there are a lot of character symbols on the reels when he appears, this could be big.

If it’s a special symbol on the top row and a two row high sitting character symbol then the any version of the sitting character elsewhere on the reels will double in size whilst the special symbol may be any of these:

• Wilds – these act as any wild does.
• xSplits – these split all standard pay symbols on the row to their left (i.e. reels 1 to 4) and also acts as a 2 high wild.
• Mega Splits – splits all regular pay symbols to its left into double their standard size whilst also acting as a 2 high wild.

Those are your standard features, but there are also TWO free spins rounds, delightfully named P!$$ Spins and $hit Spins, that are like the base game on steroids.

This is how they work.

P!$$ Spins

You’ll need to land three scatters on reels 2 to 4 to unlock SIX P!$$ Spins. Now the urinals with the character symbols are ALWAYS unlocked. There is also a Urinal multiplier on each of them.

And … if you land a scatter it will give you another spin PLUS an 1x increase to your multiplier which does NOT re-set between spins.

You can also unlock the Glory Door as usual. And when you do, alongside the usual mayhem you get two more free spins AND an upgrade to ….

$h!t Spins

You get EIGHT of these through landing the Loo symbol on reel 5 during the P!$$ spins.

Now the Glory Door is permanently open because the loo symbol that triggered the round is sticky. That means more chances to land xSplits and Mega Splits which can open up more paylines on reels 1 to 4 plus two high wilds to increase your chances of hitting winlines.

It might sound messy, but in terms of scoring wins, $h!t Spins is where it is at! It’s basically ALL features unlocked and firing at full blast. Your best hope of hitting the top payouts lies here.