Das xBoot Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Das xBoot Review

There are several memorable movies that’s been inspired by the original German 1981 classic, Das Boot, and NoLimit City has done an excellent job capturing the tense sub-sea atmosphere in Das xBoot. The loud “ping” you hear whenever a Sonar Display scatter lands is enough to trigger claustrophobic memories from movies like The Hunt for Red October and Crimson Tide, and this sub is “rigged for red” with a vast and intricate arsenal of features.

You’ll join the German crew on a typical WW2 sub, and you can “run silent and deep” for a while, before sudden feature triggers spike into solid payouts. You get to sink battleships with torpedoes in the Silent Hunter bonus round, and completing xWays loaded torpedoes is the name of the game in the top-tier Wolf Pack feature. This is a highly impressive effort once again from a developer that - for the time being - blows everything else out of the water.

Das xBoot Slot - Reels Screen

Das xBoot Features

The submarine crew members are on display as the 5 premium symbols, and you’ll meet the chef, radio operator, engineer, periscope operator and the Kapitanleutnant. The latter is the top-tier symbol, paying 20x your stake for 6-oak wins, while the regular premiums pay between 3.2 and 10 x your stake for the same.

The xNudge Wild is stacked 4 rows in height, and it always nudges fully in place whenever it lands. The wild multiplier increases by +1 per nudge, and the symbol will appear exclusively on reels 3 and 4 in the base game. If more than one multiplier wild is involved in a win, the multipliers combine before being applied.

You will land xWays symbols on reels 2 to 5, and these reveal 2-3 instances of a randomly chosen regular pay symbol.

All xWays symbols that land on the same spin will reveal the same random symbol, and these also increase the number of win ways (check the meter above the grid).

Whenever you land an xBomb Wild, the global win multiplier is increased by +1. The wild symbol will then explode, and remove all non-winning pay symbols. The xBomb itself turns into a regular wild that drops to the lowest possible position, together with the other symbols that did not get removed. A new batch of symbols will then drop from above to fill the gaps, and the win multiplier is carried over if you trigger the bonus round.

Das xBoot Slot - Free Spins

You can land the Sonar Display scatter on reels 2 to 5 only, and you need 3 in view to trigger the Silent Hunter Bonus Round. This awards 8 free spins, and you’ll see reel 3 grow into a periscope reel that’s 8 rows high.

If you land matching symbols on reels 1 and 2, combined with a Periscope Wild on reel 3, you trigger the Torpedo Launch feature.

You’ll see the enemy ships through the periscope, and a torpedo is launched towards one of them. If you manage to sink the target, the Periscope Wild will expand to cover reel 3 completely. The global win multiplier is also increased by +1 per torpedo attack trigger, and the periscope wild multiplier increases by +1 per nudge before the full reel is covered. The wild remains 1x1 in size if you miss the target, and you win +2 extra spins per scatter you land.

The top-tier Wolf Pack Bonus Round is triggered when you land 4 Sonar Display scatters, and you’ll then see a torpedo tube appear below reels 2 to 5. Landing torpedo wilds on reels 2-5 drops a metallic xWays Symbol down to help complete the torpedo, and each starts with x2 as the value. The value increases by +1 per new torpedo wild drop-down, up to x9 at the most.

Completing the torpedo by filling in all 4 positions triggers a torpedo launch, and this reveals the xWays symbols you’ve built up. The reel 2 and 5 positions will turn into the number of xWays Symbols you’ve racked up, while positions 3 and 4 turn into the applicable number of xWays Wilds. Each torpedo launch increases the win multiplier by +1, and scatter symbols provide +2 extra spins whenever they land.

The Bonus Buy feature is included as usual, but not in all jurisdictions.

UK players cannot take advantage of this for sure, but if you are eligible, the Silent Hunter Free Spins will set you back 75x your stake. The Wolf Pack feature costs 350x your stake, and the RTP increases to 96.57 % and 96.58 %, respectively.

The 200 Spins Das xBoot Experience

You get a brief taste of the base game, before we trigger the Silent Hunter Bonus Round at 0:50 into the 5:44-minute highlights video. We managed to sink at least 1 ship during the feature, and the Wolf Pack Free Spins is triggered right after. Simply hit the play button below, and check it all out for yourself.

Review Summary

Capturing the claustrophobic atmosphere on board a WW2 submarine as well as this, is a remarkable feat for a video slot. The sub-sea sound effects and the ominous soundtrack blend together perfectly to immediately pull you into the action. We also love how you get a glimpse inside the “rigged for red” periscope deck when the xBomb removes symbols.

Everything has been masterfully crafted to serve the theme, from the expanded periscope reel in the Silent Hunter round, to the torpedo launch feature in the Wolf Pack feature.

The retro comic book visuals are perfect for this game, and we almost feel embarrassed on behalf of other developers that find themselves in the stone age compared to the intricate, heavy-hitting showpieces NoLimit City keeps churning out every single time.

Pros

• Stacked 1x4 xNudge Wilds
• xWays symbols on reels 2-5
• xBomb Wild increases win multiplier
• 2 unique bonus rounds levels
• Win up to 55,200x your stake

Cons

• Beware of customizable RTP ranges

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Battleship Direct Hit - is a Red7 sea battle release that plays out on a megaways engine grid with cascading wins. Torrents will sometimes destroy low-value symbols at the end of a spin, and these are replaced by premiums. You’ll also launch missile attacks to destroy enemy vessels, and trigger the bonus round to win jackpots.

Kaiser - is a cartoon-style WW1-themed release from Peter & Sons, set in the trenches on the German side. The brave soldier, Hans Schultz, will stand by your side, enduring one grenade barrage after another. You can look forward to wild multipliers, as well as a bonus round with roaming multiplier wilds for payouts up to 2,333x your stake.

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