The Rave Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

The Rave Review

Many NoLimit City installments are like car accidents. You simply can’t look away in morbid fascination. The Rave has a similar vibe, although nothing too grotesque is going on. Apparently, Joe Labrador has escaped San Quentin, and he’s now moonlighting as DJ P5ychØ Manhunt in the wildest club in town. His taste in music should go down well with any rave fans, and the count-up win story is a trip to say the least.

You get the usual mayhem of features, with some new twists and modifiers to boot. Epileptic players should stay far away from this game (and we’re not even joking). Any regular player will have a hard enough time keeping focused for more than 5 minutes, and the long term effects are unknown.

The game is bouncing all over the place with attitude though, and people hip to the scene will find plenty to enjoy in this madhouse.

The Rave Slot - Reels Screen

The Rave Slot Features

You can switch on the xBet feature to get a guaranteed scatter on reel 2 per spin, and this also increases the RTP to 96.2 %. The price you pay is 20 % more per spin, and the 5 premium character symbols pay between 1 and 6 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins. Smiley-face Wilds can appear anywhere to substitute for pay symbols, and thus help complete wins.

You can land Drop The Bass scatters anywhere in the base game, and you need exactly 2 in view to turn the affected positions into Enhancer Cells. These are feature positions that award the following:

• xWays - awards 2 to 6 random matching symbols stacked, which expands the reel and number of win ways. All xWays symbols in view reveal the same symbol.
• xSplit Wild - splits all symbols on the same reel in two, before it splits itself in two as well.
• A regular wild symbol.
• A premium character symbol.

If you land 2 xWays Wild symbols on the same reel, an expanded xWays Wild is generated.

It comes with a stack of 6 to 11 wild symbols, and a full screen of xWays Wilds cracks the max win potential there and then, displaying the ‘Busted’ Win Story.

The Murder on the Dance Floor Bonus Round (1 in 198 hit rate) triggers when you land 3 or 4 scatters in view, and this awards the same amount of Enhancer Cells during the feature. The Enhancer Cells highlight positions at the bottom of the grid, and are active on each free spin.

If you trigger the feature by 3 scatters, a 4th scatter during the feature awards +1 Enhancer Cell and +1 FS (1 in 4 hit rate). A 5th scatter upgrades the bonus round to the God is a DJ tier, with +2 extra spins (1 in 7 hit rate). Landing 2 scatters in a 3-scatter feature happens 1 in 29 times on average, and also upgrades to the top-tier feature.

Symbol Multipliers appear above reels 2 to 4 during the feature, and they are activated when you land character symbols in the Enhancer Cells. Symbol multipliers are increased by +2 if xSplit symbols land on reels 2 to 4. At random times, you can trigger Mashup!, Sidechain or Crossfader modifiers, and we’ll cover these below.

The God is a DJ Bonus Round triggers from 5 scatters (or from upgrading the Murder on the Dance Floor feature). It comes with 5 Enhancer Cells at the bottom positions, and they reveal the same modifiers and/or symbols as described above. The symbol multipliers work the same way as before, but you are now guaranteed to get 1 of the random 3 modifiers per spin:

• Mashup - transforms all present characters into the top-tier character.
• Crossfader - turns all low-value symbols on either reel 2, 3 or 4 into wilds.
• Sidechain - links 2 to 5 reels with matching symbols.

The yellow star takes you into the Bonus Buy menu (not available in the UK or all jurisdictions), and you can purchase the following:

• 7 Murder on the Dance Floor Spins cost 68x your stake (96.13 % RTP).
• 8 Murder on the Dance Floor Spins cost 140x your stake (96.27 % RTP).
• 10 God is a DJ Spins cost 522x your stake (96.37 % RTP).
• Lucky Draw gives 1 of the above randomly, and costs 202x your stake (96.32 % RTP).

The 200 Spins The Rave Slot Experience

You get a brief taste of the base game, before we purchase the God is a DJ bonus round exactly at the 1-minute mark.

The feature plays out for the remainder of the 4:38-minute highlights video, and you can see for yourself how the rave party ended by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

This reviewer has never been to a single rave, but it’s not hard to imagine that what NoLimit City has delivered here is about as authentic an experience as an online slot can provide. The photosensitivity warning should not be taken lightly however, and this is hardly a game you want to relax with after a long day of hard work. It’s a perfect warm-up to any kind of wild party though, and ravers will appreciate the in-jokes, freaky characters and psychedelic win story count-up trip.

The soundtrack is highly impressive, even to non-raver ears, with a bass-boosted techno-style Deadwood sample in the count-ups. Far from everyone will be down with the visual effects though, and it feels like you’re on drugs after 2 minutes. The 41,500x win cap has a 1 in 5M probability from the main game, and 1 in 29K, 6.9K and 2.6K from the 3, 4 and 5-scatter FS rounds, respectively. Overall, The Rave will mostly appeal to a certain crowd, as longer sessions are hardly possible for anyone else.

Pros

• Authentic rave vibe w/ impressive soundtrack
• Drop the Bass Enhancer Cells with modifiers
• Murder on the Dance Floor FS w/ random modifiers
• God is a DJ FS w/ 1 of 3 modifiers per spin
• Win up to 41,500x (1 in 5M base game probability)

Cons

• Beware of adjustable RTP ranges
• The photosensitivity warning is not a joke

If you enjoy The Rave Slot you should also try:

Deadmau5 - is a branded Eurogaming effort based around the famous Canadian DJ and electronic music composer that goes by the same nickname.

You get to sample his most famous songs, as you benefit from cascading wins, random wilds and a bonus round with a progressive multiplier and a 2,100x potential.

DJ WÏLD - is a somewhat dated release from ELK Studios, but it comes with a somewhat similar rave party theme (there are not too many out there). The game plays out on a standard 5x3 grid with 10 paylines, and you get medium to high volatility, sticky wilds, respins and expanding symbols. The max win is 1,700x your stake.

Punk Rocker - is thematically the closest you get in NoLimit City’s own back catalog, although the punk and rave scene is not exactly lined up in terms of world view. Both games got plenty of attitude though, and this one comes with respins with sticky wilds, xWays symbols, 2 bonus rounds with plenty of extras and a 15,072x potential.

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