Do you like the smell of gasoline? Performing dangerous stunts to hear the crowd cheer, and to get your adrenaline racing? For us, personally, watching such death defying activities was something interesting, though we’d never go through with it ourselves. So Nitro Circus is something right up our alley. It was a tour led by Travis Pastrana that showed off dirtbike riding, base jumping and performing stunts, which would later end up spawning a TV series, and a movie.
And now, Nitro Circus is also a video slot, made by none other than Yggdrasil. There are Nitro Bombs, which can reward five smaller bonuses, and a guaranteed free spins feature.
There’s also the Nitro Jump bonus, which can be activated through the bombs, or by collecting the letters NITRO on the playing field. Symbols include three helmets with different shapes and colours, and four different stunt riders who were stars of the Nitro Circus. Special symbols include the Nitro Bomb, which is a Scatter, or a richly decorated Wild word that’s, as you’d expect, a Wild.
Developer
Yggdrasil was founded in 2013 by former NetEnt CEO, Fredrik Elmqvist. The company is based in Malta, and strives to create games with technologically advanced gameplay. From 2014, the company fully embraced HTML5 to allow itself easy cross-platform development. The company’s name and logo take place from Scandinavian mythology, with Yggdrasil being a massive tree made of ash, which is home to eagles and dragons.
It feels like they’re a recent addition, but they’ve already celebrated five years in the business, and are slowly approaching six, and continue to release fun and interesting takes on the slots we all know and love. As 2018 draws to a close, Yggdrasil picked up awards for Innovation in RNG Casino Software at EGR’s B2B Awards, and the International Gaming Awards Innovator of the Year.
How to Play it
The title offers gamblers a 5×4 playing field with 25 fixed paylines, which means gamblers cannot turn some or all paylines on or off to decrease the minimum bet – they can only do so by changing the total bet. We like the user interface – it’s rather clean, crisp, and has all the buttons are easily accessible with just two or three taps of the screen.
Gamblers can bet between $0.10 up to $125 per spin, which is a wide betting range that will allow most players to find a wager they’re comfortable playing this Yggdrasil release at. There is an Autoplay option, which seemingly only allows you to set the amount of auto spins you want to play. However, going into the options menu reveals additional options – like a single win cap, as well as allowing gamblers to stop the auto spins if free spins, Nitro Jump or Nitro Blast is triggered.
The background image is that of the Nitro Circus stage where stunt actors perform their tricks in front of the crowd. You’ll occasionally see a dirt bike jumping from one side of the screen to the other, and there are some cool animations when you activate the Nitro Jump feature.
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Special Features
Either collecting all the five letters that spell out Nitro or finishing one of four collections will grant gamblers access to the Nitro Jump feature. Three warm-up jumps are played, during which time coin rewards can be won, as well as speed boosts and multipliers. Gamblers are able to pick which vehicle they want to use, which gives different scores for tricks, boost and size.
Tricks increase the chance of winning cash prizes, boost increases the chance to net a big multiplier, and size increases the chance of getting more items. If you’ve activated the feature by collecting one of the four collections, you can’t pick which vehicle to perform the stunt with.
Collecting three, four or five Nitro Bombs rewards ten, twenty or thirty free spins, respectively. Every additional Nitro Bomb that appears after free spins can add more free spins, additional multipliers, Wilds, or one of the four symbols that are collected to activate Nitro Jump. If two Nitro bombs appear at the same time, it can reward the four Nitro Jump symbols, a Wild, or ten, twenty or thirty additional free spins.
Maximum Payouts
The maximum payout you can get from this Yggdrasil release is worth 7318x the wager, which is a pretty awesome win, we have to admit, though it may take a while to reach it. Most of the other jackpots in this slot will be small, which fits with the low to medium volatility of the game. The RTP for Nitro Circus is 97%, which is above average for video slots.
Summary
We didn’t expect to like Nitro Circus as much as we have, but it was a blast to play through it. Once you hit one of the special feature, it makes the remaining gameplay worth it, and while the odds of scoring a big jackpot aren’t in your favour, the fast pace between bonuses makes it really enjoyable to play.