Roadkill Slot Review

Overview

Join the animal rebellion in Roadkill, Nolimit City’s cheeky 5-reel, 3-row slot with connector pays across 99 lines. Ambient base gameplay transports you to the countryside before escalating features pit nimble creatures against hazardous traffic. Land 2+ scatters to trigger Call to Arms then upgrade to the Team Assemble and coveted Junkyard Assault rounds! With high variance and 11,091x top wins from a 1 in 25 million chance of the Kings of the Road jackpot, volatility lovers are in for a dramatic experience!

My Thoughts Overall

As a huge Nolimit City fan, I had high hopes for Roadkill’s zany premise and was not disappointed! Their signature high octane volatility shines throughout bonus features - assuming you have the patience to penetrate initially baffling mechanics. I lost count of frustrating bonus buys that flopped early on. But once the gameplay clicked after many spins, with jumping wild animals blocking cars to enable multipliers, splits and traps for pay boosts, racing towards that epic 3x3 wild brought tremendous satisfaction!

Yes, roadkill’s Heavy reliance on features means navigating dead spins in the base game mostly just builds nervous suspense rather than paying out much. Yet the experience rolls along smoothly when you’re upgrading papa bear and his friends turn by turn. Leaderboards also showcase tremendous wins from other players to inspire chasing bigger payouts!

In terms of improvements, perhaps lower variance options would accommodate more playing styles and bankrolls. Novices may also benefit from an integrated tutorial. But for sheer creativity, I’m floored! Nolimit City has crafted an absolute masterpiece here in Roadkill that should enter halls of fame for novelty and engagement!

Bonus Features

While I’ve covered Roadkill’s diverse features briefly already, let’s dig deeper on how they trigger and what exactly they bring to the table. Get ready for an eventful ride!

Call to Arms

Everything kicks off by landing 2 scatters during base gameplay. This awards 2 regular hearts and 2 jumping wilds as Papa Bear, Fred the Rabbit or Deer Joe enters play. Essentially you now have limited ‘lives’ represented by hearts that sustain features until depleted. With every spin cars will speed by horizontally, which your wild animals try blocking to receive upgrades, multipliers and more via related collectors. Land an additional scatter and you’ll trigger the main Team Assemble feature!

Collectors

These stats trackers are the key to levelling up your overall feature experience. Each jumping wild animal like the dynamic Papa Bear has its own collector, with numbers increasing by 1 whenever your wild blocks an incoming car. Max out any collector by reaching a count of 5 and the feature gifts you major boosts! For instance, Papa bear earns a permanent 2x multiplier while Fred the Rabbit starts placing multiplier traps. Reaching collector caps also converts regular hearts into tougher armored hearts, helping sustain features longer before losing all ‘lives’ when cars escape unblocked.

Jumping Wilds

As mentioned, Roadkill introduces not just any ordinary wilds but special Jumping Wilds denoting Papa Bear, Fred the Rabbit and Deer Joe. These three friends bounce around the middle ‘Battle Zone’ reel positions on every spin, attempting to obstruct passing cars using their signature moves. Papa Bear tries blocking vehicles to build a 5x general multiplier for example, while Deer Joe triggers split pays and Fred the Rabbit leaves behind additional wild symbols. Upgrading collectors for the wild animals unlocks superior rewards, so keep striving towards those cap levels!

Team Assemble

This is the first major feature where gameplay really picks up, triggered by hitting 3 scatters initially or adding one more during the Call to Arms round. You’re awarded 3 hearts/lives and both green and red cars start shooting by, with the deadlier red vehicle appearing every 5th spin. Team assemble introduces all jumping wild friends simultaneously with collectors counting up car hits distinctly. Go on the offensive as increasing collectors to max transforms hearts into tougher armored hearts and sets you up for an epic upgrade!

Junkyard Assault

The coveted Junkyard Assault round only unlocks once you pull off the incredible feat of fully upgrading all 3 jumping wild animals to their collector limits during Team Assemble. Your hearts reset to 3 now with armored status, and it’s pedal to the metal madness with both red and green cars gunning through the rows each turn! Instead of separate collectors per wild, you now have just one cumulative collector with the next goal hitting a total of 20 hits to enable the unstoppable...

Roadblock!

After cumulative hits on the lone collector in Junkyard Assault reaches 20, next spin heralds the formidable Roadblock! All jumping wild friends now expand to cover entire rows while you’re also gifted extra lives. Bring it on Billy and Hilly! Each vehicle striking unique rows in their path triggers explosive outcomes before they too succumb to the roadblock’s might. We’re talking extra wilds added, multipliers boosted, and symbols split for more connective pays. Then when the roadblock withstands the onslaught by stopping both cars, the entire middle battleground converts to a giant 3x3 wild!

I live for moments like these in volatile Roadkill gameplay when features sync up perfectly! Building towards the maximum 3x3 symbol payoff event requires skill and luck, which makes finally clinching it an adrenaline rush like no other! Even just upgrading to Junkyard Assault alone keeps my pulse racing every step of the way with its fast and furious rhythm!

Win Potential

As expected from a quintessentially high variance Nolimit City slot boasting an 8/10 volatility rating, Roadkill’s erratic payouts demonstrate drastic swings. Spinning the 5 reels, 3 rows and 99 bet lines can feel fruitless trudging through dry spells without bonuses hitting. But oh boy, do wins ramp up exponentially when they finally do!

Even the earliest Call to Arms feature gifted by just 2 scatters coughs up reasonable rewards from multiplier and split pays. Building collector counts towards attribute upgrades keeps tension high. Maxing out any of the 3 jumping wild friends to access superior perks pays off remarkably over time. And sealing the motherlode 3x3 roadblock symbol through skill and persistence over potentially endless Junkyard Assault free spins feels nothing short of euphoric, easily multiplying your total wager dozens to hundreds of times over!

Of course, the warning signs are equally severe on Roadkill’s risk scale. A few terrible bonus buys in my early test run bled my practice bankroll quickly with barely any features triggering. Highly aggressive players face great peril over long sessions if Lady Luck deserts them on this volatile battlefield against traffic. Budget carefully and brace for gut punching losses amid glorious wins!

Ultimately, Roadkill provides exactly the extreme pendulum rides you expect of Nolimit City slots. Paired with adjustable bet sizes from 0.2 to 100 credits, both micro stakes dabblers and ‘whales’ wagering large enjoy prime real estate to spin. Just be prepared for the 96.05% RTP range's ultra rare 1 in 25 million max payout cap at a whopping 11,091x your total stake!