The gaming industry has massively developed in recent years. Most games, including those deemed social and casual games in days gone by, have received significant revamps. The revamps have enhanced their excitement levels while making them more appealing profit-wise.

This is necessitated by the fact that some of them come with over-the-top RTP percentages while some enable players to bet on them on eSports platforms.

Moving with the times, NoLimit City borrowed elements from classic arcade games in its Tanked slot, released on December 3, 2024.

These elements were fused with reel-spinning elements to create a classically appealing and highly profitable game. This is demonstrated by the game’s super high volatility, top RTP pegged at 96.04%, and an impressive 25,000x the bet max payout.

Whenever players are about to initiate a gaming session playing the Tanked slot, they must be aware of the following:

• Bet Option: Note that the supported bet options range from 0.20 coins to 100.00 coins. As such, always pick a wagering option that suits your bankroll management plan rather than using the default option.   

• Spin Option: Two spin options are available, including manual spins, which require players to click the Spin button after every spin. Alternatively, players can enable the auto-play mode, which enables them to spin the reels automatically for a set number of times.  

• Turbo Mode: The turbo mode is available for players who want to increase the speed with which the reels spin.

Tanked slot game comes with a 6 reel grid. Uniquely, the game doesn’t use any of the standard slot payout mechanics like paylines, megaways, or cluster pays. Instead, it introduces the innovatively designed xLoot mechanic.

Payouts are awarded when the moving character on the grid picks up symbols of the same color. Wild symbols can collected by all characters.   

Players should note that the higher the number of symbols the moving character collects, the bigger the payout awarded. At least five symbols must be collected for a payout to be awarded. The top-paying symbols ranked from highest to lowest are as follows:

• Red symbols.
• Green symbols.
• Blue symbols.
• Purple symbols.

• Multipliers: Any symbol appearing on the reels can receive a multiplier value. Multipliers multiply the character payouts and they are additive.     

• xBomb & Barrel Bomb: The xBomb and barrel bomb symbols only explode if there is no character movement and no tank boosters are available. The xBomb symbol removes all paying symbols and increases the overall multiplier by 1. The barrel bomb removes all paying symbols and expands the grid vertically or horizontally by 1 step.

• Booms: The small boom happens when three characters are next to each other, and no character can move; the characters will explode and remove all paying symbols. The Big Boom happens when four characters are next to each other, and no character can move; the characters will explode, remove all paying symbols on the reel area, and increase the grid size by 1 step.

• Kill Count: Whenever a character is involved in an explosion, they lose one life. When a character has lost three lives, it will be considered killed, which gets removed from the reel area along with all the corresponding symbols. The character is resurrected after the subsequent evaluation.

• xNudge Wild & xSplit: Whenever the xNudge wild lands, it nudges to the bottom of the grid or until it hits a non-paying symbol. Whenever the xNudge Wild does not have a multiplier, it creates a 2x multiplier. The multiplier will then increase by 1 on each nudge. The xSplit symbol splits all paying symbols horizontally or vertically, doubles their sizes, and then converts itself into a wild. It also doubles the value of any multiplier that is hit by the split.

• Grid Expansion & Max Expansion: The grid expands by one step if the Rocket symbol hits the wall, a Barrel Bomb is self-triggered, or a Big Boom is triggered. Grid expansion moves from 6×6 to 9×9 and it happens in four steps.

• Carnage Spins & Carnage Royale: Landing three bonus symbols help trigger the Carnage Spins and award 5 spins. During the round, multipliers, kill count and grid size will be carried over from the base mode. Four bonus symbols landing simultaneously trigger the Carnage Royale and award 7 spins. During the round, the kill count will be carried over from the base mode, the grid increases to 9×9, and a +5 multiplier on top of the current multiplier is carried over from the base game. The feature upgrades to the Mayhem Spins when all characters die in the same explosion.

• Mayhem Spins: The feature triggers when all characters lose their lives. The grid transforms to a 9×9 format and a +10 multiplier on top of the current multiplier is carried over from base mode. During the round, all character’s life will be set to 1. The feature can be retriggered, and the retrigger will award one extra spin and a +10 multiplier.

• Tank Boosters: During the gaming session, moving characters can pick special icons which include the following:
  • Rocket: The symbol shoots a wall close to random enemy characters destroying them in the process. In turn, standard payout symbols increase in size and in so doing, increase the reel grid.
  • Grenade: The grenade will target random enemy characters and remove all paying symbols in the explosion.
  • Power Drill: The symbol targets the largest cluster on the grid and removes all enemy characters, payout symbols, and wilds. In the aftermath, it picks up tank boosters, multiplier, and bonus symbols. 
  • Airstrike: The symbol targets up to three enemy characters.

• NoLimit Boosters: For 3x the bet, the player is more than four times likely to activate the bonus modes. For 40x the bet, four random tank boosters are randomly distributed to characters. 
• God Mode: For 5000x the bet, players can land the max win symbol on the reels.

The most impressive thing about the Tanked slot, and the reason why I highly recommend it, is that it features a plethora of bonus rounds.

The presence of the bonus features means players won’t be bored with the monotony of base gameplay. Moreover, this also means there are a variety of channels to scoop the game’s payouts.