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ELK Studios · 2021 · nitro reels / redraw feature

Nitropolis 2 on a phone

PORTRAIT ✓ 0.7 s TO PLAYABLE SIDEWAYS ONLY FREE DEMO

Holds portrait, 0.7 s from tap to a board that takes input, sideways only. That is the whole verdict before any of the reel talk.

The phone check

Yes HOLDS PORTRAIT 202 of 306 do
0.7 s TO PLAYABLE Under the 2.1 s median
Sideways only TOUCH TARGETS usable size only sideways
4 TAPS FROM THE LOBBY Search box to a spinning board

It renders upright, but the controls only reach a usable size once the phone is sideways. Portrait is for looking at. The demo pulls about 4 MB before the first tap registers, which on a poor bar is where the 0.7 s goes. Getting money back out is a separate count and we keep it at cashout.

One build, one return figure

One build, 96.1%, no variants. Worth appreciating: 123 of the 306 titles on this board carry two or three return configurations and look identical in all of them, so this is one of the few pages where the number is simply the number.

Where it sits on the board

Ranked 132 of 306 here, and none of that ranking is about the game. It is about the handset. Against a board median of 2.1 s that is 1.4 s of your life back per session.

ELK Studios has 10 titles on this board, 7 of them upright, with a median load of 1.9 s.

What the game is

A 2021 release from ELK Studios. Board is 6x4 base, expandable rows, the mechanic is nitro reels / redraw feature. Sequel adding the Redraw feature and pearl multipliers while keeping the expanding Nitro Reel chaos.

Swing is very high. Plan the demo around that and not around whatever the first ten spins do. C$0.20 a spin, so twenty dollars runs to roughly 100 of them. Ceiling is 50,000x and it is not going to happen to you.

The rest of it

StudioELK Studios
Released2021
Board6x4 base, expandable rows
Mechanicnitro reels / redraw feature
VolatilityVery high
Top licensed return96.1%
House edge on that build3.9%
Max win50,000x
Minimum stakeC$0.20
Spins on twenty dollarsabout 100
Free demoyes, no account needed
Tagsdystopia, sequel, bonus-buy

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