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Karen Maneater

Karen’s stirring the pot and she’s taken bone broth to a whole different level. Join her and her raccoon gang in looting the town to establish order. She’s dealt with all the managers, if you’re not careful - you’ll be next.

10-05-2022

Release Date

96.00%

RTP

Volatility

24.58%

Hit Frequency

1 in 330k

Max Win Probability

11 757 x bet

Max payout

1 in 204

Free Spins

3x6

Reels/Rows

Yes

Feature buy-in

Yes

Bonus mode

€0.10/€70.00

Min/Max bet

Karen Maneater summary

Enter a post-apocalyptic world where bone broth has taken on a terrifying new meaning in this dark release from Nolimit City. Set across an unconventional 2-3-3-3-3-3 grid layout, the game invites you to join a menacing protagonist and her raccoon gang as they loot the town to establish order. You can face the managers and play for free right here on our platform. The bizarre setting and expanding reels offer a truly unique experience as you try to avoid becoming the next main course.

Base Game Mechanics and Features

The base game action relies on expanding reels and infectious symbol modifiers. Whenever a Raccoon scatter symbol lands on the middle four reels, it forces all reels to its right to expand by one position. Landing just one or two scatters converts them into the proprietary xWays symbol, which reveals multiple matching symbols to increase your win ways. The powerful Infectious xWays mechanic can land on the first reel to reveal massive symbol sizes and infect the rest of the reel to match. You will also find an Infectious Wild on the last reel that nudges downward to build a multiplier for every symbol in its column. Players wanting a shortcut can activate the xBet option to guarantee a scatter on the second reel for an increased cost.

Bonus Rounds and Free Spins

Securing three or four scatters triggers the main feature where the real feast begins. Three scatters award the Value Bonus Meal with seven spins and three sticky xWays symbols. Landing four scatters unlocks the Deluxe Bonus Meal, giving you ten spins and four sticky xWays symbols. During these rounds, the sticky modifier symbols grow in size after every winning spin, maxing out at an incredible forty two symbols per position. Since these rounds build massive combinations so quickly, this title is an excellent choice when you want to join a free slot tournament and test your luck for real rewards against the community.

Volatility Rating and Potential

Because the mechanics are so deeply layered, this slot carries an Insane volatility rating. The ultimate goal is serving up The Last Supper max win cap, which pays out 11,757 times your initial wager. Surviving such a harsh mathematical model requires careful planning and a good understanding of the expanding features. By utilizing your Playin coins on our site, you can figure out exactly how the sticky symbols grow and test different betting strategies without risking your own balance.

Reviews

8.93

8.6

AboutSlots

New month, new game, well Nolimit City is certainly continuous when it comes to delivering new slots. It's once again a comical and entertaining theme that is well mixed with well thought out mechanics. Players familiar with their previous release xWays Hoarder xSplit will be familiar with many of the features here, as well as the characters. Indeed, this slot takes place at a later point in time than that recently mentioned slot, where this post-apocalyptic world has made Karen more insane than usual. The graphics and especially the music that has been created for this slot contributes to a more in-depth gaming experience, where it adds a perfect touch to the spins that are made. It's a reel setup that starts off somewhat innocently, but 486 ways to win from the start can quickly increase significantly with the help of the game's various features that kick in over the course of the game. The game's Infectious Wild will nudge down to the bottom row when it lands, and the multiplier created during this process will then be applied to the other symbols on that reel. The xWays and Infectious xWays are two great features that we have been taking part of a lot lately in slots from Nolimit City, where they can shake things up considerably, with more ways to win and gigantic wins many times being a reward once they have landed. There will certainly be many great tastes created during the base game spins, but the xWays symbols get to shine extra bright within the bonus game. There, the scatter symbols that activated the Bonus Meal will turn into sticky xWays symbols that during the spins can increase to an incredible 42 symbols each. This many times during our trials resulted in the final spins being able to generate phenomenal wins. Although the potential maximum win is not up there with many other games from this game provider, it is still within a very good size. Players should be prepared for the balance to shift significantly during the course of the game, as the extremely high volatility contributes to this, but it can also help create sudden bonanzas. It's a nerve-wracking ride to be a part of and they manage to capture many amusing features in one place, where along with this comical theme it will result in multiple revisits to this post-apocalyptic location. Karen Maneater is a slot from Nolimit City where we get to enjoy an entertaining gaming experience, where ingredients such as Bonus Meal, Sticky xWays and Infectious Wilds among others help to create this.

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9.2

Online-Slot.co.uk

With yet another controversial backstory, the Karen Maneater slot serves up quite the treat. Visually superb, the colourful characters are odd and unique and pay homage to a fallen America in a post-apocalyptic world. Big wins see superb graphics of Karen acting as Salt Bae oddly. If you manage the hit the top payout of 11,757 x bet, a scene depicting the Last Supper appears where Karen appears as Jesus with raccoons at the table. The game’s predecessor, xWays Hoarder xSplit offers 11,030 x bet max wins which is slightly lower. This is because the amount of poop a man produces is less of that of a woman (a woman typically lives longer). Oddly, no other provider bases the max win of this kind of information. This is the sort of thing that I love and relish. In terms of the gameplay, you need xWays and Infectious xWays symbols to do their thing and increase the number of ways to win significantly. If you combine the xWays symbols with Infectious Wilds and increasing multipliers, big wins are possible. The bigger wins will come in the Bonus Meal features with the Sticky xWays symbols guaranteeing more ways to win on every free spin. Whilst the max win is lower than many Nolimit City games, the max payout will occur once every 330,000 spins which dramatically improves your chances of winning big. In comparison, the max win in Remember Gulag will occur once every 17 million spins (that’s 51.5 times as many spins). In regards to the top win, it will be won once every 21,000 spins with 3 Raccoon scatters and once every 1,000 spins with 4 scatters. The Bonus Meal features will take 204 spins approximately to trigger and an upgrade will occur every 29 spins (on average). Whilst demo mode is recommended, Karen Maneater is a little chaotic, like the world it’s set in. The gameplay is explosive and can deliver big payouts on any spin or free spin. In summary, it’s another solid offering from Nolimit City which is controversial, intriguing and genuinely bizarre.

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9.0

Bigwinboard

Karen Maneater might not be an NLC flagship release, but it’s just as bent, wild, wacky, and over the top as they get – perhaps more so.

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Game Features

Scatter

Raccoon Scatter symbol can only land on the middle four\nreels. Landing a Scatter will allow all reels to the right to\nexpand to one extra position. Landing 1/2 Scatter(s) will\nconvert to an xWays symbol. Landing 3/4 will trigger Bonus\nMeal.

Infectious xWays

These can only land on middle 4 reels. xWays symbols will\ntransform into a regular paying symbol. A symbol of 2-4 in\nsize will be revealed and increase the number of win ways.\nInfectious xWays symbol can only land on the first reel and\nwill reveal a symbol of 2-7 in size. It will turn all symbols\non that reel to become 2-7 in size. xWays and Infectious\nxWays symbol can only land in the main game and reveal\nthe same symbol.

xBet

Chase the dinner plates by increasing the base bet\nwith +30%. Got a bigger appetite? Increasing your bet\nwill increase the chance to trigger the Bonus Meal.\nGuaranteed Scatter symbol on the second reel.

Infectious Wild

A Wild that lands on the last reel will nudge to bottom\nposition, with each nudge increasing the Wild multiplier\nby 1. The final Wild multiplier will also be added to each\nsymbol on the last reel.

The Last Supper

The max payout of the game is 11 757 times the base bet.

Bonus Meal

Bon Appetite! Landing three Raccoon Scatter symbols will\nactivate a Value Bonus Meal, 7 spins with 3 Sticky xWays.\nLanding 4 will activate a Deluxe Bonus Meal, 10 spins with\n4 Sticky xWays. The Scatter positions will leave an xWays\nsymbol that will stay for the rest of the feature. The xWays\nsymbols reveal size will start with 2 and can grow to a\nmaximum of 42 with each winning spin.

Nolimit Bonus - Feature Buy Functionality

Buy your way straight into one of the different bonus\nfeatures, ranging from 100x to 542x the base bet

* The Nolimit Bonus feature may however be removed in\nsome regulated markets.

Game xMechanics

xWays®

xWays® unlocks unprecedented win potential for players. Usually seen in a fixed Ways game, any xWays symbols that land reveals a stack of the same symbol, increasing the ways available to win, and when working alongside some of the other mechanics available in this series, such as xNudge or xSplit, can pave the way for some huge wins. xWays® first made an appearance in Pixies Vs Pirates, although many players will more likely recognise this mechanic from Punk Rocker, an early 2020 release. Alongside these two releases, xWays has made an appearance in a host of other NolimitCity games, including Dragon Tribe, East Coast vs West Coast, and San Quentin – the early 2021 release which rocked the community with news of a 150,000x maximum win availability.

xBet®

At an extra cost per spin, the player gets an increased chance of getting into the Bonus Modes. The way this happens varies from game to game. The payout for each symbol is not affected.

Infectious xWays®

Any xWays symbols that appear will reveal the same symbol, and if the symbol revealed is already visible on the reels, each in view will be ‘infected’ and will expand as if they are xWays – producing additional ways to win.