Narcos Slot Review

Narcos Slot RTP, Details and Wager Limits

The Narcos slot is played on a 5 reel, 3 row, 243 ways to win machine. Create winning combinations by landing 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols or wilds from left to right on adjacent reels, starting from reel 1.

Stake levels here range from 20p to £100 per spin. To play at the higher levels, you’ll need to find some of Pablo Escobar’s hidden cash (rumoured to be billions of dollars). To change your bet, click on the Level and Coin Value buttons to adjust accordingly. There’s Auto Play and Quick Spin functions too (not available in the UK from October 2021).

The Narcos RTP is 96.23% which is slightly better than average. The game comes with a 26.7% hit frequency rate meaning just over a quarter of spins will result in a winning combination.

You might expect a slot with such an explosive theme to have variance to match. This is certainly fiery. The volatility is in the medium to high range.

The max win is 1,506 x your total stake.

Theme – the gritty streets of 1970s Colombia

The Narcos slot is the official game for the gripping TV series of the same name. If you haven’t seen the original Netflix series, here’s a quick primer on the Narcos back story. It centres on attempts by US law enforcement agencies to crack down on the ultra-violent and hugely successful Cali drug cartel operated by Colombian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar.

The TV version was stylish, violent and massively popular. This slot version also displays plenty of visual flair. There’s an almost photorealistic look to the comic-book-style imagery on offer here. A 1970s Colombian street scene forms the backdrop to the reels. A swinging salsa soundtrack complete with blaring sirens and volleys of gunfire rounds out what is a very atmospheric package.

On the reels, you’ll find lower value royal symbols embellished with bricks of cash, pistols, automatic weapons and grenades. More rewarding are the light aircraft, a pink flamingo and a quartet of higher value character symbols. DEA agents Steve Murphy and Javier Peña are the most lucrative symbols, paying 1, 4 or 15 x your total stake if you land 3, 4 or 5 on adjacent reels.

There’s also a DEA badge wild symbol (that can turn into a Walking Wild as you’ll discover shortly). This replaces all the standard symbols and also offers payouts of up to 15 x stake for a 5-wild winning combo.

Narcos Slot Mobile

The Narcos mobile slot comes with the same classy combination of super-stylish design and variety of extras as the desktop version. The features are all very easy to play even if you’re using a smartphone or a tablet to play on.

Narcos Bonus Features

You’ll find plenty of extras in this Narcos slot game, with a total of 4 bonus features. Gameplay highlights include wild extras, streak re-spins and a classic free spins bonus.

Walking Wild feature

Land a DEA badge wild symbol in a winning combination and the Walking Wild feature is triggered. Transforming into a Walking Wild, it shifts 1 position to the left with each spin. The Walking Wild continues to shift left when part of a win until it drops off reel 1.

Drive-By feature

The Drive-By feature can trigger at random on any base game spin. A speeding car pulls up behind the reels. A gunman climbs out and starts firing at the reels. Any high-value symbol struck by a bullet turns into a wild symbol. A new payout calculation then follows with the wilds in position.

Locked Up feature

To trigger the Locked Up feature, which is a variation on the streak respin bonus, you need to land 3 of the Escobar Locked Up Poster symbols on the same spin. These 3 triggering symbols are then allocated a value that will range from between 1 and 10 x your total stake.

You’ll start the feature with 3 respins on reels made up of blanks, Locked Up and Golden Locked Up symbols. Land a Locked Up symbol and it too locks on the reels and the respins reset to 3.

Better still is the Golden Locked Up symbol. When these symbols land next to a cluster of Locked Up symbols, they increase the value of the cash prizes, between 11 and 26 x stake. They can also give the following:

If you a new Locked Up or Golden Lock Up symbol appears and is added to the existing cluster, the number of free spins resets to 3. In total, you could win up to 271 times your total stake in this particular Narcos slot feature.

Free Spins feature

The arrival of the Free Spins feature is heralded by landing scatter symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5. You’ll then go on to play 10 free spins. On any of these free spins, a high-value symbol can magically transform into a Walking Wild. If any Walking Wilds are on the reels when your allocation of 10 free spins is over, extra free spins are awarded until they’ve dropped away.

Narcos Review Summary – a good adaptation of the hit Netflix series

The adaptation of the cult Netflix crime drama is very well done. The comic-book-style visuals in the Narcos slot are an ideal match for this theme, as is the salsa soundtrack.

You can expect plenty of variety as far as gameplay is concerned here too, starting with the Walking Wilds and Drive-By features that come along at regular intervals.  Both the Locked Up and Free Spins features offer plenty of potential too.

However, with a max win of 1,506 x your total stake in the free spins, it seems like Pablo Escobar has forgotten to arm his crew. Visually, the Narcos slot game is very good. In terms of gameplay, it just doesn’t live up to the hit Netflix series.

If you love your TV series, Vikings (also by NetEnt) is a better game and comes with 10,000 x stake max wins. There’s also an official Joe Exotic slot from Red Tiger Gaming which offers 4,117 x stake payouts and plenty of bonus features.