Mental Slot Review

Mental Slot RTP, Details and Wager Limits

The Mental slot is played using 5 reels and 108 ways to win. With the reel format being 2x3x3x3x2, it’s the same as Nolimit City’s popular Tombstone game. With the various mechanics in play, over 1 billion ways to win are possible.

Create winning combinations by landing 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols wilds on adjacent reels from left to right, starting from the leftmost reel.

Bet levels range from 20p to £70 per spin. Click on the $ icon below the reels to see all available stakes. Paytable amounts are displayed in cash, relative to your total stake. In some countries, you’ll find a Turbo Mode for faster spin speed and an Autoplay facility which allows up to 1,000 auto spins.

The Mental RTP is 96.08% which is about average. The hit frequency rate means that on average, you’ll land a winning combination on around one third of spins.

Nolimit City describes the Mental volatility as extreme so strap yourself in. This is proper 10 out of 10 stuff on the variance scale. The potential maximum win here is an enormous 66,666 x your total stake per spin.  This is known as ‘This is mental’. The max win lands once every 18 million spins on average.

Theme – Audio and Design Features – enter a sinister asylum in search of an epiphany

Many horror-themed slot games play things for laughs when it comes to design. The sound and visuals in the Mental slot really are quite disturbing. The setting is an insane asylum with flickering lights and sepia-tinged walls.

Think The Silence of the Lambs film. The soundtrack is a real chiller too. This is a slot that full of dark atmosphere. Nolimit City caused controversy and intrigue with their San Quentin slot (about the notorious prison) but Mental is even crazier and bound to split opinion.

On the reels, you’ll find 5 lower value symbols featuring skeleton hands, lungs, brains, hearts and eyes. They’re joined by 5 patient symbols (numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). The most lucrative is patient 1 in the Hannibal Lecter-style mask (patient 1) which pays 5 x your total stake if you land 5 in combination.

The skull symbol is the wild and substitutes for all symbols except the scorpion and spider scatters as well as the Dead Patient. Here’s a list of symbols and their payouts:

Mental Mobile

Mental has been fully optimised for play on all devices including desktops, tablets and smartphones. Even though it comes with high definition graphics and animations, the most chilling experience will come on bigger screens in my opinion.

Mental Bonus Features

Few developers offer gameplay quite as complex as Nolimit City and the Mental slot is a case in point. This is a game that’s packed full of bonus features including transforming symbols, split symbols, multipliers and a trio of free spin features.

Fire Frames feature

On each spin between 1 and 13 reel positions can be randomly edged in flames. These positions will split and display 2 symbols instead of 1 and in turn, boost your chances of landing a big winning combination. This is known as the Fire Frames feature.

Dead Patient feature

You can trigger the Dead Patient feature by landing 2 Dead Patient symbols. Simply, 1 of the Patients will reveal a multiplier. Multipliers can be up to 9,999x (5x, 10x, 15x, 30x, 50x, 100x, 200x, 500x, 1,000x or 9,999x).

Enhancer Cells feature

Situated at the bottom of reels 2 and 4 are special symbol positions known as Enhancer Cells. Enhancer Cells become active if you land 4 or 6 Fire Frames respectively. Each Enhancer Cell will then reveal 1 of the following:

• 1 of the 5 Patient symbols
• Dead Patient symbol
• Regular Wild
• xWays symbol (reveals 3 of the same matching symbol apart from scorpion, spider or dead patients)
• xSplit symbol (splits a symbol on each reel into 2 before turning into wilds)
• xNudge Wild (shifts until it fills the reel. Each nudge increases a multiplier by 1x. Land more than one xNudge Wild and their values are added together)

Mental Transform feature

Trigger the Mental Transform feature by landing the spider symbol on reels 2 or 4. The Spider symbol then transforms into 1 of the following symbols:

• xWays
• xSplit
• Dead Patient
• Wild
• Patient

Autopsy Free Spins feature

Land 3 Scorpion symbols on the same spin and you’ll trigger the Autopsy Free Spins feature with 8 free spins. Each scorpion in a Fire Frame adds 1 more free spin to that haul.

During this feature, up to 5 Fire Frames are added on each free spin. Once activated, they remain live for the rest of the round. You can upgrade the Autopsy Free Spins to the Lobotomy or Mental Free Spins features.

Lobotomy Free Spins feature

The Lobotomy Free Spins feature triggers by landing 3 Scorpions and a Spider on the same spin. Your reward is 9 free spins with 1 extra awarded for any Fire Frame triggers.

The Autonomy Free Spins extras are active in this round too. Spider symbols trigger the Mental Transform feature for each free spin and turn sticky.

Also boosting your chances here is the Dead Multiplier. Multipliers from Dead Symbols are collected in a count. These multipliers are added and then applied to the respective Patient symbols when they appear and the count reduced by 1.

Mental Free Spins feature

The top extra is the Mental Free Spins feature. This is triggered by landing 3 Scorpions and 2 Spiders on the same spin. You’ll then go on to play 10 free spins. As usual, Fire Frame scatters add to the free spins tally.

The Lobotomy Free Spins extras are active as well as a few new arrivals. Both Spider symbols are sticky and trigger the Mental Transform extras. Dead Multipliers do not decrease when they transfer to a Patient either. It can keep rising as new Dead Patient symbols are revealed.

Nolimit Bonus feature

Players in some territories will have the opportunity to buy a free spins feature. Known as the Nolimit Bonus feature, it’s not available to UK players. Anyway, each option will set you back between 80 and 1,000 x your total stake depending on which feature you plump for. Here are your options:

Autopsy Free Spins (8-11 free spins)	80 x stake
Lobotomy Free Spins (9-13 free spins)	230 x stake
Mental Free Spins (10-15 free spins)	1,000 x stake
Lucky Dip (1 of the 3 features above)	232 x stake

Mental Review Summary – as the name suggests, it’s truly mental

The Mental slot really is an unusual game. The subject matter certainly won’t be to all tastes. The design is impressively done but it is genuinely disturbing. That’s no surprise considering it has features called Lobotomy and Autopsy Free Spins.

As mentioned above, Nolimit City will divide opinion with the mental asylum theme. When it comes to the gameplay, Mental is quite complicated. I recommend playing the demo above to get your head around the various bonus features.

That said, Mental is about the 3 free spins features. The best of them is the Mental Free Spins feature as Dead Multipliers can reach 9,999x and will not decrease when transferring to a Patient either.

As you’ll expect given the source material, it’s an extremely highly volatile slot. Nolimit City has pushed the boundaries of their xWays, xNudge and xSplit mechanics once again. The question is whether you’ll dare to visit this mental institute in search of 66,666 x stake max wins.

I think Mental delivers on many fronts. It’s truly disturbing, well designed and combines Nolimit City’s mechanics with new extras to offer something unique and appealing. If you want to play some of their other slots, the mining-themed Fire in the Hole and nuclear apocalypse-inspired xWays Hoarder xSplit would be my suggestions.