The Cage Slot Review

The Cage Slot RTP, Details and Wager Limits

Unusually for a game, The Cage slot is played with 7 reels and 5,184 ways to win. Set up in a 3x4x3x4x3x4x3 formation, winning combinations are created when 3 to 7 matching symbols appear on successive reels from left to right and beginning from the leftmost reel (i.e. reel 1).

If you’re a keen Nolimit City fan, you’ll notice similarities with their Dead Canary slot (layout wise). In the Title Fight free spins, you’ll play with 9 reels and 5,832 ways to win (more details below).

Bets wise, you can play The Cage from 20p to £100 per spin. Using the same interface found on all NLC slots, click or press the $ icon under the reels. This will present all bet options conveniently. Non UK players have 2 more gameplay functions. There’s Autoplay which allows up to 1,000 autospins with single win/balance limits and Turbo Mode which is enabled using the Lightning Bolt icon (quickens spin speed basically).

Returns wise, The Cage RTP rate is 96.05%. Marginally higher than the 96% slots average, 64.32% is for the base game with 31.73% for the bonus features. Nolimit City also offer 94.09% and 92.09% RTP versions which may be used at the UK casino you play at. Check the Paytable to see which RTP rate you’re playing.

High volatility, The Cage is ranked as 8/10. However, it’s not considered extreme (10/10) like other Nolimit City slots. Winning combinations (see how above) will land every 3.12 spins on average as the hit frequency rate is 31.98%. Triggering free spins will take approximately 205 spins (again, on average).

Finally, The Cage slot offers 25,000 x bet max wins/payouts (for the 96.05% RTP version). Known as the Great of All Time (GOAT), this will occur once every 36 million spins on average. Winning 100 x your total bet or higher will occur every 1,122 spins. If your win reaches 25,000 x bet, the game round/feature will end.

Theme: become the greatest of all time

With an ultimate fighting theme, The Cage slot is where legends rise and champions fall. Become the GOAT (greatest of all time in case you’ve been living under a rock) in this Mixed Martial Arts inspired offering.

Set in an Underground Fight Club, it’s like the Fight Club movie meets the UFC. With a bird’s eye view of ‘The Cage’, the action is watched by plenty of cheering fighters. Intimidating and with a dog-eat-dog mentality, this intense arena isn’t very welcoming to strangers. Hopefully you’ve loaded up on muscle and are prepared to grit your way through the ranks on the way to becoming the best.

On the reels, you will see diamond-shaped symbols. Low value ones include A, K, Q, J and 10 royals as well as 5 fighters. There’s Jim ‘Big Fatty’ Johnson, Kenny ‘Ironjaw’ Shambles, Artie ‘One Glove Man’ Jefferson, Grayson ‘Boa Constrictor’ Royce and Wai ‘Little Dragon’ Le. Wai ‘Little Dragon’ Le is the best paying symbol with 1.25, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5 or 4 x bet awarded for 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 in combination.

Then you have the Fist Wild symbol which substitutes for all paying symbols above. Other symbols include the Wild Knockout xBomb, Title Fight Scatter and the Uppercut. More details are below on their roles/functions.

Symbol	Payouts/Info
10	3-9 pays 0.25 to 2.5 x bet
J	3-9 pays 0.25 to 2.5 x bet
Q	3-9 pays 0.25 to 2.5 x bet
K	3-9 pays 0.3 to 3 x bet
A	3-9 pays 0.3 to 3 x bet
Big Fatty	3-9 pays 0.5 to 3.25 x bet
Ironjaw	3-9 pays 0.6 to 3.25 x bet
One Glove Man	3-9 pays 0.75 to 3.5 x bet
Boa Constrictor	3-9 pays 1 to 3.75 x bet
Little Dragon	3-9 pays 1.25 to 4 x bet
Fist Wild	Substitutes for paying symbols above
Wild Knockout xBomb	Explodes symbols in cross pattern + increases multiplier
Title Fight Scatter	3 triggers Title Fight Free Spins feature
Uppercut	Delivers blows to opponents in free spins

The Cage Mobile

Released on the 20^th of June 2023, The Cage has been produced with HTML5 technology. Automatically detecting whatever device you use, it’s compatible with mobile, tablet and desktop devices. Smartphone players are play this ultimate fighting slot on iOS, Android and Windows mobiles. That said, a laptop or PC (desktop devices) will always provide the best visual experience.

The Cage Bonus Features

With 5 bonus features, The Cage slot offers tumbles and Wild Knockout xBombs that explode symbols in a cross pattern as well as increasing the win multiplier for the next tumbles. The Roundhouse Kick feature also adds Wild Knockout xBombs. Then you have the Title Fight Free Spins where you play with 9 reels and win both ways payouts. Here you battle 5 different fighters with various modifiers to help deliver killer blows. With each one you defeat, you get extra free spins and a title belt. In the last fight, you take on Wai ‘Little Dragon’ Le to become the GOAT and win 25,000 x bet.

Wild Knockout xBomb feature

Look out for Wild Knockout xBomb symbols as these substitute for any symbol except the Title Fight Scatter. When it appears, the Wild Knockout xBomb explodes symbols in a cross pattern adjacent to it (except scatters and other Wild Knockout xBomb symbols) as well as increasing the win multiplier by 1 for the next tumble/collapse. All Wild Knockout xBomb symbols explode before the next tumble.

Roundhouse Kick feature

The Roundhouse Kick feature is triggered in the base game when 3, 4, 5 or 6 of the same kind of paying symbols align diagonally and no winning combination occurs. Triggering symbols are removed from play and a Wild Knockout xBomb symbol is created in the middle positions of the alignment. The more of the same symbol that aligns, the more Wild Knockout xBombs:

Wild Knockout xBombs in turn will increase the win multiplier by 1 for the next tumble. All other symbols explode too (except Wild Knockout xBomb and Title Fight Scatters).

Title Fight Free Spins feature

The Cage slot game comes with a Title Fight Free Spins feature which is triggered by landing 3 Title Fight Scatter symbols anywhere on the reels. You’ll notice the reel area changed to have 9 reels and 5,832 ways to win in a 3x3x3x2x2x2x3x3x3 formation. Win both ways will also be used and you begin with 8 free spins.

There are 4 special title belt booster positions in the middle of the reel. Additionally, they are inactivated but will become active 1 by 1 when a new title belt is won. Each fight is won by landing several blows to the opponent by landing the Uppercut symbol.

Every Uppercut symbol deducts 1 hit point from the opponent. Once the opponent is knocked out, the free spins advance to the next level’s fighter. Each fighter has different hit points and will be harder to beat:

A title belt only activates once per free spin. If not used on the initial free spin, it can be achieved in the following tumbles. In Fight 5, no more Uppercut symbols appear/land. You can beat Wai ‘Little Dragon’ Le by becoming the GOAT (Greatest of All Time). Here is what each title belt/fight won awards:

If you take on Wai ‘Little Dragon’ Le and win, you’ll become the GOAT and win 25,000 x your total bet.

Nolimit Bonus feature

Lastly, The Cage slot comes with a Nolimit Bonus feature for non-UK players. With 4 options available, you can buy your way into various fights in the Title Fight Free Spins feature. Options vary between 68 and 498 x your total bet:

If you choose the Super Lucky Draw option, you have a 30% chance of entering Title Fight 1 or 2 with a 40% chance for Title Fight 5 in the Title Fight Free Spins feature.

The Cage Review Summary: defeat the 5 fighters to become the GOAT

Whilst not as controversial as previous releases including Serial or Disturbed, Nolimit City has cleverly created a game in The Cage slot that ties into the rise in popularity of Mixed Martial Arts and the UFC in particular.

Superbly designed as always, the 5 fighters have their own traits and personalities which shine through. What is certain is that all of them, bar Jim ‘Big Fatty’ Johnson, wouldn’t be appearing in the Gluttony slot. As mentioned above, the layout is similar to NLC’s Dead Canary slot.

When it comes to the gameplay, Wild Knockout xBombs explode symbols in a cross shape nearby and increases the win multiplier. Non-winning spins can lead to the Roundhouse Kick feature being activated and up to 4 Wild Knockout xBombs being added to the reels. By the way, Wild Knockout xBombs work like the xBomb Wild symbols in Dead Canary.

Then you have the Title Fight Free Spins feature where there are more reels, more ways to win and win both wins payouts. You take on an opponent in each fight with the help of Uppercut symbols and various modifiers in later fights. With each fight won, you get additional free spins for your next bout. If you defeat the Little Dragon, you’ll become the GOAT and pocket 25,000 x your total bet.

With 25,000 x bet max wins up for grabs, Dead Canary does come with 65,000 x bet jackpots. The max win probability is 1 in 36 million spins whilst Dead Canary has a 1 in 7 million chance of landing the top prize.

That said, The Cage slot is a superb fighting-themed game which is unique, eventful and gives the UFC a run for its money, in a slot form of course. Is it the GOAT? Not quite as other Nolimit City slots offer bigger win potential but it definitely offers a whole load of grit and kick-ass action.