True Grit Redemption Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

True Grit Redemption Review

Having only seen the original 1969-version of True Grit, that landed John Wayne a well-deserved Oscar as the rugged, one-eyed Marshal Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn, we hardly remember the plucky teenage girl that hired him to find her father’s murderer being tortured at any point. Memory has failed us before however, but we do have to warn you up front that the ‘big win story’ borders Mental in controversy.

True Grit Redemption is no branded effort however, but it sums up a massive year for NoLimit City quite well. You get a display of all their best and most innovative features in this jam-packed and hard-boiled shootout, as well as a few innovations thrown in for good measure. Scatters unlock positions, which opens up for an array of features from the bottom sliding reel, and looking past the 2 bonus rounds, even the base game comes with a 1 in 6 million win cap chance.

True Grit Redemption Slot - Reels Screen

True Grit Redemption Slot Features

You win from left to right as long as matching symbols appear on 3+ adjacent reels, and the 5 mid-level character symbols pay between 0.85 and 1.75 x your stake for 6 of a kind wins. The top-tier symbol is the Grit Girl (who looks a bit like a rougher version of Greta Thunberg), and she pays 25x for 3-oak and 500x for 4-oak wins. She can only appear on reels 1 to 4, and any win with Grit Girl is always subject to the bottom right corner sticky multiplier (no matter if it’s locked or unlocked).

If the character symbols that slide in on the 3-position top reel match a symbol on the reel below, both symbols turn wild. This is called the xWild Transform feature, and you can expect to see it quite frequently in all stages of the game.

All winning symbols are literally gunned off the grid, making room for new symbols to drop or slide in, and this process repeats as long as you keep winning.

When the xNudge Wild slides in on the bottom reel, it always nudges fully in place to fill the whole reel. Each nudge increases the multiplier by +1, and if it’s not part of a win it folds back down and reappears on the next cascade with a multiplier that builds on the previous one. It will always appear on reel 3 from the left though, and if more multiplier wilds are involved the respective multiplier values are added together.

The xWays symbols can appear anywhere but on the top sliding reel, while Infectious xWays symbols will appear on the bottom sliding reel only. The xWays symbol reveals 2-3 instances of the same pay symbol, which increases the number of win ways. The Infectious xWays symbol reveals 2 matching symbols, and this causes all other matching symbols in view to also double up.

The Reel Split scalping symbol is another one that only slides in on the bottom reel, and it splits all symbols on the above reel in two.

The reel split symbol is then removed, making room for the possibility of a new split symbol. A reel can be split a maximum of 2 times however, and the Grit Girl has her corner multiplier doubled instead of being split.

The Transform ‘Em symbol slides in on the bottom reel only, and it turns all lower value non-character symbols in view into the same randomly chosen low-pay symbol. It does not affect any symbols on the top sliding reel, as only characters or wilds appear there.

The Torture Spins Bonus Round triggers when you land +3 scatters on reels 1 to 4 in the same cascading sequence, and 1, 2, 3 or 4 scatters also unlocks 4, 7, 9 or all 10 of the locked positions (bottom sliding reel and corner sticky multiplier included).

You get 8 Torture Spins at minimum, and +1 extra spin on top of that for each scatter that’s affacted by a symbol split. All unlocked positions remain unlocked throughout the bonus round, and you need a 4th scatter to upgrade to the Dead Spins feature with +2 spins and +1 on top of that for each scatter split.

The top-tier Dead Spins Bonus Round is triggered when you land 4 scatters in the same cascading sequence, and this awards 10 dead spins with +1 extra spin on top of that per scatter split. The big difference is that all 10 positions are guaranteed to be unlocked, including the bottom corner sticky multiplier that increases by +1 per cascading win.

You can choose from 3 different options in the Bonus Buy menu (not for UK players), and these are as follows:

• Torture Spins (96.56 % RTP with a 1 in 20 chance of upgrading to Dead Spins) costs 69x your stake. The feature triggers organically 1 in 210 spins on average, and it comes with a 1 in ~40,000 max win chance.
• Dead Spins (96.91 % RTP and has only a 1 in 28,000 chance of triggering directly from the base game) costs 669x your stake. The max win chance is a whopping 1 in ~800 in this feature.
• Lucky Draw (96.81 % RTP) - sets you back 169x your stake, and gives you an 80 % chance of getting the Torture Spins and 20 % to get the Dead Spins.

The 200 Spins True Grit Redemption Slot Experience

You get to see almost a minute of the base game, before we purchase the Torture Spins feature at 0:55 into the almost 6-minute highlights video. We purchase the Dead Spins right after that, and then we take our chances in the Lucky Draw feature in the end.

Check it all out for yourself by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

We thought the last NoLimit City release, Legion X, was a pretty good summary of their highly successful 2021, but it’s topped by True Grit Redemption. They have crammed all their best and innovative features into this gloomy end-of-year shootout and then some, and it’s almost more convoluted and confusing than Mental. Reading about the features up front helps a bit, but you don’t really need to understand everything to enjoy the highly explosive and volatile gameplay.

NoLimit City has stated that they want the win cap to be cracked even more often than usual, and you have a record-breaking 1 in 6 million chance at landing the 20,220x max win directly from the base game. The torturing of a young girl ‘big win story’ is a tad over the top perhaps (even if she does look like Greta “how dare you” Thunberg), and the grim soundtrack is not exactly an Xmas tune either. You get tons of moving parts, splitting reels, expanding this and that, and it comes together in a satisfying way that may be a bit too much on the dark side for some players.

Pros

• Scatters open up locked positions
• xWild Transform and xNudge Wild
• xWays and Infectious xWays
• Reel Split and Transform 'Em
• Torture Spins w/ 1/~40K max win chance
• Dead Spins w/ 1/~800 max win chance
• 20,220x max win (1/6M base game chance)

Cons

• Beware of adjustable RTP ranges

If you enjoy True Grit Redemption Slot you should also try:

El Paso Gunfight - is another gritty wild west installment from NoLimit City, and it takes place in a bar that can be shot up when you least expect it. It comes with xNudge respins with multiplier wilds, and there are 4 versions of the bonus round for payouts up to 44,440x your stake.

Deadwood - is another legendary and hard-boiled wild west release from NoLimit City, and it comes with the best soundtrack in the genre.

The intense Shoot Out Free Spins round combines the best elements from the 2 regular features, and this can lead to payouts up to 13,950x your stake.

Mental - comes with a theme that’s even more disturbing than the game at hand, and you can probably give up on ever fully understanding what’s going on in this truly insane NoLimit City release. There is so much splitting, cutting and slicing at all times that you just need to lean back and hope you’ll somehow crack the 66,666x potential without going nuts.

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