The Border (NoLimit City) – Review & Demo Play

The Border - Slot Overview

The Border throws you onto a 6x6 grid with Cluster Pays and cascading collapses when five or more matching symbols connect horizontally or vertically. It’s rated extreme for volatility, with RTP configurations topping out at 96.17% but also seen at 94.07% and 92.15% depending on settings. Stakes run from 20p up to £100 per spin, though some UK sites cap lower. There’s an optional Boosted xRip that adds 50% to your stake, guarantees a scatter on reel 1, and pays nothing on wins below your base bet.

Slot Details in The Border

Wins form via clusters that are removed, letting new symbols collapse in for consecutive hits. Baseline 5-of-a-kind clusters pay between 0.2x and 1x bet, while monster 160+ clusters reach 553.85x to 2,214.4x. The math can snowball when the xMechanics line up, and that’s the hook here: expand symbol counts, add multipliers, blow space open, and keep collapsing.

On the numbers front, hit frequency sits around 29.58% and free spins trigger about once every 260 spins on average. Max win is 44,288x, nicknamed Seized & Destroyed, with a top-out probability near 1 in 44 million spins, improving to around 1 in 8 million with Boosted xRip active. RTP splits are heavily weighted between base play and bonus features, so session flow swings hard.

Theme, Audio + Symbols in The Border

The setting is a barbed-wire border at night, searchlights cutting through dust, and a tense, guitar-led score that nails the mood. It feels gritty without turning bleak, and the grid art carries plenty of character. You get the sense of pressure from the first spin, like the patrol trucks are lurking just off-screen while you stack clusters and hunt multipliers.

Symbol-wise, low pays are scorpions, snakes, and vultures; premiums are five characters, topping out with the drug lord. At the floor, a 5-symbol cluster pays 0.2x to 1x, while 160+ clusters peak at 553.85x for the beasts and 2,214.4x for the drug lord. It’s a clean ladder where volume and upgrades matter more than single-line hits.

Specials carry the game. xWays reveal 2 or 4 instances of the same symbol. xSplit lands on reels 2-6, splits all symbols to the left, then turns wild; multiple splits stack an xMultiplier up to x64. xNudge Cluster Wilds move up or down in a win and add to the global win multiplier. xBomb Wilds explode adjacent symbols and ramp the multiplier for the next collapse. xCluster appears in free spins, adding +1 to the global multiplier for every extra unique cluster.

The Border Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	160+	x2214.4
	120+	x1500
	100+	x1000
	85+	x500
	60+	x250
	9	x5
	8	x3.5
	7	x2.25
	6	x1.5
	5	x1
	160+	x1107.2
	120+	x750
	100+	x600
	85+	x400
	60+	x125
	9	x3
	8	x2
	7	x1.25
	6	x0.9
	5	x0.7
	160+	x1107.2
	120+	x600
	100+	x400
	85+	x100
	60+	x75
	9	x2.75
	8	x1.75
	7	x1.25
	6	x0.85
	5	x0.65
	160+	x1107.2
	120+	x500
	100+	x250
	85+	x75
	60+	x60
	9	x2.5
	8	x1.5
	7	x1
	6	x0.75
	5	x0.6
	160+	x1107.2
	120+	x400
	100+	x150
	85+	x50
	60+	x40
	9	x2
	8	x1.25
	7	x0.9
	6	x0.7
	5	x0.5
	160+	x553.85
	120+	x250
	100+	x100
	85+	x40
	60+	x30
	9	x1.5
	8	x0.75
	7	x0.65
	6	x0.5
	5	x0.3
	160+	x553.85
	120+	x150
	100+	x75
	85+	x30
	60+	x20
	9	x0.9
	8	x0.75
	7	x0.55
	6	x0.4
	5	x0.25
	160+	x553.85
	120+	x100
	100+	x50
	85+	x20
	60+	x15
	9	x0.75
	8	x0.5
	7	x0.4
	6	x0.3
	5	x0.2
	Special
	Special
	Wild
	Wild
	Scatter

Bonus Features in The Border

The engine is packed: collapses, xWays, xSplit, xNudge Cluster Wilds, xBomb Wilds, and xCluster. The rhythm is simple to read but wild to control: split counts stack, wilds nudge, bombs clear the board and bump the multiplier, and xWays flood the grid with the same symbol to glue clusters together. When these overlap, cluster sizes and multipliers climb fast.

Six scatters award 10 Mule Spins where xWays infect same-reel cluster symbols before other enhancers act, and scatters upgrade you into Coyote Spins, granting +2 spins per scatter. Seven scatters trigger 12 Coyote Spins directly, with xWays infecting all cluster symbols and xBombs feeding their value to any xMultiplier symbols left after the blast; bombs without value add +1. The win multiplier does not reset in Coyote Spins. Where available, you can buy Mule Spins for 98x, Coyote Spins for 914x, or a 50/50 Lucky Dip for 506x.

The Border - Slot Verdict

I rate The Border as classic Nolimit City: controversial theme, jam-packed mechanics, and a hard-as-nails ride that can feel overwhelming until it clicks. Get the right splits, an xWays flood, a tidy cluster shape, and a climbing multiplier, and it can go from flat to feral in a single collapse chain. It’s volatile, unapologetic, and bristling with synergy, with 44,288x on the table for those willing to grind into the storm.