Rock Bottom (NoLimit City) – Review & Demo Play

Rock Bottom Slot Overview

I went in braced for black humour. Rock Bottom runs on 5 reels in a 3-4-4-4-3 set-up with 576 ways paying left to right. Volatility sits at 8/10, and RTP is operator selectable, topping out at 96.04%. Stakes run from 0.20 to 100 per spin, with the Flush Bet/xBet adding 50% and guaranteeing a scatter on reel 2 (96% RTP at the top model). It’s a monochrome alley backdrop punctuated by flashes of colour from the five grief-stage characters.

Rock Bottom Slot Information

Low pays are 10 to A, worth 1.1x to 1.5x for five of a kind. Premiums are the personifications of Anger, Denial, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance, paying 2.5x up to 7.5x for a five-symbol way. There’s no regular wild, which matters in the base game because matching symbols must land on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost. The whiskey and pills scatter appears on all reels and substitutes for pay symbols, so it pulls double duty as a scatter and a wild.

In practice, that scatter can carry plenty of weight. During play, character symbols may expand in features, and in the base game xSplit comes into play. xSplit lands on reels 2 to 4, becomes wild when it splits, and it slices itself and character symbols on the same row, including adjacent positions on the first and last rows. Characters can be split up to three times, to sizes of 2, 4, or 8, while scatters, other xSplits, and lows are unaffected.

Rock Bottom Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	5	x7.5
	4	x2
	3	x0.5
	5	x5
	4	x1.25
	3	x0.45
	5	x3.75
	4	x1
	3	x0.4
	5	x3
	4	x0.85
	3	x0.35
	5	x2.5
	4	x0.75
	3	x0.3
	5	x1.5
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.25
	5	x1.25
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.25
	5	x1.25
	4	x0.35
	3	x0.2
	5	x1.15
	4	x0.3
	3	x0.2
	5	x1.1
	4	x0.25
	3	x0.15
	Mystery
	Special
	Scatter, Wild

Rock Bottom Slot Features

Flush Bet can be toggled between spins, costing 50% extra and guaranteeing a scatter on reel 2, lifting the bonus hit rate from around 1 in 198 to about 1 in 90. Land 3 or 4 scatters for Headshrinker Spins, or 5 for Insanity Spins. Both start with 5 free spins, plus +1 per position scatters nudge to the bottom row. Free spins move to a 3‑reel grid where only characters, scatters, or blanks can land.

Every 5th collected scatter moves the round up a level, from level 1 to as high as level 5. In Headshrinker Spins, the level’s character expands to a full stack when it hits, while higher-tier characters not yet active gain +1 to their symbol multipliers whenever they land, applied to wins with that symbol. In Insanity Spins the expanding symbols act as wilds, and when different symbols connect, the expanding symbol’s multiplier is added to the other symbol’s multiplier in the same win.

Hit a win of 1,969x or more and xCap: Downfall kicks in, letting me pick a random x2, x3, x5, x7, or x10 that’s applied to the haul, with the cap set at 19,690x. The Nolimit Bonus buy menu offers Headshrinker for 75x (RTP up to 96.1%), Insanity for 500x (up to 96.18%), or Lucky Draw for 183x (up to 96.36%); not available in the UK. For context, max win odds are around 1 in 35m, improving to 1 in 280k and 1 in 9k in the two rounds.

Rock Bottom: Slot Verdict

I like how this feels a touch less manic for Nolimit City, without losing the bite. The base game is readable, while the free spins need a session or two to click, as it’s all about building symbol multipliers and timing level ups. Non‑wild expanders in Headshrinker can whiff, but Insanity fixes that nicely. xCap is a neat flourish that ties the capped 19,690x neatly. I’d manage expectations, but there’s distinctive entertainment here if the subject matter suits.