Nine To Five

Nine to Five is a video slot developed by NoLimit City, released on November 21, 2023. The game features a unique theme centered around office life and corporate culture, with visuals reminiscent of 1990s MTV-style illustrations and 8-bit arcade fonts. This slot is played on a 5×4 grid with 1024 payways.

The game's symbols are designed to reflect the office environment. Lower-paying symbols include printers, food boxes, coffee cups, and staplers, while higher-paying symbols feature various office worker characters. A winning combination is formed by landing three or more matching symbols on consecutive reels, starting from the leftmost reel.

Nine to Five incorporates several special features:

• Wild Symbols: Regular Wilds can land on reels 2-5 and transform into either a green Wild with a multiplier of 1x-5x or a red Wild, which is a dead symbol.
• xNudge Wilds: These can appear on reels 2-5 and always nudge to fully cover the entire reel. Each nudge increases the win multiplier by 1, and the Wild can nudge an additional 0-9 steps after covering the reel.
• xWays: These symbols appear as post-it notes and reveal 2-4 symbols of the same kind.
• Scatter Symbols: These spell out “Climb The Corporate Ladder” and trigger the free spins features.
• Middle Management Spins: Triggered by landing 3 Scatter symbols, this feature awards 10 free spins. During these spins, Layoff symbols increase the win multiplier by 1, while Lawsuit symbols decrease it by 1.
• Ivory Tower Spins: Activated by landing 4 Scatter symbols or upgrading from Middle Management Spins, this feature awards 12 free spins. It introduces Tech Layoff symbols that add and double win multipliers, and ‘Ctrl+Alt+Del' symbols that divide multipliers.
• God Mode: This is a unique bonus buy feature where players can purchase a spin for 1370x the bet, resulting in either a 0x win or the max win of 9217x the bet.

The game also offers other bonus buy options and an xBet feature that increases the chance of triggering free spins at an additional cost of 10% of the base bet.

Nine to Five stands out for its high volatility and substantial max win potential of 9217x the bet. The game's default RTP is 96.03%, with a free spins hit frequency of 1 in 237 spins.

What makes Nine to Five particularly interesting is its God Mode feature, which takes the concept of high volatility to an extreme level, offering players the chance to risk a significant amount for the possibility of hitting the maximum win in a single spin.