Tractor Beam

A rare family-safe Nolimit City slot from April 2019 where cartoon cows, pigs and chickens get hoovered off the reels by UFOs across three random features. EXTREME volatility on a 20-line grid.

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Provider
Nolimit City
RTP
96.01%
Volatility
Very High
Grid
5x3
Paylines
20 lines
Min Bet
€1.00
Release
Apr 2019

Gameplay Screenshots

Tractor Beam sits oddly in the Nolimit City catalog. It came out in April 2019, well before the studio pivoted into Mental, San Quentin and the rest of the xWays-fueled slasher era, and the art style reflects that. The reel frame shows a turquoise night sky over rolling green hills, a glowing crescent moon, a wooden farm fence and a telephone pole. Symbols are pastel-coloured cartoon animals with bug-eyes. There is nothing here that resembles the studio's later work. No booster badges sit under the grid, just a yellow VOLATILITY EXTREME tag in the bottom-left corner.

Two of the three features fire at random on any base spin with no warning. Beam ‘Em Up! strips every wooden-plank low symbol (A, K, Q, J) plus all Scatters off the visible window, leaving only the four animals (chicken, pig, sheep, cow) and Wilds in play before the win is evaluated. The reels effectively shrink to a premium-only pool for that one spin. Clone Attack! picks one animal at random and lands it stacked across up to four of the five reels, force-feeding a multi-reel match into existence.

The third feature is the freespin round. Three Scatters pay seven spins, four pay nine, five pay twelve. The mechanic during Abduction Spins is where the EXTREME label earns its keep. Every symbol type that contributes to a winning line gets beamed off the reels permanently for the rest of the round. Win with cows? Cows are gone. Win with the A symbol? Every A on the strip vanishes. Each fresh Scatter that drops adds one extra spin and then itself gets abducted. Wilds never leave. The theoretical end state is a reel pool of Wilds plus one surviving animal, printing on almost nothing per spin.

One honest gripe. The max win is not surfaced anywhere in the demo info screens or the paytable, which is the kind of opacity modern slot players quietly hate. NLC's later titles always print the ceiling in the corner. Tractor Beam keeps you guessing, and the realistic cap is probably modest by 2026 standards (somewhere in the low thousands of x). For an early NLC release running on the pre-OSS engine it has aged surprisingly well, mostly because the symbol-removal trick still feels fresh seven years later.

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