Stockholm Syndrome is a dark slot machine from Nolimit City about the infamous 1973 Norrmalmstorg heist. The game is packed with features that will hold you hostage until you love it. You have the patented infectious xWays, xBet, xBomb, xNudge and new Reel xSplit. You also encounter these for example in Possessed and Fire in the Hole 2.
Nolimit City allows you to form words with Stockholm Syndrome. If you succeed, you win special features that can be quite rewarding. By forming POLIS, you can even grab the maximum win of 28,873 times your bet in one fell swoop.
The theoretical payout percentage is fine as usual at 96.08%. And as usual, it is an extremely volatile slot.
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As we are used to from Nolimit City by now, Stockholm Syndrome again has an irregular playing field. You get 5 reels with a 3-4-3-4-3 arrangement. However, it seems that the middle reel is also 4 symbols high, but you have to unlock the bottom compartment with the logo. Why this is so, you’ll understand later.
You can bet from $0.20 and up to $100 per spin. Every time you open the slot this bet is at $1, so pay attention to this.
Symbols and Payout
To win in Stockholm Syndrome, you try to get the same symbols on adjacent reels. Exactly where they are on the reel doesn’t matter thanks to the mechanism with 432 Win Ways. However, the first symbol must be on the far left.
After your win in the base game, an avalanche or avalanche triggers. Used symbols disappear and you get new ones along the top. During the bonuses this is not the case.
PROs & CONs of Stockholm Syndrome
PROs
Packed with features
With the symbols you can form words
Unique theme
CONs
Complicated slot machine
Max Win could have been higher
Music does not quite fit
Bonus features of Stockholm Syndrome
There is a lot to say about Stockholm Syndrome’s bonus features. You have different types of Wilds, a Multiplier for each spin, words you can form and two bonus games. We explain them all to you in great detail:
Multiplier
Each spin you will see one of the characters in the sniper’s sights at the top left. This symbol gets a x2, x3, x4, x5 or x10 Multiplier.
Con Man Wild
On the middle reel, you can encounter a Con Man Wild. This one is 3 squares high and ideally you would like to see it fall completely into the screen. If you succeed, you will unlock the fourth square on this reel. In addition, one of the four hostage symbols falls madly in love with the man and turns into a Wild.
If it does not fall completely into your screen, it still counts as a Wild. However, the symbol does not disappear during the avalanche, so you have a chance to unlock it completely anyway.
xBomb Wild
The xBomb is the second Wild symbol. Before the next avalanche, the bomb explodes, also removing all symbols around it. In addition, you see a flashing light at the top right, this gets a +1 Multiplier for every xBomb you detonate.
POLIS
If you can read the word “POLIS” (Swedish for police) in your playfield on the same row, then you can already start hoping. Four of the boxes get a coin value sitting safely behind bars. On the fifth reel are 1, 2 or 3 keys that will open as many prisons.
The possible values are 5x, 10x, 25x, 100x, 250x, 1,000x, 5,000x and a Max Win diamond. Unless you grab the maximum win, you may add up the coins.
Go back in time to the infamous heist where the hostages sympathized with the hostage takers in Nolimit City’s Stockholm Syndrome.
SOS
The next word you want to form is “SOS. If you get no wins and no avalanches are possible, the ‘O’ turns into an xBomb Wild.
PISS
A third word to follow is ‘PISS.’ You do this vertically and from top to bottom. If you have no wins and no avalanche, then the four letters turn into xBombs.
Hostage Spins
With 3 camera lens Scatters, you win 7 Hostage Spins. However, if you can only collect 2 Scatter symbols, then you get a Respin on the fourth inactive square of the third column.
During this Free Spins bonus game, some rules change. For starters, you always play with 4 symbols on reel 3. In addition, xBombs do not explode, but they do give +1 for your Multiplier which is additionally Sticky throughout the round.
In addition, the 3 symbols high Con Man Wild also helps to increase the Multiplier. But the best feature of this charming gentleman is that he converts hostages into hostage taker symbols. First up is the character with the lowest payout to run down the line. Plus for every fully visible Con Man and Scatter you get an extra spin.
Stockholm Syndrome vs. 3 other slots from NoLimit City
The second and fifth reels are assigned the Reel xSplit feature. This splits each symbol into 2, and +1 for each symbol under the reels that you had collected extra.
The third reel becomes a Wild symbol with Multiplier of x2. For each additional character you collected under this reel, the multiplier increases by +1. Plus you get the current spin Multiplier on top of this.
On reel 4, the Infectious xWays feature is active. A random symbol is chosen that counts for at least 2 xWays. To this you may add another 1 for each additional symbol. After that, all instances of the symbol receive the same number of xWays.
After the Syndrome Feature, all hearts are reset, and you may start collecting again.
xBet, Nolimit Booster and Bonus Buy
The Bonus Buy buys you 7 Hostage Spins for 80 times the bet and 8 Syndrome Spins for 390 times the bet. In addition, you can gamble with 183 and 235 times the bet for a 1 in 3 and 1 in 2 chance of winning Syndrome Spins, otherwise they become Hostage Spins.
POLIS 1 to 5 will cost you 150, 300, 450, 1,500 or 8,000 times the bet. With 1, 2 and 3, you get 1, 2 and 3 POLIS lines and any number of keys, respectively. POLIS 4 gives you 3 lines, 3 guaranteed keys, in addition x5, x10 and x25 are removed as options. With POLIS 5, you get only 1 key, but the Max Win is a guaranteed option.
FAQs
The Stockholm Syndrome slot has a maximum win of 28,873 times your bet. For the slot with extreme volatility, this is still a somewhat lower value.
Yes, by collecting 2 Scatters, you get a Respin hoping for a third Scatter. Because with 3 Scatter symbols you win 7 Hostage Spins and with 4 Scatters it’s 8 Syndrome Spins.
Stockholm Syndrome is played with 432 Ways to Win. You can expand these in the base game to 576 Win Ways with a Con Man Wild. During Hostage Spins you also always have 576 Ways to Win and during Syndrome Spins there are at least 2,304.
In Stockholm Syndrome by Nolimit City, you can form words in your play area. For the word POLIS, you get 1, 2 or 3 cash prizes up to 5,000x or even the Max Win. The words SOS and PISS give you 1 and 4 xBomb Wilds.
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