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One of Sweden’s most creative slots studios could soon be racking up awards for its latest release thanks to a combination of genuinely fresh mechanics wrapped up in fun and explosive gameplay.
NetEnt’s In & Out dropped on Thursday, a stylish slot with an innovative heist theme, expanding 8×7 grid, and a maximum win potential of up to 12,086x.
The Stockholm-based studio took to X to showcase the slot’s cinematic storytelling quality and introduce the chic French thief behind the Parisian heist:
In & Out will instantly resonate with seasoned and casual players alike for its premium and polished execution, medium volatility, 96.08% RTP, and ultimately, how the feature-heavy slot manages to stay engaging via mechanics that seamlessly feed into one another.
Let’s take a deeper look into the compelling universe NetEnt has created for its wealthy thrill-seeking thief who leads players into museums, mansions, and vaults on a jewel heist slot that combines a Hold & Win system with falling and expanding reels.
Grid memory magic
NetEnt pioneered the cascading reels mechanic back in 2014 with Gonzo’s Quest, dubbing it an avalanche system, and that’s where In & Out begins.
Fire up the 6×5 slot and right from the first spin every win triggers an avalanche sequence. Winning symbols disappear in puffs of smoke, new ones drop in to create instant extra win potential, the process continuing until no further combinations land.
It’s the disappearing winning symbols, however, that lead into In & Out’s genuine mechanics innovation, because when they vanish, their positions get highlighted while upgrading through four specific tiers, namely bronze, silver, gold, and diamond.
The slot’s uniquely executed position-marking progression system starts by highlighting the first winning positions in bronze. Consecutive chain reactions trigger an upgrade of the positions to silver, and then gold, which prepares the remembered positions for premium multipliers. Hit the diamond upgrade, and you unlock the highest rewards inside Heist Mode.
Diamond is the optimum tier to have unlocked when a symbol of the chic thief lands and triggers Heist Mode, a standard Hold & Win system.
Coins that land in Heist Mode start at 0.5x to 2x for the unlocked bronze positions, and shoot up in value to 50x to 1,000x for diamond.
fills the grid with instant cash prizes and upgraded positions
There are much more payout maximizing modifiers lurking in Heist Mode, however. These include an upgrader sigil that ascends adjacent highlighted areas to the next tier level, a Burst & Blast combo symbol that randomly upgrades multiple positions, and even a scenario where if Burst & Blast and upgrader symbols land together, a Blast effect is triggered that fills the grid with instant cash prizes and upgraded positions.
Heist Mode isn’t done yet, as it includes a collector modifier that harvests the total value of all coins and diamonds visible on the grid to give players a massive multiplier boost. Add the multiplier symbol that boosts the values of four tiers up to x10 when Heist Mode comes to an end, and you can understand where 12,086x max win potential comes from.
Expansive entertainment
If you think that’s feature-rich enough already, wait until the expanding reels mechanic strikes. This mechanic appears even from the base game when a Bomb lands and detonates to remove adjacent symbols and bulge the reels outwards.
Depending where a bomb lands, it can expand the reels up to a massive 8×7 grid and increase the active win paths dramatically, considering any of your highlighted tiers remain preserved and will still be in play.
With avalanches building highlighted areas, upgrades boosting Heist Mode payouts, and Bombs expanding the board to full capacity for maximum highlighting opportunities, In & Out manages to pack multiple and innovative mechanics twists into one seamless, premium quality package bristling with personality and sheer entertainment.
