Remember Gulag

The Gulag is not a place you like to get stuck!

·         Up to 641,656 different ways to win

·         Win up to 30,000 times your stake

·         By using the Bonus Buy feature, the RTP can rise to 96.94%

Many slot game enthusiasts, who are also fans of shooting games, will know the Gulag from Warzone. Warzone is a game mode that is part of the popular shooter series Call of Duty, in which you try to be the last to survive a battle between 100 people. The Gulag in Warzone is a kind of prison that you end up in after you have been killed in battle the first time. You then have a one-time chance to earn a 2nd life by winning a 1 on 1 battle against another player.

Fortunately, it's not the first time for Nolimit City to make a loaded themed slot, so they know how to handle things like this.

They do this well by displaying the following quote on the home screen of Remember Gulag: “Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it”, which is a well-known statement by the philosopher George Santayana. This criticism is still current and the message is a nice opening of the slot machine.

Visually, Remember Gulag lives up to expectations. The look of Remember Gulag's design is quite grim. The design fits well with the theme. You have to really like dark themes to appreciate designs like Remember Gulag's.

Visually, however, there is nothing to complain about!

You play on a playing field with unusual dimensions. Remember Gulag has 6 reels, which consist of consecutively 3-3-4-4-5-5 symbols.

The payout percentage is a maximum of 96.08%, although it can be lower depending on where you play from. If you use the bonus buy feature, the RTP can be higher. Unfortunately, this bonus buy feature has recently been banned by the Dutch Gaming Authority at every legal online casino.

The variance of payouts is high and you can win up to 30,000 times your stake.

The minimum bet in Remember Gulag is 20 cents and the maximum bet is 100 euros per spin. By using the Propaganda Bet feature, this bet can increase by 20%. This is guaranteed to land a scatter on reel 2, automatically unlocking reel 5.

What you will immediately notice when playing Remember Gulag is that reels 5 and 6 are locked by default at the start of a spin in the base game. You can unlock these by spinning scatters. 1 scatter unlocks reel 5 and 2 scatters unlock reels 5 and 6. For example, the number of ways to win in Remember Gulag can go up to 614,656.

As far as the features are concerned, there are a number of interesting symbols: xWays symbols, xNudge wilds and xSplit wilds. There is also a Bonus Buy feature and a free spins feature.

Special symbols

As we mentioned above, in Remember Gulag there are 3 special symbols:

xWays symbols: these symbols land on reels 1 and 2 in the base game and on reels 5 and 6 during the free spins features. When an xWays symbol lands, it transforms itself into 2 or 3 units of the same pay symbol. If more xWays symbols land at the same time, they all change into units of an identical symbol. You can split xWays symbols with an xSplit wild. As a result, the xWays multiplier is doubled.

xNudge wilds: these symbols land on reels 3 and 4, both during the base game and during the free spins feature. They turn into an expanding wild symbol, which spans the entire size of the reel. Each symbol that is pushed away will increase the Wild multiplier by +1. The multipliers of xNudge wilds are added together if multiple xNudge wilds are seen on the reels at the same time. If an xNudge wild is split by an xSplit wild, another wild is added to the reel.

xSplit wilds: these symbols land on reels 5 and 6 in the base game and on reels 1 and 2 during the free spins feature. A landed xSplit wild symbol causes the symbols adjacent to this symbol to the left and right to split themselves into 2 symbols. If a split happens more than once, the split symbol will have a multiplier attached to it. Scatters can also be split unless they trigger the free spins feature. However, you need at least 3 scatters for that in Remember Gulag. A split scatter turns into a stacked wild, spanning the total size of the reel. After an xSplit wild symbol splits the adjacent symbols, it turns into a regular wild. They can then be split again by new xSplit wilds.

There are a number of options in Remember Gulag when it comes to the Bonus Buy feature:

·         Regular spins cost 78 times your stake and raise the RTP to 96.56%.

·         All Aboard costs 270 times your stake and raises the RTP to a whopping 96.82%.

·         Double Vodka costs 486 times your stake and raises the RTP to 96.94%.

·         Lucky Dip option costs 198 times your stake and lets fate decide which of the previous 3 options you get.

With how many scatters you activate the free spins feature, is very important in Remember Gulag. It determines which version of the free spins feature you will play.

3 scatters yield Gulag Spins: During Gulag Spins, only 1 of the 4 premium symbols has a multiplier attached to it.

4 scatters award Gulag Spins: All Aboard. During Gulag Spins: All Aboard, all 4 premium symbols are associated with a multiplier.

5 scatters award Gulag Spins: Double Vodka. During Gulag Spins: Double Vodka, all 4 premium symbols are associated with a multiplier.

During all these versions of the free spins feature, the playing field is turned over, so that the 6 reels now consist of 5-5-4-4-3-3 symbols. All reels are also unlocked by default during the free spins feature.

How many free spins do you get in Remember Gulag? That is determined by a Set-Up Spin. This Set-Up Spin determines the number of free spins and the amount of the win multiplier associated with those 4 premium symbols. There is also an extra horizontal row of 4 symbols above the playing field. This row can raise a random multiplier of 1 of the 4 premium symbols at any time.

During the Gulag Spins and the Gulag Spins: All Aboard, a multiplier is increased by +1 or +2 or the multiplier is doubled.

During the Gulag Spins: Double Vodka, a multiplier is increased by +2 or +4 or the multiplier is doubled.

As a player you can also collect scatters during the free spins feature of Remember Gulag. Each scatter gives 1 extra free spin. Every 3 scatters ensures that the free spins feature is upgraded to a better version.

In terms of storytelling, Remember Gulag is of course a magnificent slot machine. Nolimit City is very good at developing slots with a dark story. They already showed that at Mental and True Grit Redemption.