In and Out Slot Review

When NetEnt dropped In and Out back in June 2026, the Parisian jewel heist theme immediately caught my eye. It's a scatter-pays tumble slot, but it really relies on one massive, make-or-break mechanic: building up a board of framed positions and praying the trigger symbol actually lands to collect them.

In practice, the base game goes like this: every time you get a winning combination, the symbols pop and leave a bronze frame behind. If another win drops into that framed space on a subsequent tumble, it upgrades to silver, then gold, and finally diamond.

This is where the game gets both exciting and incredibly frustrating. To actually get paid for these frames, you need Chloe (the thief symbol) to land when the tumbles are completely finished. If she shows up, you trigger "Heist Mode," which is a three-spin hold-and-win feature where only your framed positions spin.

The coins you get depend on the frame's tier. Bronze frames might only give you up to 2x, but those hard-earned diamond frames can drop coins worth up to 1,000x. The best part is the multipliers: if they land, they apply to the whole board and multiply each other rather than just adding up (so a 2x and a 4x become an 8x boost). But, and this is a big but, if you build a beautiful board of gold and diamond frames in the base game and Chloe doesn't land, the board just wipes clean for the next spin. It can be heartbreaking.

I started with the standard 100x bonus buy, which gives you five free spins. The big advantage here is that your grid size and frame upgrades don't reset between spins; they carry over until Chloe finally lands. My first four spins were basically dead, paying almost nothing, but they quietly upgraded my board to a mix of silver, gold, and one diamond. On the final spin, Chloe hit. That Heist Mode dropped a 200x diamond and some gold coins, and then hit them with a 2x and 4x multiplier. I walked away with about 26 times what I paid for the feature, which felt fantastic.

Feeling brave, I tried the 800x Super Free Spins option. This maxes out the grid to 8x7 from the first spin, and in my round a Heist Mode ran on every single spin. It was a bit of a letdown for the price. The coin rounds kept coming, but the frames under them stayed low. I got a lot of bronze and silver coins, but I only made back about a quarter of my 800x buy-in. It taught me pretty quickly that this game isn't about how many coin rounds you get, but how upgraded your board is when one finally starts.

If the mechanics feel familiar, you've probably played some of NetEnt's other 2026 releases. It's very similar to Aftermath (released a few months later), though Aftermath has a much higher max win (25,000x compared to In and Out's 12,086x) and focuses on building a spin multiplier rather than a coin round. It also has a lot in common with Spice, which uses the same exploding bomb but leaves behind doubling multipliers instead of coin frames. (Pragmatic Play's Moon Rush plays with the same memory idea, a marked cell that a second explosion raises a tier, but it pays in multipliers rather than coins.)

In and Out is a really solid, entertaining slot, provided you have the patience for it. The heist theme is executed well, and the multiplying multipliers in the hold-and-win round can lead to some massive, out-of-nowhere hits.

Still, it is a highly volatile, all-or-nothing experience. Watching a board full of high-tier frames disappear because the thief didn't show up is a tough pill to swallow. But when she does finally drop in at the perfect moment, it's undeniably a thrill.