The Creepy Carnival Slot by Nolimit City

The multiplier ladder at the top-left of the reels tells you how the base game actually works. x1, x2, x3, lit one at a time. Land any winning combination and the symbols on that line (Wilds excluded) respin once at x2. Hit again and they respin at x3. That's the cap, two respins per win, but the ladder resets fresh on every new base hit, so a single lucky drop can already chain three payouts at three different multiplier levels before the round resolves. Tiger Wilds land on reels 2 to 5 only, never on the first reel, and once they show up they stick to their cells for the entire respin sequence.

The Star Spin Meter sits at the top-right and counts up to 13. One high-value character symbol (the Evil Clown, Vampire Ringmaster, Tattooed Strongman, Hunchback Janitor or Chimp Performer) is harvested from every winning line that contains one. Fill all 13 slots and the game stops everything to award a free Star Spin, where the collected symbols are redistributed randomly across the grid alongside two extra Wilds slammed onto the centre row of reels 2 and 4. The bet for that spin is calculated as the average of the 13 wagers that fed the meter, which means the payout reflects the betting history of the entire collection, not just the spin that triggered it. It's an almost-guaranteed win mechanic, the only one of its kind in the Nolimit catalogue.

Three or more Scatters open Freespins with 10 spins at the door, plus 5 for each Scatter beyond the first three. The fixed x2/x3 respin ladder gets replaced by a flat x5 multiplier on every win, and the layout swaps from 20 win lines to 40 because a second set of 20 bonus lines is overlaid on the same grid. Retriggers are generous here too. Two Scatters during the feature add 3 more spins, with each additional Scatter adding another 3. The starting cap stretches to 70 free spins on a perfect 5-Scatter trigger.

Art-wise it's a precursor to the studio's later horror catalogue. A gothic wooden reel frame carved with carnival ironwork sits against a misty forest backdrop with cracked stone and lightning, a red moon hanging in some scenes. Card royals are stylised as purple stained-glass shields. Highs are character portraits in classic freakshow style, with a Pennywise-flavoured Evil Clown front and centre, a vampire ringmaster in red coat and top hat, a chained strongman, a hunchback janitor with a master key, and a cymbal-clashing chimp. This sits at the family-borderline end of the Halloween catalogue, creepy rather than gory, and predates the studio's later slasher era by several years.