Tombstone RIP Slot (Nolimit City)

The Tombstone RIP slot is played, initially, with 5 reels and 108 ways to win. With the reel layout taking a 2x3x3x3x1 formation, winning combinations are formed by landing 3 or more identical symbols on successive reels, in any position, beginning from the leftmost reel.

Bets-wise, you can play Tombstone RIP from 10p to £50 per spin. Use the Coin button on the desktop, tablet or mobile version to change your bet accordingly. As an insanely volatile slot game, the maximum bet may be reduced severely at even the best casino sites.

The Tombstone RIP RTP rate is 96.08%. Just above the online slots average of 96%, Nolimit City created a 94.08% RTP alternative version which will be used by many UK casinos to limit their liability. With the highest RTP setting, 55.99% of the RTP is reserved for the base game and 40.09% for the bonus features.

When it comes to winning combinations, they will land every 11 spins on average as the hit frequency rate is 9.08%. This is a do-or-die slot game with insanely high volatility that Nolimit City classes as 11 out of 10. Triggering the free spins will occur every 194 spins on average too.

Finally, the Tombstone RIP slot offers 300,000 times bet max wins. Yes, you read that right. At the time of writing, this is the highest-paying slot game online (excluding jackpot slots). Known as El Gordo’s Revenge, the max win probability is 1 in 130 million spins. That said, winning 100 times your total bet or higher will occur once every 1,014 spins on average.

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Released on the 11^th of January 2022, the Tombstone RIP slot has a Wild West theme. Brutal from the get-go, you aim to take down outlaws Edda Star, El Gordo and Skinny Joe who are out of control. By taking justice into your own hands, will you hit the lowlifes and gunslingers where it hurts so they suffer a slow and agonising death?

With the setting being a classic, dusty Western town, the graphics have a grey/sepia tone which makes it much more serious, sinister and intense. Featuring murder, amputations and hangings, this isn’t for the faint-hearted. The soundtrack has a traditional/typical Western style that you’d expect to find in a spaghetti Western movie. It’s accentuated with harmonicas, guitar chords and gunshots.

On the reels, you’ll A, K, Q, J and 10 royals. Then you have gambler and sheriff characters as well as bandits Skinny Joe, Edda Star and El Gordo. With the latter 3 appearing on wanted posters, El Gordo is the highest-value symbol awarding 4 times your total bet for 5 in combination.

It’s important to note that only the best-paying symbols, wilds and scatters can land on the final reel (i.e. reel 5). Counting as a double symbol, Tombstone RIP comes with quite a few special symbols. These include a Cross Wild, Reel Split Wild, xSplit Wild, xNudge Wild and Hang ‘em High Scatter. Below you’ll find a list of symbol payouts and functions:

• 10: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.1. 0.2 or 0.5 x bet
• J: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.2 or 0.6 x bet
• Q: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.2 or 0.7 x bet
• K: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 0.3 or 0.8 x bet
• A: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 0.3 or 0.9 x bet
• Sheriff: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.3, 0.4 or 1 x bet
• Gambler: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.3, 0.4 or 1.5 x bet
• Skinny Joe: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.4, 0.5 or 2.5 x bet
• Edda Star: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.4, 0.6 or 3 x bet
• El Gordo: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 0.8 or 4 x bet
• Cross Wild: Substitutes for symbols above
• Reel Split Wild: Splits itself + other symbols on same reel
• xSplit Wild: Cuts symbols to the left in 4 different paths
• xNudge Wilds: Triggers xNudge Wilds feature + increases multiplier
• Hang 'em High Scatter: Can trigger 2 free spins features

Tombstone RIP Mobile

With all Nolimit City games deploying HTML5 technology, Tombstone RIP can be played on laptop, PC, tablet and mobile devices. If you’re playing at online casinos using your smartphone, it’s compatible with iOS and Android operating systems. In this case, I would recommend a larger screen to get the full visual experience.

The Tombstone RIP slot has 7 bonus features. With plenty of wild extras, there are 2 free spins features where the bigger wins will come from.

xNudge Wilds

xNudge Wild symbols can land on any of the 3 central reels. When they do, they transform the whole reel wild. With every nudge, the wild multiplier increases by 1. Multiple xNudge Wilds appearing on the same spin will see their multiplier values combined for even bigger wins.

Reel Split & xSplit Wilds 

Look out for Reel Split Wilds landing on reels 2, 3 and/or 4 as they split all symbols on the same reel into 2. Depicted by an axe slicing a hand, this increases the number of ways to win.

You also have xSplit Wilds on reel 5. Taking up 2 positions (i.e. 2-high), they cut symbols in certain rows in 4 different ways which splits normal and split symbols for even more ways to win. If an xSplit Wild splits an xNudge Wild, the multiplier value is doubled.

xRIP

This next feature is brutal. If you land a winning combination that is worth less than your bet amount, the xRIP feature will be triggered. Unique to Tombstone RIP, your win will not be collected with no payout awarded.

Hang ’em High Free Spins

The Hang ’em High Free Spins feature is triggered by landing 3 Hang ‘em High Scatter symbols on the 3 middle reels. With 8 free spins awarded, the feature comes with various wild symbols:

• Regular Wild: 1x
• Reel Split Wild: 2x
• xSplit Wild: 2x
• xNudge Wild: 1x to 3x

If you see 1 Hang ‘em High Scatter appear, 1 additional free spin will be added to your tally. Landing 2 will them transform into Reel Split Wild symbols. Importantly, multipliers can only rise throughout the feature. If you land a Boothill Scatter symbol on reel 5, you’ll upgrade to the Boothill Free Spins feature with 2 extra free spins.

Boothill Free Spins

Then you have the Boothill Free Spins feature which is played when you land 3 Hang ‘em High Scatter symbols plus 1 Boothill Scatter on reel 5. With 10 free spins awarded, various wilds can land (with multipliers). The setting is the Western town engulfed in red-hot flames.

Look out for the Cowboy symbol landing on reel 5. The Cowboy transforms all symbols of that type to wild with 1 of the cowboys containing a random multiplier between 5x and 999x. The multiplier affects the chosen Cowboy but is added to the feature’s overall multiplier before wins are evaluated.

Enhanced Bet

If you want at least 1 Scatter symbol landing on reel 2 on every spin, you need to activate the Enhanced Bet feature. By increasing your bet amount by 10%, you increase your chances of triggering 1 of the 2 free spins features.

With the RTP increasing to 96.28% (for the 96.09% RTP version), your chances of playing a feature increases compared to normal play:

Nolimit Bonus

Finally, in terms of bonus features, there’s an optional Nolimit Bonus feature for non-UK players. Allowing you direct entry to the free spins features, you will pay up to 3,000 times your total bet and benefit from a higher RTP rate of up to 97.03%:

The Tombstone RIP slot is as brutal as slot games come. Controversial, gory and insanely volatile, it’s become a cult favourite. NetEnt’s Dead or Alive 2 was the standard for Wild West slots but this game blows it out of the water. It was also the first NLC slot to have the infamous insane volatility tag.

Superbly designed, the attention to detail is impeccable. Featuring murder, hangings and amputations, what else could you want? It’s certainly not for the faint-hearted but I believe NLC has pushed the boundaries of what’s acceptable with this release.

With various wild extras in play during the base game, the free spins features offer the biggest potential returns. The Boothill Free Spins feature in particular is great but expect to be disappointed the majority of times you get to play it. Incredibly hard to get into, it’s all about the Cowboy symbols which can contain multipliers up to 999x.

With 300,000 times bet max wins, the Tombstone RIP slot is the highest-paying game of all time (excluding progressive jackpots of course). Still holding that title more than 2 years after its release, it's double the amount offered in San Quentin which was released a year earlier. Your chances of winning this illustrious amount vary from the base game to the free spins features and whether you use the Enhanced Bet:  

• Base Game: 1 in 130 million spins
• Base Game with Enhanced Bet: 1 in 81 million spins
• Hang ‘em High Free Spins feature: 1 in 1.36 million spins
• Boothill Free Spins feature: 1 in 16,000 spins

To summarise, Tombstone RIP is a cult favourite and for good reason. Potentially very lucrative, the insane volatility, low hit frequency rate and controversial/gory visuals make it stand out against the crowded Wild West crowd. Whilst amputations, hangings and murder aren’t for everyone, Nolimit City has pushed the boundaries again and for this, they need to be applauded.

If you want something softer, this game was inspired by the original Tombstone slot which offers 11,456 times bet max wins. In April 2024, NLC released Tombstone No Mercy which comes with 16,480 x bet payouts. Lastly, casinos won’t allow Tombstone RIP to contribute to wagering requirements for welcome bonuses or free spins offers.

The Tombstone RIP slot review was written by Chris Taylor from our OLBG Expert team who who written over 10,000 slot game reviews in an iGaming career spanning over 2 decades. It was then verified/checked by Jenny Mason, our prime Slot reviewer who has 17+ years working in online gambling, top UK brands. 

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