Bizarre: Slot Overview

If you’re here to switch off, take it easy, and spin something that won’t challenge your worldview, you’ll probably want to pick a gentler title. But for players who enjoy being surprised—or who simply can’t resist digging into the strange—Nolimit City’s online slot Bizarre is ready to deliver. The “bizarre” part isn’t just the theme of genetically altered animal genomes; the game also throws in a couple of uncommon mechanics. And while the action isn’t quite as unsettling as the visuals, there are still plenty of quirks tucked inside Bizarre’s feature set.

With a name like Bizarre, it’s fair to expect something visually offbeat, though it doesn’t go so far as to be truly nauseating. Thankfully. Still, animal lovers might not enjoy seeing the warped experiments Dr Bizarre is assembling in his lab—an old farm repurposed for his work. Why he decided to attach a bird’s head to a peeled banana is anyone’s guess; the man clearly isn’t right. It also makes you think about what might be happening in hidden labs around the world, buried in underground bunkers where cold-eyed scientists tinker with things better left untouched. For curious (but ordinary) people without access to those places, Dr Bizarre’s farm-turned-freakshow will have to do as a window into that kind of madness.

Bizarre uses paylines, with 20 of them checking wins from the leftmost reel across the 5×4 aligned grid. For a game with an extreme vibe, it runs on an extremely volatile model, and the top RTP across its three configurations is listed at 96.06%. Bets range from $/€0.20 to $/€100, and there’s also a selection of boosters and bonus buys available.

On the reels, you’ll find 10-A card ranks crudely stitched together as the low pays, alongside five lab-made creatures as the premiums. Land five of a kind with royals and they return 1x to 1.8x, while the high symbols pay much more at 17x to 44x the stake for five on a line. Wilds substitute for all paying symbols and can also form wins on their own, paying the same as the top symbol.

Bizarre: Slot Features

Bizarre’s lineup of features includes xSplit symbols, Chimera Spins, Super Chimera Spins, extra spins, Coinage, Nolimit Boosters, and bonus buys.

xSplit

The xSplit symbol may appear on the leftmost or rightmost reels, either as a single icon or fully stacked. When it hits, every symbol on its row (apart from itself) is split, effectively doubling its size. Once the split happens, the xSplit then functions as a wild.

Chimera Spins

Hitting 3 scatters awards 3 Chimera Spins. Any scatter on the middle reel transforms into a wild, and it remains sticky for the duration of the feature. Before the free spins begin, the three middle reels spin, and they can land wilds, extra spins symbols, or empty symbols. Whenever a wild or extra spin symbol lands, it stays where it is and a respin is granted. This repeats until no additional extra spins or wild symbols show up. If a wild lands, it stays sticky through the feature. Extra spins symbols add their value to the free spins total. If an xSplit splits a wild during free spins, that wild receives a multiplier which is also sticky for the entire feature.

Super Chimera Spins

In the base game, landing 2 scatters plus a super scatter starts 3 Super Chimera Spins. The rules mirror standard Chimera Spins, except all scatters transform into sticky wild symbols.

Extra Spin

When free spins finish, players may be offered the option to purchase an additional spin that keeps the wild symbol and multiplier from the previous spin. The price depends on the wild symbol multipliers, and the extra spin is only offered when the cost is less than or equal to the win.

Coinage

Coinage can be switched on by players for 200x the bet. While it’s active, only coin symbols with values from 1x to 1,000x or special symbols can land. If any spot is left empty, a respin triggers to refill empty positions with new symbols. When the feature ends, you’re paid the total of all multiplier values collected. The special symbols that can appear are:

• xSplit – Splits all coins and used Collectors on its row, doubling their values. It is removed after it triggers.
• Collector – Collects the total value of all visible coins and removes them from the reels. The used Collector stays on the reels, and if another Collector later lands, it collects the value of the previously used Collector.
• Scatters – When 3 scatters are collected, Chimera Spins trigger when Coinage ends. Or Super Chimera Spins if one of them is a super scatter.

Nolimit Boosters and Bonus Buys

The xBoost is priced at 2x the bet and ensures a scatter lands on the second reel (it may be a super scatter), making Chimera Spins or Super Chimera Spins 3 times more likely to trigger. Bonus Hunt costs 30x the bet and increases the chance to trigger free spins by 49 times. In this mode, only scatters or empty symbols can land, with a maximum of one Super Scatter. The available bonus buys are Chimera Spins, Super Chimera Spins, lucky draw, or Coinage, costing 120x, 400x, 190x, or 200x the bet, respectively.

Bizarre: Slot Verdict

When you stumble across a slot named Bizarre from a studio with Nolimit City’s reputation, it’s reasonable to expect something properly twisted. And overall, Bizarre does earn its title. It may not be quite as extreme as some players might have hoped—or dreaded—but it’s undeniably weird. Between the pre-free-spins dead symbols and Dr Bizarre’s miserable “masterpieces,” this isn’t exactly a cosy slot for switching your brain off. That said, it’s also far from being one of Nolimit City’s most complicated creations. In the base game, for example, things roll along with xSplit symbols as the only added spice. That’s not a criticism—more a note that the truly unusual moments tend to arrive once the bonus rounds kick in.

Arguably the oddest design choice in Bizarre is that Coinage can only be seen by buying it. There’s no natural way to trigger Coinage at all, even though it’s a major feature, which isn’t something you encounter often. On the upside, once it’s activated, players are more or less assured of taking something from it—though whether that “something” is big is impossible to predict. Since every position will eventually fill and special symbols can appear, it’s a lively and entertaining sequence. It isn’t cheap, though, so it’ll be interesting to see how players feel about being required to purchase it. The free spins rounds are more familiar—win spins, sticky wilds, multipliers applied to them, and then it’s a case of hoping the reels cooperate.

So, without Coinage, Bizarre’s feature set would be pretty much the opposite of “bizarre.” Conventional, perhaps. But taken as a whole—the 20,000x max win, the overall flow, and the strange would-be Dr Frankenstein with his unsettling pile of genetically modified biomatter—it still stands out as an oddity. Bizarre may not be Nolimit City’s finest work, but if you’re curious, it’s worth prodding to see what it does.