Gluttony: Slot Overview

Gluttony, as defined by Google, is ‘habitual greed or excess in eating’, which neatly captures the concept behind Gluttony, an online slot from the grotesque specialists at Nolimit City. Gluttony is a title that leans into the thrills, urges, and consequences of overindulgence—cramming in food, going on a massive binge, sitting down to an outrageous feast, or however else you want to frame eating far beyond “too much.” Anyone who’s easily unsettled by the sight of a grown man stacking plate after plate until he starts dribbling should probably look away. With a main character known as, ahem, Fat Bastard, Gluttony is not shy, whether in its thematic approach or its hefty spread of gameplay mechanics.

The base game of Gluttony takes place in a room that somehow feels both upscale and completely trashed. The tables are paired with plush-looking seats that seem perfect for settling in for a long session of shovelling food into your mouth. The catch is that plenty of it hasn’t made it to anyone’s face and is scattered across the floor. Early on, aside from the mess, Gluttony doesn’t appear especially menacing—more like, alright, there’s some eating happening here, fair enough. Give it a moment though; once Gluttony gets going and finds its rhythm, you’re in for a whole lot of chomping through a wide range of food types. Hopefully.

Gluttony runs on a 5 by 5 reel area with two types of pay systems depending on which phase you’re in. When wins land, they are destroyed, and symbols tumble down to plug the gaps. Pay symbols can visually upgrade, showing a bigger portion size. When an upgrade happens, the symbol’s value is multiplied by 2 until the next round starts. With extreme subject matter comes an extremely volatile math model, plus three RTP settings—up to a maximum of 96.09%. Stakes range from 20 p/c to $/€100, and players can, in theory, expect a hit frequency of 25.27% along with a free spins frequency of 1 in 309 spins.

In most situations, wins are created by matching symbols landing left to right starting from the leftmost reel, and there are 10 standard pay symbols. That said, FEDCON 1 switches things to a system called Crosslink Wins, where combos are linked to the centre symbol. It’s not the easiest mechanic to explain in words, but checking the paytable makes it click. The lower-paying symbols in Gluttony are 5 fairly wholesome dishes, while the higher-paying ones are 5 less healthy choices, with pizza as the top premium. A 5-symbol winning way pays 0.4 to 1.2 times the bet for the healthier items, while the junkier premiums award 2 to 10 times the bet for 5 OAK. Cooked chickens act as wild symbols and can substitute for any regular pay symbol.

Gluttony: Slot Features

To understand how Gluttony plays, below is a breakdown of its scatters, the xZone Sauce symbol, Wild Pot, Golden Bell Spins, Order Up!, FEDCON 1, and the Nolimit Bonus.

Scatters

Two types of scatters can appear in Gluttony—the Silver Bell scatter on reels 2-4 and the Golden Bell scatter on reel 3. When they land in the following combinations, the corresponding feature is triggered:

• 3 Silver scatters – 8 free Order Up! spins are triggered.
• 1 Golden and 2 Silver scatters – 10 free Double Up! spins, and an x2 multiplier is awarded.
• 2 Golden Bell and 1 Silver Bell scatter – 12 spins of Quadruple Up! and an x4 multiplier triggers.
• 3 Golden Bell scatters – awards +6 spins and entry to FEDCON 1.

Every Golden Bell grants +2 free spins and increases the multiplier by +x2. In FEDCON 1, the Golden Bell is restricted to the outer reels, where it permanently multiplies the outer reel values by 2.

xZone Sauce

This symbol gives a +1 multiplier value to each regular pay symbol and wild next to it—vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. Multiple xZone Sauce symbols may land on the same row, but not on the same reel. During the FEDCON 1 feature, xZone Sauce can only appear on the inner reels, applying a +1 multiplier to all connected pay symbols.

Wild Pot

Wild Pot can land in Order Up!, Double Up!, Quadruple Up!, or FEDCON 1, on reels 2, 3, 4, or 5. Wild Pot is wild, and if it helps form a win, it tries to collect nearby food symbols horizontally or vertically. It increases its multiplier by +1 for each low-pay winning symbol, +2 for each medium-pay winning symbol, or +2 for each winning wild it collects. If Wild Pot successfully collects, it turns sticky with an increased multiplier for one additional hit; otherwise, it disappears. In FEDCON 1, Wild Pot can only land on the inner reels and collects every food symbol on its connected outer reel, preventing those symbols from adding to Fat Bastard’s progression.

Golden Bell Spins

Landing 1 Golden Bell activates Golden Bell Spins, awarding 2 respins and an x2 multiplier. If another Golden Bell lands during a Golden Bell Spin, it grants an extra 2 respins and the multiplier increases to x4. Landing 3 Golden Bells consecutively triggers FEDCON 1.

Order Up!

Each Golden Bell that lands will upgrade Order Up!, granting +2 spins and increasing the multiplier by x2. If a Golden Bell lands while the multiplier is already x4, Order Up! is upgraded to FEDCON 1, awarding +6 spins. Free spins cannot be retriggered.

FEDCON 1

Landing 3 Golden BellsScatters awards +6 spins. Every win begins from the Fat Bastard symbol in the middle of the grid. As new levels are achieved, +2 free spins are added, +1 multiplier is applied to Fat Bastard, and a respin occurs. Players advance to levels 2, 3, 4, and 5 when 20, then another 30, then another 40, and then another 50 winning symbols are respectively collected. As noted above, winning low-pay symbols add +1 to progress, while winning mediums and wilds add +2.

Nolimit Bonus

In the Nolimit Bonus menu, players may purchase 8 Order Up! spins for 100x the bet (max RTP 96.08%), 14 FEDCON 1 spins for 1,000x the bet (max RTP 96.09%), or a Super Lucky Draw for 300x the bet (max RTP 96.11%).

Gluttony: Slot Verdict

Gluttony brought back memories of that Simpsons episode where Homer ended up in court after being thrown out of The Frying Dutchman all-you-can-eat seafood restaurant. Marge: ‘We drove around until 3 am looking for another all-you-can-eat fish restaurant.‘ Lawyer: ‘And when you couldn’t find one?‘ Marge: ‘We went fishing.’ Separately, with New York introducing a new height and weight discrimination ban around the time of this review, it’ll be interesting to see how Gluttony lands in certain circles. It definitely doesn’t soften its stance on excessive calorie consumption. Fat Bastard? That name has about as much subtlety as taking a cheesecake to the face. Still, this is exactly the kind of uncompromising, non-PC, FTW attitude people expect from Nolimit City—and the reason many fans adore them. Alongside that, you also get the inventive gameplay, scorching features, and unusual themes, all of which are served up in Gluttony’s all-out eating frenzy.

Beyond the newly added xZone mechanic, the clear highlight in Gluttony is the FEDCON 1 bonus round. This is where most of the fresh ideas have been packed in, and at first glance it delivered that classic NLC “what the fudge is happening here???” reaction. Jumping in blind without reading the rules is a brave choice. Even after revisiting them, FEDCON 1 can take a little while to properly understand. The key point is that wins in FEDCON 1 must connect with Fat Bastard, and it’s worth taking in the Crosslink Wins explanation in the paytable. Or you can simply relax and run a few demo rounds until it clicks. One thing that helps is that FEDCON 1 rounds tended to run long, with extended streaks of wins, upgrades, and extra free spins—like being served a multi-course meal. There’s a Finn and the Swirly Spin, Adventures Beyond Wonderland Magical Maze vibe as everything spins and shifts around. That makes the FEDCON 1 buy feel tempting since the returns in our sessions were respectable, but at 1,000x the bet it’s far from cheap. On a darker note, you almost have to sympathise with Fat Bastard because if the 32,000x the bet max win is hit, the Heart Attack feature plays.

That’s Gluttony in all its calorie-vacuuming splendour. If the gorging theme doesn’t put you off, this is another distinctive Nolimit City slot worth tasting. It’s not a delicate bite plated on something oversized with a tiny drizzle of sauce. This is full-on buffet eating, where the aim is to pack in as much as possible and walk away with your belt loosened several notches. Nolimit City has clearly stuffed this chicken with a wide range of new ideas; some may be a bit too sharp for certain palates. But if Gluttony is your kind of thing, be prepared to take time digesting the rules, getting comfortable with the flow, and pushing through the many courses to, hopefully, end up satisfied.