More Unusual Suspects: Slot Overview

Now and then, less really is more, but sometimes you want the opposite—more of everything. If that’s the vibe, take a look at More Unusual Suspects from Games Global studio Northernlights. Arriving soon after Unusual Suspects, it brings back the strongest elements, including the Big Bass Bonanza levelling up free spins round, and layers in Bonus Perk Picks plus jackpots.

The settings have shifted a bit this time, although the story still plays out in a busy downtown urban jungle reminiscent of New York City. In the base game you get a nighttime cityscape, while free spins move to a grimy back-alley crime scene, backed by slick jazz and some engaging voice-over work. Familiar heroes and villains return, and extra characters show up during the Bonus Perk Pick. Overall, More Unusual Suspects delivers a pleasing cartoon style that makes it easy to settle in, chase down the crooks, and try to pocket some cash.

There are three different ways to play More Unusual Suspects. The standard route is to pick a stake from 20 c to $/€15 and hit spin. Alternatively, you can use the gamble for free spins option or go straight in with the bonus buy option. All options use a math model that is medium volatile and comes in three RTP configurations, with the top setting at 96.06%. Gameplay takes place on a 5-by-4 gaming grid, with wins checked across 20 paylines.

Every pay symbol in More Unusual Suspects pays for 3 to 5 of a kind on a winning line, starting from the leftmost reel. The set includes striped 10 to A royals as the low pays, followed by handcuffs, a gun, dynamite, and a bag of money as the higher symbols. A 5-of-a-kind line of card ranks returns 1 times the bet, or 2 to 10 times the bet for landing 5 matching premium symbols.

More Unusual Suspects: Slot Features

Wild symbols matter just as much here as they did in the previous game, as becomes clear once you start tracking the Bonus Perk Bar, Scatters Nudging Respins, Bonus Perk Pick, Big Boss free spins, Vault Jackpot Bonuses, a buy bonus, and gamble.

Wilds & Detective Wild Bonus

Wilds may appear anywhere, replacing any standard pay symbol and awarding 20x the bet for a 5-wild winline. Every wild that lands also leaves behind an x1 sticky frame, which can increase up to x5. When golden wilds land, they spawn wilds or add more golden wilds onto the reels. When Detective Wilds land, they fill each sticky framed position on the reels with a wild symbol. Any multiplier on a winline is applied to it for this feature. The Detective Wild Bonus can be triggered in both free spins and the base game. In the base game, sticky frames are cleared after a Detective Wild Bonus, while in free spins the frames remain until the round finishes.

Bonus Perk Bar

Hitting 2 scatter symbols adds a token to the Bonus Perk Bar. Once you gather 50 tokens, the bar is filled, and when it is full, an extra bonus perk pick is awarded at the start of free spins. After the extra bonus perk is used during free spins, the bar resets, and its progress is stored per bet.

Scatters Nudging Respin

If 2 scatters land on the top 3 rows, Nudging Respins are activated. Reels showing a scatter are held and nudged down one row as the remaining reels respin. The sequence keeps going until a scatter reaches the bottom row or until 5 scatters appear. Following each respin, tokens are added to the Bonus Perk Bar.

Free Spins & Bonus Perk Pick

Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols grants 10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively. Five suspects then appear, and players to click them one by one. If a suspect reveals a red cross, the picking ends and free spins start. If the Bonus Perk Bar is filled, the extra bonus perk is also awarded. Perks available from the picking process are these and are added to the round:

• Boost Perk – unlocks the first Big Boss on the free spins trail. Awards 5 extra free spins with an x2 multiplier.
• +2 Spins Perk – 2 extra free spins are granted.
• +Frames Perk – adds a random selection of frames to the reels.
• +Wilds Perk – awards more wild symbols.
• +Detective Perk – awards more Detective symbols.

During free spins, when Detective symbols land, they not only activate the Detective Wild Bonus, but are also collected on the Bonus Trail:

• Collecting 3 Detectives unlocks Big Boss 1, granting +5 free spins with an x2 multiplier.
• Collecting 6 Detectives unlocks Big Boss 2, granting +5 free spins with an x3 multiplier.
• Collecting 9 Detectives unlocks Big Boss 3, granting +5 free spins with an x5 multiplier.
• Collecting 12 Detectives unlocks Big Boss 4, granting +5 free spins with an x10 multiplier.

Once free spins conclude, there is a chance one Getaway spin is randomly awarded. A Detective symbol lands on the Getaway Spin.

Vault Jackpot Bonus

When gold bar overlays show up, they are collected in the vault beside the reels. Gathering gold bars randomly triggers the Jackpot Bonus. Players click vaults to reveal 3 matching jackpots and claim the related reward. The jackpots are the Mini, Minor, Major, and Grand worth 20x, 75x, 1,000x, or 5,000x the bet.

Buy Bonus & Gamble

Using the buy bonus, players can purchase the free spins round for 100x the bet, or you can gamble for free spins via an adjustable gamble wheel. Any saved tokens are not consumed when buying free spins or gambling into them.

More Unusual Suspects: Slot Verdict

Unusual Suspects was already an entertaining cops-and-robbers slot, and Northernlights has pushed things further with More Unusual Suspects. After working through the feature list, it’s clear this sequel genuinely offers more than the original. Most additions are welcome, even if a few land better than others. To cover the small gripes first, the jackpots came across as slightly superfluous. Sure, few players will turn down a shot at up to 5,000x from a pick-a-vault feature, but it could have been more engaging to see that RTP allocation delivered through different mechanics. Still, as a Games Global studio release, it sometimes feels like a 5K jackpot feature is close to a requirement in their slots.

The free spins round is the main attraction, and the pre-feature perk pick is a smart inclusion. It not only suits the crime theme perfectly, but visually at least, selecting extra Detectives or extra wilds seemed to have a real impact on how a free spins session played out. Filling the reels with frames and then watching the Detective fire wild symbols into them can be great fun, and since a Detective lands on the Getaway spin, landing that extra spin becomes a very tempting result at the end of free spins.

One less positive takeaway was the gut-punch nature of the free spins gamble feature. Even with the wheel set to a 50/50 red and green split, it burned through funds fast and encouraged a spiral of repeat rage gambling. Not suggesting the long-term maths are off, but it’s probably wise to try this option in demo mode if you’re curious, or simply buy free spins, because it can be brutal. That said, the home screen lists winning potential as over 8,000x, which is a solid figure for another likeable cops-and-robbers slot from Northernlights.