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Pop Noir Slot Review

Film Noir is a cinematic term for Hollywood crime dramas đŸŽŹđŸŽ„ made from 1944 to 1954, generally those with a mood of pessimism, menace, and fatalism.

That sounds right up my alley! In fact, it perfectly describes my relationships over the past 10 years or so.

In Pop Noir slot from AvatarUX, you’ll see a beautiful babe with a revolver đŸ”« and a Men’s Health type dude smoking a cigarette 🚬. Yeah, that wasn’t what it was like in my world.

The woman would’ve had me tied to a rack because guns would’ve ended my misery far too quickly. And I gave up cigarettes a long time ago 🚭. Come to think of it, that was probably also around the time I gave up relationships. Hmm, what do you know? 💡

Gameplay

With its highly stylized, dark design, Pop Noir slot reminds me of Hacksaw’s Cash Crew slot, but with an old-school twist.

Avatar UX loves them some Pop games, and Pop Noir slot – as the title already implies – falls into that genre. What it means is that winning symbols explode and are replaced by 2 symbols; effectively increasing the reel height and increasing the winning ways up to 32,768.

Other stats include a 96% RTP and a high volatility rate, but the best part is the 20,000x max multiplier that could see you clinch $200,000. The only currency that you can’t play with is Bitcoin Cash.

The Bonus Scatter appears in the base game and Free Spins round, but Scatters don’t Pop. The super high-paying symbol is a statue of an eagle, while the high-paying ones are the babe with the smoking gun and the suave dude with the cigarette.

Medium-paying symbols are a revolver and a bottle of alcohol.

Features

BASE GAME UNLOCK:

Unlock all the reels during the base game, and you’ll be rewarded with 2 Free Spins and a random multiplier. Oh, and the maximum reel height during the base game is 6 symbols tall.

FREE SPINS:

The Free Spins round is triggered when you land 3, 4, or 5 Bonus Scatters. Increase all of the reel heights during the round and you’ll get 2 additional spins. Unlike in the base game, reel heights in Free Spins can be 8 symbols high.

Before the round begins, you’ll be taken to a screen where you’ll be awarded one of the variables for each of the 4 things listed below:

  • Free Spins: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, or 11
  • Starting Reel Height: 3, 4, 5, or 6
  • Starting Multiplier: 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, or 6x
  • Multiplier Growth: =1x, +2x, +3x, +4x, or +5x

BONUS COLLECTION & GILDED SUPER HIGH:

Bonus symbols are collected during the Free Spins round, and as soon as you grab 3 of them, the Super High symbol on the counter transforms into a gilded version. This gives you access to an uncapped multiplier.

Once the above has happened, the counter resets to zero and if you keep collecting Bonus Scatters, you’ll upgrade to even higher multipliers. Multipliers increase in increments from 5x to 50x.

BUY BONUS:

The Buy Bonus options, which are called Xpress in this game, offer you 4 ways to fast-track your gameplay:

  • Buy Bonus: pay 80x for 8 Free Spins, a 3x multiplier, and a multiplier growth of +3x

  • Buy Bonus Plus: pay 160x for 9 Free Spins, a starting multiplier of 4x, and a multiplier growth of +4x

  • Buy Bonus Premium: pay 400x for 10 Free Spins, a starting multiplier of 5x, and a multiplier growth of +5x

  • Buy Bonus Max: pay 800x for 11 Free Spins, a starting multiplier of 6x, and a multiplier growth of +5x

Performance

Pop Noir slot might be all pessimism and fatalism, but that didn’t stop it from performing perfectly during testing.

Maximum Win

The unique selling point of this game is the astonishing 20,000x max multiplier. Combine that with a max bet of $10 and see yourself rewarded with a $200,000 prize.

Conclusion

Pop Noir slot is closest to Witchy POPins slot when it comes to their stats. The winning ways are the same, as are the volatility rate, RTP, max multiplier, and potential payout.

Witchy POPins slot also has the same kind of Buy Bonus (same, not identical), and of course both games use the growing reels / POPing symbols thing. However, there are some differences between the two.

Witchy POPins slot has a Wild symbol but the multiplier action in Pop Noir slot is superior. Free Spins also work slightly differently, so it’s clear that Pop Noir slot isn’t a mere reskin of a previous game.

I enjoyed the way the Free Spins round works. At the start of the round, a random number of spins, reel heights, and so on are assigned. It keeps things interesting, and you can potentially score big.

Slot Details

Software: AvatarUX
Game Type: Video Slots
Paylines: Up to 32,768 ways to win
RTP: 96%
Volatility Rate: High
Bonus Round: No
Progressive: No
Free Rounds: Free Spins
Max Multiplier: 20,000x
Max Win: $200,000
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