Blood Diamond Slot Overview

Blood Diamond is a casino slot from Nolimit City, exploring another sensitive subject that shows the cruelty of human nature and that's been portrayed in numerous movie productions. One such hit film under the identical title starring Leonardo Di Caprio perfectly mirrored the ruthless reality of this phenomenon. If you're not familiar with the term, blood diamonds are precious stones mined in war zones with the sole purpose of financing insurgencies, armies, terrorism, or other rogue military activity. It refers primarily to the events taking place in the 20th and 21st centuries in Western Africa.

Nolimit City loves to dabble in controversial narratives, so we can undoubtedly expect plenty of hidden messages across the theme and detailed visuals that accurately reflect the seriousness of the subject. On a more positive note, the highlight mechanics that will help players achieve the desired big wins include the fan-favorite xNudge Wilds and Chained Reels that synchronize adjacent columns. As usual, there's plenty of nail-biting action waiting in several bonus rounds with increasingly powerful upgrades and a max win of 14,780x the bet.

Base Game view of a 5x4 grid on a backdrop of a destitute African town with many elements around the grid bound in chains.
Base Game

Blood Diamond is a video slot from Nolimit City with 5 reels, 4 rows, and 1,024 ways to win. Players can select multiple stake options starting from a Min.bet of 0.20 up to a Max.bet of 100. The game's default RTP is 96.14%, with several lower variants of 95.38%, 94.13%, and 92.15% also released. Players will experience high (extreme) volatility combined with a max win of 14,780x the bet. Such a win is achievable with a probability of 1 in 1,200,000 spins, while free spins trigger at an average rate of 1 in 246 spins.

In dire circumstances where the environment is drowning in the chaos of a civil war, it's essential to equip oneself with powerful features to survive. The features of Blood Diamond are Stacked Symbols, Chained Reels, xNudge Wild, xNudge Desire, Oppression Spins, Domination Spins, Enslavement Spins, Nolimit Booster, and Feature Buy.

Blood Diamond Slot Information

Upon entering the game, we land in some desolate town ravaged by a military conflict somewhere in Western Africa. Pieces of rusty sheet metal barely hang on remnants of demolished walls, while thick chains bind many elements around the playing grid. The overall gritty and intense atmosphere permeates the scene, intensified by an emotional audio track peppered with the sounds of the rattling shackles and shots from a whip. On the reels, winning combinations must contain at least 3 matching symbols aligned on neighboring reels, starting from the leftmost one. Players can join the action from any modern device, whether it's a desktop, a smartphone, or a tablet.

Symbols in the paytable are split into two categories. The low-value group includes plates carrying images of a walkie-talkie, a pair of shackles, a whip, a gun in a holster, and a hand gripping a diamond, awarding from 0.5x to 0.7x the bet for 5 in a combination. The high-paying symbols are represented by four black men and one white, rewarding players with payouts from 1x to 2x the bet for a complete way of 5. Alongside the regular symbols, there are xNudge Wilds substituting for other paying icons and Bonus symbols responsible for triggering free spins.

Blood Diamond Slot Features

What is the max win in the slot Blood Diamond?

You can win up to 14,780x the bet.

What features are available in the slot ?

The features are Stacked Symbols, Chained Reels, xNudge Wild, xNudge Desire, Oppression Spins, Domination Spins, Enslavement Spins, Nolimit Booster, and Feature Buy.

Bonus-triggering combination showing 2 regular Bonus symbols and 3 Big Bonus symbols awarding upgrades to free spins.
Free Spins Upgrades

Stacked Symbols

Any high-paying character symbol can land in an increased size, up to 4 positions high. When they do, they're counted as the number of cells they cover on the particular reel.

Chained Reels

Randomly, on any spin, two or more adjacent reels can be bound in chains and synchronized to land the same set of symbols.

xNudge Wild

A 4x1 stacked symbol showing a diamond stuck in the ground is the xNudge Wild. Whenever it lands, it will nudge to full visibility and increase the win multiplier by 1 for every step made.

xNudge Desire

Randomly, on any spin, the feature may activate and award between 1 and 5 xNudge Wilds. If an xNudge Wild is added inside the active Chained Reels, the entire highlighted area will be filled with xNudge Wilds.

xNudge Desire feature triggered with 3 xNudge Wilds on reels 1, 2, and 5 and a total x7 multiplier awarded.
xNudge Desire

Oppression Spins

Landing 3 Bonus symbols activates the bonus round comprising 5 free spins. The third activating icon is always a Big Bonus symbol that will award one of the upgrades at the beginning of the game.

Additional Spins = extra free spins added to the starting tally.

Additional Win Multiplier = increased win multiplier.

Additional Guaranteed Chained Reels = more reels are guaranteed to sync.

Guaranteed xNudge Desire = the feature is guaranteed to trigger on every spin.

Guaranteed xNudge = the feature is guaranteed to trigger on every spin.

Max Win = instantly awards the max win of 14,780x the bet.

During the bonus, the Chained Reels feature will activate on every spin, syncing at least 2 reels together. Additionally, any multiplier increase achieved from xNudge Wilds or Big Bonus symbols will be persistent until the end.

Domination Spins

Activated with 2 regular and 2 Big Bonus symbols, this free spins variant plays out identically to the Oppression Spins but has two upgrades awarded before the start.

Enslavement Spins

Activated with 2 regular and 3 Big Bonus symbols, this free spins variant plays out identically to the Oppression Spins but has three upgrades awarded before the start.

Chained Reels feature triggered during free spins, synchronizing 3 middle reels.
Chained Reels

Nolimit Booster

Players can use several options to gain additional advantage to their spins for an increased base bet.

3x = a guaranteed Bonus symbol on reel 1 or 2.

7x = a guaranteed activation of Chained Reels.

35x = a guaranteed activation of xNudge Wild.

500x = a guaranteed activation of xNudge Desire.

Feature Buy

Blood Diamond also offers several options for triggering features instantly.

85x = Oppression Spins

200x = Domination Spins

500x = Enslavement Spins

261x = Lucky Draw with a 33.3% chance for either bonus.

Blood Diamond Slot Conclusion

Given the Nolimit's urge to explore dark corners of people's minds to shed some light on their twisted desires, a theme like Blood Diamond is not really a surprise. After games like SerialKiss My Chainsaw, or Disturbed, we know they can go absolutely nuts with the graphic gore imagery, and the recently reviewed Mental 2 showed that they can continuously outdo themselves in that area. The grim reality of sourcing precious stones to finance aggressive military activities is depicted quite timidly this time around compared to the aforementioned titles. It's still quite heavy and carries a serious message, but apart from the slavery-related bits like shackles and whips, there aren't any shocking elements. Perhaps it's a good thing, though - a sort of a breather between the completely deranged ideas we keep seeing in the studio's releases. Overall, it's the Nolimit artistic mastery in all its glory, with every element, from symbols and features to the soundtrack and big win presentations, unraveling the captivating story.

On the technical front, the game takes it a bit easy as well. Synced reels and the beloved xNudge Wilds become a focal point, boosted by the occasional xNudge Desire, which, funnily enough, must have been "inspired" by the Wild Desire feature from an old-school Immortal Romance slot by Games Global. It looks like a bit of a tease from Nolimit City since they kept the feature name unchanged. Other than that, we've got three bonus modes where triggering Scatters award between 1 and 3 upgrades, enhancing the round with extra spins, higher multipliers, more Chained Reels, and guaranteed triggers of xNudge and xNudge Desire. All in all, there isn't much new to explore in the mechanics, but, as usual, the composition is robust, reliable, and meticulously arranged to provide a balanced, even if highly volatile experience. Also, the max win may feel somewhat underwhelming given the staggering figures we've seen before, but the 14,780x the bet figure is nothing to sneeze at.

Blood Diamond rolls in with an intense and deep backstory touching on sensitive real-life problems while offering robust gameplay equipped with reliable mechanics.