Blood Diamond Slot (Nolimit City)

The Blood Diamond slot has 5 reels, 4 rows and 1,024 ways to win. To land a winning combination, you need 3 or more identical or matching symbols on adjacent reels, starting from the leftmost reel. Symbols can appear anywhere on the reels too. Only the highest payout is awarded per way to win.

Bets-wise, you can spin away from as little as 20p a spin. With the maximum bet ranging up to £100 per spin, use the ‘Coins’ icon to change your bet and see all available options. It’s the same format in all Nolimit City slots. Outside the UK, players can opt for Autoplay (up to 1,000 auto spins) and Turbo Mode (for quicker spin speed).

In terms of returns, the Blood Diamond RTP is 96.14%. 63.96% is reserved for the base game and 32.18% for the bonus features. Nolimit City has also produced other RTP versions (95.38%, 94.13% and 92.15%). A quick glance at the Paytable will determine which RTP rate you’re playing with. The Blood Diamond demo above uses the top RTP setting.

In the extreme volatility bracket (10/10), the hit frequency rate is 20.98% meaning winning combinations will form every 4.76 spins (on average). To trigger any of the 3 free spins features, it will take approximately 278 spins.

Finally, Blood Diamond offers 14,780 times bet max wins, which is known as ‘The Coronation’. The max win probability (i.e. the chances of achieving the max win) is 1 in 1.2 million spins. To win 100 times your total bet or more, it will occur once every 900 spins on average.

With a greed theme, the Blood Diamond slot takes you deep into the desert where you attempt to steal the biggest diamond in the mine. Not an official slot game for the 2006 film of the same name which starred Leonardo Di Caprio, the setting is a desert shanty town which is dusty, run-down and featuring what appears to be a giant bucket-wheel excavator known as a Bagger 293 in the backdrop.

With a serious soundtrack which adds to the intensity of delicacy of the situation, symbols on the reels include mobile phones, handcuffs, whips, guns and a hand holding a large diamond. The higher-value symbols are represented by 5 characters including 2 workers, a collier, a pitman and big boss: the highest-paying symbol pays 2 times your total bet for 5 in combination. Character symbols can land in a variety of different sizes: including stacked symbols up to 4 symbols high.

Blood Diamond also comes with an xNudge Wild symbol which pays 2 times your total bet for 5 in combination. Substituting for all paying symbols above, it always nudges to become fully visible with the xNudge Wild multiplier increasing by 1 with each nudge. The other symbol of note is the Bonus symbol which triggers various free spins features (more details below).

Blood Diamond Mobile

Produced with HTML5 technology, Blood Diamond can be played on mobile, desktop and tablet devices. Compatible with iOS and Android smartphones, a special Portrait Mode is used for mobile devices to maximise the vertical set-up of your handheld device.

The Blood Diamond slot comes with 8 features. Random Chained Reels will see 2 or more reels display the same symbols whilst xNudge Wilds nudge to occupy the reel and increase the win multiplier. There is a new xNudge Desire extra where up to 5 Nudge Wilds appear: if added to a Chained Reel, all Chained Reels will contain xNudge Wilds. Then there are 3 free spins features where Big Bonus symbols award upgrades including extra free spins, extra multipliers, guaranteed xNudge Wilds and xNudge Desires on each free spin as well as the max win.

Chained Reels

The Chained Reels feature is activated randomly on any spin. Basically, 2 or more reels are linked (or chained) which causes the same symbols to appear on all linked reels.

xNudge Wild

As mentioned, there is an xNudge Wild symbol that always nudges to appear fully visible. With each nudge, the xNudge Wild multiplier increases by 1.

When part of the xNudge Wild symbol appears on a reel, it nudges up or down until fully visible on that reel. When several xNudge Wilds appear, their multiplier values are added to each other for a total xNudge Wild multiplier value.

xNudge Desire

Triggered randomly on any base game spin, the xNudge Desire feature sees between 1 and 5 xNudge Wild symbols added to the reels. If an xNudge Wild is added to a Chained Reel, all Chained Reels will contain the xNudge Wild.

Free Spins

When 3 or more Bonus symbols land simultaneously during a base game spin, you’ll trigger 1 of 3 free spins features. Each beginning with 5 free spins, 1, 2 or 3 Bonus symbols will appear as a Big Bonus symbol:

More importantly, each Big Bonus symbol will award 1 of the following upgrades:

• Extra free spins
• Extra win multiplier
• Extra guaranteed Chained Reels
• Guaranteed xNudge Desire on every free spin
• Guaranteed xNudge Wild on every free spin
• Max Win (14,780 x bet)

During the features, at least 2 reels will aways be chained on each free spin. Any multiplier from an xNudge Wild or Big Bonus symbol is persistent throughout the feature.

Furthermore, up to 4 Big Bonus symbols can land in a free spin with each awarding an upgrade. Every extra xNudge Wild symbol awarded by the Big Bonus symbol guarantees an extra xNudge Wild on every free spin.

Nolimit Booster

Blood Diamond comes with a Nolimit Booster feature. With 4 options, you’ll find all the details below:

• xBet: Costing 3x bet, you are guaranteed a Bonus symbol on reel 1 or 2. The RTP rate is 96.11%.
• Chained Reels xBet: Costing 7 x bet, you are guaranteed to activate the Chained Reels feature. The RTP rate is 96.08%.
• xNudge: Costing 35 x bet, you are guaranteed an xNudge Wild symbol. The RTP rate is 96.1%.
• xNudge Desire: Costing 500 x bet, you are guaranteed the xNudge Desire feature. The RTP rate is 96.2%.

Nolimit Bonus

Finally, there is a Nolimit Bonus feature for non-UK players. Allowing you to buy your way into the free spins features, there are 4 options to choose from:

With the Lucky Draw option, there is a 1 in 3 chance of playing any of the free spins features.

Blood Diamond Slot

Rating: 4.2/5

Blood Diamond may have a controversial backstory but the gameplay is relatively straightforward with stacked character symbols, Chained Reels and xNudge Wilds with increasing multipliers. With a new xNudge Desire extra, there are 3 free spins features where Big Bonus symbols award various upgrades for up to 14,780 x bet max wins.

Chris Taylor

The Blood Diamond slot is a relatively simple game by Nolimit City standards. With stacked character symbols, there is a random Chained Reels feature where 2 or more reels display the same symbols. The xNudge Wild symbol nudges to increase the multiplier with each nudge. Now, NLC has added the xNudge Desire feature where up to 5 xNudge Wilds can appear: if added to a Chained Reel, you’ll see xNudge Wilds on all Chained Reels!

With the 3 free spins features, the key are are Big Bonus symbols which award a variety of upgrades such as additional free spins and win multipliers. Extra Chained Reels help but it’s the guaranteed xNudge Wild and xNudge Desire on each free spin which will see you benefit the most. You could even benefit from the max win!

During any of the free spins games, the key is to land more Big Bonus symbols which up to 4 appearing on every free spin. This will keep the features going with multiplier increases and additional free spins.

I found you need stacked symbols, xNudge Wilds, Chained Reels and multipliers to all combine for big wins. If you were to fill the reels with the highest-value character symbol, you’d pocket a 2,048 times bet payout. This is why you need multipliers, Chained Reels and xNudge Wilds to combine to get anywhere close to the max win of 14,780 times your total bet.

The Blood Diamond slot game doesn’t offer the huge max win potential we’ve seen from other Nolimit City titles but it’s still big in the grande scheme of things. I found the gameplay to be easy to follow with the the various upgrades need to combine at the right time in order to win big.

With the game’s subject being controversial, Nolimit City are no strangers to controversy. Slots such as Stockholm Syndrome, Loner, The Border and Kenneth Must Die are examples of this. If it’s greed you’re after, Gluttony is about over-indulgence which the ‘Fat Bastard’ can have a heart attack for max wins of up to 32,000 x bet.

If it’s max win potential you want, NLC’s Tombstone Slaughter comes with 500,000 x bet max wins: the highest of any online slot game (excluding progressive jackpots).

The Blood Diamond slot review was written by Chris Taylor from our OLBG Expert team who who written over 10,000 slot game reviews in an iGaming career spanning over 2 decades. It was then verified/checked by Jenny Mason, our prime slot reviewer who has 17+ years working in online gambling, top UK brands. 

Chris Taylor

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Chris Taylor is an industry veteran originally from Gibraltar. Having worked in the online gambling industry since 2004, Chris loves slots and has reviewed over 10,000 online slot games. Running a slots-focused website for 13 years, Chris is the go-to guy for everything slots-related.