Aftermath

NetEnt frames Aftermath around an AI takeover, with humanity reduced to fighting a hostile superintelligence using whatever weapons are left once the machines take control. Wrecked cars and collapsed buildings set the opening scene, and the game's big-win count-ups fill in the backstory — an ordinary workday giving way to the machines striking first and ending life as it was known. The visuals lean into a dystopian near future, with the sound design carrying much of the atmosphere.

The reels on Aftermath sit on a 4x4 scatter-pays grid: eight or more matching symbols landing anywhere form a win, with no fixed paylines involved. The paytable stacks Q-A card royals beneath an axe, a sword and a set of brass knuckles, with three character symbols paying best; eight-of-a-kind clusters return between 0.1x and 2.5x the stake, while the largest clusters of 16 or more symbols reach 0.5x to 10x.

Every win sets off an avalanche — the winning symbols clear, new ones drop in, and the process repeats until nothing new lands. Each avalanche step raises a multiplier by one, which carries through the rest of that spin, resets between base-game spins, but keeps building across an entire free spins round. Two tiers of wild back this up: a regular wild that substitutes everywhere in the base game, and a special wild, seen only in free spins, that adds its own multiplier value to any win it joins.

A set of four special symbols — Bomb, Upgrade, Change and Purge — fire once the avalanches stop, resolving in that same priority sequence whenever more than one shows up on the same spin. Bomb clears itself and the eight positions around it, doubling the spin's multiplier in the process; Upgrade swaps itself and a handful of low-pay symbols for a random top-tier symbol; Change turns itself and its neighbours into one regular symbol picked at random; Purge sweeps the board of every medium and low-pay symbol, wall sections included. Landing a Bomb or a Purge can also expand the grid to as much as six reels by eight rows, staying open only for that spin in the base game but persisting for the rest of a bonus round.

Scatters open free spins in tiers: three, four or five award 8, 10 or 12 spins respectively, and a scatter landing mid-round tacks on three more, while a super scatter adds three spins of its own and bumps the round up into Super Free Spins, where a special wild worth between 3x and 10x is guaranteed on every spin.

NetEnt's Elevate buy-in menu covers five options: 5x the stake improves the odds of hitting a bonus roughly sevenfold, 10x guarantees a special feature symbol on that spin, 25x drops a 5x-to-10x multiplier onto the reels before the spin begins, and the bonus or super bonus rounds themselves can be purchased outright for 100x or 500x. Aftermath is due out on 16 September 2026, rated high volatility with a maximum win of 25,000x the stake; RTP tops out at 96.05%, with reduced configurations of 94.06% and 92.04% also in circulation, and stakes run from 0.20 to 40 per spin.