City of Sound

Play'n GO turns to Britpop rather than the ancient or branded-rock themes it's used before, setting City of Sound around an ordinary red-brick British house under a rainbow — a plain, homely backdrop next to the studio's usual monster-name slots. The 5x3 grid pays across 25 lines, stakes run from 5p to £/€100, and the game ships with five separate RTP settings, the highest reaching 96.3% at a medium 6-out-of-10 volatility rating.

Card values from J to A make up the low-paying symbols, while microphones, tambourines, sunglasses and bucket hats take the premium slots, paying between 8x and 20x the stake for five matching symbols; the royals top out at 2x by comparison. A wild worth the same as the bucket hat appears in 1x1, 1x2 or 1x3 blocks across every reel and substitutes for any regular symbol.

Three features drive the game beyond the base spins. Landing six Gold Record symbols opens a set of three Gold Respins in which only further Gold Records or Gold Record Cases can appear; each new Gold Record resets the respin count back to three and sticks in place, its value set randomly anywhere between 1x and 1,000x the stake, and filling the entire grid with Gold Records adds a flat 1,000x bonus on top of whatever values are already showing. A Gold Record Case, when it lands, pays out the combined value of every Gold Record currently on the reels, and although it doesn't stick during the respins themselves, it still resets the counter back to three.

Three scatters trigger Mega Free Spins — five spins to start, each carrying a 3x3 Mega symbol that lands in a random spot on the grid, with further scatters extending the round up to a ceiling of 45 spins. A Mega Gold Record can appear during this mode and splits into nine individually valued gold coins, which is one way Gold Respins can be reached from inside the free spins themselves. Outside of both of those, any Gold Records that land without setting off a Gold Record Case or the full respin feature get swept into a Gold Record Stack sitting above the grid, which carries its own chance of paying out a Win Prize worth up to 100x, independent of how many records have been collected.

With a hit frequency of roughly 1 in 2.78 spins and a maximum win of 4,000x the stake, City of Sound favours frequent, moderate-sized returns from the Gold Record mechanics, with the Mega Free Spins acting as the route to the larger, rarer payouts.