More Unusual Suspects

Northernlights follows up its own Unusual Suspects with a sequel that keeps the original's core ideas and stacks several more on top. More Unusual Suspects trades the previous game's daytime setting for a nighttime New York-style skyline in the base game, moving to a dingy alley crime scene once Free Spins begin, all scored with jazz and voiced dialogue that leans into the detective-noir tone. A cast of cops and crooks fills out the reels alongside a rotating lineup of extras that show up during the bonus pick.

The grid runs 5 reels by 4 rows with 20 fixed paylines, wins forming from three, four or five matching symbols starting on the leftmost reel. Striped 10 to A royals make up the low-paying symbols, with a cash bag, dynamite stick, pistol and pair of cuffs rounding out the higher-value icons; five matching card symbols pay 1x the bet, while five matching picture symbols pay between 2x and 10x. Wild symbols can land anywhere on the grid, substitute for any regular symbol, and pay 20x the bet across a five-symbol line.

Every wild that lands leaves behind a sticky frame worth x1, which can build up to x5. Golden wilds, when they appear, either spawn extra wild symbols or add more golden wilds to the grid, and landing a Detective Wild fills every framed position with a wild, carrying across any multiplier that frame has built up. This Detective Wild Bonus can fire from the base game or from Free Spins; in the base game the frames clear once it resolves, but inside Free Spins they stay in place until the round ends.

Landing two scatters adds a token to a Bonus Perk Bar running alongside the reels, and filling it to 50 tokens grants an extra Bonus Perk Pick at the start of the next Free Spins round. A related mechanic, Scatters Nudging Respin, kicks in when two scatters land on the top three rows: reels holding a scatter are held and nudged down a row while the rest respin; the sequence keeps going up to a five-scatter cap, or stops sooner if a held scatter drops onto the bottom row first, with more tokens added to the Perk Bar along the way.

Three, four or five scatters award 10, 15 or 20 Free Spins respectively, and getting there triggers a pick round first: five suspects appear on screen, and clicking through them either reveals a red cross, which ends the picks and starts the spins, or one of several perks that carry into the round — extra free spins, added wild symbols, added Detective symbols, extra sticky frames, or an unlock on the Big Boss trail that awards spins with a built-in multiplier. Detective symbols collected during Free Spins build along that same trail, unlocking four separate Big Boss tiers worth progressively larger multiplied spin bundles as more are gathered, and there's a chance of one bonus Getaway spin once the round ends.

A separate Vault Jackpot Bonus runs off gold bar symbols: collecting enough triggers a pick-based bonus where matching three jackpot values inside the vaults pays out one of four fixed prizes, the smallest worth 20x the bet and the largest 5,000x.

Players can skip to the bonus for 100 times the stake, or take the gamble-wheel route to spin for a Free Spins total instead — tokens already banked on the Perk Bar carry no weight in either shortcut. Northernlights ships More Unusual Suspects at a medium-volatility rating with an RTP as high as 96.06% (three lower configurations run down to 87%), a maximum win of 8,000x the stake, and a 35.34% hit frequency, with bets from 0.20 to 15 per spin.