The Invisible Man

NetEnt licensed The Invisible Man from Universal Pictures, basing it on the 1933 film with Claude Rains and, behind it, the H.G. Wells story. The setting is the laboratory in the village of Iping, where Griffin's formula leaves him unable to be seen. Thirties lettering, noir colouring, animated characters and music from the film carry the presentation, and the paytable follows the same split: card royals in a metallic font make up half, and five characters from the story make up the other half.

The grid is 5x3 with 20 paylines, and wins pay in both directions, left to right or right to left. Hit frequency is 29%, close to one winning spin in three, the RTP is 96.3% and volatility is medium. The maximum win is capped at 1,000x per spin and bets go from 0.20 to 100. The five film characters are ranked with Mrs Hall at the bottom and Flora Cranley at the top. A line of five pays 7.5x to 25x, and those figures are doubled by the two-way pay.

All the action comes from two walking wilds. Police Wilds appear on the first reel and step one reel right on each respin, while Griffin Wilds appear on the fifth reel and step left. Either can substitute for any pay symbol. When both land together, a respin sequence starts, and further wilds landing during respins keep it going until every wild has walked off the reels.

If a Police Wild and a Griffin Wild meet on one row, they lock and merge. Once the spin is paid, 10 free spins begin. Here the walking wilds can land on any reel, and a clash on a single reel adds 4 spins. Two meters sit above the reels, each filling by one space whenever its wild leaves the grid. Completing 8 spaces before the spins finish unlocks a bonus at the end.

Police Spins is one of those bonuses: 3 free spins with 5 flaming wilds placed at random on every spin, and these do not move. The other is Griffin's Rage, a pick game over three rounds in three places, among them the Lion's Head Inn and Iping Station. Each location hides prizes of 1x to 10x, a +1 step on a round multiplier that tops out at x4, or an item that moves play onward. The total is multiplied once the last location is cleared.