NetEnt · 2019 · walking wilds / drive-by
Narcos on a phone
Holds portrait, 2.4 s from tap to a board that takes input, tight buttons. That is the whole verdict before any of the reel talk.
The phone check
Upright, the spin button shrinks and the bet stepper crowds it. A wide thumb hits the wrong one. The demo pulls about 10 MB before the first tap registers, which on a poor bar is where the 2.4 s goes. Getting money back out is a separate count and we keep it at cashout.
One build, one return figure
One build, 96.23%, no variants. Worth appreciating: 123 of the 306 titles on this board carry two or three return configurations and look identical in all of them, so this is one of the few pages where the number is simply the number.
Where it sits on the board
That puts it 163 of 306 on our phone score, which weighs orientation first, then how long you wait, then whether the buttons are a sensible size. It runs 0.3 s over the 2.1 s board median, which you notice on a weak bar.
Across the 24 NetEnt titles here the median is 2.6 s and 14 render upright.
What the game is
A 2019 release from NetEnt. Board is 5x3, 243 ways, the mechanic is walking wilds / drive-by. Netflix-branded slot with a Drive-By feature that converts symbols to wilds and Locked Up free spins where cash symbols merge and grow.
Swing is medium. Plan the demo around that and not around whatever the first ten spins do. Twenty dollars buys around 100 spins at the C$0.20 floor. Ceiling is 1,506x and it is not going to happen to you.
The rest of it
| Studio | NetEnt |
|---|---|
| Released | 2019 |
| Board | 5x3, 243 ways |
| Mechanic | walking wilds / drive-by |
| Volatility | Medium |
| Top licensed return | 96.23% |
| House edge on that build | 3.77% |
| Max win | 1,506x |
| Minimum stake | C$0.20 |
| Spins on twenty dollars | about 100 |
| Free demo | yes, no account needed |
| Tags | branded, walking-wilds, popular |
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