Unusual Suspects Slot - Review, Demo, Casinos, Bonuses

Unusual Suspects Review

They look more like the usual suspects than Unusual Suspects in our view, but hey, at least Northern Lights Gaming has come up with a somewhat “unusual” title for this game. A lone detective takes on a gang of what we presume are bank robbers, given the dynamite and all, and arresting them can be a lucrative affair. A foot soldier thug lands as a wild or golden wild, and this adds a frame to the position. Frames accumulate until the Detective Wild lands to turn all framed positions wild.

The frames can be upgraded with multipliers as well, which can lead to solid payouts also in the base game. Sirens are wailing as things go down, and you get plenty of fun action commentary along the way as well. The wild frames keep building in the bonus round, and the Detective Wild is collected to progress you along the multiplier and extra spins trail. The volatility is not too brutal either, despite the pretty solid 8,000x potential, and Unusual Suspects is a game we found to be easy to enjoy and hard to put down.

Unusual Suspects Slot - Reels Screen

Unusual Suspects Slot Features

The premium symbols, consisting of handcuffs, pistols, dynamite, and a suitcase filled with cash, pay between 2 and 10 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins. Wild symbols can appear anywhere to help you out by substituting for any pay symbol, and wilds pay 10x your stake should you land 5 on the same payline.

All wilds that land leave a position frame behind, and Golden Wilds spawns more wilds or more golden wilds. The frame multiplier increases by +1 per new wild that lands in it, and it can go up to x5 per position at best. One thing to note is that all present frames are carried over into the bonus round when the feature triggers.

There is also the Detective Wild symbol, and it fills all framed positions with wilds when it appears. Multiplier positions will boost any line win that runs through the relevant positions, and all the sticky frames are removed after being activated by the Detective Wild. At least this is the case in the base game, but let’s see how it works in the Unusual Suspects slot bonus round.

There is a Free Spins Booster meter seen above the grid, and 1 token is collected in this meter each time you land exactly 2 scatters in view. You need to collect 50 tokens to fill the meter. If 2 scatters appear on the top 3 rows, the scatters become sticky as they nudge one position downwards per respin of the remaining reels.

This can help trigger the Big Boss Bonus Round, which is awarded when you land 3, 4, or 5 scatters in view. This gives you 10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively, and any Detective Wilds that land in the free spins round are collected in the Bonus Trail seen above the grid. Framed positions never reset in the bonus round, and below is an overview of the Bonus Trail upgrades:

• 3 collected detective wilds unlocks Big Boss 1, giving you +5 FS and an x2 win multiplier.
• 6 collected detective wilds unlocks Big Boss 2, giving you +5 FS and an x3 win multiplier.
• 9 collected detective wilds unlocks Big Boss 3, giving you +5 FS and an x5 win multiplier.
• 12 collected detective wilds unlocks Big Boss 4, giving you +5 FS and an x10 win multiplier.
• You start with Big Boss 1 unlocked if you triggered the bonus round with a full Booster meter.

Non-UK players, and anyone eligible, can purchase the bonus round for 38.6x the stake. This is well below the average bonus buy price based on our research, and you can also Gamble to win free spins. You can choose a success rate between 10 and 90 %, and the price ranges between 3.86x and 34.84x your stake.

The 200 Spins Unusual Suspects Slot Experience

You get to see the golden wild in action in the base game, before we purchase and trigger the bonus round at 0:37 into the 2:15-minute highlights video. We got the minimum of 3 triggering scatters, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

First of all, kudos to Northern Lights Gaming for doing something brand new and different with the framed positions concept. Usually, you get a wild reveal after a certain amount of spins, but not so in this game. Unusual Suspects allows you to build up frames for an indefinite amount of spins, until the Detective Wild appears to make his arrests. The results can vary a lot in our experience, but the upside is that a lot more wild frames can be accumulated than what you normally get in, say, 10 spins.

The golden wild spreads more wilds around the grid when it appears, which is always helpful, and getting multiplier frames is also something to aim for, of course. The frames never stop accumulating in the bonus round, which can lead to some highly tense rounds towards the end of the feature. Extra spins from the multiplier trail can keep you going, and you need a decent win multiplier to close in on the 8,000x potential. It’s safe to say that Unusual Suspects grew on us as we played, and it comes with fun action commentary as well.