Badge & Bounty plays out in a neon city at night. A uniformed officer and a detective with a nightstick guard the left of the screen, while a red-haired safecracker and a hooded hacker in glasses lurk on the right. Between them sit five reels of luxury loot against a deep blue backdrop, with a polished chrome logo above. I took my seat with 5,000 in credit at a 2.00 stake.
Theme and Gameplay
The pay symbols are the spoils of a heist: a vintage green Rolls-style saloon, a luxury watch in a velvet case and a bucket of champagne with two glasses. Metallic 10 to A letters cover the smaller wins, while a heavy gold vault door acts as the scatter.
The bright blue diamond wilds carry x2, x3 or x5 labels and only land on reels 2, 3 and 4. A Buy Bonus button sits up in the corner, while the bet arrows, credit display and spin button run along the bottom.
Wins pay across 243 ways starting on reel one, and the same symbol in another position on a reel pays the way again. Multiplier wilds multiply each other, so an x2 and an x5 in one win apply x10.
Slot Features
Three or more vault scatters award 20 free games, and the screen changes to four separate 5×3 grids that spin together. Grid A is yours. Grids B, C and D belong to the crooks, and each has its own win meter plus a counter for the Collect symbols that land on it. Every grid plays a full 243-ways game with the base game’s rules and pays.
Cash symbols can appear at random, showing values from 1.00 up to 500.00 at a 2.00 bet, and they go straight onto that grid’s win meter. Collect symbols are gathered beside the criminal on the grid where they land, and a set of handcuffs on your grid shows how many crooks are still at large.
Once a rival grid collects five or more Collect symbols, it’s captured. It stops spinning from then on, and its accumulated win is set aside for you.
RTP and Win Potential
The RTP is 95.50%, and the same figure applies when you buy the bonus. Buying the bonus takes you directly into the free games for 70x your total bet, or 140.00 when betting 2.00.
The free games can’t be retriggered, so each round lives or dies on how many captures you make. With the bigger rewards locked behind capturing rival grids, it lands in medium-to-high volatility territory.
My Thoughts On This Slot
The four-grid bonus is a genuinely different idea, and watching the Collect counters climb on the crooks’ grids adds real tension. During regular spins, the stacking multiplier wilds give ordinary spins a bit of punch.
The downside is a slightly below-average RTP, and a round without captures can feel flat, since you only keep your own grid’s wins.
