Nine To Five

When you were younger did you ever dream of growing up and being an adult? As children with bedtimes we deemed too early and homework that we didn’t want to do, most of us spent a pretty long time dreaming of what it would be like to grow up and not have anyone telling us what to do. It sounded like the best thing in the world. Well, until it actually happened.

You don’t end up saving patients from literal bazookas trapped in their stomach like Meredith Grey. You don’t end up in an office filled with pranks and fun, albeit with an annoying boss like Michael Scott. And you don’t end up scouring for fingerprints and saving the day like Gil Grissom. No, most of us grow up and find out the difficult truth – work is boring most of the time, and involves a lot more responsibility than we thought possible.

Enter Nolimit City. They’re here today to give us their take on the highs and lows (but mostly lows) of office life as they invite us to RatRace – less of an organisation and more of a family, or so they say. As we leave behind the brazen animals of Nolimit City‘s Roadkill, we have an opportunity to get stuck into Excel sheets, powdered coffee and a cubicle without a window in sight – in Nine To Five.

With RTP options available up to 96.03% (96.45% feature buy), this highly (8) volatile release can produce wins up to 9,217x bet.

Nine To Five Base Game

Artwork is incredibly fun in Nine To Five and immediately makes you think of the nineties. Depending on your age and viewing preference in these years, the view you get and style of art can remind you of anything from Beavis and Butthead to Saved by the Bell – the latter for me. We’re at a desk, looking at a grubby computer screen with old school graphics on top – including vintage Windows 95 icons and windows.

To the sides of our computer screen we can see a variety of post-it notes and reminders, and some images of holiday destinations – probably stuck up so this poor sucker has something to get him through the year. The best part about Nine To Five is the use of sound effects and music – something this team have always done well.

“You’re playing Nine To Five by Nolimit City” greets you as soon as you load the game, along with various catchphrases about being an important customer, having thousands of people in front of you in the queue and the fact that calls may be recorded for training and monitoring purposes – or extortion. It’s all finished off with elevator style music, buzzing of phones and other office noises that you’d expect to hear. All in all, unique, and definitely fun.

Nine To Five Offers Players a Minimum of 1,024 Ways to Win

Nine To Five Base Features

Taking place across 5 reels, wins are formed on Nine To Five by matching at least 3 symbols on adjacent reels, beginning with the leftmost reel. Each reel holds 4 symbols, producing 1,024 ways to win – although this can increase with xWays, which we’ll get to soon.

Symbols available begin with non premiums, with broken fax machines, old packed lunches, coffee mugs and staplers. Land 3 of a kind of any non premium to see wins between 0.20 and 0.30x bet, increasing to values between 0.60 and 0.80x bet for 5 of a kind matches.

At the premium end we meet 3 workers and a female manager. Land 3 of a kind of any premium to see wins between 0.40 and 0.75x bet, increasing to values between 1.25 and 4x bet for 5 of a kind matches. Finally, there are a few different Wild symbols – all of which substitute for all symbols except Scatters.

Nine To Five Middle Management Spins

xBet

Alright, there are a few things to cover in Nine To Five, but we’ll start with xBet.

By betting an additional 10%, the last reel will be blocked with increased chances of landing a Scatter symbol. This increases the chances of entering either bonus round by more than two times.

When xBet is activated RTP increases from 96.03% to 96.10%.

xNudge Wild Symbols Always Nudge to Be Fully Visible

Nine To Five Ivory Tower Spins

Nolimit Bonus

Players in appropriate regions can take advantage of the following Nolimit Bonus options.

• 10 Middle Management Spins – 75x bet (96.45% RTP)
• 12 Ivory Tower Spins – 200x bet (96.17% RTP)
• God Mode – 1,370x bet (96.09% RTP)
• Lucky Draw (60% Middle Management, 40% Ivory Tower) – 390x bet (96.22% RTP)

RTP values above are based on the overall RTP setting of 96.03%.

Players should be aware that buying the God Mode Nolimit Bonus does not award any spins. Instead it is simply a gamble – either the maximum win will land or 0x will be awarded.

The maximum win available in Nine To Five is 9,217x bet (Big Win Not Found). If the sum of a single game round exceeds this, the game round will end and 9,217x bet will be awarded.

Nine To Five God Mode – Big Win Not Found

First Impression

That was a fun one! After the (almost unnecessary) complicated nature of Roadkill, Nine To Five felt like a breath of fresh air – simple air. Still, there’s plenty happening here to keep players on their toes.

In the base game things are pretty straightforward. xWays symbols and xNudge symbols land in view to assist in forming wins, along with Wild symbols that may or may not activate. Easy.

It’s the bonus modes where things are kicked up a notch. With a win multiplier building throughout spins and awarded at the very end, there are plenty of opportunities to see potent results – especially with the multiplier capable of reaching heights of x9,999.

In Ivory Tower Spins the doubling multiplier sees things climb with a rapid pace, but that dream can also be ripped away from you pretty quickly with CtrI+Alt+Del symbols – a bit like Raptor DoubleMax if it wanted to upset you. In any case, when the right combinations land wins are possible up to 9,217x bet.

It wouldn’t be much of a summary if we didn’t mention the elephant in the room; paying 1,370x bet to either land the maximum win or land nothing. Well, if you’re brave enough to do it, who am I to stop you? My only issue with this option is that they don’t advertise what exactly this is without reading the information, and I suspect we’re going to see a lot of players buying God Mode thinking it’s some sort of super spins feature.

Finally, maths is highly (8) volatile and RTP options are available up to 96.03% (96.45% feature buy), so as always it’s worth checking this. If you’re looking for something nostalgic with a nice win potential and interesting features, Nine To Five is a great option – even if you won’t indulge in all the extras.

• RTP: 92.10% – 96.03%
• RTP Main Game: 63.08%
• RTP Bonus Modes: 32.95%
• Volatility: High (8)
• Free Spins: 1 in 237 spins
• Win 100x bet: 1 in 1,160 spins
• Max win: 9,217x bet
• Max Win Main Game: 1 in 150,000 spins (96.03% RTP)

*The screenshots taken of games reviewed on this site are taken from Demo Play, as reviews are often written before games are released for real play.