Nolimit City: Evolution's studio behind xWays, xNudge and xBomb

Nolimit City makes slots for players who want big swings. Its games are dark in theme, heavy on features, and rated by the studio itself as Extreme or even Insane volatility. Since 2022 it has been part of Evolution, the live casino group.

At a glance

The Evolution deal

Evolution announced the deal on 22 June 2022 and completed it on 8 August 2022, after regulatory approvals. The buyer, Evolution Malta Holding Limited, took the whole of Nolimit City Holding Ltd for cash. Evolution did not disclose the price in its completion notice. Nolimit City keeps its own brand and website, which lists it under Evolution. See our Evolution page for the parent group.

What Nolimit City makes

Online video slots, and nothing else that we could find. The studio's identity rests on a set of branded mechanics that reappear across games:

• xWays. A special symbol reveals a stack of one matching paying symbol, which adds positions to the reel and so increases the ways to win.
• xNudge. Tall wilds nudge until they are fully visible, and each nudge adds 1 to the wild's multiplier.
• xSplit. Splits every symbol to its left into two, which increases the ways to win.
• xBomb. An exploding wild that removes adjacent symbols (except bonus symbols) and raises the win multiplier by one for the next cascade.

Most titles also have several bonus modes, each harder to trigger and more volatile than the last, plus a bonus buy where allowed.

Notable games

RTPs are left out on purpose. Nolimit City's pages show one figure per game, but casinos may run other versions.

• San Quentin xWays (2021). Locked "enhancer cells" above and below the reels can open to reveal symbols, wilds or the Razor Split feature. Its listed top win is 150,000x the bet.
• Mental (2021). Combines xWays, xSplit and xNudge with sticky Fire Frames and three tiers of bonus mode. Nolimit City lists a top win of 66,666x the bet and puts the odds of hitting it at 1 in 18 million.
• Deadwood xNudge (2020). The game that showcased xNudge: Hunter wilds four rows high nudge until they fill the reel, gaining 1 on their multiplier with each nudge. Nolimit City rates it Extreme and lists a top win of 13,950x.
• Fire in the Hole xBomb (2021). Starts on a 6x3 grid that opens up to 6x6 as cascades continue, with xBomb wilds clearing space. Listed top win: 60,000x the bet.
• Tombstone R.I.P (2022). Nolimit City calls its volatility "Insane". It includes the xRIP rule, under which any spin returning less than the stake pays nothing, and lists a top win of 300,000x at odds of 1 in 130 million.

Those top-win odds are worth reading twice. A 1 in 130 million event is, in practice, not going to happen to any one player. The mechanics that make these games exciting also concentrate the return into rare results. Our RTP and volatility guide explains what that does to a session, and our bonus buy guide explains why buying features raises the stake per round.

RTP versions

We found no Nolimit City statement about offering several RTP settings per game, and the game pages we checked each list a single figure. Always check the help screen at your casino, which shows the RTP for the version it runs.

Where Nolimit City games appear

Nolimit City holds a UK Gambling Commission licence, so its games can appear at UK-licensed casinos. We have not found a primary source confirming launches in Canadian provinces or US states, so we do not list it for those markets yet. For other countries, see the casino markets hub. Studios with a similar high-volatility style include Hacksaw Gaming and Push Gaming. More studios are on the providers hub.