Thor: Hammer Time is a mythical Nolimit City-owned video slot. During its press release dated August 1, 2019, the games developer hailed the slot game as an outstanding key performance indicator, thanks to its big wins and appealing hit frequency. Themes: Germanic mythology, Viking Age, weather phenomena, runic alphabet, Norse god, and cosmology.

Nolimit City has also developed other similar video slots, namely: Dragon Tribe (November 2019), Poison Eve (January 2020), Owls (February 2019), Dungeon Quest (October 2018), Mayan Magic Wildfire (Jun 2019), Coins of Fortune (June 2018), Ice Ice Yeti (November 2018), Gaelic Gold (March 2020), and Creepy Carnival (September 2016).

Thor is a video slot game adaptation of thunder Norse god Thor who, based on artistic impression, is a muscular and heavily bearded Germanic male holding a hammer called Mjolnir. The subtitle “Hammer Time” refers to a symbol-upgrading special feature. Ten symbols (Thor’s hammer, helmet, bearded ax, Viking goblet, ring, uruz rune, algiz rune, fehu rune, wunju rune, and sowulo rune) require three, four, or five winning combinations.

Thor: Hammer Time Game Characteristics

Thor: Hammer Time has a partitioned dark teal 5X3 grid, set on a Prussian blue Norse ornamental frame. It has, 20 fixed paylines, thirteen symbols, 15 total bets, bonus game, five special features, upgraded symbols, collectible ball lightning, locked wilds and locked reels, nudged balls of lightning, win multipliers, free games, respins, extra free games, and regularly pays from $0.04 to $1500.00.

Thor: Hammer Time has four special symbols and nine ordinary symbols. Special symbols: the substitute-and-wild is a metallic brown-and-golden “W”; the scatter is a pink ball lightning on golden talons; the bonus round-unlocking feature is a framed lightning-encased armored and muscular thunder god Thor in a winged Viking helmet; and the symbols-upgrading feature is Thor’s golden hammer.

Ordinary symbols: a ruby-embedded golden winged Viking helmet; a chipped wood-handled iron-and-golden bearded ax (traditionally called skeggox); a jade-embedded metallic-and-wooden Viking goblet; a turquoise-embedded iron ring; a royal blue uruz rune; a turquoise algiz rune; a sky blue fehu rune; a cyan wunju rune; and a purple sowulo rune.

Thor: Hammer Time’s bet sizes: $0.20 (minimum bet size), $0.40, $0.60, $0.80, $1.00, $2.00, $4.00, $6.00, $8.00, $10.00, $20.00, $40.00, $60.00, $80.00, and $100.00 (maximum bet size).

The $100 bet offers these Thor: Hammer Time payouts for three, four, and five winning combinations. Thor’s hammer pays $75, $300, and $1500. Helmet pays $60, $250, and $1250. Bearded ax pays $50, $225, and $1000. Goblet pays $40, $200, and $750. Ring pays $30, $150, and $500. The uruz rune, or algiz rune, or fehu rune, or wunju rune, or sowulo rune pays $20, $100, and $400.

God Thor on the fifth reel unlocks the lightning bonus that awards multipliers (up to X4), or locked reels, or locked “W”. Unlocked at random, the rune raze special feature can transform any of the five runic alphabets into one-of-a-kind rune. Also unlocked at random, the “Hammer Time” feature upgrades the Viking’s four artifacts into a golden hammer. Lastly, 2+ balls of lightning are the gateway to the Asgard respin and—together with god Thor—two additional free games. Thor: Hammer Time’s simulated non-progressive jackpot is X2328, which ($100X2328) is theoretically $232,800.00.

The notable features in this good software are fast mode, left-hand and right-hand mode, game history, and customizable autoplay settings with win limit and balance limit for the 10/25/50/100/250/1000 rounds. Ambient background: Nordic instrumental. The animated 3D graphics include golden winning paylines snaking across the dusty grid, sparkle effect, glowing runes, and glistening ball lightning.

Luck in Thor: Hammer Time

The RTP rate of Thor: Hammer Time is 96.03% and the house edge is 3.97%. This is a game of chance whose volatility index is 8/10, and hit frequency is 33.33%.