In And Out

In And Out: Slot Overview

No, this is not a review about the trendy Californian burger chain. In And Out, in this case, serves as both the name of casino game maker NetEnt's heist slot and the summation of the plan cooked up by its main protagonist. Going by the name of Chloé , this is a burglar who burgles for the sheer thrill of it, not from any sort of need. Players join Chloé as she busts into a museum to grab priceless artefacts, while on-grid leading a chase to highlight positions, fill them with prizes, and augment the outcome with the help of supplementary side features. In short, the way In And Out performs isn't a million miles away from the Golden Square concept found in Hacksaw Gaming's popular Le Bandit series, but NetEnt has reworked the formula to function in new, and theoretically rewarding ways.

Chloé is an uber cool French thief, who starts the game lighting up a cigarette on a ledge overlooking the Parisian skyline at night, a bag full of stolen goods sitting near her designer boots. From there, we move into the actual game, which is held in a museum with a sarcophagus standing upright on one side of the screen, a floating tiara on the other. The wonder is if NetEnt got the idea for In And Out from the 2025 Louvre heist, which saw thieves dressed up as construction workers taking off with €88 million worth of the French Crown Jewels. At the time of writing, arrests have been made, but the jewels remain unfound. Back to the game and to complete the picture of high-class theft, NetEnt's sound team, which has been stepping it up lately, following the bumpin' in What's Up Witches, has cooked up a French ska number, giving In And Out a touch of extra class, to round out the achingly cool Parisian vibe.

In And Out is a scatter pays game played on a dynamic 6x5 grid that forms a winning combination when 8+ low pays or 6+ high pays are in view. Gamblers are able to stake $/€0.20 to $/€80 per spin, and NetEnt's Elevate feature buy bristles with options. Rated medium in terms of volatility, the RTP comes in at 96.08% on the highest setting.

In And Out's low win symbols are gloves, torches, tools, crow bars, and grappling hooks, whereas the high win symbols are necklaces, jewels, rings, earrings, and tiaras. The most valuable clusters are 12+ in size, and they pay 1.5x-1.75x when made up of low pays or 3x-5x when formed of highs. Wilds substitute for all symbols except scatters, Bombs, or Heist Mode symbols.

In And Out: Slot Features

In And Out features an avalanche system, expanding reels, Heist Mode, free spins, super free spins, and Elevate feature buys.

Avalanche Feature

Any win starts an avalanche. When symbols disappear from an avalanche, they highlight their positions in bronze. When a new winning combination occurs on a highlighted position, it is upgraded from bronze to silver to gold, then diamond.

Expanding Reels

Each landed Bomb symbol explodes, removing itself and the immediately adjacent symbols, causing an avalanche. The explosion does not remove wilds, scatters, or Chloé symbols. If a Bomb lands on the edge of the grid, the play area expands in that direction, adding a reel or row before the avalanche. Bombs landing in corners add a reel and row. The grid can expand once in each direction, giving a maximum size of 8 reels with 7 rows. Grids reset at the start of the next spin.

Heist Mode

Should a Chloé symbol land when there are highlighted positions, the Heist Mode is triggered which essentially is a standard hold & win feature. Coins that land during the feature are worth 0.5x-2x for bronze, 4x-10x for silver, 15x-30x for gold, and 50x-1,000x for diamond. Coins, Diamonds, or Multipliers are sticky till the end of the mode. The special Heist Mode symbols are these:

• Multiplier - Only lands in bronze, silver, or gold tier positions to apply a multiplier of x2 to x10 to all Coins, Diamonds, and Collectors at the end of Heist Mode.
• Upgrader - Upgrades all positions adjacent to it to the next tier. Also upgrades scatters to super scatters. Affected positions that were not initially part of Heist Mode become part of it, highlighted bronze. Coins are also upgraded.
• Burst - Upgrades a random number of un-highlighted positions to the same highlight tier as the Burst symbol, adding them to the Heist Mode. It can also affect positions outside the play area, causing it to expand. When Upgraders and Bursts land together, they cause a blast combining both symbol effects. Blasts can also add Coins.
• Extra Life - Awards one extra Heist Mode spin and is then removed.
• Collector - Gathers the value of all Coins, Diamonds, and other Collectors. It remains in play while the collected symbols are removed.

Free Spins

Two types of scatters may land: regular or super. Landing 3 scatters of any kind in the base game triggers 5 free spins, plus each super scatter awards an extra spin. The grid size and highlighted position from the base game carry over to the free spins round, where they remain until used in a Heist Mode. During the round, if 1 or 2 scatters land, players win +1 or +2 free spins, respectively. If super free spins are activated, they start with the maximum grid size.

Elevate Feature Buys

Various features may be bought from the Elevate section of the game. They are the Bonus Hunt, at 1.5x to increase the chance of triggering free spins, a Guaranteed Chloé symbol for 5x, or 20x buys Heist Mode with 3 highlighted positions. Free spins may be bought for 100x the bet, or super free spins cost 800x to buy.

In And Out: Slot Verdict

It's fitting that NetEnt has picked a heist angle to theme In And Out since some of its ideas have been 'stolen' from elsewhere. Well, stolen is an exaggeration perhaps for a bit of shock value, yet some of the core ideas do ring a very strong Le Bandit Bell. Winning symbols highlighting squares, landing special trigger symbols to populate squares with instant prizes, and so on. Okay, much of what In And Out does is going to feel very familiar to a good number of gamblers. But anyway, a lot of studios hijack each other's ideas; it is what it is, yet NetEnt has made changes and twisted the concept enough to make In And Out feel like its own show.

One difference is that there is no guarantee a highlighted position will land anything when Heist Mode has been activated. This method, as a whole, is not entirely clear-cut better or worse than the Golden Squares method, but it does provide an alternative way of potentially firing off a bit of fun. There's quite a lot to Heist Mode, including multiplier and collector symbols, yet beyond them, grid expansion, Burst and position upgrading are exciting ways for mixing the flow up, and entering super free spins with the gaming area stretched to full capacity produces a lot of space for highlighting and then heisting.

Winning potential sits at 12,086x the bet, so there is room for Chloé to get her mitts on plenty of high-value items on behalf of lucky players. In the end, despite the obvious connections to Le Bandit, the way Heist Mode operates meant In And Out often felt closer to a more regular hold 'n' spin feature than a direct Golden Squares copy, since Heist mode grants a set number of spins with which to land productive symbols or not. Whether this turns out to be a Le beater remains to be seen, the assumption is no, but by blending Hacksaw Gaming's iconic cell-activation loop with a hold 'n' win rhythm, NetEnt has successfully 'appropriated' a good idea then reworked it into something fresh and entertaining.