Kenneth Must Die

Kenneth Must Die: Slot Overview

When you stop to think about it, how well do you really know your neighbour, your work colleague, your friend, or even your spouse? We wear so many masks in different social situations; how well can we say we even know ourselves? The Howard Sterns of the online gambling scene Nolimit City explores this idea in the slot Kenneth Must Die. The lead character in this game, Kenneth, appears to have it all: a well-paid job, a nice car, a wife, offspring, the works. However, behind closed doors, Kenneth and his missus drop the nice guy and gal facades to indulge in the sort of fantasies that would make their grannies blush. Each to their own, huh? Legally, of course.

Nolimit City has been teasing players with a twisted Kenneth slot for a while now, and the time has finally arrived. The result, Kenneth Must Die takes cues from a certain toy range before plunging everything into unusual pleasure and pain scenarios that would never find their way onto toy store shelves. Kenneth Must Die splits its time between locations as diverse as staid suburbia, dominatrix clubs, and a funeral home. Yeah, it is all over the place thematically, so try to keep up if you're going to cling to this ride. Kenneth Must Die is also very all over the place in terms of features too, so make extra sure that grip is tight while you're clinging. Visually the game is challenging by regular online slot standards - there's even a censored version for some markets - while being shot through with a particular humour, and the sonics are outstanding, as usual.

Known as the Nolimit Cap feature, and what must be a first, gamblers can set Kenneth Must Die's max win either to 10,000x or 69,000x. The lower max win version has an increased probability of getting xHole, xNudge, and xWays. The default RTP of the lower max win version is 96.05%, while 96.04% is the higher win value. The max win frequency is, naturally, vastly different. There is an enormous range of betting options, too, from Nolimit Bonus choices and Nolimit Boosters to the base 20 c to £/€100 per spin stake selection. In addition, choosing to hit the xBet increases the total stake by 70% while increasing the chance of triggering free spins from 1 in 234 to 1 in 92. Unsurprisingly, the volatility, like the subject matter, is extreme.

Kenneth Must Die just has to be different in all areas, huh, including its reel set. The 5-reel gaming grid is spaced out in a 2-4-4-4-2 pattern, with 480 ways to win. Each of its 10 symbols comes in three different forms as well, divided between 5 inanimate objects and 5 characters. Hitting lines of 5 OAK pay 0.2 to 0.4 times the bet for the lows, or 0.5 to 2.5 times the bet for the premium character symbols. When wilds are on the grid, they substitute for any regular pay symbol. Winning symbols are removed and replaced by the avalanche mechanic - only when symbols on the bottom row are part of the win, though.

Kenneth Must Die: Slot Features

There is a ton of stuff going on in Kenneth Must Die mechanically, from multiple modifiers, multiple bonus rounds, and a stack of feature buys. It's a big package.

Big Balls Multiplier

Symbols on the bottom row come in from the right. At the start of the spin, the first symbol gets an x1 incremental Big Balls Multiplier, the second symbol an x2, and so on. Symbols get split according to their Big Balls Multiplier. Avalanches are triggered when symbols on the bottom row are part of a win. New symbols come from the right and their Big Balls Multiplier is incremented by +1 on the highest existing multiplier on the special reel.

Kinky Hookup

Kinky Hookup is triggered when Kinky Kenneth and Kinky Wife symbols land on the main reels. All symbols on the shortest path between the two symbols convert to either only Wife, Kenneth, or wild.

Gimp Transformation

Landing 2 Gimp symbols triggers the Gimp Transform. The Gimp symbol transforms into one of these - xWays, xNudge, wild, Kinky Kenneth, Kenneth, Kinky Wife, or Wife.

Gimpier Transform

Gimpier symbols appear on the rightmost reel. It transforms into either Kinky Kenneth, wild, or Kinky Wife.

xWays

xWays symbols land only on the special row and transform into a regular pay symbol. They reveal 2-4 symbols of the same type and increase the number of ways to win. If more than one xWays symbol hits, they all reveal the same symbols and size. Each symbol revealed by xWays on the bottom special row gets the respective Big Balls Multiplier.

xNudge Wilds

xNudge Wilds always nudge upwards until the top of the reel. For each step it nudges, the win multiplier increases by +1. When nudging over a regular wild symbol, the xNudge gets +1 to the win multiplier per wild symbol. If more than 1 xNudges are on the same reel, already nudged xNudge Wild's multiplier is added to the total win multiplier. Several xNudge Wild multipliers on different reels add to each other for a total win multiplier value. A sticky xNudge Wild resets the position beneath it to the original size. An xNudge landing on the bottom special row gets the respective Big Balls Multiplier.

xHole

Landing an xHole symbol on the centre position of the reels triggers this feature. Symbols from the main reels are sucked in and spit out to random positions with split symbols of 2 to 8 in size. In the case of an xNudge, it changes size and win multiplier. The xHole then converts to a wild. Any Gimp, Gimpier, Wild, xNudge Wild, Kinky Kenneth, Kinky Wife or winning symbols before the xHole suck go back to the same positions. The Gimp and the Gimpier symbols get a multiplier for their split symbol size. The xHole will not suck any sticky wild or sticky xNudge Wilds in the bonus game modes. It will also not suck Gimp symbols when exactly 3 Gimps are present on the grid.

Beefy Spins

Landing 3 Gimp symbols in the base game awards 8 Beefy Spins. For this, Big Balls Multipliers do not reset and landed regular wild symbols are sticky. Landing a Gimpier symbol upgrades the bonus to Beefier Spins and awards +1 extra free spin. Landing a Gimpier symbol with an activated xHole in the same avalanche upgrades the bonus to Beefiest Spins and awards +2 extra spins.

Beefier Spins

Landing 3 Gimps and 1 Gimpier symbol in the base game awards 9 Beefier Spins. As well as the Beefy Spins features, Gimpier symbol and xNudge Wilds landing on the main reels are sticky. Landing an activated xHole will upgrade the bonus to Beefiest Spins and award +1 extra spin.

Beefiest Spins

Landing 3 Gimp symbols, 1 Gimper symbol, and an activated xHole in the base game awards 10 Beefiest Spins. In addition to the Beefier Spins symbols, the xHole will reappear in its position at the start of each spin.

Nolimit Bonus Buy

The Nolimit Bonus is where players can buy various bonus options. These are:

• 8 Beefy Spins for 65x the bet.
• 9 Beefier Spins for 240x the bet.
• 10 Beefiest Spins for 6,969x the bet (6,469x on the 10k xbet version).
• 1 Beefiest Spin with a guaranteed xNudge Wild for 969x the bet.
• Lucky Draw 1 (69% / 30% / 1%) for 185x the bet (181x on the 10k xbet version).
• Lucky Draw 2 (0% / 31% / 69%) for 2,320x the bet (2,169x on the 10k xbet version).

Nolimit Booster

Last but not least are the Nolimit Booster options:

• Feature xHole - 200x the bet for xNudge Wild + an activated xHole may land 1 out of 3 times.
• Feature xHole - 588x the bet for xNudge Wild + xHole.
• xBet - 1.7x the bet for a guaranteed Gimp symbol on the second reel.
• Feature xWays - 6x the bet to guarantee xWays.
• Feature xNudge - 20x the bet to guarantee xNudge.

Kenneth Must Die: Slot Verdict

Hey, come on, this is what we all want to see from Nolimit City, right? Even if you don't like the gaming side of Kenneth Must Die, it's reassuring there are nutters out there brave enough to make slots, the likes of which literally no other studio in the business has the balls or the inclination to design - again. Where to begin? Kenneth Must Die is in such bad taste it's almost art. Kenneth and wife, two pop culture toy icon lookalikes keen on B&D, a bit of S&M, gimping it up, Beefy Dick from San Quentin, it's like a certain toy range and the infamous Marsellus Wallace scene from Pulp Fiction procreated, then out came this monstrosity. Fortunately, while the shock value is high, Kenneth Must Die isn't only about shock; it's got some ace gaming ideas wedged in here like a well-fitted ball gag.

For one thing, Kenneth Must Die solves the age-old max win puzzle - do we go big and rare, or smaller and more frequent? This game sidesteps that dilemma by offering both and letting gamblers choose their preference. The two max wins are significantly different, and so are the accompanying statistics, such as max win frequency - 1 in 40.4 million spins for the 69,000x or 1 in 782.9 thousand spins for the 10,000x. Other in-game features are a sweet mix of classic NLC devices, such as xNudge Wilds and xWays, along with newer ideas and combinations of ideas. The xHole is one such innovator to put on the check-it-out list. On a low key enthused level, it's akin to one of cascade/clear the screen features that pop up every now and then. But, it actually does so much more than just repopulate the screen, such as splitting stuff up as well as playing around with multipliers. xHole certainly ups the desirability of getting into Beefiest Spins, reflected by the substantial cost to buy them.

If our unconscious (or conscious) minds are expressed through our creative endeavours, well, let's just say there must be some pretty wild office parties happening over at Nolimit City HQ. Despite being a studio that regularly turns out controversial games, Kenneth Must Die surely rates as one of the most viscerally reactive. Whether you consider Kenneth Must Die to be one of the most offensive or humorous slots on the scene, there's no denying the outrageous amount of creativity that's been squeezed into it like a badly fitting gimp suit.