Head into the future and see the dark side of city life in Thief. This online video slot has a slick interface, enticing music, and some seriously big payout potential. Try it out for free right here on this page, or head over to any of our listed NetEnt casinos to play for real cash.
Before playing, make sure you have your bet set to a level you are comfortable with. Use the Coin Value setting to adjust your bet denomination, and then change the Level setting to increase or decrease the number of coins wagered per line. All 25 lines are compulsory. When you're ready, press the circular spin button, or hit Max Bet to play with at the highest level for your selected denomination.
With each spin comes the opportunity to win plenty of cash. Get matching regular symbols from left-to-right on any payline and win according to the Thief paytable. The Thief herself is an expanding wild symbol on reels 2, 3, and 4, boosting your odds of hitting big line payouts. The best result, however, is the free spins feature. Get a combination of 3 or more Scatters and/or Adrenaline Scatters to activate 10 free spins. If you get 3 Adrenaline Scatters only, you'll enter the high-stakes Adrenaline round, where you'll find the rare Diamond symbol on the bonus reels.
Game Play
Coin Value: Change your bet denomination.
Level: Adjust the number of coins wagered per line.
Circular button: Spin the game at the current settings.
Max Bet: Play the game at the highest level.
Autoplay: Spin a selected number of times.
A NetEnt game called thief doesn't exactly inspire me with confidence given their reputation for producing low variance, low paying slot machines over the past couple of years but I guess I'm something of a glutten for punishment as I can't resist trying any NetEnt game I haven't played before! Even so, I'm certainly approaching them with a great deal of suspicion these days and if the paytable looks bad it's very likely I will decide to give it a miss.
The text here at AskGamblers promises a game with lots of potential for a big win so the first thing I did was take a look for the games jackpot - 68,550 coins apparently. With a max bet of 250 coins a quick sum reveals a maximum win of 274.2x stake - surely that can't be correct can it? I tried to work out how such a hit could be achieved and deduced that it should be possible to get three stacked wilds on reels 2, 3 and 4 during the "Adrenaline" free spins where an additional diamond symbol is added to the reels with a payoff of 5000 coins per winline. I'd imagine this could award between 9 and 11 lines of the maximum win and the rest would be made up from random 4/5 of a kind hits in the remaining four spaces. I don't know if such a combination is any more unlikely than say, a full screen of wilds in Immortal Romance, but I do know for sure that combination pays a hell of a lot more than 274x stake!
And that's the real problem with this and so many other NetEnt games for me. They look great, have decent sound and the presentation is second to none. There's often plenty of fresh ideas and novel ways to keep you interested and playing, but these are slot machines not fancy console games! NetEnt desperately need to adjust their output in favour of higher paying games - even just a little move in the right direction would make their games much more attractive right now. As things stand I estimate just one in ten new NetEnt releases is genuinely worth playing compared to a very large percentage of Microgaming and Yggdrasil's output (for example), which is a great shame.