Behind Bars Masterplan - Demo & Slot Review

Behind Bars Masterplan is played on a 6×5 grid with Scatter Pays instead of traditional paylines. Wins are formed when at least 8 matching symbols land anywhere on the grid. After a win, winning symbols disappear and new symbols drop into the empty spaces, which can create more wins from the same spin.

The main RTP is 96.29%, with lower versions also listed at 94.31% and 92.34%. The volatility is medium, the hit frequency is 27.2%, and the bet range runs from 0.10 to 75. The maximum win is 12,000x the bet.

The game is built around a prison-break base game with cascading wins, reel multipliers and two bonus rounds. The main hooks are Escape Plan, The Great Escape and the feature buy menu, but the proper breakdown comes next.

• Basics: Behind Bars Masterplan does not use fixed paylines. A win is created when 8 or more matching symbols land anywhere on the 6×5 grid. After a win, the winning symbols disappear and new symbols fall into the empty spaces. This continues for as long as new wins keep forming from the same spin.
• Multipliers: Each reel has a multiplier field above it. On every base game spin, these fields receive random starting values from a pool that can include x1 to x10, x15, x20, x25, x50 and x100. When symbols on a reel are part of a win, that reel’s multiplier is applied to the payout. If several reel multipliers are involved in the same win, their values are added together before the win is multiplied. During cascades, one or two random reels can receive multiplier boosts, but in the base game the reel multipliers reset at the start of the next spin.
• Escape Plan: Landing 3 Scatters triggers Escape Plan. It is a hold and win style bonus round that starts with 3 spins. All reel multipliers begin at x1, and the spin counter resets to 3 whenever a new non-blank symbol lands. Symbols do not stay locked on the grid after acting; they reveal their effect and then the next spin continues. Instant Win symbols award cash values that are multiplied by the reel multiplier on their reel before being added to the total win. Other special symbols can add to or multiply reel multipliers, either on one reel or across all reels.
• The Great Escape: Landing 4 Scatters triggers The Great Escape and it works like Escape Plan, but 3 random reels start with boosted multipliers between x2 and x10. This gives the bonus a stronger starting position and more potential to build bigger Instant Win payouts.
• Search Party: During the bonus rounds, Search Party can trigger when a spin lands no new symbols. It adds 2, 3 or 4 Instant Win symbols to random positions and resets the spin counter back to 3.
• Special Symbols: During Escape Plan and The Great Escape, several special symbols can appear. When several special symbols land on the same spin, booster effects are applied first, and Instant Win values are paid after the multiplier changes.
  • Instant Win symbols reveal a value from 0.5x to 100x. The value is multiplied by the current reel multiplier on that reel before being added to the total win.
  • Adder symbols add a value from x1 to x100 to the multiplier of the reel they land on.
  • Multiplier symbols multiply the reel multiplier by x2 to x10.
  • Epic Adder symbols add x1 to x100 to all six reel multipliers.
  • Epic Multiplier symbols multiply all six reel multipliers by x2 to x10.
• Feature Buy: Behind Bars Masterplan includes several buy options.
• • BonusHunt FeatureSpins costs 3x the bet and makes a bonus 5 times more likely to trigger.
  • Surprise Inspection FeatureSpins costs 50x the bet and gives all reels a random multiplier of at least x2, with at least one win guaranteed.
  • Escape Plan costs 100x the bet and starts the Escape Plan bonus.
  • The Great Escape costs 250x the bet and starts The Great Escape bonus.