In & Out (NetEnt) Slot Review & Demo

🗝️ Key Takeaways

• Sneak into a moonlit museum after closing time and help yourself to whatever sits in the glass cases.
• Matching symbols pay wherever they land, on a grid that starts at 6x5 and can widen to 8x7.
• Every cleared win leaves a glowing tile behind, and those tiles climb through four precious tiers.
• Chloé turns the lit tiles into a heist where coins lock in place and special symbols reshape the haul.
• Free spins inherit the board you built, and a Super version opens at full size.
• The figures to know are 96.08%, Medium volatility and a 12,086x top payout, with five paid Elevate options on the side.

The last visitors left hours ago. Moonlight pours through a tall arched window onto a polished floor, a tiara glitters alone in its glass case, and an Egyptian sarcophagus keeps watch from the far wall.

Somewhere in the dark, a figure in a black beanie is already inside. Her name is Chloé.

She grew up surrounded by the kind of treasures this hall protects, and she takes them anyway, simply because she enjoys it. Chloé brings her own soundtrack.

Instead of creeping strings, the music is playful and rhythmic, close to a dance track, and she sings and talks along to it in French, calling out a bright "C'est parti!" as the reels get going. This is NetEnt's take on the heist caper, and for one night, the whole gallery is hers.

🖼️ After Hours in the Gallery

The reels sit behind a tall pane of glass in the middle of the hall, and the yellow In & Out logo is pasted on the wall at the top left, a running silhouette slipping between the letters. Behind the glass, the night-time gallery stays dim and blue, lit only by the window and the soft glow of the display cases.

The jewels are the prizes. A tiara of pale blue stones tops the paytable, followed by ruby drop earrings, an emerald ring set with a white diamond, a sapphire teardrop pendant and a string of pearls.

The lower symbols are the tools of the trade: a grappling hook wound with rope, a crowbar, a pair of crossed lockpicks, a torch and leather gloves. Chloé appears on the reels as a portrait in her beanie, edged in orange light, and the Bonus symbol is a safe keypad with BONUS glowing green on its display.

A gold Super Bonus version carries the same keypad. Trigger the free spins and the lights go red.

Security lasers sweep across the floor, a marble statue and a painted vase loom on their plinths, and Chloé slips off the reels to crouch at the left of the screen, watching the board like a lookout.

🔦 Scattered Wins and Avalanches

Six matching jewels or eight matching tools make a win, wherever on the board they happen to sit, and bigger groups pay more. A paying spin doesn't stop at the first result.

It sets off an Avalanche™, which clears away the paying symbols so fresh ones can tumble into their places, and the spin carries on for as long as each new arrival pays again.

📊 RTP and Volatility

NetEnt rates In and Out at Medium, and 24.97% of spins return something according to its published hit frequency. Our page on slot volatility explains how a middle rating like this treats a balance, and the hit frequency guide shows what a figure close to one in four means at the reels.

Standard play returns 96.08%. Each Elevate option has its own return, listed with that option further down, and our introduction to Return to Player sets out what separates numbers this close together.

💎 Symbols and Payouts

Each piece of loot is priced on a 1.00 stake for a group of twelve or more, a group of nine, and the smallest group that pays, which is six for jewels and eight for tools.

High Paying:

• Tiara: 5.00 / 2.50 / 1.00.
• Ruby earrings: 4.00 / 2.00 / 0.75.
• Emerald ring: 4.00 / 2.00 / 0.75.
• Sapphire pendant: 3.00 / 1.50 / 0.50.
• Pearl necklace: 3.00 / 1.50 / 0.50.

Low Paying:

• Grappling hook: 1.75 / 0.30 / 0.20.
• Crowbar: 1.75 / 0.30 / 0.20.
• Lockpicks: 1.75 / 0.30 / 0.20.
• Torch: 1.50 / 0.20 / 0.10.
• Gloves: 1.50 / 0.20 / 0.10.

Special Symbols:

• Wild: Can land anywhere on the reels and replaces every symbol except Bonus, Bomb, and Heist Mode symbols. One wild can count towards more than one win on the same spin, and each time it is paid at the highest combination it can complete.
• Chloé: The key to Heist Mode, covered further down.
• Bonus and Super Bonus: The way into the free spins.
• Bomb: Drives the expanding grid described below.

Even twelve or more torches or gloves return 1.50, while the tiara reaches 5.00 for the same count.

🧨 Bets and the 12,086x Top Payout

Any stake from 0.20 to 80 can be chosen for ordinary play. NetEnt puts the highest possible payout at 12,086x the bet.

✨ Bronze, Silver, Gold and Diamond

When symbols disappear in a win, the cells they leave behind light up in bronze. If a later win in the same round includes one of those lit cells, it moves up a tier, from bronze to silver, silver to gold, and gold to diamond, which is as high as it goes.

Every round starts with a clean board.

💣 Bombs and a Bigger Board

A Bomb blows itself up along with every symbol touching it, sparing only Bonus, Super Bonus, Wild and Chloé symbols, and an Avalanche fills the hole. A Bomb on the edge of the grid adds a reel or a row on that side before the refill, and one in a corner adds both.

Each side can only grow once per round, so the board can reach at most eight reels and seven rows before resetting for the next spin.

🕵️ Heist Mode

If Chloé is on the reels when the Avalanches stop, and lit tiles are waiting, she breaks in. Only the highlighted area is played, and every empty cell inside it spins on its own.

Coins, diamonds, Bonus symbols and heist specials are the only symbols that can land, and any Bonus or Super Bonus symbols already on the board stay where they are. Coins, diamonds and Multipliers stick once they land.

The heist starts with three spins and ends when they run out or the area fills up. Its winnings are then added up, and play returns to the spin that started it.

The tier under a cell decides what it can hold:

• Bronze coins: x0.5, x1, x1.5 or x2.
• Silver coins: x4, x6, x8 or x10.
• Gold coins: x15, x20, x25 or x30.
• Diamonds: x50, x100, x200 or x1,000.

🧰 Chloé's Kit

Six special symbols can turn up during a heist, and each does a different job.

• The Multiplier arrives showing x2, x3, x4, x5, or x10. When the heist ends, it multiplies the value of every coin, diamond, and Collector on the board.
• The Upgrader, a canister of violet smoke, moves every cell next to it up one tier, pulling in any outside the heist area as bronze. A Bonus symbol beside it becomes a Super Bonus, and a coin sitting on a cell of its own colour jumps to the next tier at that tier's lowest value.
• The Burst comes in three tier colours. It lights a random number of unlit cells to its own tier and adds them to the heist, even cells outside the original area, so it can push the heist past its starting borders.
• The Blast happens when an Upgrader and a Burst land together, applying both effects at once with the higher of the two tiers winning. It also drops coins straight into the empty cells they affect.
• Extra Life adds one spin to the heist and leaves the board on the following spin.
• The Collector gathers the value of every coin, diamond and other Collector in the area. The pieces it collects disappear and the Collector stays put, holding the total, until another Collector lands and both vanish.

Our first heist came early, in the base game. Chloé found a block of bronze tiles along the bottom half of the board, and the heist paid 5.00 at a 1.00 bet, with a Bonus keypad landing beside it for good measure.

🚨 Free Spins

Three Bonus symbols of any kind award the free spins once the Avalanches finish. The round starts with five spins, plus one extra for every Super Bonus in the triggering three.

The free spins keep the board exactly as the trigger spin left it, grid size and lit tiles included, and the tiles stay until a heist uses them. Bombs and Heist Mode still work inside the round, so the board can keep growing.

Up to two Bonus symbols can land per spin, Avalanches included. One adds a spin, and two add two, although Bonus symbols in this round can't be upgraded.

Super Free Spins work the same way, except the grid starts at its full 8x7. Both rounds play at the bet that triggered them, and when the last spin is done, the round's total is added to that spin's win.

Ours came as the Super version. The board opened wide, one Bonus keypad and two Super Bonus keypads flashed red, and the two +1 displays set the round at seven spins.

With six spins still to play, Chloé got into a lit area and the board became a vault. Bronze coins worth x0.5, x1 and x1.5 dropped in, along with a silver x4 and a gold x15 on a gold tile.

That heist closed on a 229.00 Heist Win, taking the round total to 306.95. Four spins from the end, Chloé was back on the reels, grinning through smoke from a string of blasts, while tiaras and an emerald ring connected around her.

By then the round stood at 424.70, and with two spins left, a run of Avalanches paid 74.35 to carry it to 565.05.

⬆️ The Elevate Menu

Tapping the gold Elevate button opens five options. Only one can be used per game round, and once chosen it applies to every spin until you switch it off.

The price scales with your bet, and so do the wins, and each option has its own maximum stake.

• Bonus Hunt: costs 1.5x the bet and raises your chances of landing the free spins without changing anything else. It returns 96.04% and can be played at up to 120.
• Guaranteed Chloé Symbol: costs 5x the bet and puts her on every spin, so any lit tiles left after the Avalanches have a much better chance of turning into a heist. It returns 96.09%, with a top stake of 400.
• Heist Mode ON: costs 20x the bet and goes straight to a heist on three bronze cells, without waiting for the board to light up on its own. It returns 96.05% and runs up to 1,600.
• Free Spins: costs 100x the bet and drops three Bonus symbols onto the reels to start the round. It returns 96.09%, with a maximum of 8,000.
• Super Free Spins: costs 800x the bet and does the same, but opens the round at full size. It returns 96.03% and can be played at up to 64,000.

🤔 Is This Slot For You?

In and Out suits players who enjoy a caper with a bit of style, and who like a slot that gives them several things to watch for at once rather than a single trigger. The Elevate menu also lets very different players pick their own pace.

The cheaper options keep ordinary play in charge but make the good moments more likely, while the two buys are for anyone who would rather go straight to the bonus and see what a board full of tiles can do. Two more NetEnt games share pieces of the same machinery.

In our Jelly Belly Megaways review, the Avalanche™ wins that clear the board here also decide whether the bonus starts, with three or more in a row opening the free spins. Our Cornelius Milk Hunter Megaways review follows a cat whose free spins hold Cash Prizes in place much as Chloé's coins stick during a heist, only in a sunny back garden instead of a moonlit gallery.

Anyone after a steep, all-or-nothing ride may find a Medium rating tamer than they want.

🌟 VistaGamble's Honest Assessment

NetEnt has linked its features into a single chain, and following a spin from first win to final heist is the best part of the game.

➕ The Positives

• Wins that leave a trace: lit tiles turn even modest Avalanches into groundwork for something bigger.
• A heist that can change course: several of its specials can turn an ordinary haul into a much bigger one halfway through.
• A bonus that rewards the spin before it: a strong trigger hands the free spins a real head start.
• Real choice in the menu: five options at very different prices let players decide how much of the game to skip.

➖ The Negatives

• Lit tiles depend on Chloé: if she doesn't turn up, a fully lit board pays nothing extra.
• A long list of rules: tiers, Bombs and six heist specials take a while to understand properly.
• Most Elevate options give a little back: Bonus Hunt, Heist Mode ON and Super Free Spins all return slightly less than standard play.

🔒 Conclusion

NetEnt has dressed its Avalanche™ engine as a night-time robbery, and the costume fits. The moonlit gallery, the red lasers and Chloé's French vocals give the game a personality that lasts well beyond the first few spins.

Our seven Super Free Spins showed it best, with a 229.00 heist and an Avalanche run worth 74.35 late in the round. For the studio's other releases, head to our NetEnt provider page.

And if this becomes a slot you come back to, a reload bonus gives each return visit a little extra.

Frequently Asked Questions❓

What is the maximum win in In & Out?

The top payout is 12,086x your stake.

What are the RTP and volatility of In & Out?

Standard play returns 96.08% at Medium volatility, and the five Elevate options return between 96.03% and 96.09%.

How do the highlighted tiers work?

A cleared cell turns bronze, and every further win that passes through it lifts it one step through silver and gold to diamond. The board is wiped clean when a new round begins.

How do you trigger Heist Mode?

Chloé has to be on the reels with highlighted cells still lit once the Avalanches stop. The heist then plays out in that area with three spins and coins that stick.

How do the free spins work?

Three Bonus symbols of any kind give five spins, plus one for each Super Bonus among them. Whatever the trigger spin built, board size and lit cells alike, is still there when the round begins.

Is there a bonus buy in In & Out?

There are two, both found in the Elevate menu. The standard free spins are 100x the bet, while the 800x Super version opens on the largest 8x7 grid.