Radiant City

Radiant City Overview

Radiant City is a post-apocalyptic video slot from KA Gaming, released on 15 November 2023. It plays on a 5x3 grid with 243 ways to win, so symbols only need to land on adjacent reels from the left, in any row. SlotCatalog lists an RTP of 90% with RTP ranges – KA Gaming offers the game in several versions – while volatility and the maximum win are not published. Bets run from 0.20 to 300 per spin.

A City After the Fallout

The setting is a ruined industrial town under a red sky: rusting towers, a broken Ferris wheel and wrecked cars in the background. The symbols tell the story of the survivors. The premium set is made up of people – a hazmat-suited worker in green, a soldier in a gas mask, a scavenger with a rifle and a scientist in a purple suit and hat – alongside a rusted orange pickup truck and a Ferris-wheel emblem. The low end is covered by weathered stone letters from 10 to A. A “243 WAYS” marker sits on each side of the reels.

The Radiation Wild

The wild is the yellow-and-black radiation symbol, marked WILD, and it substitutes for the paying symbols. In one of our spins two radiation wilds landed on reels 2 and 3 next to a J on reel 1 – enough to complete a win of $200 on a $100 bet, 2x the stake, from what would otherwise have been a single letter.

How the 243 Ways Pay

With 243 ways, the number of symbols on each reel multiplies the win. Our screenshots show this clearly:

• Three scientists on reels 1–3, with two of them stacked on reel 1: $50.
• Scientists across reels 1–5: $100.
• Orange trucks on all five reels: $135.

All three were played at a $100 bet, so these are 0.5x, 1x and 1.35x wins – typical of the steady base game.

The scientist wins also let us work out the way values. In the $50 spin, two scientists stacked on reel 1 and one each on reels 2 and 3 make two ways of three-of-a-kind, so each way paid $25 – 0.25x the bet. In the $100 spin there was exactly one scientist on each of the five reels: a single way of five-of-a-kind, worth 1x the bet.

The Big Hits

The larger results came from stacks of the premium characters. One spin filled the reels with hazmat workers in green and gas-masked soldiers, and the game switched to a HUGE WIN banner: $880, or 8.8x the bet. Another screenshot shows the green hazmat workers highlighted on four of the five reels, part of a winning sequence in which the win counter climbed past $720.

Features

SlotCatalog lists free spins, scatter symbols and a 3x3 mega symbol among the game's features, alongside the wild. Our screenshots only show base-game wins, so we cannot describe the free spins round or the mega symbol in detail from our own session – the in-game paytable is the place to check the trigger and the number of spins.

Playing on a Budget

The bet range is wide: the minimum of 0.20 suits long sessions, while the 300 maximum is high for a 243-ways game. The interface is simple – a round spin button in the middle, a NEW BET and a MAX BET button either side, and the balance and win counters along the bottom. The demo starts with a play-money balance of around $100,000, which is enough to test the game at any stake.

A Note on the RTP

The 90% figure listed by SlotCatalog is low for a modern slot, and it comes with the note that the game has RTP ranges. KA Gaming supplies several versions to casinos, so the RTP you actually play depends on the operator. It is worth checking the game's information screen before playing for real money.

More From KA Gaming

KA Gaming's catalogue covers many themes in the same 243-ways format. Shrove Tuesday is a witch-themed 243-ways slot with free games, and Wizard of Wild is one of the studio's multiplayer fish-shooting games.

Who It Is For

Radiant City is for players who like a dark, atmospheric theme on a straightforward 243-ways grid. The base game pays mostly small amounts, the radiation wild helps complete lines, and the premium character stacks provide the occasional bigger hit. Check the RTP version at your casino before you play.

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