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Links of Fire Review

As the popularity of a previous hit release starts to wane, you can expect a reskin job to follow suit in many cases. However, most developers will limit themselves to one, or perhaps two, such follow-ups, while Slingshot Studios is now already 3 releases deep in their Game of Thrones Power Stacks rehashing effort. Links of Fire is a pure reskin of Links of Ra also, in case you wondered.

You can pretty much trace the lack of enthusiasm going into these reskin jobs by the blandness of the theme. After a trip to ancient Egypt, the Microgaming partner has finally arrived at the fruit theme, which is the most basic and classic wrapping there is. You get the same features as in the Ra version, and the same math model as well. Your best chance of winning big is by triggering the Link&Win feature within the bonus round, as this doubles all prizes.

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Links of Fire Slot Features

The premium symbols pay between 5 and 7.5 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and the game logo Wild steps in for regular pay symbols to help complete wins. The Wild also pays 25x your stake for 5 of a kind, and the Power Stacks feature can trigger on any given spin. This will ‘super stack’ regular pay symbols, meaning that they are added to all 5 reels.

The Link&Win feature triggers when you land 6+ coin symbols anywhere in view, and these come with cash values up to 15x your stake when triggered from the base game. The triggering coins become sticky on a cleared grid, and you start with 3 spins in the tally.

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The spin tally resets for each new sticky coin or jackpot symbol you land, and all coin and jackpot values are doubled if you trigger the feature from within the bonus round. The Link&Win feature goes on until you either run out of spins, or fill the grid, and the latter awards the Grand Jackpot worth 2,500x (or 5,000x) your stake. The other jackpots are won from jackpot symbols, and they are as follows:

• Major Jackpot pays 500x your stake (or 1,000x if triggered from FS mode).
• Minor Jackpot pays 100x your stake (or 200x if triggered from FS mode).
• Mini Jackpot pays 20x your stake (or 40x if triggered from FS mode).

The Free Spins round triggers when you land 3+ scatters in view, and the triggering scatters pay 1x, 10x or 100x your stake up front when you land 3, 4 or 5, respectively. You get 15 free spins, and all wins are doubled during the bonus round, including Link&Win wins and jackpots, as already mentioned. The wild lands stacked during the feature, but there is no way to retrigger or get extra free spins.

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You get to see some base game payouts, before we trigger the Link&Win feature at 1:28 into the 5-minute highlights video. The bonus round triggers not too long after the Link&Win feature has played out, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

While the fruity theme is decently done, it cannot begin to compare to what you got in Game of Thrones Power Stacks. This is a lighthearted and jazzy release that follows in a giant’s footsteps, so to speak, and it’s also a reskin of the previous ancient Egypt follow-up, Links of Ra. It’s not a bad recipe for a game though, and we like the fact that also jackpots are doubled if the Link&Win feature triggers within the bonus round.

Still, you have to be a huge fan of fruit machines to prefer this rehash over the excellent branded GoT effort. You don’t get Power Stacks on each spin here either, as it comes at random times instead. The 25,000x potential still requires multiple Grand Jackpots within a single bonus round, which seems highly unlikely, so a more realistic max win is probably 5,000x to 10,000x your stake. Links of Fire is basically a shelf-filler release with very little thought or effort behind it.

If you appreciate Links of Fire Slot you should also try:

Game of Thrones Power Stacks - is Slingshot Studios’ solid branded GoT installment, and the theme more convincing than Microgaming’s original GoT release. You get power stacks on each spin, and all the other features are the same as the game at hand. The math model is pretty much the same too.

Links of Ra - we feel that a bit more effort has been put into the ancient Egypt theme in this game, than the more generic fruit theme in the version at hand. The math model and features are identical though, and you get power stack triggers at random times. We still prefer the GoT original version, but it’s okay to have options.

Leprechaun Links - is another popular installment in Slingshot Studios’ Link&Win range, and once again you’re dealing with a reskin job. This is a pure Game of Thrones Power Stacks copycat, but with a charming Irish Luck theme that strays far from the brutal seriousness of the original release.