Lucky Twins Link&Win

Lucky Twins Link&Win: Slot Overview

Doing a roaring trade in Link&Win style games at the moment, or at least turning them out at a great rate of knots, is Games Global (formerly Microgaming) partner Slingshot Studios. To date, they've fired off games like Leprechaun Links, Links of Ra, and Links of Fire, not to mention Game of Thrones Power Stacks featuring Link&Win, which is a whole lot of links, and they all tend to be built around the same batch of features. Today's slot largely follows the regular pattern, too. It's titled Lucky Twins Link&Win and offers Power Stacks, a Link&Win feature, Coin Prizes, plus free spins.

What is different is that Slingshot Studios has used an Asian theme to decorate the game and potentially push the Link&Win idea out to a different audience. The team hasn't exactly gone to town with the theme. The background is made up of a low-key red lined pattern, and the Asian décor has been used with a lighter touch than it can sometimes be found elsewhere. For example, the only place dragons are found in Lucky Twins Link&Win is on the fan pay symbol. Perhaps Slingshot Studios did that on purpose to differentiate the game from the Game of Thrones one? There are plenty of cultural references, though, so, despite Slingshot not going overboard with the theme, the team's choice of subject matter is never in any doubt.

Unsurprisingly, since the gameplay remains fairly constant between the Link&Win-related slots, the stats are similar as well. The RTP comes in four possible settings, with 96.23% being the highest, whilst volatility has been classed as very high. The hit rate is relatively high as well, at 33.28% on the maximum RTP model, occurring when at least three matching symbols land on adjacent reels along one of the 40 paylines from the leftmost side. Bets vary from 20 p/c to $/€20 per spin, and the game can be played on any device.

Nine regular paying symbols appear on the 5-reel, 4-row game board. They are J-A card ranks for the lows, paying 2-2.5x the bet for five of a kind, and fans, coins, firecrackers, a golden object, and a waving cat, worth 4-7.5x the stake for a five-symbol winning line. The twins appear on the wild symbol, which lands on all reels to substitute for any normal pay symbol. When wilds make wins out of themselves, they are worth up to 10x the bet for five of a kind.

Lucky Twins Link&Win: Slot Features

Players familiar with Slingshot Studios' previous Link&Win games will be well acquainted with what's covered here, from Power Stacks to the Link&Win feature, Coin Prizes, and free spins

Power Stacks

On any base game spin or free spin, symbols can randomly be Power Stacked on any of the reels. In the base game, Power Stacks can be made out of anything except wilds or scatters, whereas, in free spins, only wilds or Coin symbols can be Power Stacked.

Link&Win Feature

Landing 6 or more Coin symbols triggers the Link&Win feature, awarding 3 respins. Triggering Coins are held in place while all other positions respin. If any new Coins hit, they turn sticky as well, and reset the respins counter to 3. The feature ends when no more respins are left, or all positions are filled. Alongside regular Coin symbols, which have values of 1x to 10x the bet, it is possible to also land Mini, Minor, or Major jackpot symbols worth 40x, 100x, or 1,000x the bet, respectively. If the round ends by filling the grid, players win the 5,000x Grand prize.

Free Spins

Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols gets you 10 free spins, plus a payout of 1x, 10x, or 100x the bet, respectively. During the round, wilds or Coins are Power Stacked on every free spin.

Lucky Twins Link&Win: Slot Verdict

In a nutshell, Lucky Twins Link&Win is essentially a regular Asian-themed addition to Slingshot Studio's Link&Win range of slots. It's not exactly a clone, one or two things have changed, but if you've played one of the earlier releases, you'll pretty much know what to expect. The only thing that really differentiates Lucky Twins Link&Win from the rest is its Asian stylings, so if the visuals and soundtrack don't particularly appeal, little else here is likely to convince you to leap in otherwise.

One of the main non-theme differences is that free spins do not multiply wins by x2 as they have in the past, which might not be the deal-breaker it could have been. The reason being is the Grand payout from the Link&Win feature here has been doubled to 5,000x compared to 2,500x in earlier Link&Win incarnations. In other words, players chasing down the game's top individual prize don't miss out on picking this one even though the free spins x2 win thing has been axed. Anything else? Not really from a gameplay perspective, but overall potential has taken a significant nose dive from the impressive figures of 25,000x the bet on offer in previous Link&Win slots to the current 6,110x the stake possible in Lucky Twins Link&Win. The size of the drop is kind of strange when you think about it since so much else has remained more or less the same.

To sum up, for anyone looking for some okay hold 'n win type of action in an Asian setting, Lucky Twins Link&Win could be worth taking the time to check out further. If not, then there really isn't much here to get massively excited about. Slingshot Studios' Link&Win freight train powers on at a great rate of knots, so they must be reaching a receptive audience. Just speculating now, but it feels like there is a pretty good chance Lucky Twins Link&Win won't be the last of them, which is good news for proponents of the format.