Vegas Fortune

Vegas Fortune: Slot Overview

Few cities sell the dream of winning it big like Las Vegas does. To date, the biggest casino payout occurred in 2003, when a 25-year-old software engineer won $39.7 million on the Megabucks slot machine at the Excalibur Hotel and Casino after mere minutes of playing. Players aren't too likely to win anywhere near that amount when having a crack at AvatarUX's Vegas Fortune, but they can use the game to pretend they're gambling at a physical betting establishment in a classically presented slot with a few modern mechanical twists.

Vegas Fortune doesn't really look like your typical AvatarUX slot. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, and hopefully, no one gets offended, but it looks like something, say, Just For The Win might have produced, not a studio that has given us such optical delights as MonkeyPop and HippoPop. Not to worry, a lot of software providers go down the classic casino slot route, which AvatarUX has done here to give gamblers a non-nonsense, pretend you're at Vegas (or Reno or wherever), all flashing lights, blurred background, and loads of common casino items on the reels effect. Some like it, and Vegas Fortune sits in a certain visual niche, which the studio hasn't explored a lot in the past.

Played on a 5x5 reelset, Vegas Fortune makes use of 3,125 ways to win, paying out when landing matching symbols on adjacent reels, starting from the leftmost side of the game board. This is a highly volatile slot that players can stake 10 c to $/€300 on and which has a default RTP of 95.99% to 96.09%. In addition, it is possible to activate an ante bet to increase the chance of entering the bonus round at a doubling of the stake.

Dazzlingly grey backgrounded 9-A card ranks are Vegas Fortune's low pay symbols, awarding 0.3 to 0.5 times the bet for a 5 OAK winning combination. Up from them on the hierarchy are cocktails, roulette wheels, cards, dice, and chips, awarding 1 to 2 times the bet for a 5-matching symbol win. Winning symbols get taken off the reels by a cascading mechanic, dropping symbols downward from above to replace them, providing the chance to achieve multiple wins off the same spin.

Vegas Fortune: Slot Features

On the features side of Vegas Fortune, the slot has Infinity Stacks, Giant Stacks, random multipliers, synced reels, free spins, and three bonus buy options from the Xpress.

Infinity Stacks & Giant Stacks

When a stack of 3 or more matching symbols appears, they merge and move downwards to form a single symbol, generating a multiplier for each. A stack of 2 matching symbols at the top or bottom nudges the reels for a chance to create an Infinity Stack. If the adjacent symbols match, they merge and generate a multiplier like an Infinity Stack. If they don't match, they go back to their original position.

Random Multipliers

A random multiplier of x2 or higher may spawn and merge with matching symbols, increasing the multiplier.

Synced Reels

When 2 or more adjacent reels are highlighted, all symbols on those reels will match. The more adjacent reels, the higher the probability of triggering winning opportunities.

Free Spins

Hitting 3, 4, or 5 scatters triggers 5, 10, or 15 free spins, respectfully. During the free spins bonus round, players can experience synced reels and a global multiplier that increases with each spin. Unused multipliers on the reels remain on the grid in free spins until used in a win.

Xpress

At the Xpress, users may buy 5 free spins for 40x, 10 free spins for 100x, or 15 free spins with synced reels on every spin for 400 times their bet.

Vegas Fortune: Slot Verdict

AvatarUX really has really become the studio you don't know what to expect next. Where once the team released a steady stream of PopWins slots, they've really diversified as of late, and Vegas Fortune is another slot which hard forks away from the sort of popping antics the developer made its mark with. In saying that, some of Vegas Fortune's components might be traced back to AvatarUX's earlier work, such as the cascading mechanic on a ways to win game board, that can be expanded (in a way, by merging symbols) when certain features are present and firing. This is a very broad, generalised way of looking at Vegas Fortune, though, and it's not till drilling down on the details that the game manages to stand out.

Its main standout feature is surely the Infinity Stacks, and not a bad concept it is either. PopWins were famous for swapping one winning symbol for two, and Infinity Stacks are able to merge multiple symbols into 1, creating a multiplier as a result. The Giant Stack feature adds extra anticipation, as well, since when it nudges favourably, it will form an Infinity Stack to keep the ball rolling. On a productive roll, complimented by cascading hits, the overall repeat win effect isn't a million miles away from a PopWins trip, possibly helping Vegas Fortune appeal to fans of AvatarUX's back catalogue.

The game's theme might be a dividing factor, though, as the fairly plain casino imagery is hardly big news in an online slot. Certainly, Vegas Fortune isn't as eye-catching as a lot of the studio's other more creatively adorned releases. But, classically presented slots have an enduring allure in their own right for some, so when adding in a 10,000x win cap with one or two interesting feature ideas, you can see how Vegas Fortune could appeal to the right gambler.