Sonic Links

The flurry of top online slot games never stops coming, and at the best casino site, we're bringing you as many as we can so you never run out of new online casino games. A recent trend has seen more seemingly simple slots online being released by a multitude of casino game developers. However, on closer inspection, there's a stand-out bonus feature that gives all players the chance to win big. In Sonic Links, you'll find it in the Link&Win feature, where cash values and jackpot amounts can be paid as cash prizes. Let’s not also forget that there’s a free spins feature that, like the Link&Win, also sees multipliers up for grabs on winning spins.

Just For The Win is a studio funded and powered by mega-studio Microgaming, and to its credit, has been releasing some pretty good slots online so far this year. The last release by Just For The Win we looked at was Divine Riches Helios, and there is a similar trend in that there's a very effective free spins feature coupled with a headline bonus feature to create some originality. In this slot, there's a traditional theme that sees all the usual symbols creating 3, 4 and 5 of a kind winning combinations that have been used in slot machines since they were first invented. We're a little more advanced than that period in history, and therefore you'll be able to play Sonic Links on mobile devices using iOS and Android operating systems.

Sonic Links has high levels of volatility, and while the positive in this scenario means that wins carry better returns than in medium volatility releases, it also means that your fortunes will fluctuate. It's best with these slots online to adopt a strategy of discipline and not waver. There's obviously the ability to take lower or higher risks based on your choice of stake, with the wagering window starting at the minimum of 0.20 and going all the way up to 50 per spin. Looking at the biggest possible payout for all players, you’re looking at 5,000x your bet via the Link&Win bonus feature.

We touched on the symbols only briefly earlier in the review, but there isn't really anything to write home about in originality. The lowest paying symbols are the cherries and the lemon, with grapes and plums being slightly higher in value, followed by BAR, then the star, the 7 and the highest paying icon, the diamond.

There's a free spins symbol that exists to trigger exactly what the symbol says, while you'll also find coin icons that carry cash values landing. The last and highest paying symbol in the slot is the Wild, while it was also substitute for all regular icons when needed to help complete a winning payline.

If you’ve played any of the online slot games available here with the Link&Win feature, you'll remember that it's triggered by landing six or more coin icons on the same spin. Sonic Links has a feature called the Echo Chance, and this is triggered by land 3, 4 or 5 coin icons. Essentially, the Echo Chance feature stays in play to assist you in triggering the Link&Win by spinning in the extra coins needed to trigger the main bonus. Once you’re in Link&Win you're given three respins where the coins that triggered the feature remain in place. The respins then start and see only coins, blank spaces and jackpot icons land. Each coin that lands has a cash value, stays in place on the same position for the rest of the feature, and resets the respins to 3. Filling the entire grid will pay the massive 5,000x and end the feature, as will no more coins landing. The jackpot icons vary from 25x, 80x and 300x your bet.

Landing 3 scatters on reels 1, 3 and 5 triggers the free spins. A wheel of fortune will spin to determine if you’ll be awarded 10, 15, 20 or 25 spins, after which another wheel spins to see if wins during spins receive a 2x, 3x or 5x multiplier.

Microgaming powered studios have definitely scored big lately with the introduction of the “collect” style bonus game to accompany the customary free spins features in their online slot machines. It means that iGamers get far more added value, even when playing for entertainment’s sake in demo mode. Sonic Links might now feel quite familiar to what we’ve already seen multiple times this year, but the entertainment is still up there, not to mention the multipliers that seem to get dished out on a regular basis.