Links of Fire Slot Review
Orange flames climb the bottom of the screen and lick at a gold art-deco cabinet ringed with marquee bulbs, all of it floating in magenta-and-violet smoke. It’s a lot of theatre for a game that keeps its rewards in one place: nearly everything Links of Fire pays out funnels through the coins, and the base game exists mostly to carry you to them.
Slingshot Studios run it on a 5×4 grid with 40 fixed paylines, at 96.20% RTP, very high volatility and wins of up to 25,000x the bet. The studio’s Links family already runs deep, from Links of Ra to Leprechaun Links and Links of Flame, and this one keeps the coin-collecting formula while turning the heat up. Whether the fire is more than paint is the question the rest of this page answers.
Base Game & Features
Five reels, four rows, 40 paylines that never change. A payline is a pattern of adjacent symbol positions running across the reels, and a win lands when matching symbols sit next to each other on one of those lines. Wins pay left to right from the first reel, and only the highest combination on each line counts.
If several lines win on the same spin, they’re added together, along with any scatter win. Stakes run from 0.20 to 20.00 per spin. Underneath that total sit two dials: a coin size and a number of coins per line.
The total bet is the initial bet multiplied by the cost of the paylines played, and that initial bet is the total divided by a payline cost of 20. Payline wins are paid against the initial bet, so a single line’s payout is a smaller slice of the stake than the headline bet suggests.
Scatter wins work differently. They’re multiplied by the total bet rather than the initial bet, so a scatter combination pays meaningfully more than a payline combination of equivalent weight. The win-up-to figure, 25,000x, is rounded down and sits at approximately the highest single spin the game can produce.
Winning combinations land on roughly 29.33% of spins, which is a little under three spins in ten. With very high volatility on top, the gaps between the wins that matter can stretch a long way.
The wild stands in for everything except the scatter and the coins, and it can form its own winning lines. It’s stacked during free spins, which is where it does its best work. The scatter can also create its own winning combination, paying anywhere on the reels rather than along a line, and it appears in the base game only.
Power Stacks
Power Stacks runs on every normal spin, in the base game and in free spins alike. There’s nothing to trigger and nothing to choose: any spin can randomly Super Stack a symbol, and the stack is added to all five reels at once.
Every symbol except the scatter and the wild is eligible. When a paying symbol stacks across the grid, a single spin can suddenly pay across a dozen lines at once, which is what keeps the base game moving between feature triggers. The scatter, for its part, vanishes once the bonus round begins – the route into free spins sits entirely in the base game.
Links of Fire ULTRA Link&Win & Free Spins
ULTRA Link&Win
Six or more coin symbols anywhere on the reels trigger the ULTRA Link&Win feature. It doesn’t matter where they land; there’s no payline requirement. The triggering coins lock in place, every other position clears and respins, and a counter of three respins starts running.
The clock works like this:
- Each new coin that lands is held in place and resets the remaining respins back to three
- Non-coin spins burn one respin off the counter
- The feature ends when the respins run out or all 20 positions fill with coins
- All coin prizes are paid at the end, in one sum
Because a fresh coin always returns the counter to three, a feature can run for a long time on a lucky streak of landings. The grid holds 20 positions in total across the five reels and four rows, and the triggering six already cover nearly a third of them.
Every coin displays a random multiplier value, applied to the total bet. The possible values are:
- 1x
- 2x
- 3x
- 4x
- 5x
- 8x
- 10x
- 12x
- 15x
Fill all 20 symbol positions with coins and the GRAND cash prize is awarded on top of every coin already collected. That’s the feature’s ideal ending, and with each respin reset buying another three attempts at it, a full grid is a real possibility rather than a fantasy.
The four ladder prizes, in multiples of the bet, are:
- GRAND – 2500x
- MAJOR – 500x
- MINOR – 100x
- MINI – 20x
All bets played during the feature are the same as the spin that triggered it, so there’s no decision to make once it’s underway.
Free Spins
Three, four or five scatters anywhere on the reels award 15 free spins. Every win in the round is multiplied 2x. The round plays out automatically at the triggering bet, and it can’t be retriggered; once the 15 are spent, they’re spent.
Wins during the round are added to base game wins rather than replacing them. The wilds stack throughout, so the middle reels can fill with substitutes and pay across many lines at once.
The two features feed each other. Coins still land during free spins, and every coin prize shown in the round comes pre-multiplied by 2x, so a ULTRA Link&Win trigger inside the free spins is where the biggest money sits.
Power Stacks keeps running during the round too, and with wilds stacked and all wins doubled, a Super Stacked paying symbol landing alongside them can pay across a large share of the 40 lines on a single spin.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
Playing Links of Fire is mostly waiting, and the reason to choose it is what you’re waiting for: six coins locking in and the counter resetting, over and over, while the gold cabinet glows. Sessions here are defined by long quiet stretches broken by one loud round.
Where it’s clever is the doubling. Free spins multiply every win and every coin by 2x, so a coin feature inside the round pays twice what it would anywhere else – that overlap is the whole reason to want both features at once. Where it’s thin is everything around it: the bonus round can’t be extended, and under three spins in ten pay at all in between, so the build can drag.
This is one for players who enjoy the chase towards a single big payout and have the patience to sit through the quiet parts. Anyone who wants regular action on every spin will find the flames mostly decorative.
Links of Fire FAQs
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What is the RTP of Links of Fire?
The RTP is 96.20%. -
Is Links of Fire high volatility?
Yes, it’s rated very high volatility, with a hit frequency of 29.33%. -
What is the maximum win on Links of Fire?
The maximum win is 25,000x the bet. -
How do you trigger the ULTRA Link&Win feature in Links of Fire?
Land six or more coin symbols anywhere on the reels. The triggering coins lock in place and three respins begin, with each new coin resetting the respin count back to three. -
Can free spins be retriggered in Links of Fire?
No. Free Spins cannot be retriggered. The round awards 15 spins with all wins multiplied 2x and plays out automatically. -
What does Power Stacks do in Links of Fire?
Power Stacks can randomly Super Stack a symbol across all reels on any normal spin, in both the base game and free spins. All symbols except scatters and wilds can be stacked. -
What are the coin values in the ULTRA Link&Win feature?
Each coin displays a random multiplier of the total bet, drawn from 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 8x, 10x, 12x or 15x. Filling all 20 symbol positions awards the GRAND prize, which pays 2500x. -
What does the wild substitute for in Links of Fire?
The wild substitutes for all symbols except the scatter and the coin symbols. It can also form its own winning combination, and it’s stacked throughout the free spins round.
