Neon Links Slot Review
Palm trees, a purple-and-pink sunset and a curly “Lucky View” sign in neon script: Neon Links looks like the most extravagant game on the strip, and it isn’t. All the extravagance went into the dressing; the game underneath is a modest fruit slot that spends every creative penny on one trick – lighting rows of symbols up and paying them both ways.
Red Tiger keep the symbols classic here – 7s, bells, horseshoes and fruit on a 5×3 grid, running at 95.67% RTP with stakes from 0.10 to 50 and a ceiling of 1,050x the bet. Both of the game’s features are about lighting symbols up, one in the base game and one in a bonus round that upgrades them.
In spirit it sits closer to Five Star or Arcade Bomb than to the studio’s louder output, and that restraint is most of the character. The lights, one way or another, are the game.
Symbols and Pays
The paytable is pure old-school Vegas, split between three premium icons, two fruits and a run of four card suits. At the top sit the 7, the bell and the horseshoe; the middle tier is grapes and cherries; spade, heart, diamond and club fill out the bottom. Every value below is a multiple of the current bet.
- 7 – 5x / 10x / 25x for three, four or five
- Bell – 2.5x / 7x / 10x
- Horseshoe – 2x / 3.5x / 5x
- Grapes – 1.5x / 2x / 4x
- Cherries – 1.1x / 1.5x / 2.5x
- Spade – 0.9x / 1.4x / 1.8x
- Heart – 0.8x / 1.2x / 1.5x
- Diamond – 0.7x / 1x / 1.3x
- Club – 0.6x / 0.9x / 1.1x
There’s no wild symbol in this game; the Neon Symbols carry all the special-symbol work, and they don’t substitute for anything. Only the highest winning combination is paid per symbol, and where multiple wins occur in the same spin the payouts are combined into one total.
Roughly one spin in five produces a win at all – the hit frequency sits at 21.82% – so the base game runs on small, regular returns rather than big line hits. It’s a rhythm that rewards long sessions at a modest stake more than short bursts at the top of the range.
The bet menu runs from 0.10 up to 50 per spin, chosen through the BET button before a round starts. Autoplay is available at the selected stake, with a number-of-rounds setting and a loss limit that stops play before the limit is reached.
Two more autoplay settings are worth knowing about. Stop on win above halts the run if a single round’s win exceeds an amount you set, and stop on bonus feature stops it the moment a bonus round triggers. Between them, they let a session run unattended without missing the moment the lights come on.
Neon Symbols
Lit Neon Symbols are the whole idea. Two paying Neon Symbols on the same row join up, and every symbol between them on that row converts into a lit Neon Symbol as well. A row can light up from the middle outward, or from either end, depending on where the two paying symbols land.
The conversion is instant and it’s visual before it’s anything else – the stretch of row between the two paying symbols switches on as one. What were ordinary grapes or a plain 7 a moment earlier are now lit symbols, and they stay lit for the resolution of that spin.
Payment follows the same logic. All wins from Neon Symbols are made when a symbol matches a win line pattern from either side of the reels or in the middle, so a lit row isn’t bound to the usual left-to-right convention.
That both-ways reading is what makes a lit row worth more than it first appears. A pattern that would read as nothing on a standard grid still pays here if it lights. Two symbols on the same row is a small ask, which is why the mechanic carries a whole base game on its own.
Vegas Spins
The Vegas Spin symbol is a scatter. When two of them land on the same row on reels 1 and 5, they trigger 10 Vegas Spins. There’s no paytable value attached to the scatter itself; its only job is opening the bonus round, and it needs both reels 1 and 5, not just any pair.
When the round begins, one Neon Symbol type is chosen at random, and for the duration of the bonus all symbols of that type become 1×3 Neon Super Symbols. A super symbol fills a full reel position, so a chosen 7 stops being a single cell and becomes a lit 1×3 block – and every instance of that type gets the same treatment for all ten spins.
The upgrade is decided once, at the start, and it holds for the whole round. Whichever type is picked, it’s picked for the duration – so a round where the 7 is chosen plays very differently from one where the club is, and there’s no way to influence which you get.
Fully-lit super-sized symbols filling rows, paying both ways, is where the game’s real potential sits. The bonus also runs on a different set of reel strips to the base game, which is worth knowing: the odds you’re used to in the base game don’t carry across into the round.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
This is a game you play for the moment a row lights up, and if that moment doesn’t do anything for you, nothing else here will. It’s a stroll down a hand-drawn strip at dusk: unhurried, familiar, easy on the eye, and never once in a hurry to surprise you.
The strength is that both-ways payment. It means a lit row can pay from either edge, which quietly turns patterns that would be dead on a normal grid into winners – the game is more generous than its fruit-slot body suggests. The weakness is the ceiling. 1,050x the bet is thin for a modern release, and once the bulbs are all on there’s nowhere left to go.
It’s a comfortable fit for anyone who likes classic symbols, a mechanic they can explain in one breath, and sessions that grind rather than explode. Anyone hunting a life-changing ceiling will find this street’s lights a little dim. For the rest of us, the Lucky View is open, the neon’s warm, and the walk is a pleasant one.
Neon Links FAQs
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What is the RTP of Neon Links?
Neon Links runs at an RTP of 95.67%. -
How do Neon Symbols work in Neon Links?
When two paying Neon Symbols land on the same row, they connect and turn all symbols between them on that row into Neon Symbols. Wins from Neon Symbols are paid when a symbol matches a win line pattern from either side of the reels or in the middle. -
How do you trigger Vegas Spins?
Vegas Spins trigger when two Vegas Spin scatter symbols land on the same row on reels 1 and 5. That awards 10 Vegas Spins. -
What are Neon Super Symbols?
When Vegas Spins begin, one Neon Symbol type is chosen at random. For the whole bonus round, every symbol of that type turns into a 1×3 Neon Super Symbol that fills a full reel position. -
Is there a wild symbol in Neon Links?
No. Neon Links has no wild symbol. The special symbols are the Neon Symbols, which light up and pay from either side of the reels or the middle, and the Vegas Spin scatter that triggers the bonus round. -
Does Neon Links use different reels during Vegas Spins?
Yes. During the free spins bonus round the game uses a different set of reel strips to the base game. -
What is the maximum win on Neon Links?
The maximum win is 1,050x your bet. -
What are the minimum and maximum bets on Neon Links?
Stakes run from 0.10 to 50 per spin.
