The newest online games being released to U.S. iGaming markets have been detailed by firstlookgames.com. Here are highlights of games arriving at your favorite online casino over the coming weeks.
Ultimate Fire Link Cash Falls Olvera Street
Developer: Light & Wonder
RTP*: 90%-96%
Release Date: June
*The RTP, or “Return to Player” percentage, reflects the percentage of all wagers on a game that are returned, collectively, to players as wins. It is also known as the payback percentage. The RTP is listed here as a range available to operators, but RTP of around 96 percent is typical of online casino games.
This is a great combination of two popular Light & Wonder casino slots, Ultimate Fire Link and Cash Falls, wrapped up in a theme paying homage to Olvera Street in Los Angeles, the historic center of the city dating to when it was part of Mexico.
The primary game is presented in a unique ways-to-win setup—a 4-4-6-6-8 reel array (four rows on each of the first two reels, six rows on the next two, eight rows on the fifth reel). In this configuration, there are 4,608 possible ways to win on each spin.
Into this setup are injected the strongest features of the original two Light & Wonder games. The features center around the “fireballs” prominent in the games. The fireballs are marked either with bet multipliers, an icon related to one of four jackpots (the top Mega prize at $10,000), or with “Fire Link.”
As with coin symbols in the original Cash Falls game, the fireballs lock in place and remain on the screen for a random number of spins. Filling a reel with fireballs awards all the multipliers and jackpots on that reel, and clears the reel for more symbols as play continues.
Four or more of the “Fire Link” fireballs, or one Fire Link fireball among a complete reel of symbols, triggers the Fire Link Feature. The fireballs lock in place as multipliers of the bet, on a set of bonus reels—initially all complete reels at four rows, but with a number of extra fireballs indicated to unlock the next of a maximum eight rows. A spin meter indicates three initial spins, and each time a fireball lands, the meter returns to three.
The feature continues until three spins without a fireball or until all spots are filled, triggering the top jackpot—with eight rows of symbols, the maximum bet multiplier is 10,614X—times the dollar-per-spin wager, for a top jackpot of nearly $11,000, in addition to any jackpots collected along the way.
It’s a great chase of potentially huge payoffs, and an ingenious combination of the best of two popular games. In New Jersey, it already is live at the Tropicana online casino.
Gold of Fortune God
Developer: Play’n Go
RTP: 84%-96%
Release Date: June 6
This five-reel, 243-ways-to-win game features a simple hold-and-re-spin bonus that can lead to either huge credit awards or one of four jackpots, the top grand prize at $37,500.
The key symbols are the coin symbols, in the case bearing unusually large credit amounts for this type of game—some into the hundreds. Randomly, a dragon character initiates the “Dragon’s Fortune” feature, which triggers a second screen and a bonus wheel, with all slices indicating multipliers. The spin reveals a multiplier that is applied to all coin amounts on the screen.
The hold-and-re-spin feature is fairly standard—triggering coin symbols lock in place, and a graphic at the top of the screen indicates three spins, which can reveal coins or jackpot symbols. When a coin or jackpot symbol lands, it locks in place and the spin count returns to three.
Spins continue until all 15 reel spots are filled, triggering the top prize, or until three spins without a coin, after which all coin and jackpot amounts on the screen are counted up and awarded to the player.
