Sonic Links Slot Review

Sonic Links Slot, Details & Wager Limits

The Sonic Links slot is played on 5 reels, 3 rows, and 25 fixed paylines. Winning combinations pay from left to right, starting from the leftmost reel.

Stakes range from just 20p up to £50 per spin, thus catering to both high and low stakes players. Simply use the chips icon to the right of the reels above the spin button to change your total bet. Autospins are also possible if you live outside the UK.

The Sonic Links RTP is 96.06%, which is ever so slightly above the 96% average for an online slot. 59.28% is reserved for the base game, with 17.36% for the Free Spins feature and the rest, 19.42%, for the Link&Win feature.

The maximum win is 5,000 x your stake, which isn’t too bad. It’s not as high as some of the slots on the market today but it’s by no means the lowest either. But please be aware that the slot is highly volatile, so big wins won’t land too often.

Theme – a classic look with a futuristic sound

The theme in the Sonic Links slot is a very classic one with how the reels look and the symbols on them. The graphics are pretty basic but they are at least bright and colourful, which makes the game instantly appealing to the eye. It looks good with the purple background and some animated parts such as the spin button and the logo.

In terms of audio, it’s got a very futuristic feel to it all, with some cool sound effects when winners and bonus features land such as the Link & Win feature. Once a bonus round starts, the music intensifies and almost sounds like a 90s dance track alongside some 80s computer game sound effects. I like it.

On the reels, you’ll find the classic slot symbols – cherries, lemons, grapes, plums, bars, stars, lucky red 7s and diamonds. The diamond is the best standard symbol, paying up to 15 x your stake, but it’s the Wild that’s the most lucrative symbol, paying 1, 5 or 40 x your stake for 3, 4 or 5 in combination respectively.

Symbol	Payout
Cherries	3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 0.5 or 1.5 x stake
Lemon	3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 0.5 or 1.5 x stake
Grapes	3, 4 or 5 = 0.3, 0.7 or 2 x stake
Plum	3, 4 or 5 = 0.4, 1 or 2.5 x stake
Bar	3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 2 or 5 x stake
Star	3, 4 or 5 = 0.6, 3 or 7.5 x stake
Lucky Red 7	3, 4 or 5 = 0.8, 4 or 10 x stake
Diamond	3, 4 or 5 = 1, 5 or 15 x stake
Wild	Substitutes for all except Scatter and Coin symbols + pays up to 40x
Free Spins Scatter	3 in view triggers Free Spins feature

Sonic Links Mobile

The Sonic Links slot game can be played on desktop, mobile and tablet devices as standard. Just For The Win ensures that all of its games are multi-platform as they use HTML5 technology. With the 5×3 setup, it plays really well on smaller screens.

Sonic Links Bonus Features

There are 3 main bonus features here. You’ve got Echo Chance, a common Link&Win feature, and a Free Spins feature with multipliers. Read on to discover exactly how each one works.

Echo Chance feature

When you land cash symbols in the base game, you’ll notice that lights will appear above the reels in the Link&Win area. 6 cash symbols will trigger the bonus round, but you may only need 3 coin symbols. This is because the lights of the empty ones will spin and could randomly illuminate to fill all 6.

Link&Win feature

As mentioned above, Echo Chance gives you the possibility of triggering the Link&Win feature. Landing 6 coin symbols will trigger it immediately, and your aim is to fill all of the reels for bigger prizes. You will begin with 3 spins as is the norm for this kind of feature. Only coin symbols and blank spaces appear on the reels here.

If you manage to land at least 1 coin symbol, that stays in place, the spins reset to 3 and you will continue like this until you either fill the reels or run out of spins.

There are also 4 possible jackpot prizes to be had – Big, Major, Mega and Sonic. Filling 15 positions will give you the Sonic jackpot. But if you don’t manage to land any of these and the feature ends, all prizes from the collected Coin symbols are awarded.

Free Spins feature

All you need to do to trigger this feature is get 3 free spins symbols appearing anywhere on reels 1, 3, and 5 in the base game.

You will start by spinning the wheel, which can be seen in the screenshot above. It will randomly give you a number of free spins as well as a multiplier. Here’s a breakdown of the possibilities here:

Landing 3 more free spins scatter symbols during the bonus round will give you more free spins equal to the initial number you were awarded from the wheel.

Sonic Links Review Summary – Bonus features save this from failure

The Sonic Links slot game isn’t a bad slot but I feel like they’ve just stuck a few common features together, put a new basic theme together and released it. There’s no real innovation here and the visuals are pretty poor for a 2022 slot.

In terms of bonus features, the game is great as you can enjoy a common but popular Link&Win feature as well as a Free Spins feature that comes with 2-5x multipliers attached too.

There’s not much else to say about this one. It’s not going to blow you away but it will appeal to some. It’s certainly worth giving our free demo a try first to see if it’s a slot for you.

An alternative to consider that is much better than the Sonic Links slot but is in keeping with the classic slot vibe is Pragmatic Play’s Fire Strike 2. It comes with 25,000 x max wins and a very healthy return to player rate that’s well above average.

If you’ve got a taste for jackpots after playing this one, check out some of the best jackpot slots where some have top prizes into the millions of pounds!