Fortune Cats Golden Stacks Slot Machine – Free Play & Review

A cute design can make a slot machine interesting for some players, and that’s certainly the angle that Thunderkick is attempting in Fortune Cats Golden Stacks. Crafted for the Asian market, with graphics that work well there, it has a design style that borrows from the Anime genre. Everything is made tiny and cute, and the presence of the lucky cat on its reels can only help with its appeal.

Even the four card suit icons, so common in slot machines, are designed to look cute here, in the lowest paying symbols which are available. There are four top symbols as well, with the image of a fish, water bottle, paper lantern, and lucky cat. Wilds, Cat scatters, and mystery symbols, will also make appearances, if you’re lucky.

Developer

While it’s not one of the big names of the slot machine industry, Thunderkick is well known for the quality of the games they’ve put forward so far. 50+ games have been created since 2015. I’d mention several favorites of mine, titles like Baron Bloodmore, Riders of the Storm, or the Esqueleto Explosivo series.

How To Play It

There will be a longer list of bet values that you can choose from. It has a minimum value of $0.10, and a maximum one of $100.

Using 40 active lines on 5 reels, Fortune Cats Golden Stacks is a typical game when it comes to the way winning combinations are formed. All you need, is for 3+ symbols that match, to land on the same line and aligned left to right.

Special Features

A simple Wild logo will be used for the substitute symbol in this case. It can replace one of the regular symbols, and combinations can still be formed, a standard role for the slot machine’s version of a Joker. What it doesn’t do, is replace a mystery symbol or a scatter.

Mystery symbols are used to trigger a feature, which will upgrade a single type of symbol and all its instances, into a top paying Golden Cat.

The Cat Bonus symbol is a scatter, which you need landing 3 or more times on the reels. This gets you 10 free spins, and as many as 120 active lines thanks to the expanding game area (1 to 3 game areas available, for 3 to 5 scatters).

To get additional game areas, you need new scatters to appear and be collected (3 needed for 2nd game area, 5 for 3rd one). In addition to unlocking a game area, it will also give you free spins.

Each of those new game areas will have 40 lines, so you could have up to 120 active lines in total.

The Golden Stacks, top paying symbols, are going to be copied to identical positions on all other game areas.

Maximum Payouts

Fortune Cats Golden Stacks can pay reasonably well, with a reward of up to 2,500x the stake being mentioned as its cap. That would turn the maximum bet into a prize worth $250,000 cash.

As far as the slot’s volatility goes, it’s a medium, which tells us that it’s designed to be appealing to more players. Both beginners and experienced players can take a crack at it.

96.14% is the highest RTP setting you will find, but do pay attention to this number, as the developer gives casinos lower values to choose from as well.

Summary

Fortune Cats Golden Stacks is certainly an interesting release. While not designed for the tastes of the typical Western player, I’m sure it will do great in Asia and for those that do enjoy the Anime genre.