Lucky Neko Slots
Are you ready to channel your inner feline fortune? Welcome to Lucky Neko slot game which was developed and released in February 2021 by the popular casino gaming crafters and providers PG Soft who design particularly with mobile devices in mind and feature bold visuals with a variety of features and themes augmented with some great winning mechanics across their impressive portfolio. Some of their popular games beloved by players worldwide include Tree of Fortune, Plushy Frenzy and Medusa II.
Lucky Neko is a super colourful video slot game with a Japanese/Asian/Animal theme featuring Maneki Neko who is also known as the Beckoning Cat or Fortune Cat. Cats are hugely revered in Japan and across other Asian countries being a symbol of good luck and fortune and their symbolism can be traced back to the Edo period in Japan. Players may be familiar with the imagery as they appear in many homes, businesses in addition to many anime illustrations and merchandise waving their paws to attract and bring good luck to passers by and are wildly seen pretty much everywhere throughout Japan.
This dynamic 3D game features 6 reels and 5 rows and is augmented with an additional reel which sits on top of reels 2, 3, 4 and 5. There are up to 32,400 ways to win and players are presented with a truly huge and diverse range of betting options from a minimum wager of 0.06$ and rising to 180.00$ for the maximum possible wager so this a slot game that will appeal to a wide range of player from the novice/casual punter to the more experienced player with deeper pockets who is willing to test their luck with different strategies.
Players gain wins at Lucky Neko by landing matching symbols on more than three adjacent reels starting from the leftmost reel. Symbols on reels 2 to 6 may occupy between 2 and 4 positions on the 5-6.6-6 and 6-5 grid. Larger symbols count as a single symbol which is not unlike the megaways mechanic.
Players can handily use the auto play/spin button if they wish to go handsfree to automate the number of their spins or to help maintain a strategy or controlling a budget. The RTP (Return to Player) is 96.73% which sits slightly above the industry average and this game comes with medium volatility which means that punters can expect small to fair sized wins on a fairly frequent basis with a maximum win potential available of 5,527 times their staking bet/wager.
Players are immersed from the start at Lucky Neko with the playing grid which is set over a pagoda/temple entrance embraced by the symbolic cherry trees in full blossom and vibrant lanterns which hang alongside them. The Maneki Neko cats sit on each side and playfully invite players in with a charming soundtrack which embellishes the atmosphere nicely.
There are various Asian lucky symbols which embrace the Japanese theme to good effect and it is Neko who is top cat here being able to increase the multipliers in all stages of the game. The great thing about these multipliers is they increment and keep growing in the bonus round. Other top paying symbols include the Drum, Lantern and a Hand Fan which provide payouts to players of between 15x to 80x players stakes. The Sushi and Rice Rolls make up the medium paying symbols and the playing cards from Ace to 10 form the lower paying ones.
The gong is the wild symbol and substitutes for all other symbols in the game with the exception of the scatters which are responsible for the triggering more than 4 free spins. These wild symbols come in 4 different sizes on reels 2 to 5 and they step in for other symbols to form wins for players. Four scatters in view trigger the bonus round and a reward of 10 free spins. Additional triggering scatters award a further two extra spins and this win multiplier keeps increasing by x2 per cat symbol and it never resets.
It is the ways to win system which is unusual at Lucky Neko as the number of winning symbols from left to right on each adjacent reel are multiplied and is again multiplied by the paytable value of the individual symbol. The cascading mechanic means all winning symbols are removed and space is made for new or existing symbols to drop and cascade down from above to fill in the gaps. This feature is never ending and continues until no more wins can be made. Symbols that occupy 2 to 4 positions can land with a silver frame and then these are transformed into a random symbol within a golden frame on the next cascade. All the golden framed symbols then turn wild on the following cascades.
As mentioned earlier Neko is the top tier symbol in a nice touch and increases the win multiplier for players whenever it appears and this multiplier value increases by x2 for every time a new cat symbol comes into view. Additionally scatter symbols can land in two different sizes. Finally, players not in the United Kingdom have an option to buy the bonus round which at a cost of 75x the stake.
Lucky Neko is fully mobile optimized so can be enjoyed for instant and seamless play from compatible modern mobile devices such as Samsung, Android, iOS devices and desktop. Adjusting to small screens perfectly means play on the go is conveniently available from wherever and whenever.