5 Star Luxury Slot
Ever wanted to live the life of Riley? 5 Star Luxury gives you the opportunity. This high-flying Bitcoin video slot has been produced by GameArt Games, the independent software specialist founded in 2013. The fun five-reeler brings together many tropes of lifestyles of the rich and famous, including magnums of champagne, glittering diamonds and high-powered supercars on the reels. If you manage to hit the jackpot, the luxurious symbols could well be portents of what’s to come…
5 Star Luxury is a non-progressive, all-ways-pays slot, giving gamers 243 ways to win. In other words, all 15 places on the reels are active and linked to some form of payline. What’s more, the title includes win multipliers, free spins and an AutoPlay mode. Without further ado, let’s delve deeper into this wealth-themed video slot.
Life in the Fast Lane
The 5 Star Luxury logo, whose letters are rimmed by gold and studded inside with diamonds, sits in the top right-hand corner, with the reels below it. In the background, we can discern a well-lit city as the sun goes down. Is it Vegas, LA, San Francisco or some other glamorous metropolis? We can’t tell, but there’s a whole lot of bling on the reels themselves.
The gold-rimmed reel grid contains icons including the usual playing cards, from 9 through to A. The symbols are jazzed up for the theme though, with diamonds and sparkles making them stand out on the reels. Other symbols include a massive diamond, a green Bentley car, a Learjet, a magnum of champagne, the 5 Star Luxury game logo, a yacht and a rolex. In total, there are 13 icons. All wins begin with the leftmost reel and pay left-to-right on adjacent reels.
The minimum coin size that can be staked is 0.01, while the maximum is 1. The most you can bet per spin, therefore, is 12.50, while the bare minimum is 0.25. It seems slightly strange that the values would be so low, given the game is all about absurd wealth, but there you have it! The jackpot is 625, which is won when a player lands five champagne bottles. The pay-out for four champagne bottles if 125, and for three it’s 100. The game also includes a Spin and Stop function, meaning you can regulate when the reels cease spinning.
As you would expect, the Learjet, yacht, Bentley, rolex and diamond are all linked with solid pay-outs (the playing card icons not so much). At the upper end, you can win 500 for five Learjets, yachts or Bentleys, and 100 for four Learjets. You can also win a modest pay-out of 2.50 for two matching symbols of yacht or Learjet.
The 5 Star Luxury logo is wild: it can substitute for all symbols except the champagne to help you form wins. The wild only appears on the second, third and fourth reels, and is not associated with pay values.
Pop the Champagne for Free Spins
When the 5 Star Luxury magnum of champagne appears in combinations of three, four or five, starting from the leftmost reel, it will trigger ten free spins. What’s more, during free spins, wins created by combinations of all of the main icons are multiplied by their respective multipliers shown above the reels. The multipliers start at one, at the beginning of the free spins, but thereafter, every time the icons appear, the multiplier increases by one. It could hit a maximum of ten, and the feature can be re-triggered during free spins.
Stick or Twist
5 Star Luxury includes a gamble feature, which lets you try and double up your winnings after any regular win. All you need to do is determine whether the face-down card on the table is black or red. Your winnings are doubled if you guess correctly, while they are wiped out if you guess wrong. Winnings can be gambled up to five times, and the gamble feature can be enabled or disabled in the Settings menu.
Basking in the Luxury
5 Star Luxury is a fine video slot, but it could be improved in several ways. For one, players could be allowed to stake more per spin, since the game appears to be targeted at those who like the finer things in life. Or perhaps it’s just targeted at those who crave the finer things in life. Either way, with wilds, scatters, free spins and a gamble game, this one’s got enough juice to keep you coming back for more.
