Game of the Week – Bandits Thunder Link
If you love old-school westerns, then you will love Bandits Thunder Link. It is the latest 5-Reel, 10 payline online pokies from Stakelogic. The game takes you back to the old west with lawmen chasing after various bandits. Get the bad guy and win some nice prizes.
Bandits Thunder Link Takes You Back to the Old West
Bandits Thunder Link is your standard wild west pokie complete with western theme music and an old west style setting. You’re the Sheriff and are out to get the bad guys. Along the way, you can win your share of bounties.
Pay symbols are pretty straightforward with this one, consisting of Royals, horseshoes, Sheriff’s badges, six-shooters, cowboy hats, and gold bars. This has a nice mix of low, medium, and high paying symbols. Generally, you will need multi-line wins to turn a profit. However, unlike many modern pokies, four of a kind will always turn you a profit on this one.
If you’re looking to score some big wins, you will want to check out the free spins bonus game feature that can win you up to 50,000x your initial bet.
Free Spin Bonus Game
The Cowboy Skull is the scatter for this game. Land three or more on the board to unlock the bonus game. Scatters also pay for two or more on the board. When you unlock the bonus game, you will get to pick from one of three bonus game options.
- Wild Wild Wins – You’ll get 12 free spins and all winnings will be multiplied by 2x. Also, in this game, all Sticky Wilds give you a 2x multiplier.
- Wild Bonanza – You’ll get 12 free spins with both Sticky Wilds and Multiplier Wild symbols. If you get two Wilds on the same reel, they will transform into 2x multiplier wilds. When you get three on a reel, they transform to 3x multiplier wilds.
- Thunder Link – You start with three respins and the respins are reset to 3 whenever a symbol lands on the board. The respins continue until you run out of spins or fill all blocks.
Here are the symbols in the Thunder Link Game:
- Gold Bars – Pay according to the multiplier shown.
- Lock – Unlocks additional reels. You can get up to two reels.
- Money Hat – Collects the multipliers from all other symbols and adds it its own.
- Dynamite – Adds its multiplier to all other symbols.
- Safe Symbol – Collects the multiplier from all symbols and adds it to its own. However, it does this for every spin.
The maximum that you can win during any free spins game is 50,000x your initial bet.
Buy Bonus
If you want to skip trying to unlock the free spins bonus naturally, you can use the Buy Bonus feature. With this, you can unlock the free spins feature for a bet of 100x your bet. I tried this a few times but it was definitely not profitable. The most I made from any free spins round was 32x my bet. A couple of times, I only got 5x my bet.
Bandits Thunder Link a Fun Game With Decent RTP
Bandits Thunder Link is a fun take on western pokies and has some solid prizes. It also has a decent RTP of 95.6%, putting it slightly above-average. We were able to hit some nice wins during the base game but didn’t play the game long enough to trigger the free spins bonus naturally. However, we don’t recommend using the Buy Feature as you will usually lose money.
Bandits Thunder Link can be found at King Johnnie Casino, Wild Card City, and all online casinos in Australia offering Stakelogic pokies.