Lightning Gems Slot

Graphics

NextGen has done a superb job in crafting our game-space. The night sky opens up above a craggy hilltop. The Gems that make up our high-paying symbols hover and glisten in the night sky. The Portal Scatters crackle with bright blue energy.

Winning combos shoot across the game’s 10 pay-lines shoot through with similar fizz. The Golden Sun Stacked Wilds revolve in promising fashion, and deliver as much as they promise. When they complete wins - either through landing stacked on our reels or through the Wild Wins or Wild Nudge feature - they, too, crackle with the same blue energy. But above all, they deliver winning combos from nothing.

Gameplay

As we would expect from NextGen, our betting toggles are super simple to adjust. NYX’s OGS platform makes adjusting game settings just as easy, and we are accompanied by a playful magical ditty throughout that wouldn’t be out of place in a Harry Potter movie. The Wild Nudge feature nudges just-missed Stacked Wilds back onto our reels, while the Wild Wins feature randomly adds scores of Wilds to create winning combos from thin air.

Our main shot at big bonus wins, though, comes from the Lightning Gems Free Games feature. We need three, four or five of those ethereal Portal Scatters to appear anywhere across the reels in order to launch the feature. Not only do we bag 20, 50 or 2,000 times our stake when they appear in their relative numbers, but we also earn 10 free games. During the bonus games, we find 10 Wilds added to each of our reels, giving us access to 50 additional Wilds in the bonus feature.

Verdict

Take glimmering magical gems, set them atop a hilltop in a storm and you are surely onto a winning online slot release. That’s precisely what NextGen delivers in Lightning Gems, though 10 pay-lines might initially seem limiting. The Stacked Wilds, boosted by the WIld Wins and Wild Nudge features, make sure that is not the case. While the Wild adventure continues in epic fashion as handfuls of extra Wilds are thrown into the stormy maelstrom of the bonus game.