Original Release: Playlinks, 2019, Android / iOS
One of a crop of a few very similar “social casinos” from Playlinks released over the last few years, as with the others does not offer any sort of real money or real prize play but does appear on GPT sites with big offer amounts (and really has nothing to do with Vegas; also it’s 100% slots)
HighRoller Vegas (Android, Playlinks, 2019)
Where to Buy: Freemium download from Google and Apple app stores
How to Emulate: Android Emulation Guide
Review by: C. M0use
We’ve previously reviewed Rock n’ Cash Casino here, and this is another extremely similar “just for fun” / “social” casino from Korea-based Playlinks Corp that just has its own set of hundreds of made-up slots that mostly copy popular real-world titles. They are entirely different games from Rock n’ Cash, but how many are just quick re-skins I couldn’t tell you.
The whole overall structure and experience is also “same same but just a little different.” In the way it handles leveling, bonus chips, card collections, and so on, but there are some minor differences here and there. Gameplay-wise, the biggest plus for this casino is it doesn’t ever seem to start hitting you with mandatory ad views before starting up with a new slot. It doesn’t have the constant notifications for the “big wins” of other players you can tap on for a little bit of bonus chips and EXP, but it now has “guilds” of a sort that you can join of up to 10 other players that get their own little bonus quests every week. And when a player in a guild hits a big win, everyone else in the guild can collect 250k bonus chips off the back of it. This actually helps quite a bit and makes an active guild important.
As with Rock n’ Cash, there are absolutely no real world prizes or perks of any sort to play for, this is 100% “just for fun.” But what you’ll most likely come to it from is the large offers it tends to present on GPT sites. I found this one a bit more F2P-friendly, at least at first, as it has more optional “watch ad to get decent amount of bonus chips” opportunities. Checking in once every two hours to watch three short ads actually substantially helps replenish your bankroll via the “rainbow dice” feature in the “time bonus” section (especially if you maximize this by doing a good chunk of your spinning early in the game day to get a 4x or better multiplier for all your bonuses going).
However, as also occured with Rock n’ Cash, I’m fairly certain they quietly swap the pay tables out on you once you gain enough levels (in this case around level 40). I base this on my own experience with the two games now, watching sharp and sustained swings in variance that seem coincidental to when you start to get to meaningful money in the GPT goals, but also a bunch of forum comments to the same effect. It seems like you go from 96% RTP pay tables early in the game to hook you in, to more like 80% jerk tables once you get close to earning some substantial real world money (numbers pulled completely out of my butt but you get what I mean). This is one of those things that it’s very difficult to prove, you’d have to be constantly analyzing thousands of spins over time, but also there’s absolutely no law or regulation preventing them from doing this (since it’s not “real money”) so why wouldn’t they?
So as far as GPT sites go, if you can find some decent offers for the lower levels that don’t take all too long to get to (like 40-60) maybe go for it, but it’s very dicey beyond that even with a 60-day term. Otherwise I don’t see a lot of reason to play it, it’s polished and runs well if you just want “just for fun” slots but there are so many other options out there with both real earnings potential and real world games to play.
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