Smooth Sailing Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Smooth Sailing Review

We quite enjoyed the first installment, Treasure Tracks, in what looks to become a series from Gold Coin Studios’, and Smooth Sailing follows up with more of the same. This time you’re headed towards the open sea however, but it wouldn’t have hurt if they’d thrown a few base game modifiers into the mix in this second effort.

It is what it is however, and you get to enjoy the same Connectify Pays mechanic when the bonus round triggers. It’s all about completing boat parts this time, not trains, and the top prize yellow boat pays up to 6,000x your stake. Enhanced royal symbols award decent “consolation prizes” along with incomplete boats. Overall, a decent follow-up, but we hope for a bit more base game action next time.

Smooth Sailing Slot - Reels Screen

Smooth Sailing Slot Features

You can land wild symbols anywhere in the base game only, and they step in for regular pay symbols to help you complete winning combos. The wilds are also the highest paying symbols in the game, awarding 1,000x your stake for 5 of a kind. Regular premiums pay between 25 and 50 x your stake for the same, while the royal symbols are upgraded 10x in value in the bonus round.

There are 2 ways into the Connectify Pays Bonus Round.

If you play with the Gold Coin Bet active you basically get another set of triggering scatters, which effectively doubles your bonus round chances. You will pay 1.5x more per spin however, and either way you trigger the bonus round by landing 3 ship scatters. The same happens if you land 3 ticket scatters with the Gold Coin Bet active.

The Connectify Pays system defines the Bonus Round, and you’ll see a list of boats with prize values on the left-hand side. The top-tier boat prizes are split into 5 parts, and you thus need to complete a boat with 5 boat symbols along the same payline to win the corresponding prize. The boat part on reel 5 can contain an x2 multiplier, and this doubles the payout.

The royal symbols are upgraded in the bonus round, awarding 10 times as much as in the base game.

You can thus win up to 75x your stake for a 5-oak payout. 5 red boats award 250x your stake, while 5 blue boats pay 50x your stake. Uncompleted boats pay smaller prizes, while completing the 5-segment yellow boat awards 6,000x your stake.

The 200 Spins Smooth Sailing Slot Experience

We had a pretty good time testing this second installment in what looks to become a longer travel-themed series from Gold Coin Studios. Per usual, we’ve whipped together a highlights video for you, where you get a nice overview of what this game has to offer. Simply hit the play button below to see how we fared.

Smooth Sailing Slot - Free Spins

Review Summary

Not all that much happens in the base game, so Smooth Sailing is a pretty fitting name in that regard. Occasional wild wins will land to keep you afloat, but this game is really all about the Connectify bonus round system. Visually, it looks kind of dated, but not necessarily in a bad way. You will get into holiday mode playing this though, and the bright colors are uplifting.

Completing boats to win prizes is kind of fun, like it was with the trains in Treasure Tracks.

You will seldom get the 5-segment prizes though, but it certainly helps that the royal symbols are worth 10 times more during the feature. The 6,000x top prize is pretty solid, and up to 1,500x your stake can be landed from a screen full of A or K symbols in the bonus round.

Pros

• High value wilds in the base game
• FS w/ Connectify Pays system
• Royals worth 10x more in bonus round
• Win up to 6,000x your stake

Cons

• Beware of adjustable RTP ranges

If you appreciate Smooth Sailing Slot you should also try:

Treasure Tracks - is the first installment in Gold Coin Studios travel-themed Connectify range, and it comes with the same Gold Coin Bet feature. You will connect trains in the Connectify bonus round, and the top prize is worth 5,000x your stake.

Assassin Moon - is a spy/agent-themed installment from Triple Edge, and it revolves around the HyperHold bonus round that comes with 4 jackpots. You get jumbo blocks and stacked wilds in the bonus round, and the hold-and-win style feature is all about collecting cash symbols.

Hotel Yeti Way - is one to try if you feel like an unusual holiday, and this Play’n Go release comes with 3 Yeti Wild features. You get to bring one of them with you into the bonus round, and the number of win ways can reach 262,144 via the dynamic payways system. You can win up to 30,000x your stake.

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