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If I had a penny for every time a provider slapped a Hold-and-Win mechanic onto a classic fruit theme, I’d probably have enough to trigger a progressive jackpot. But Pateplay’s Fruit Attack 10 Pate Link actually does something a bit different. It takes a retro 5×3, 10-line setup and wraps it around a surprisingly modern multiplier hunt.
Whether this fruit machine is worth your bankroll comes down to how you feel about its base game.
Quick Stats
- Provider: Pateplay
- Grid: 5×3 (Expands to 5×4 in Bonus, up to 5×6 with the Expand symbol)
- Paylines: 10 fixed
- Max Win: 6,000x your stake
- Features: Dollar frame multipliers, Pate Link Bonus Game, Expand and Spin Upgrade, Pate Link jackpots
The Base Game: A Game of Cat and Mouse
The traditional fruit symbols are mostly low-tier filler. In my 25 base spins, 125x of stake in all, exactly one traditional line win landed: a pair of sevens that paid back 1x my bet.
That fits the studio’s own figures, a 5.95% hit rate on a game that returns 95.96%, and it leaves the frames and suns to carry the base game.
Whenever a Dollar sign scatter lands, it leaves behind a colored frame carrying a multiplier ranging from x2 up to x50. This frame sticks around for the next spin. To actually collect that money, you need a Golden Sun symbol (carrying a cash value of 1x to 10x) to land squarely inside that framed cell on the following spin.
It’s a mechanic built entirely on proximity and near-misses. You will keep seeing a juicy x5 frame sitting empty while three Golden Suns land just one reel over. It can be incredibly frustrating, but it’s a clever way of showing you the potential before asking you to catch it.
The Pate Link Bonus Game
While five sevens on a payline will net you a respectable 500x, a full screen of them across all 10 lines only pays 5,000x. To hit the game’s 6,000x maximum win, you need the bonus feature.
Landing five or more Golden Suns triggers the Pate Link Bonus Game, a hold-and-win round. The grid immediately expands to a 5×4 layout, only the Sun symbols pay from here on, and you get the standard 3 respins that reset every time a Sun lands.
This is where Pateplay flexes its design muscles. The feature relies heavily on special modifiers:
- Expand Symbol: Drops the grid down to 5×6, adding ten blank spaces before turning into a dark sun worth up to 20x.
- Spin Upgrade: Permanently raises your respin reset counter from 3 to 4.
- Dollar frames: Dollar frames that land here stay for the whole round, and landing a second dollar on the same cell stacks the multiplier.
The ultimate goal here is the collection counter. If you manage to bank 20 suns across the expanded board, the game multiplies every single sun value by 4x (excluding jackpots).
The Pate Link Jackpots
Sitting above the reels are four jackpot tiers. The Mini (20x) and Minor (50x) scale with your bet size, while the Major and Grand are networked progressive pools. I had a purple Mini jackpot sun tease me a few times during my base game spins, but it’s important to note: Mini and Minor suns only pay out at the end of a bonus round.
Fruit Attack 10 Pate Link is not for the faint of heart. The base game is a desert of dead spins and near-misses. The combination of expanding grids, stacked multipliers, and the 20-symbol x4 boost makes for an incredibly exciting climax.
