Autumn Moon pokies here are Aristocrat’s Dragon Link game, one of the four base titles Aristocrat named for the series’ 2018 European launch. Sold as the Game Under a Full Moon, it has its own free games, where every mystery symbol reveals the same symbol, sometimes a jackpot symbol, plus the shared fireball orbs, Hold & Spin and four jackpots. The free demo below is a similar moon-themed pokie.
Autumn Moon runs on five reels and three rows, with a 15-position board for Hold & Spin. Aristocrat publishes no line count: for Dragon Link in general one US guide gives 5 to 50 lines, the Asian version is described as all-reels ways to win, and no Australian configuration is on record. Aristocrat’s 2017 North American launch listed denominations from 1 cent to $2, the same guide quotes bets of 50 cents to $50, and the $1 million Dragon Link in the US takes $25 to $2,500 a spin. No Australian bet range is published, nor an RTP, a volatility rating, a hit frequency or a maximum win. The top fixed prize is the scatter at up to 250x the bet; the top prize overall is the Grand progressive.
Autumn Moon Pokies Characteristics
Line wins pay left to right from the leftmost reel, and across Dragon Link, per the US guide, two of the highest-paying symbol or three of any other make a win. The wild substitutes for everything except the scatter, and three or more scatters start the free games. The fireball orb, the same on every Dragon Link title, carries a cash prize or a Mini, Minor or Major label; six or more on one spin start Hold & Spin.
No source mentions a gamble feature, and a cabinet game has no bonus buy. Lines, denominations and jackpot sizes vary by market and bank, so two Autumn Moon machines can cost and pay differently.
Aristocrat publishes no paytable and we found no copy of the help screens, so the Autumn Moon slot machine symbols are listed by role; the one published pay is a multiple of the bet.
The 250x scatter is the only pay Aristocrat puts a number on. Autumn Moon’s high symbols are not documented, so there is no top line to quote as a multiple of the total bet.
Three or more scatters on one spin start the free games. Aristocrat does not say how many; the same US guide, the only source for the counts, gives six, with six more per retrigger and no retrigger limit. In the round, the mystery symbols all reveal the same symbol, so several positions become one symbol at once. Aristocrat says this includes the chance for the big jackpot, and a US trade magazine adds that the reveal can show jackpot symbols, a second route into Hold & Spin.
The round is close to Golden Century’s: the same reveal, the same 250x scatter and, in that guide, the same six-game retrigger where most Dragon Link titles add three. Six games is short, so the value rests on what the mystery symbols become.
Six or more orbs on one spin, in the base game or the free games, start Hold & Spin. The orbs lock and you get three respins; each new orb locks too and resets the count to three. When the respins run out the orb prizes are paid, and filling all 15 positions wins the Grand.
On the Dragon Link build the Grand is a progressive linked across a bank of machines and the Major a standalone progressive; the Mini and Minor are fixed and scale with the denomination. Australian jackpot sizes are not published, and the US guide quotes Grands from $10,000 on low-stakes banks to $1,000,000 on high-stakes ones. The biggest Autumn Moon wins found are American: US$1,187,678.29 from a $25 bet in Tampa, Florida, on 26 May 2026, and US$108,525.04 from a $2.50 bet in Hollywood, Florida, on 14 March 2026. Neither report names the jackpot level.
With no published RTP there is no cents-per-dollar figure for Autumn Moon. Aristocrat rates no volatility either; the US guide calls the series medium in one place and medium to high in another. The big prizes sit behind Hold & Spin, which needs six orbs on one spin, and how often that lands is not published, so a session budget should not count on it.
At the $2.50 bet behind the Hollywood jackpot, $100 covers 40 spins before any wins come back; at the series’ 50-cent US minimum, it covers 200. A higher denomination lifts the fixed Mini and Minor along with the cost of every spin, and nothing published shows one denomination returning more, so the right stake is the one that lets a session last.
Dragon Link Autumn Moon is the main build, with the linked Grand; Autumn Moon Dragon Cash keeps the theme with standalone jackpots. Aristocrat’s Australian page lists Autumn Moon under Dragon Link on MarsX, with larger jackpots, and in 2022 it was one of four base games when Dragon Link reached Asia. The rest of the series is covered in our Dragon Link and Panda Magic reviews.
Two other games carry the name. Aristocrat’s 1999 Autumn Moon is an unrelated five-reel video slot, preserved in a New Zealand version by arcade emulation databases; it predates Hold & Spin, which arrived with Lightning Link in 2015. ClotPlay’s Autumn Moon, with an Autumn Moon PLUS variant, is an online 5×3, 5-line Hold and Win slot with free spins, listed by one database at a 95.18% RTP.
Autumn Moon is one of the Asian-themed Dragon Link titles. Beyond the full-moon tagline, Aristocrat invites players to open the golden doors to Asia and calls the game a fan favourite; the name suggests the Mid-Autumn Festival, though no source says so. The US guide calls the feature a Doors Reveal, which hints that the mystery symbols are doors, but no reliable source describes the art on the Autumn Moon slot machine screen or the music. Cabinets differ by market, from the Arc Single in Europe in 2018 to MarsX in Asia and Australia today.
The Autumn Moon poker machine is a land-based game in Australia. Aristocrat’s Australian site lists it among the Dragon Link titles on MarsX. ACT approval notices from 2019, 2020 and 2023 list its Dragon Link build among approved games re-tested with new software, and the 2023 notice adds the Dragon Cash build. In 2022 Aristocrat called Dragon Link the best performing game in most Australian and New Zealand venues. Online, Aristocrat has no real-money Autumn Moon: its online Link games so far go only to regulated US and Canadian markets. We could not confirm the game at any offshore casino we checked, so if a lobby search turns up an Autumn Moon, check the studio. There is no official Autumn Moon demo, and free play of Dragon Link exists only in social casino apps with virtual coins, none confirmed to carry Autumn Moon.
Autumn Moon is a solid Dragon Link title whose case rests on its free games, where every mystery symbol turns into the same symbol, sometimes a jackpot symbol. It suits venue players who like link jackpots, and anyone who enjoys Golden Century will find it close to the same game. It does not suit anyone who needs a published RTP or paytable, or a real-money online version. The one thing to check is the help screens on the machine in front of you, for that bank’s lines, bets and jackpot rules.
Aristocrat does not publish one, and the ACT approval notices that list the game give none. The 96% and 96.5% on some review sites have no source.
Land three or more scatters on one spin. One US guide gives six free games and six more per retrigger; Aristocrat confirms only that the mystery symbols all reveal the same symbol.
No maximum is published; the top prize is the Grand progressive. The largest Autumn Moon win we found is US$1,187,678.29 from a $25 bet in Tampa, Florida, on 26 May 2026.
Six or more fireball orbs start three respins. Each new orb locks and resets the count to three, and a full board of 15 orbs wins the Grand.
Not from Aristocrat, which offers no real-money online version and no official free demo. In Australia it is a venue game: Aristocrat’s Australian site lists it, and ACT notices list its Dragon Link and Dragon Cash builds.
Close to it. Both have the mystery-symbol free games and a scatter worth up to 250x the bet, and one guide gives both a six-game retrigger; the theme and art differ.
