Exco’s Ministry of Like Turns Social Media Into a Slot

Social media approval has never looked quite so oppressive as it does in Exco Game Studio’s newest release. Ministry of Like drops players inside a giant smartphone ringed with barbed wire, where a towering thumbs-up statue watches over every spin, and it lands with a set of mechanics built to keep wins cascading and multipliers climbing for as long as you can survive the surveillance.

What’s been released

Ministry of Like is a dystopian Exco Game Studio slot where social media approval rules all, set inside a giant smartphone ringed by barbed wire, red screens and a towering thumbs-up statue that blends Orwellian control with cascading gameplay.

The game comes from developer Exco and is scheduled for release on 28 September 2026.

Exco is the studio founded by former Yggdrasil boss Fredrik Elmqvist, who set up the company in 2025 with a promise to move away from formulaic sequels and reskins.
Styled as EXCO, short for Excommunicado, the studio has positioned itself around a “fewer but higher-quality” release model, prioritising originality and player-first design over volume.
Its debut title, Vegascaline, launched at SBC Summit Lisbon in September 2025, and the studio has since followed up with titles including Luna X and The Robbin’ Goblins as part of a roadmap Elmqvist has said runs to more than 30 games.

How it plays

Ministry of Like runs on a 5-reel, 5-row grid with 5,400 ways to win, with cartoon pigeon scatters unlocking free spins while cascading reels remove winning symbols and drop new ones for consecutive combinations.
The headline feature is the randomly triggered Ministry intervention:
it triggers randomly, either expanding an existing win or creating a new one, then doubling the number of symbols in each cell up to a maximum of eight, and if an expansion crosses another win, that cell becomes wild, though it cannot activate in the same drop as a Like Injection.

Sitting above the main grid is a top row that builds its own momentum.
Each top-row cell may start with an entry multiplier, and when a top-row symbol is removed, its multiplier remains and adds to the multiplier of the next symbol that refills that position, while a top-row cell that’s part of a winning combination sees its multiplier double.

These multipliers persist through cascades in the base game and across the full free spins feature
, so a productive top row can snowball across an entire session rather than resetting between spins.

For players who don’t want to wait for the randomness to align, Exco has built in a paid shortcut.
Hacks allow you to pay more to trigger a bonus instantly, with the Super Hack being the most valuable option, giving three guaranteed Ministry features or Like injections.

The maximum win sits at 25,000 times the bet, and the betting range spans from a minimum of €0.10 to a maximum of €40 per spin.
Independent testing has pegged the game at a 96.14 per cent RTP and high volatility, putting it in similar territory to feature-heavy titles such as Giga Zombies and GigaBlox.

Where it fits

Ministry of Like arrives as Exco continues to lean into themes well outside the buffalo-and-Egyptian furniture that dominates much of the slot market, trading pyramids for Orwellian surveillance satire complete with a techno soundtrack and cartoonish dark humour. The persistent, cascading top-row multiplier system echoes the kind of mechanic-first design Elmqvist championed at Yggdrasil, but built fresh rather than recycled from an existing portfolio. With its own paid-hack bonus buy sitting alongside a chunky 25,000x ceiling, it should slot comfortably next to the high-volatility, feature-rich titles that UK players have increasingly gravitated towards over the past year, giving Exco’s small but growing catalogue another distinctive calling card as it works through its roadmap of upcoming releases.

Sources

• iGamingToday – Ministry of Like Slot Review
• BigWinBoard – Ministry of Like (Exco) Slot Review & Demo
• NovNetco – Ministry of Like Spielautomat (Exco) Review
• iGaming Future – EXCO Game Studio Launches with Focus on Original Slot Content
• Casinos.com – Exco Game Studio Aims to Reignite Creativity in Online Slots