Stars Megaways

Reach for the proverbial Stars on the Megaways slot from Blueprint Gaming and see the wins stacking up on a cascading reel set with up to 117,649 ways. Pocket up to 25,000 times your bet and you will set off the fireworks on the shores of a sprawling neon-lit metropolis. Wild substitutions, mystery symbols and a bonus feature where you can gamble for up to free spins with unlimited progressive multipliers will let you aim for the top.

Slot Details

Stars Megaways is a cascading video slot with six reels, up to seven rows and up to 117,649 ways to win. It is using the standard Megaways engine to drop at the start of a spin sequence 2 to 7 symbols on reels one and six and 2 to 6 symbols on reels two, three, four and five. Additionally, the horizontal reel on top of the game window will spin more symbols into view abeam reels two to five. Overall, the set-up gives you a sheer infinite amount of possible reel and row combinations that range from 324 to 117,649 ways to win. A display at the top shows the total amount of active ways to win for the spin.

Wins are paid for adjacent symbols from left to right. The symbols from a winning combination are part of a reaction which will see them explode to make room for new symbols to cascade into place. This will continue as long as a new winning combo occurs after a reaction. Wins are accumulated from all cascades and paid before the next spin starts.

You can aim for the stars and big wins on desktop and mobile from 0.10 to 20 credits per spin. The game has medium to high volatility based on how much you use the gamble feature and an RTP of 96.06%.

A sprawling metropolis on a full moon night and showered in neon lights is in the background of a retro-style game grid with even more neon colours. Traditional fruit symbols create a connection to the slot machines from yesteryear while a 70s disco soundtrack accompanies the usual reel and win count noises.

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The symbols on the reels start at the low end with the usual card royals from 9 through to A, paying 0.8 to 1.75x your stake for a six of a kind. The high end consists of traditional fruit symbols in neon colours – lemons, plums, cherries – as well as a red 7 as the top symbol. Hit six across the reels to win 2x to 50x your stake.

A retro-style Wild icon in red neon colours appears in the horizontal reel only and substitutes for all regular pay symbols. A pink-coloured casino chip marked with a star is the mystery symbol while a spade marked with a star acts as the scatter, appearing in the base game on the main reels and in the free spins in the horizontal reel only.

Star Megaways Slot Features

The cloning and copying of Megaways games is now officially going cross-border between developers. You get the feeling that creators reached the end of what can be done with the game engine and are resorting now to pick and mix a variety of features from multiple games and ram them into what they then call a new slot.

On this creation, we get the Mystery symbol which has become a stalwart on Megaways slots from Blueprint Gaming. Any landing in view on the main grid and horizontal reel in a spin or free spin will reveal a common symbol including the top symbol once the reels have stopped, providing extra potential to score a multi-line win. However, they cannot contain wild or scatter symbols.

Core to scoring the really big wins on this game is the Free Spins round with unlimited retriggers and progressive multipliers. Taking inspiration from Extra Chilli by Big Time Gaming, landing three or more scatters in one spin will trigger the feature. First, you are invited to pick on scatter to reveal a random number of free spins. The minimum starts at 8 for three scatters with any further scatter adding minimum four spins to the tally.

Once selected, the game leads to a second screen showing the Free Spins Mega Wheel with eight segments. Players have now the option to gamble for more free spins or collect the amount from the triggering spin. The gamble is not available when the free spins feature was triggered with 28 or more free spins. The first two levels could end in losing the entire round, so some caution might be recommended on spinning the gamble wheel.

• 8 to 11 spins won – gamble to 12 or lose to 0
• 12 to 15 spins won – gamble to 16 or lose to 0
• 16 to 19 free spins won – gamble to 20 or fall back to 8
• 20 to 23  free spins won – gamble to 24 or fall back to 12
• 24 to 27 free spins won – gamble to 30 or fall back to 16

You can decide to take the won free spins at any stage. The gambles are described by the provider as being set as 60/40 in favour of the player, with the exception of the 8 to 12 gamble which is 50/50. The kicker in the free spins is the unlimited progressive win multiplier. Every winning reaction will increase it by x1, with no limit on the maximum. We have seen multipliers exceeding x30, transforming even smaller hits into mega wins.

The impatient among us slot players can opt to trigger the feature without having to wait for the required number of scatters to land on the reels. The Feature Buy button is active in those jurisdictions where they are not restricted and will get you instant access to the Mega Wheel. It will cost you 50x the total stake and get you one spin with a guaranteed minimum of three scatters to land.

Final Verdict

Well, the list of Megaways slots is growing longer at a rather fast pace. Similarly, the cloned or copied features which have proven to be most popular with the casino community keep popping up in more and more games, which is not inherently a bad thing but one would wish for developers to be creative and bring us something new once in a while. Oh well, one can always hope it will be next time. Overall, Star Megaways offers solid slotting action as usual from this type of game and a good win potential to match.

Last Update: 13th October 2020

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