Starquest Megaways Online Slot Description

With starlit sky in the background, symbols on the reels include playing cards from 9 through A, gems in green, blue and red colours and the slot logo on a purple tile. A single six of a kind will yield 0.4x to 15x bet. 

The intrepid space explorer lady is the wild symbol, appearing on reels two to five only with a random starting multiplier of x1 to x5. More than one landing on a spin are multiplied by each other. Any wild full reel wild is held and a respin awarded as well as the multiplier increase by x1 up to the maximum of x5. The process is repeated if another wild lands with any potential wins being paid after each respin. 

Big Time Gaming have opted to go all galactic on us with their space-themed offering, Starquest.

GAME MECHANICS

Featuring a female protagonist wielding a laser gun, symbols consist of typical A to 9 fare, shown as playing cards, complimented by all manner of green, blue and red gemstones.  That’s right, gemstones!

Weighing in at a healthy 96.22% Return To Player, the game utilizes Big Time Gaming’s stupendously addictive Megaways mechanic, whereby every spin has a varied amount of ways to possibly win, displayed atop the screen, and can range from anything from a few hundred ways up to an eye-watering 117,649 ways, should the slots gods be favouring you in that passage of time. BTG games normally fall into one of two categories, and this release is of the Dragon Born/ Queen of Riches staple.

GAME FEATURES AND BONUSES

Though not blessed with Free Spins, the game makes up for this deficit with a ‘Both Ways’ paytable, meaning that wins count not only in the traditional left to right format, but also vice versa.  Rows may harbour anything up to 7 symbols vertically, meaning that the potential for wins, even if minor, is always present, and help keep the player’s balance gliding along.

The game’s focal point relies on the laser- gripping femme fatale’s appearance, which comes in the form of a stacked Wild symbol, which covers the entire reel, and substitutes for all other symbols.

These can pop up anywhere between reels 2, 3, 4 and 5, and once in view, will ‘stick’ in place, starting on 1x, and all wins on that payline will pay that accordingly.  However, upon the next spin the multiplier will have increased by one, and will continue to do so (and remain in place) as long as a win is activated. The beauty of this is that other Full Reel Wilds can appear, and multiply one another in tandem!  So your first Wild may already be at 3x, and coupled with say another at 2x, you have 6 times your bet straight off the bat.

With the Wilds holding anything up to 5x, it’s easy enough to comprehend that a full compliment of these smeared across the board will give players slot nirvana, and the build up of these is what sets the game apart from its peers.

CONCLUSION

It’s hard not to see this slot’s undoubted appeal, and it is graphically among the better of BTG’s output.  It is likened to a rolling baseline type of slot, where the action is constant, without any Free Spins breakups, and without question one of the company’s best- paying games.  However, given its high variance gameplay it may take a fair while to accumulate those desired Wild setups, and for that reason alone it may be off-putting for the casual slotters out there.  I have yet to see a truer sight than when all the Wilds align, and it is a breathtaking sight to behold with astronomical gains!

Bet sizes range from 0.20 to 20, so go on, treat yourself!

COUNTRY RESTRICTIONS

Available in most jurisdictions and licensed through Europe, though unavailable in the US & Canada