Star Wild Blaster

Star Wild Blaster Overview

Are you a fan of the old school free slots to play for fun before they got overburdened with features, animations and variable RTPs? If you are, then Star Wild Blaster might be just the right nostalgia-inducing online slot game that you are after. The only way this game varies from those you might have seen in brick-and-mortar casinos in the 90s' is the designer Stakelogic has chosen to set it in space. However, this detail doesn't have much of an impact on the nostalgic effect that one gets playing a game like this. Even the soundtrack feels retro. The demo of this game is available on most online casino sites.

The features in this slot revolve more or less solely around the wild symbol, which in this game is the shiny gold star. Its first ability is to substitute for any other symbol on the board to help form more wins. These symbols can also expand at specific points during play, assisting players in winning even better combinations. Whenever a wild is part of a winning combination, the multiplier feature is activated, meaning the wild is given a random multiplier bonus which helps boost wins. All features will be explained in greater detail later in the review.

Theme and Symbols

The theme for this game is a hybrid of classic slot games and space. The game looks exactly like what would happen if you sent a fruity pub machine into space. This theme has probably been picked because it makes sense in the context of the main action for this slot revolving around a star. There have been many space-themed games over the years, with varying angles from aliens to planets to sci-fi. However, this slot has kept things about as simple as possible – a night sky background and a few stars on the reels. The simplicity of this theme fits well with the straightforward nature of the game.

The background, as we quickly mentioned, is a starry night. On closer inspection, you can see modular purple lines creating a shape of some sort too. These graphics look a lot like the graphics that you might see in a late 80s' or early 90s' sci-fi film. Whatever the graphic's purpose, the background chimes well with the game's content and provides a dark and relaxing screen. The other benefit of the background being a dark space vista is that the symbols look brighter and more colourful when contrasted against their backdrop.

The board is very much an old school fruity style board, with the pay lines shown on either side and the symbols spinning in a golden box as is the tradition in real-life brick and mortar machines.

There are eight standard symbols in this game. The first of which is the diamond symbol. Despite what we know about diamonds in real life, this icon is the lowest paying symbol in the game, worth just 8x your stake for the top combination. The following symbol is the Cherries, a classic slot game symbol that pays 10x the bet for the maximum combination. The Lemon has the same value as the Cherries. Next up is the Orange; this symbol pays out in the range of 3x to 20x your bet. The Plums are the same. The Double Bar icon is even more valuable, worth 50x your bet at the top end of the combination patterns. Finally, the double 7s is the most lucrative symbol, paying out at 250x your stake for the top combo. There is only one special symbol in this game which is the stars wild.

Game Play

Star Wild Blaster is played on a 5-reel, 3-row playing board with 10 pay lines available. To create winners in this game, players must match 3 or more symbols in combination from left to right on the reels.

The betting range for Star Wild Blaster is 10p to as much as £50per spin. To change your betting level per spin, use the bet adjuster tool located at the bottom of the playing window.

Further information regarding the slot, including a display of the paytable, can be accessed by clicking on the settings menu. The spin button is located to the bottom right of the reels. You can set up auto spins in the game's menu.
The volatility for this game is rated in the medium range of the spectrum. The highest return to player percentage for this game is 95.89%, which is under average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 9,672x their stake.

Features

As discussed earlier, the wild symbol is the key to the bonus content in this game. The wild icon as its first duty substitutes all other symbols on the board to help form more winning combinations. The wild icon can land on every reel barring reel 1. This symbol's second ability is to expand to cover reels completely, increasing the likelihood of creating winners.

Whenever a wild symbol is part of a winning combination, its third ability is triggered. This ability is the wild multiplier feature which attaches a random multiplier to any winning wilds. The maximum multiplier available is 10x. When multiple multiplier wilds are part of the same win, these multipliers are added together. Meaning that if a 5x and a 2x multiplier were in the same combination, the winnings would be boosted by 7x.
This is the full extent of the bonus content for this game.

Conclusion

As far as classic slots go, you can't do much better than this. Stakelogic has tried it's very best to keep things as classic as possible whilst also keeping things entertaining with enough bonus features. If you are fed up with all the visually and mechanically intense slots currently on the market, this will come as a nice slice of simplicity in your gaming life that you might not have realised you ever wanted.