Candy Stars Slot Machine

The online launch of the Candy Stars slot machine is scheduled for October 2022 and Pragmatic Play, in creating this title, wanted to offer gameplay suitable even for the most inexperienced players. The theme is colorful candies, which fits perfectly into the fruit-themed slots. On the game grid, you can see tasty sweets scrolling by, offering prizes across 576 paylines and a 5-reel vertical grid, plus a horizontal reel that adds to columns 2 to 4. The RTP is estimated at 96.47% and paired with high volatility.

Candy Stars slot machine: features

The graphics of Candy Stars are simple and linear, but this shouldn't be considered the result of careless work. The background is designed in neon style and features a grid that lights up in shades of purple and blue. The reels are blue, framed by a golden line: they perfectly highlight the symbols, which are much more colorful and created with 3D-like graphics. The soundtrack is cheerful, lively, and reminds of a somewhat retro sound, similar to what you could hear in 60s discos.

To win, you need to align at least 3 icons of the same type on adjacent reels, and the highest win per spin is 5000x the base bet. The lowest bets require 0.20 cents, while the highest ones reach 100 euros. In the paytable, you can observe characteristic icons and minor icons, which represent poker royals:

• Purple candy pays up to 7.5x;
• Red candy pays up to 3x;
• Green candy pays up to 2.5x;
• Blue candy pays up to 2x;
• A and K pay up to 1.5x;
• Q pays up to 1.25x;
• J pays up to 1x.

Extra features of the Candy Stars slot

Wild: the Wild symbol is depicted as a golden star-shaped candy and substitutes for all standard icons, except for the Diamond Scatter. It can only appear in columns 2, 3, and 4.

Tumble Feature: all winning combinations make the symbols that compose them disappear, and the corresponding positions are occupied by other symbols, which in turn can form additional paylines. The feature ends when no more winning combinations are formed.

Sticky Wilds: when a Wild symbol appears on the upper horizontal reel, it remains in that position until the end of the current tumble feature. For each additional symbol tumble, its value increases with a multiplier that starts at x1 and can reach a maximum value of x128.

Scatter and Free Spins: free spins are triggered by 3 Scatter symbols, which depict a diamond and can only be obtained on columns 1, 3, and 5. The feature initially awards 8 Free Spins, and for each game, at least one Wild symbol appears on the upper reel, activating the Sticky Wild feature if multiple tumbles occur. By obtaining additional Scatters during the bonus games, you can win 5 more free spins.

Buy Bonus: it's possible to force the activation of Free Spins by purchasing the feature for an amount equal to 80x the base bet.

Pros and cons of the Candy Stars slot

Candy Stars is a simple and fun slot that offers a colorful and lively graphic theme. The candies seem to be a tribute distributed in a disco, as the background and soundtrack of the game immediately bring this setting to mind. Despite a perhaps less rewarding paytable, the game compensates with a large number of paylines and extra features such as Sticky Wilds with incremental multipliers and Free Spins that excellently optimize wins. The title is suitable for players who prefer simple betting mechanics, but not banal or too static ones. Good RTP value, which slightly exceeds the average of 96%.

Slots similar to Candy Stars by Pragmatic Play

Candies have recently become protagonists of many slots, thanks also to the popularity of Candy Crush. Other games of this type are:

• Candy Land by Capecod;
• Sweet Bonanza by Pragmatic Play;
• Sweet 27 by Play'nGo.