Starquest Pokie Review
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Overall impression
| Game Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Starquest |
| Software: | Big Time Gaming |
| Game Type: | Video slot |
| Paylines: | 40 |
| Progressive: | No |
| reels: | 5 |
Where to play?
Theme of The Game
Starquest’s name holds the promise to some kind of futuristic world, one where you have heroes in space, maybe going after space pirates or other shady characters.
The only one to suggest this is the cute redhead astronaut, shown holding a relatively large handgun, something that shoots a laser by the looks of it. It’s a retro style of science fiction, which I’ve seen used in other pokies in the past, yet I still enjoy it when I see it in new titles.
Though the idea is a pretty good one, the space cop theme doesn’t extend farther than that one symbol with the armed woman.
Another symbol will be with the SQ logo, and then we move on to the boring stuff already. Symbols there will provide you with a couple of gemstone like icons, colored in green or red, followed by a bunch of poker icons.
Developer
The company behind Starquest is New Zealand, with the HQ there, and it is called Big Time Gaming, shortened to BTG sometimes.
I’ve found that pokies designed by them are available at some of the bigger casinos around, and I think there is a good reason for that, which you will figure out as well, once you check out their releases and see how special they can be.
Starquest is actually a great example of a pokie machine that they did differently. The company holds licenses in Canada, in UK and Alderney.
How To Play It
The game might have an unusual setup, but that’s not actually going to influence your betting style. You will find the Stake section on the right side of the screen, at the top.
You modify the total bet from there, the minimum being $0.40. You use 40 lines each round, just to activate all the available ways to win. Once the wager is selected, you click on the green Spin button, located at the bottom of the same area.
If you look just at the background picture, and at the wild icon, you will fall in love with the design of this pokie. It will not last long though, since every other area seems to have been done in a rush.
Symbols are boring, and the fact that they sometimes take over 7 positions on a reel, and other times they stretch so they fit 3 or 4 in the same space, will not give you a great look.
Special Features
The Megaways are among the reasons why you will want to try this game. There are 6 reels in this pokie, instead of the typical 5. Each of those reels can have a different number of symbols, between 1 and 7, so it’s not a fixed number like in other pokies.
Depending on how many symbols are present, the number of megaways varies as well. You might have less than 100 megaways sometimes, while in other cases you could reach 117,649 ways to get a payout (if all reels have 7 symbols on them). Whatever the number of megaways that are present the wager is always at 40 coins.
There is one other feature in the game, the expanding wild and its multiplier, plus the respin that it triggers. Having a wild in place will come with more chances to form combinations, obviously, but it will also activate a respin feature if a win is formed.
The wild is locked, its multiplier jumps by 1x, and the other reels respin. If new wins form, all this happens again, the multiplier being able to go up to 5x as the respins keep coming. Additional wilds can appear and be locked, with their own multipliers going up.
Maximum Payouts
Individually, the payouts will not be huge, but you can have a lot of them. Get the wild respins, and multipliers will start coming as well, and they can do a lot for those paytable values.
Summary
Starquest has the ability to offer you a gameplay style that you will not see anywhere else, at least not at other developers, only in one or two other titles from BTG.
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