Rio Stars is a video slot powered by Red Tiger Gaming software that features 5 reels and 30 paylines. Get ready to dance to the beat of the Samba drum because this game is taking you to an amazing carnival filled with festive design, soundtrack and everything else that’s needed to make a full setting. Get packing because Rio de Janeiro fun awaits at any Red Tiger Gaming Casino where you can spin for real, or you can do it here for fun.
How to Play the Rio Stars Slot
Set your bets and visit the biggest carnival in the world where you can show off some of your dance moves.
- Stake button will open a drawer panel that will let you choose the amount that you want to bet.
- Auto will get the reels spinning automatically for a chosen number of times.
- If, however, you like to savor your spins, then you can hit big yellow Spin button to get the reels spinning manually.
- Turbo will speed up the reels and make them go faster.
Slot Features
The game has a lot of interesting features that go along with the regular Carnival Dancer as Wild that can form wins both on its own, and when it substitutes in a win line. Wild can pay up to x60 if you land 5 of them on an active payline.
Carnival Drums is what you should be looking for in the masses, because the sound of those drums will trigger one of the 4 features this game has going on: Carnival Reels, Mega Wilds, Rio Dancers, or Rio Multiplier.
Carnival Reels
Carnival Reels feature will remove all low paying symbols from the reels before the ensuing spin, which will certainly ensure some higher payouts.
Rio Multiplier
If drums sound go, then a multiplier will be added, and it can go up to x20. What is nifty about Rio Multiplier is that it applies on next win instead of next spin basis. This will surely boost the payout. Another cool addition to this is that if you are holding a multiplier and the drums sound another one, they will be added together and applied to next win.
Rio Dancers
Costumes for Rio Carnival come with feathers attached, and once those feathers come swooping over the reels you can expect them to add a random number of Wilds to those reels, thus increasing the win chances.
Mega Wild
Opens up a chance that a Mega Wild will land somewhere on the reels during a spin. Mega Wild is 3x3 spaces high.
Summary
Rio Stars is one of the best slots with Carnival theme we’ve seen so far. It’s beautifully designed and has a pretty interesting gameplay with some entertaining and rewarding features. Rio Stars is a bold slot with high volatility and a maximum win capped at x2500 your bet. Of course, the game has its shortfalls, but it’s a game that definitely deserves a chance.
The Samba Carnival in Rio Janeiro is such a popular carnival that I wish I could one day go there and experience it for myself, but that seems more like an improbability to me nowadays, so I just have to enjoy it the best way I can. For now, playing Samba Carnival games online is the only way for me, hahaha.
Such games go by several different titles, and Rio Stars is the name chosen by Red Tiger. The first thing that catches my eyes is the brilliant Samba dancers, very colourful and vibrant, and always having happy faces. Makes my body wants to be happy too but only from a great distance, hahaha. The game plays with 5 reels 4 rows and 30 lines, but with a starting bet of only $0.10 per spin, very suitable for small wallets like mine. Even though the symbols in the game do not carry good win values, from 600 coins down to only 30, the game offers 4 randomly activated features in the base game, and including a free spins feature game too, with a maximum possible win of 2000x the stake amount. These should be satisfactory enough for most, except perhaps to power-hungry big-win hunters, of which I am not.
Whenever you see drums appearing at the sides of the play area, then one of the 4 features may be activated, although there are false teases at times. Carnival Reels would remove all the low symbols and replace them with high symbols. Rio Dancers would drop Wilds onto the reels in random locations. Rio Multipliers would appear for any winning combination, up to a 20x multiplier. Mega Wild would appear in 3x3 size on reels 2, 3 and 4, with a random multiplier. As usual, a feature may be activated but a win is not guaranteed.
Getting 3 Free Spins symbols anywhere on the reels would award 10 free spins. Unfortunately, I still couldn’t get this feature game, even after doing nearly 800 spins, so I really do not know if the free spins would include any one of the 4 mentioned features as well. I am thinking that it should include, otherwise those 10 free spins would never be interesting enough. From the several Red Tiger games that I have played so far, it seems like such free spins feature game usually takes at least 500 spins before they can come. Now that to me is not good at all, but not as bad as Big Time Gaming games that could take thousands of spins instead.
Did I say that this was my first ever play on Rio Stars? Well, it was, and a good one at that too. Somewhere during my play, a few drum rolls teases came by, and no feature got activated, but one Rio Dancer feature then came and gave a decent 121x from those appearing Wild symbols. From then on, the other features would appear on and off, but hardly giving anything worthwhile, until towards the very end of my play session, the one and only Mega Wild feature got activated and paid a big 453x win with its 3x3 Wild symbol and a 12x multiplier. Even though I was waiting and waiting for a free spins feature game to come, that Mega Wild win boosted back my balance, and I quickly called it a day. Yeah, hit and run, quit when ahead, and don’t ever be greedy, hehehe.