Star Clusters Megaclusters

Star Clusters is a game from Big Time Gaming that was released a while ago. I was quite interested in trying this game because at the time I had seen a lot of other players hitting big wins on it. Also, I really like Big Time Gaming games and this was one of the first of their Mega Clusters mechanic games. 

The game itself has quite a classic theme and it includes wild symbols and different color gems. To be honest, when I first tried this game, it took me a moment to understand what's going on. As the game has clusters mechanic and there's no set of paylines. However, after a little bit of playing this game I figured it out.

In the base game and all throughout the game, the most important thing is consecutive wins. In the base game, once you get 5 consecutive wins, that's how you trigger the free spins. I have mixed feelings about it though. From one side I like the fact that you don't need scatter symbols to trigger the bonus round. But on the other hand, it's quite difficult to get 5 consecutive wins. But more importantly, for 5 consecutive wins, you only get 2 free spins. However, if you get more than 5 consecutive wins triggering the feature, you get additional free spins. That being said, in my experience, I'd mostly get 2 free spins or at best 5. 

In the free spins, what you'll want to see are two things- gold multipliers and consecutive wins and at best- them both together.. For every win that's with gold multipliers, the winning multiplier will increase. Also, the grid inthe free spins is expanded, which helps getting more winning combinations. As I said, consecutive wins with gold multipliers are key- once you've reached the 10x multiplier, you get 2 more free spins. And that's why you really want to get as many wins in base game as possible- to get a higher amount of free spins and a higher start multiplier (as it carries over from base game, where you trigger it). That being said, I think only once I managed to get to 10x multiplier and the spins ended up being dead spins. But I do appreciate the chase element and this game definitely has good winning potential.

Overall, I do enjoy this game and it has great design. However, the free spins feature is very volatile and for the most part you get low return. Also, sometimes it can take a while to get the free spins and it can be frustrating to have a bonus feature with only 2 free spins. My best win on this game was around 200x bet so it definitely has potential to pay more, but it's a really volatile game.

Big Time Gaming and all their new engine mechanism, welcome Starclusters Megaclusters this time. Now up until today I still do not understand 100% how all of this works. Basically, it has to do with a winning combination, that makes 4 tiles turn into even smaller tiles, and should another win occur smaller tiles within the same space are broken up into smaller pieces for another re-spin.

Honestly, the way this slot works I not appealing to me and it's an awful game. Not sure what this provider was thinking with this new Megaclusters feature. Bonanza was my all-time favourite and as time went along all their releases after Lil Devil has been awful. Starclusters is one of their worst releases and I played the slot a couple of times to see if I would change my opinion but it remain the same.

The base game seems very boring to me first of all. I seem to be getting very smaller wins all the time which is seriously not worth my time. Triggering the free spins feature is very hard and after almost 1000 spins still nothing to show for really from this release.

I managed to trigger the free spins 2 or 3 times. Now you do not need to scatter symbols to trigger, but a few consecutive cascades trigger the free spins feature. I almost always end up with 3 free spins as a start and I think once I started the feature with 4 free spins.

Payouts were poor, even though you get some multipliers, but they never seem to connect, as reaching an x10 multiplier will award even more free spins. Re-triggering the feature on this slot is next to impossible, well in my experience at least, and I have given up on this slot.

I am not sure what to expect from this provider anymore, as Slots of Vegas Megaquads just seems to as bad as well. I think the only slots I play from them is danger high volatile and Lil devil, maybe a bit of bonanza from Time to time. Seriously hope they go back to the drawing board and design some innovative likeable slots, as this one was a no-no for me!