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Stars n’ Sweets Hold and Win Review

The candyland sweets theme is usually a sugar-laden cliche in most cases, but not so in iSoftBet’s Stars n’ Sweets Hold and Win. Imagine traveling into a wormhole that takes you into a parallel universe where everything is made from candy and cakes. This sums up what you have to look forward to in this release pretty well, and it comes with an abundance of features to boot.

There is nothing revolutionary in the feature department perhaps, but you get wilds added at random times in the base game. The bonus round comes with sticky multiplier wilds that can go as high as x5, and the Hold & Win feature comes with 2 exciting UFO modifiers. The 2,578x potential may be a dealbreaker for high rollers, but casual punters will probably enjoy this one.

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Stars n’ Sweets Hold and Win Slot Features

The premium symbols pay between 7.5 and 25 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and the Star Wild steps in for pay symbols to help complete wins. The Sweet Rocket Wilds feature may trigger at the end of a spin, and it drops up to 5 smartie bombs onto the grid. These explode and replace symbols with wilds, but they do not replace star or scatter symbols.

If you land only 3 free spins scatters, the Sweet-eor Shower feature may trigger at random times. This respins one of the reels for a chance to land the crucial third scatter needed to trigger the bonus round.

The Sweet Sticky Wild Free Spins feature triggers from 3 scatters (1 in 380 hit rate), and this gives you 8 free spins. You can get a randomly placed wild at the end of each spin, and it remains locked in place for the duration of the bonus round.

The added wilds come with multipliers of x2, x3 or x5, and the multiplier will boost any win the wild is a part of. Multipliers are added together if more than one wild is part of the same win, and you cannot retrigger the bonus round.

You need 5+ Star Symbols in view to trigger the Hold & Win feature (1 in 250 hit rate), and you start with 3 respins. The tally resets each time you land at least one star symbol, and these come with cash prizes that are combined when the feature ends. In addition to regular star prizes, you can also land Minor, Major and Grand prizes that pay 30x, 50x or 200x your stake, respectively.

Special UFO symbols can appear during the Hold & Win feature also, and the UFO Collector collects all star values in sight. Collected symbols are removed, while the UFO Collector remains. The UFO Payer boosts all present star prizes by x2, x3 or x5, before it flies away. It will not boost the UFO Collector symbol, however.

The 200 Spins Stars n’ Sweets Hold and Win Slot Experience

We had an okay time testing Stars n’ Sweets Hold and Win, and we have created a brief and edited highlights video for your viewing pleasure as we usually do. It contains only the best moments from our 200 spins test session, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

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Review Summary

The sweets in space theme works quite well in this release, and it’s refreshing to not have to visit yet another sugar-laden candyland. The base game is well-paced, and the unusual visual presentation, combined with nice animations, gives the game a novelty factor that will last for a while. Don’t expect huge payouts in the base game though, and not from the features either to be fair.

The sticky multiplier wilds you may get in the bonus round can help a bit in that regard, but the overall max win is still “only” 2,578x your stake. This is not too shabby for a casual low to medium volatility release, and the UFO modifiers you can get in the Hold & Win round are quite entertaining. Overall, Stars n’ Sweets Hold and Win is a fun game to relax with, but hardly a treat for high rollers and more serious gamblers.

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