Supernova Shooting Stars Slot Review

Hacksaw Gaming's Supernova Shooting Stars drops on November 5, 2026, mixing classic fruit machine vibes with a cosmic theme. If the gameplay sounds familiar, you aren't crazy: it shares a wild that only expands on a win, and multipliers that add up, with Coffee Dealer, which the studio has due on 22 October, though the maths underneath are different.

The whole game revolves around expanding wilds, with a condition attached. You've got purple Stars (which expand downward to the bottom of the reel) and gold Epic Stars (which cover the entire reel). However, they only expand if doing so actually creates a winning combo. If they don't connect with anything, they just sit there as a single, regular wild. It can be a little frustrating to land a Star on the bottom row where it has no room to expand anyway, but it does make the moments when they do connect feel earned.

The real fun starts when an expanding star drops over a plain Wild that's already on the board. That covered Wild turns into a multiplier worth up to 250x. One thing to keep in mind: if you get multiple multipliers on the same payline, they add together rather than multiply. So, a 10x and a 4x will give you a 14x boost, not a 40x boost. It keeps the game grounded, but you can still hit some really nice payouts.

I bought both bonus rounds to see how the features hold up. There are two free spin options:

• Rain of Light (50x your bet): Gives you eight spins and guarantees at least one Star or Epic Star per spin. In my experience, this one was pretty hit-or-miss. Because the stars need regular Wilds to create multipliers, I had a few rounds where the stars just expanded over empty fruit symbols, returning only about a third of my buy-in.
• Starstruck (200x your bet): This gives you ten spins and guarantees an Epic Star every single time. The game seems to throw more regular Wilds onto the reels during bonuses, which helps a lot. I had one solid spin that landed 7x, 4x, and 3x multipliers on the same board, which pushed the whole feature just past the 200x break-even point.

If you prefer to just buy single spins, the FeatureSpins menu is actually pretty great. A Starlight spin costs 100x and guarantees at least two Epic Stars, and any Wild an Epic Star spreads over turns into a multiplier on the spot. It definitely shows the game's potential when the stars literally align.

So, where does this sit in Hacksaw's lineup? Mechanically, it shares its win-only expanding wild and adding multipliers with LIT City and Coffee Dealer, but its maths are smaller. It's played on a smaller 5x3 board, returns 96.26% RTP by default (casinos can also run it at 94.32%, 92.28% or 86.25%) and caps the max win at 5,000x.

For comparison, Coffee Dealer offers a 10,000x max win, and Pragmatic Play's Zeus vs Hades - Gods of War (which uses a very similar adding-multiplier mechanic) reaches 15,000x.

Is the lower max win a bad thing? Not necessarily. While hardcore high-rollers chasing the biggest wins might prefer those games, the 5,000x cap here suggests a slightly less swingy, more casual experience. If you like the mechanics of Coffee Dealer but want a fresh space theme and a game that feels a bit more approachable, Supernova Shooting Stars is a solid, entertaining release that's definitely worth a few spins.