Starquest Slot by Big Time Gaming

Wins here run in two directions. A payout is a line of matching symbols starting from the leftmost reel, or from the rightmost reel, so every spin is scored both ways and gems bunched near either edge can land a win twice over. The reels don't tumble, though. Winning symbols hold their spots and nothing falls in behind them, so there are no reaction chains, a plainer setup than most Megaways titles and a mark of how early this one arrived.

The signature is the Full Reel Wild. It lands only on reels 2, 3, 4 or 5, fills that reel from top to bottom, counts as up to five stacked symbols and stands in for anything. Each one carries a multiplier that opens at x1 and can reach x5. Every time a Full Reel Wild drops it fires a respin and lifts the multiplier on every Full Reel Wild already on the board by one. Land another on that respin and the multipliers step up again and stay put while the last reels spin once more. Two or more feeding the same win don't add, they multiply each other, so an x2 wild and an x3 wild make x6, not x5. And since those wilds also widen the way-count, a stacked payout and a heavy multiplier tend to show up together.

There's no scatter path into the free spins. The only door in is buying the feature, and Feature Drop symbols on the reels chip the asking price down until it hits zero and the round starts on its own. A bought round can come through as an enhanced version at random. All of it sits in deep space: six reels floating over a black starfield, a rainbow nebula bleeding colour down the left edge, a planet far off in the distance. The paying symbols are cut jewels, a purple SQ crystal up top, then a red, a blue and a green gem, with a hot pink neon A rounding out the lower pays.