Supernova Shooting Stars Demo & review

Supernova Shooting Stars puts spreading wild Stars on a nine-line fruit machine: a purple Star runs down its reel, a gold Epic Star fills it, and any WILD gem they cover becomes a multiplier. Hacksaw Gaming releases it on 5 November 2026, and we tested the pre-release demo. It suits short-session players who want frequent, readable wins with a modern twist, more than anyone chasing a huge ceiling.

How Supernova Shooting Stars works

Every win comes from nine fixed lines on a 5x3 grid, paid for three or more of a kind from the leftmost reel. The symbols are a fruit machine's: card letters, cherries, watermelons, grapes and a bell, plus a blue WILD gem that stands in for all of them.

On its own the paytable is small. What lifts a spin above it is a Star, and one condition decides whether a Star does anything: it spreads only if it, or a symbol it transforms, ends up in a win.

How the features connect:

1. A purple Star or a gold Epic Star lands, never more than one on a reel, and spreads when that helps a win.
2. A WILD gem inside the spread turns into a multiplier, and multipliers in the same win add up.
3. Three BONUS scatters start Rain of Light and four start Starstruck, two free-spins rounds with Stars guaranteed.
4. Two buys start those rounds outright, and three FeatureSpins modes change every paid spin instead.

The Star multiplier carries the game. The free spins and the modes are ways of putting more Stars on the reels.

The space-age fruit grid before our first spin, at the demo's opening $2.00 bet, with a WILD gem, a BONUS scatter and a purple Star. FluxPlays demo test, 25 October 2026.

How the Spreading Wild Stars work

A Star spreads before wins are paid. The purple Star spreads downward from where it lands to the bottom of its reel, and the gold Epic Star spreads up and down to cover the whole reel, turning every symbol in its path into a Star of its own kind. A BONUS scatter never shares a reel with a Star on the same spin.

The multiplier comes from the WILD gem. When a spread passes over one, the gem becomes a Star or Epic Star Multiplier and applies to every win it is part of, and several in one win are added before they are applied.

In practice a Star with no WILD gem in its path only adds wilds, so the big pays need both on the same spin. On the last free spin of our natural Rain of Light, Stars spread down reels 3 and 4 over a WILD gem that became a 4x multiplier, and the spin paid $25.50.

The last spin of our natural Rain of Light from base spin 22: Stars spread down reels 3 and 4 with a 4x multiplier, $25.50. FluxPlays demo test, 25 October 2026.

Free spins: how Rain of Light and Starstruck trigger

The number of BONUS scatters on one base spin picks the round: three for Rain of Light, four for Starstruck.

Rain of Light keeps the base game's mechanics with its guarantee on top, and Starstruck's is the stronger one: an Epic Star, the kind that covers a whole reel when it spreads, on every spin. In either round two BONUS symbols add two more spins and three add four. There is no hidden five-scatter round above them.

In practice the guarantee buys frequency more than size. An Epic Star lands on every Starstruck spin, but it multiplies only where its reel happens to hold a WILD gem.

Starstruck from our $200 buy: two BONUS scatters for 2 more spins, a gold Epic Star and three WILD gems, $37.70 won with five spins left. FluxPlays demo test, 25 October 2026.

Can you buy the bonus?

Yes, in five ways of two kinds. Rain of Light and Starstruck are bought once and start their free spins at once. BonusHunt, Astral and Starlight are FeatureSpins modes: each charges its price on every spin until you press DISABLE, and changes what that spin can land.

BONUS scatters cannot land in Astral or Starlight, so neither mode can lead into free spins. BonusHunt can also be switched on from the box left of the grid, which lights up while it runs. One review site gives the top bet as $200, but the rules say $2,000, and buys may cost more than that.

The buy menu at a $1 bet: BonusHunt, Astral and Starlight FeatureSpins, then the Rain of Light and Starstruck buys, all marked Medium. FluxPlays demo test, 25 October 2026.

RTP, volatility and max win

Each paid mode returns slightly more than spinning by the rules, with BonusHunt the highest, so the choice between them is about how a round plays, not its return. The rules' 96.26% is the top of four versions, and the one you meet depends on the casino. Hacksaw rates the game 3 out of 5 for volatility, and every buy card says Medium. The max win is 5,000x in every mode, base game and buys alike.

Our Supernova Shooting Stars demo test

Astral and Starlight paid on every one of their twenty spins and still came back short of their price. That fits the way the guarantee works: a Star lands every time, but it only multiplies where it meets a WILD gem. The one Astral spin that beat its price, spin 9, paid $233.50.

Astral FeatureSpins spin 10 at $50, settled: purple Stars spread on reels 3 and 4 with a 6x multiplier among WILD gems, $37.50. FluxPlays demo test, 25 October 2026.

The base game won often, in small amounts. Its biggest moment was a natural Rain of Light on spin 22, worth $52.30 with the trigger spin, and outside it no spin paid more than $3.20. BonusHunt's ten spins brought line wins and no bonus.

The bought rounds split the same way. Rain of Light owed nearly all of its return to free spin 7, where Stars on three reels met three WILD gems, while Starstruck retriggered once and paid on eleven of its twelve spins without one big hit.

Starlight FeatureSpins spin 10 at $100, settled: gold Epic Stars filling reels 1 and 5 with two 6x multipliers, $45.60. FluxPlays demo test, 25 October 2026.

No multiplier above 6x appeared and Starstruck never came on its own, so the bigger values are described from the rules. Treat all of this as one session's play rather than a reading of the RTP.

Is Supernova Shooting Stars worth playing?

Supernova Shooting Stars is worth it for one reason, the Star spread: a single readable rule that can turn an ordinary nine-line spin into a multiplied one. That makes it a game for short sessions, and a weaker pick for anyone hunting the cap, since every big pay needs a Star and a WILD gem to meet.

Rain of Light is the buy we would make. By the rules it returns the same as Starstruck at a quarter of the price.

RIP City uses the same trick on a bigger board: a Wild Cat stretches down its reel only to complete a win, turning WILDs in its path into multipliers. Pick RIP City for more room, a 5x5 grid and a 12,500x cap. Pick Supernova Shooting Stars for something small and quick, with Epic Stars that fill a whole reel.

In the demo, try ten spins of Astral before either buy. At least two Stars land on every spin, so you quickly see how often one finds a WILD gem.