Star Candy

Item: Star Candy
Author: Nils Brandhoff

Star Candy by Novomatic carries the house's arcade logic onto a confectionery motif — stacked symbols, a gamble round and only 94 per cent RTP.

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Facts

Provider	Novomatic
RTP	94 %
Volatility	high
Max win	840x
Mechanics	Free Spins, Multiplier
Released	2022-12-08

About the game

Novomatic and its workshop habits

Star Candy launched on 8 December 2022. Novomatic has built arcade cabinets for decades, and that lineage shows in every online title from the house: a fixed reel set, clearly separated bonus stages, a gamble round at the end of a winning spin.

The theme list stays familiar — sweets, cake, pink and sky blue. There is no framing story. What separates Star Candy from the cluster and cascade games in this catalogue is not the picture but the construction beneath it.

Stacks, random wilds and a gamble round

For a classically built machine the feature list is generous. Symbols appear stacked, which can fill a reel with a single figure. Randomly placed wilds sit alongside a regular wild.

Bonus symbols open a bonus game, free spins carry their own multiplier and can be extended within the round, and the gamble feature closes things out by letting a win be doubled or lost. There are no cascades, no clusters and no buy feature.

94 per cent — the weakest figure in the catalogue

The documented RTP is 94 per cent. That is the lowest of any title here, more than three points below the leader Landy-Candy. The feature list also flags a configurable range, so the value at a given site may differ in either direction.

The maximum win is 840x the stake and volatility is high. That combination is the least comfortable in the field: heavy swings, low return, low ceiling.

Session planning and the gamble feature

Stake limits are unpublished. The gamble round deserves its own note: it does not change the theoretical return, only the spread. Take it every time and you are playing the same game with wider swings.

At 94 per cent and high volatility a tightly held budget is the only sensible precaution. Neither free spins nor the bonus game compensates for a structurally low return — they only distribute it differently across the session.

Who will like it anyway

Players who know Novomatic cabinets from the arcade floor and want that control logic online. Stacked symbols and a gamble round have all but disappeared from modern cascade games, and for some that is exactly the appeal.

For everyone else the advice is straightforward: within this same catalogue, Landy-Candy at 97.2 per cent or Candy Dice at 96.45 per cent start the race without a handicap.

Verdict

Pros

Classic arcade logic with stacked symbols and a gamble round
Free spins with their own multiplier and a retrigger option
Clear construction with no cascades and no buy feature

Cons

94 per cent RTP, the lowest figure in the whole catalogue
Maximum win of only 840x alongside high volatility
RTP additionally shipped as a configurable range

Star Candy is competently made and pleasantly old-fashioned in its build: stacks, random wilds, a bonus game, a gamble round. If you like Novomatic machines you will find exactly what you expect.

The numbers argue the other way. A 94 per cent return at high volatility with an 840x ceiling is the weakest combination in this catalogue, and the configurable range does not help. Understandable as a piece of nostalgia; hard to justify as an arithmetic decision.

Written by Nils Brandhoff

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