Nova Blast Ultra Slot Review
A fairground proscenium of gold scrollwork floats in a starfield, a blue energy ring crackling around the reels while lightning forks down one side of the void. Inside all that gilding, Nova Blast Ultra is a ruthless piece of design: your 6,400 ways to win matter far less than whether a single Collect symbol shows up, because without one, every cash and jackpot symbol on the board is worth nothing. Games Global have built the whole game around that one hinge. It runs at 96.00% RTP with high volatility, on a five-tier jackpot ladder topped by a 2,500x Grand, with stakes from 0.20 to 50.00 a spin.
Games Global’s catalogue is full of games that know their way around a jackpot. Thunderstruck II, Mega Moolah and Immortal Romance have all carried that flag, and Nova Blast Ultra joins them with a ladder of its own. Somewhere behind all that gilding, five tiers are waiting to be collected.
How Nova Blast Ultra Pays
Wins are counted across 6,400 ways rather than fixed paylines, so symbols pay wherever enough of them land. There’s no wild and no scatter in the usual sense. Four special symbols carry the game instead:
- Collect symbol – appears on reels one and six only
- Cash symbol – lands on all reels, carries a cash value
- Jackpot symbol – lands on all reels, one of five tiers
- Cash Multiplier Increase symbol – bumps the multiplier shown above the reels
Cash values settle onto the reels throughout play, figures like 2.00, 4.00 and 14.00 sitting as instant prizes waiting for a Collect symbol to sweep them up. They do nothing on their own. A reel full of cash symbols without a Collect alongside is just decoration – the payout only lands when reel one or reel six delivers the trigger.
That’s the rhythm of a base-game spin: ways to win in the background, cash and jackpot symbols dropping in as they please, and everything hanging on whether a Collect arrives to bank them. It makes every spin a two-part question – what landed, and did anything collect it. When a win does come, the game spells out the detail line by line, including which single way of the 6,400 actually paid.
The Collect Feature
The Collect Feature is the engine of the whole game, and it’s simple: land a Collect symbol together with any Cash or Jackpot symbol and the feature fires. Each Collect symbol awards all landed Cash and Jackpot symbols on that spin.
Because Collect symbols can appear on both reel one and reel six, a single spin can pay the same haul twice. The rules that govern it:
- Cash and Jackpot symbols appear on all reels
- Collect symbols appear on reels one and six
- Each Collect symbol awards every landed Cash and Jackpot symbol
- Jackpots can be awarded multiple times on the same spin
That last rule matters more than it looks. A spin with two Collect symbols and three Jackpot symbols doesn’t pay three jackpots – it can pay six, depending on how the awards stack. It’s the one piece of arithmetic that makes the base game worth watching closely.
Walk a spin through it and the shape becomes clear. Cash symbols land carrying their values, jackpot symbols land carrying their tiers, and if a Collect symbol is anywhere on reel one or six, every one of those values pays out at once. Two Collects and everything pays twice over. A spin can also flag itself as a bonus award mid-flight, an “awards bonus” marker appearing on the reels while the cash values are still settling.
The Cash Multiplier
A multiplier value sits at the top of the reels, starting low and climbing whenever a Cash Multiplier Increase symbol lands. The readout moves from 1x to 2x as the increase symbols arrive, each one marked with an X and labelled for exactly this job. The multiplier applies to the cash prizes the Collect Feature gathers, so a board of cash values swept up under a 2x multiplier pays double what the same board would have paid cold.
One exclusion, and it’s a deliberate one: the Cash Multiplier does not apply to Jackpot wins. The ladder pays at face value, no matter how high the multiplier has climbed. That keeps the jackpot maths clean, but it also means the game’s most visible meter never touches its biggest prizes.
The Jackpot Ladder
Five tiers, all of them scaling with the stake. At any bet size, the ladder reads as multiples of the spin:
- Grand – 2,500x the bet
- Mega – 250x the bet
- Major – 50x the bet
- Minor – 15x the bet
- Mini – 10x the bet
Double your stake and every tier doubles with it; halve the stake and the ladder halves too. The jackpot symbols that trigger them land on all reels, and the multi-award rule from the Collect Feature applies here as well. A Grand collected once is a fine spin; a Grand collected twice is the sort of round this ladder was built for.
The 2,500x Grand is the game’s ceiling, and it’s a sensible one for this design. Five tiers give the ladder depth, and with jackpots paying multiple times on a single spin, the top figure isn’t the whole story – the stacking underneath it is.
Free Spins and the Respin Feature
Rounding out the offer are a free spins bonus and a respin-based feature. Bonus orb symbols appear on the reels during play.
The orbs are the game’s most distinct visual symbols, and they arrive while the rest of the machinery is still running – cash values dropping, the multiplier climbing, jackpot symbols in the mix.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.6/10
Playing Nova Blast Ultra is a waiting game dressed as a carnival. Spin after spin you watch cash and jackpot symbols land, and none of it counts until a Collect symbol turns up – when one does, the whole board pays at once, and that single reversal is the reason to sit down here. It’s a tense loop, and the fairground styling makes it stranger and better than it has any right to be.
The stacking is what makes it work: with jackpots payable several times on one spin, a good round snowballs instead of stopping at its first prize. The flip side is that the Cash Multiplier, the meter you’ll watch most, never touches those jackpots – all the build-up lands on the small cash prizes, which quietly takes the shine off it.
For players who like a jackpot within reach and don’t need a game to promise the moon, this delivers. Chasers hunting five-figure ceilings will find the 2,500x Grand small change. Everyone else can enjoy the gilded show.
Nova Blast Ultra FAQs
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What is the RTP of Nova Blast Ultra?
The RTP is 96.00%. -
How do you trigger the Collect Feature in Nova Blast Ultra?
Land a Collect symbol together with a Cash or Jackpot symbol. Collect symbols appear on reels one and six, and each one awards every Cash and Jackpot symbol that has landed. -
Does the Cash Multiplier apply to jackpots in Nova Blast Ultra?
No. The Cash Multiplier applies to cash prizes only and doesn’t touch jackpot wins, however high it has climbed. -
Can you win more than one jackpot on a single spin in Nova Blast Ultra?
Yes. Jackpots can be awarded multiple times on the same spin, and with Collect symbols on both reel one and reel six, the same haul can be paid twice. -
What are the jackpot tiers in Nova Blast Ultra?
Five tiers, all scaling with your stake: Grand at 2,500x the bet, Mega at 250x, Major at 50x, Minor at 15x and Mini at 10x. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on Nova Blast Ultra?
You can stake anything from 0.20 to 50.00 a spin, and the jackpot values scale up and down with whatever you choose. -
Can you buy the bonus on Nova Blast Ultra?
Yes – a Bonus Buy button sits on the reels and takes you straight to the feature. -
Who makes Nova Blast Ultra?
Games Global. It’s a high-volatility release running at 96.00% RTP with 6,400 ways to win.
