Sticky Star Fruits Slot Review
A watermelon wedge hangs off one edge of the screen and a giant lemon slice drips down the other, starfruit slices scattered on the grass below. Sticky Star Fruits hides its one real idea inside all that gloss: the star fruit is both the top-paying symbol and the wild, so a single symbol decides almost every win the game can produce. Apparat Gaming has built the whole slot around that doubling, and it holds together better than it has any right to.
It’s a 5×3 grid with 10 paylines, running at 96.14% RTP with mid to high volatility. Sister titles from the same studio include 7 Supernova Fruits Diamond Treasures and Blitz Coins Diamond Treasures, with Bullet 8 Train also in the catalogue. Simple shapes, one sticky trick, and a paytable that pays for patience.
Symbols and Payouts
Wins pay left to right without a gap, starting from the leftmost reel, across the 10 fixed lines. Only the highest combination on each line counts. The reel set is classic fruit machine stock: sevens, bells, money bags and a full bowl of fruit, all rendered in the same glossy cartoon style as the grove around them.
The paytable splits into three tiers. At the top sit the 7 and the Bell, alongside the wild, the symbols that pay for a two-of-a-kind. The middle tier is the Money Bag, followed by the Watermelon and Grapes, with the Plum, Orange, Lemon and Cherries filling out the bottom. The Star Fruit wild tops all of them, substituting for everything except the scatter.
All values below are multiples of the total bet.
- Star Fruit (wild): 0.5x for two, 5x for three, 20x for four, 100x for five
- 7 and Bell: 0.2x for two, 2x for three, 10x for four, 50x for five
- Money Bag: 1.5x for three, 5x for four, 25x for five
- Watermelon and Grapes: 1x for three, 4x for four, 15x for five
- Plum: 2x for four, 10x for five
- Orange, Lemon and Cherries: 0.5x for three, 2x for four, 10x for five
Two things stand out in those numbers. The wild pays double what a five-of-a-kind 7 or Bell pays, so any line the Star Fruit completes is the line worth watching. And the Plum is the odd symbol out, skipping the three-of-a-kind step entirely and starting at four.
The tiers drop away steeply. A five-of-a-kind Money Bag pays a quarter of the wild’s top award, and the fruit at the bottom of the table pays a tenth of it. That shape matters more here than in most slots: the difference between a good free games round and a great one comes down almost entirely to how many star fruits stick, because the symbols underneath them simply don’t pay much.
The two-of-a-kind pays deserve a note too. Because the 7 and Bell start paying from a pair, and the wild does the same, short wins on the first two reels are live on every spin. They’re small, at 0.2x and 0.5x respectively, but on 10 fixed lines they keep the balance ticking between the moments that matter.
The Juicer is the scatter, and it doesn’t pay in its own right. Its only job is to pour out the free games, which is where the slot stops behaving like a standard fruit machine.
Free Games with Sticky Wilds
Three scatter symbols award 10 Free Games. That’s the whole trigger, and there’s nothing else to unlock: this is a one-feature game that puts all of its weight behind a single round. The essentials are short enough to list.
- Trigger: 3 Juicer scatter symbols
- Award: 10 Free Games
- Special rule: the Star Fruit wild becomes sticky
- Duration: sticky wilds hold until the Free Game series ends
During the free games, any star fruit that lands stays fixed in its reel position until the series ends, and it’s evaluated in that position at the end of each spin. Every sticky wild that survives a spin keeps working for the spins that follow. In practice the round plays out as a steady accumulation, spin by spin.
Run the maths on that and it’s appealing. A wild landing on the first spin pays on all nine remaining spins; a board that fills early turns every later spin into a stacked evaluation. Because the wild is also the top payer, a held star fruit isn’t just helping other lines, it’s building the most valuable combinations on the grid.
The build also front-loads the tension in an interesting way. Spin one matters more than spin ten, because a wild that sticks early has more spins to pay through. The round gets better the luckier the start, and quieter the longer it runs without new star fruit.
Position matters too. A sticky wild on the first two reels completes lines from the left, which is the only direction the paylines read. A star fruit stuck on the right side of the grid helps pairs of 7s and Bells, the sole symbols that pay from two, and nothing else. Where the wilds land decides how much of the paytable is actually in play.
A Buy Feature button sits alongside the reels and skips the scatter hunt entirely, dropping you into the free games on demand. If you’d rather spin your way in, the Juicers do that job on their own.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7/10
This is a game you play for one reason: the free games, and the sight of star fruits piling up on a grove-green board. Sessions swing between quiet spinning and that round, and mid to high volatility means the gap between can stretch. When the wilds land early, those ten spins are as good as classic fruit slots get.
The best thing here is that the round builds rather than pays once. Every wild that lands keeps paying through the spins that follow, so a lucky start compounds instead of ending. The worst thing is that there’s nothing else: one feature, a steep paytable, and a base game that’s pure waiting once you’ve seen it.
It’s for players who like a classic machine with one job done well and don’t need a second feature to stay interested. Players who want layered rounds and constant modifiers won’t find them in this grove. For everyone else, it’s a simple, sweet game that knows exactly what it is.
Sticky Star Fruits FAQs
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What is the RTP of Sticky Star Fruits?
The RTP is 96.14%. -
Is Sticky Star Fruits high volatility?
It sits at mid to high volatility, so wins can be spaced out but have room to build, especially during the free games. -
How many paylines does Sticky Star Fruits have?
There are 10 fixed paylines, evaluated left to right without a gap, starting from the leftmost reel. -
What is the grid size of Sticky Star Fruits?
It’s a 5×3 grid, five reels across and three rows deep. -
What does the Star Fruit symbol do?
The Star Fruit is the wild. It substitutes for all symbols except the scatter, and during the Free Games it becomes a Sticky Wild that stays in its reel position until the series ends. -
How do you trigger the Free Games in Sticky Star Fruits?
Landing three Juicer scatter symbols anywhere on the reels awards 10 Free Games with Sticky Wilds. -
Can you buy the bonus on Sticky Star Fruits?
Yes, the Buy Feature on the left of the interface skips straight past the scatters and into the Free Games. -
When was Sticky Star Fruits released?
Sticky Star Fruits’ release date is 10 January 2024, and it’s made by Apparat Gaming.
