The set up in Star Joker is very straightforward. The purple reels are filled with a selection of classic one-armed bandit symbols. In order of value you’ll see cherries and strawberries which pay 10 times your stake if you land 5 on a payline. Next come the plums, oranges and melons which each pay 15 times your stake.
More rewarding still is the golden bell which pays 250 times your stake with the diamond delivering 50 times your stake. The best of the standard symbols is the lucky 7. Land 5 of these in combination and you’ll receive a payout of 100 times your stake. Comfortably the best payer though is the star which is the game’s wild. As well as substituting for all other symbols apart from the scatter, it also awards 1, 10, 100 or 500 times your stake payouts (for 2, 3, 4 or 5).
Appearing on reels 1, 3 and 5 only, the smiling harlequin joker is the scatter. Land 3 of these on the same spin and you’ll trigger the game’s Free Spins feature - on offer here are 10 free spins. The joker symbol acts as a wild as well as a scatter during the feature. Land another 3 of them on the same spin and you’ll re-trigger another round of free spins.
Star Joker is a simple and not especially volatile fruit machine. The variance here is low so you should get plenty of play – saying that, you can win 5,000 times your stake if you manage to fill the reels with wilds (you have 2 in the feature remember!).
The simple gameplay and low volatility might be a bit vanilla for some tastes. If you fancy a quick blast of old school action, then Star Joker offers just that. Whilst the win potential is good, I’d rather play the excellent Gunslinger: Reloaded game from Play ‘N Go.