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Nova Blast Ultra
A Microgaming slot with space, diamonds, adventure themes. This entry explains its listed format only; it does not promote play.
- RTP
- 96.00%
- Volatility
- High
- Max win
- 5,000×
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What this guide explains
Key concepts to understand
Format: 6400 Ways
Volatility: High
Theme tags: Space, Diamonds, Adventure
Slot information
Theme & game design
One-line verdictPure radial energy — a composition built entirely out of light direction, which is harder than it looks.
A Microgaming slot with space, diamonds, adventure themes. This entry explains its listed format only; it does not promote play.
A short story from the game world
A blue gem the size of a moon hangs in the centre of a burst of white light, and the coins around it have not yet decided which way is down. Somewhere out of frame, a star has just finished exploding.
Nova Blast Ultra is built around a burst of radial light: a blue gem the size of a moon hangs at the centre while coins drift around it with no clear sense of down. The reels are a 6-reel layout with 6,400 ways (the official spec writes the figure as 6,400 paylines), so wins come from matching symbols on neighbouring reels counted from the left.
Free spins are confirmed, and the official spec gives a hit frequency of 26.86%, meaning some win lands on roughly a quarter of spins across a very long sample, with many of those wins below the bet. No hub entry or named feature list exists, so what the Ultra and Blast in the name refer to, and how free spins are triggered, are left to the demo's paytable.
High volatility, an RTP of 96.00% and a maximum win of 5,000× are published, with bets from 0.20 to 50.00 and no release date given. Read together with the hit frequency, these figures describe how often and how unevenly results arrive on average, which is a property of the game's design and not a forecast for any session.
Microgaming effectively wrote the grammar of the online slot, and that depth still shows in every corner of the screen. The silhouette of a single symbol, the order of a paytable, the cue that marks a change of state — nothing here is left half-finished. Almost no other studio carries decades of formats, from classic three-reel machines to 117,649-way Maxways boards, in one library without the design language coming apart. If you are studying how these games are built, this is the most reliable text you can read.
- Built as a ways to win game on 6 reels and 6,400 ways. 420 titles here share this format, so it is a well-covered one to learn from.
- Its published RTP of 96% sits 0.20 points below the 96.2% median of the other 384 ways to win games here. RTP is a long-run theoretical figure, not a per-session one.
- The studio grades it high volatility, which 42% of ways to win games here share. Volatility describes the spread of outcomes, not how often a result arrives.
- The stated win cap is 5,000×, in the lower part of the range for this family (median 10,000×). A cap is a rulebook limit, not an expected outcome.
- Its artwork reads as fruit & classic, sci-fi & neon, which is how it is grouped for the structure-match panel below.
- A studio-published play-money demo is embedded above, as it is for 116 other Microgaming titles here.
- You are comfortable with long quiet stretches — a high volatility label means results are spread wide by design, not that they come more often.
- You want to understand ways-to-win — matches count on adjacent reels wherever they land, so the grid is read by route, not by line.
- You want to try before reading further — the studio's own demo runs on this page with play money only.
RTP, volatility, maximum win and bet ranges are reference values and can differ by game version or market. Source: Microgaming official game page.
- Microgaming has 146 slots in this catalogue; this guide is one of them.
- Among the 132 Microgaming slots with a single published RTP, 96% ranks #105.
- Its published win cap of 5,000× ranks #33 of 53 Microgaming slots that publish one.
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Assembled by arithmetic over the catalogue. Ranks order the published figures by size; they are not a quality rating.FAQ
Nova Blast Ultra — frequently asked questions
- What is the RTP of Nova Blast Ultra?
- The studio-published RTP is 96.00%. RTP is a long-run theoretical return, not a per-session result, and some operators run lower-RTP builds.
- How volatile is Nova Blast Ultra?
- The studio lists its volatility as High. Volatility describes how results are spread, not how likely a win is.
- What is the maximum win on Nova Blast Ultra?
- The published win cap is 5,000× the stake. A cap is a rule on the paytable, not a likelihood.
- Can I play Nova Blast Ultra for free?
- Yes. The studio's official demo runs on this page with play money only — no sign-up and no real funds.
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