Nova 7s

What Nova 7s Puts on Screen

Nova 7s is set in open space at the moment a star goes up, and the art commits to it hard enough that the tile in our lobby is recognisable at thumbnail size. Top of the paytable and top of the artwork, the same motif: a seven burning like a star. In Nova 7s that motif holds both together.

Below that the paytable runs through a comet, a planet, a crystal and a nebula, and under those sit the card ranks that fill the gaps on a quiet Nova 7s spin. The palette is deep space indigo, white flare and neon magenta, which is what makes the game readable at a glance in a lobby full of neighbours.

The audio is widescreen and stays out of the way until a bonus starts, at which point it changes register entirely. On a phone held upright the grid keeps the same proportions and the deep space survives the shrink, which is not true of every title in the lobby — some lose their backgrounds entirely at that width.

Nova 7s identifies itself quickly, which counts for more in a lobby of this size than it would in a small one.

Reading a Winning Spin in Nova 7s

Nova 7s runs on 5 reels, 3 rows and 40 paylines. Wins are read left to right from the first reel, and only the highest combination on each line counts, so a second star seven further along the same line adds nothing. Payouts climb steeply near the top: the star seven is worth many times what a comet pays, and the card ranks at the bottom exist mainly to keep a losing spin from looking empty.

Wild duty falls to Nova Wild: the flare turns a whole reel wild. The maximum quoted for Nova 7s is 5,000× the total bet, and that figure is reached through the features rather than on a base spin — worth knowing before you judge the game by its first fifty spins.

Everything else on the grid is ordinary; Free Games is not: up to twenty-five spins under a multiplier that climbs. That is why the base grid on Nova 7s feels quieter than the numbers suggest: the variance is deliberately parked in the feature.

Choosing a Stake for Nova 7s

The stake on Nova 7s is 40 lines times whatever you set per line. Playing fewer than 40 is possible but rarely sensible on Nova 7s — it lowers the cost and the hit rate in the same step. Note that 5,000× the total bet is a multiplier, not a rand figure. It holds at every stake, which is what makes Nova 7s comparable with the games either side of it in the lobby.

Volatility on Nova 7s is high, which means it concentrates its return into a small number of spins, which means most of them give back nothing. Be careful with any RTP figure you find for Nova 7s elsewhere. RTG sets the return per operator, not per game, so Nova 7s runs differently from one casino to the next. The only figure worth trusting for Nova 7s is the one printed in its own paytable.

Raising or lowering the stake mid-session leaves no memory behind in Nova 7s: it settles each spin independently, and a run of losses does not make the next one better priced. Autoplay handles the base grid of Nova 7s perfectly well. Set it to stop on Nova Wild and you get the pace without losing the event.

The Features That Change the Session

The feature set on Nova 7s runs to three rounds, and it repays reading the paytable once before you spin.

Nova Wild (the flare turns a whole reel wild). In a high-volatility game like Nova 7s that matters more than it sounds: Nova Wild is the round the quoted ceiling is calculated from.

Free Games — up to twenty-five spins under a multiplier that climbs, on the 5-reel grid described above. Free Games is the part of Nova 7s most worth having a balance left for.

Supernova Bonus: a chain reaction that pays at every step. Supernova Bonus does not fire often on Nova 7s, and the game is built on the assumption that you are waiting for it.

Taken together the set is what separates Nova 7s from the rest of its shelf. The base grid is common enough across the catalogue; Nova Wild is not, and it is the reason the game has its own page here.

Playing Nova 7s Sensibly

On Nova 7s the stake wants to be small relative to the balance: the game can go a long way without paying, and the only protection against that is spin count. A limit set before Nova 7s loads is worth more than one set at the end of a losing run; the tools for it are in your account.

For wagering purposes Nova 7s counts as a slot, which means it contributes at the full rate, and the conditions are set out on the bonus page. Nova 7s runs in practice mode as well, which is the honest way to learn where Nova Wild sits before money is involved.

Resist the urge to raise the stake because Nova Wild has not landed for a while: on Nova 7s it is no closer than it was, and the wait has just become more expensive. The responsible gaming page collects the limit tools and the independent support contacts in one place, and they apply to Nova 7s as to every other game here.

Where Nova 7s Sits in Our Lobby

In short: Nova 7s is for a game that can do very little for a long time and then do a great deal at once. If it lands well, Mystic 7s is the next one to try — same corner of the catalogue, different rhythm.

Try Nova 7s and Mystic 7s side by side in practice mode before committing a stake to either. Start with Nova 7s if you are prepared to sit through the quiet. Full specifications for Nova 7s — the 5 reels, 3 rows and 40 paylines, volatility, the top end (5,000× the total bet), the feature list and the release year — are in the table at the top of this page.

Mystic 7s